Initiate Subsystem; Continuous Or Single Measurements - Agilent Technologies ESA-E Series User And Programming Manual

Programming Language Reference

INITiate Subsystem

INITiate Subsystem
The INITiate subsystem is used to control the initiation of the trigger.
Refer to the TRIGger and ABORt subsystems for related commands.

Continuous or Single Measurements

:INITiate:CONTinuous OFF|ON|0|1
:INITiate:CONTinuous?
Selects whether the trigger system is continuously initiated or not.
This command affects sweep in normal spectrum analyzer mode, and
affects trigger when in a measurement. A "measurement" refers to any
of the functions under the MEASURE key. This corresponds to
continuous sweep or single sweep operation when not in a
measurement, and continuous measurement or single measurement
operation when in a measurement.
When not in a measurement, this command does the following:
NOTE
• When ON at the completion of each sweep cycle, the sweep system
• When OFF, the sweep system remains in the "idle" state until an
• The query returns 1 or 0 into the output buffer. 1 is returned when
When in a measurement, this command does the following:
• When ON at the completion of each trigger cycle, the trigger system
• When OFF, the trigger system remains in an "idle" state until
• The query returns 1 or 0 into the output buffer. 1 is returned when
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immediately initiates another sweep cycle.
:INITiate[:IMMediate] command is received. On receiving the
:INITiate[:IMMediate] command, it will go through a single sweep
cycle, and then return to the "idle" state.
there is continuous sweeping. 0 is returned when there is only a
single sweep.
immediately initiates another trigger cycle.
CONTinuous is set to ON or an :INITiate[:IMMediate] command is
received. On receiving the :INITiate[:IMMediate] command, it will
go through a single trigger cycle, and then return to the "idle" state.
there is continuous triggering. 0 is returned when there is only a
single trigger.
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