Chapter 3 Operation; Introduction; Input Format; Output Format - Racal Instruments 1260 Series User Manual

1260 Series User Manual

Introduction

Input Format

Output Format

This Chapter supplies the information necessary to operate 1260
Series switching modules housed in a VXIbus chassis. It describes
the command codes and module specific syntax needed to control
the 1260 Option 01 and switching modules, and the formats for the
character strings output by the switching modules.
The Option 01 is capable of recognizing any of the device
dependant commands given in this chapter from the first two
characters of the command, with the exception of the READ,
RESET and RECALL commands which may be recognized from
the first three characters of the command. The Option 01 will
interpret a command in the same way if a command string supplies
the first two or three or more characters of the command string.
The Option 01 will respond to the following terminators:
line feed
carriage return, line feed
carriage return, line feed with EOI asserted
GPIB line EOI asserted (when used with a GPIB/VXI
Resource Manager)
The Option 01 switching module will output character strings in
response to the PDATAOUT, PSETUP and YERR commands.
These character strings consist of one or more lines of information
that will be terminated by the carriage return, line feed pair with the
GPIB EOI line asserted as determined by the EOI <0|1>
command. This means the character string output by the Option 01
may be required to be read repeatedly until the final line of the
output is read for PDATAOUT and PSETUP commands. The final
character string output
address>.END, where <module address> is the address of the last
module to be described. The character string output in response to
operation
by the Option 01
Chapter 3
is <module
Operation 3-1