The Serial Command Language; Pinout/Wiring; Conventions - Spectra-Physics Pulseo User Manual

The Serial Command Language

Pinout/Wiring

Conventions

The Pulseo is controlled via a computer connected to the either the
the port on the back of the power supply. A personal com-
SERIAL COM
puter running the Pulseo GUI control software is required for initial setup
and testing. The communications configuration of the Model J200 power
supply cannot be altered with software in the field. The default factory set-
tings are listed below.
Communications Parameters
9600 baud
No parity
8 data bits
1 stop bit
Hardware Handshake: None
Enable: Echo local typed characters.
Enable: Send line feeds
The user can issue commands and create programs for operating the Pulseo
laser system using the Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
(or SCPI) serial command and query language described on the next few
pages. The latest version is always available from Spectra-Physics. This
section describes software 0135-0970 revision D. The following are the
conventions used in this book:
indicates a line of text sent to the Pulseo
indicates the Pulseo response
indicates an integer parameter
<n>
indicates a floating-point parameter
<f>
indicates a string
<s>
< >
indicates the ASCII carriage return character (hex 0x0D)
CR
< >
indicates the ASCII line feed character (hex 0x0A)
LF
Commands to the Pulseo should be terminated with
the Pulseo are always terminated with
sensitive.
Example for the query
The Pulseo would consider any of these inputs to be equivalent:
?PCURAS
all upper case is OK
all lower case is OK
?pcuras
mixed case is also acceptable
?PCURAs
< > <
CR
?PCURAS:
Operation
< >
. Responses from
CR
> . Commands are not case-
LF
or
USB
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