Inside The Software - Agilent Technologies 93000 SOC Series Training Manual

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When working on the setups in the software, you are actually working
directly in the tester hardware. Any changes you make are immediately
communicated to the tester hardware.
The setups you see in the software windows are the setups stored in
the hardware.
This is called the "Living Machine Concept". What you see on the screen
is always the same as what is in the machine.
There is only one exception: the Pin Configuration is edited offline and
sent to the tester when you press the
Firmware Commands
Any actions you initiate in the software are communicated to the tester
via so-called firmware commands.
For example, if you download the Pin Configuration, the CONF command
is sent to the tester. If you change the Level Setup for a pin, the DRLV
command is sent.
To show the contents of the Level Setup window, the software sends
DRLV? query commands to the tester.
All commands always use four-letter acronyms. The queries append a ?.
Most commands take one or more parameters, for example:
CONF [pin_type], [pin_oper_mode], { (pinlist) }
The queries return their results in the form of the appropriate
command. For example, the query
CONF? { (pinlist) }
returns
CONF [pin_type], [pin_oper_mode], { (pinlist) }
Therefore, the return can directly be used as a new command (maybe
after changing some parameters).
The firmware commands are discussed in greater detail in the
Command Reference.
Executing Firmware Commands
If you want execute firmware commands, you can use
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