Agilent Technologies HP 16500B Manual page 17

Introduction to Programming
Talking to Individual System Modules
Talking to Individual System Modules
Talking to individual system modules within the HP 16500B Logic Analysis
System is done by preceding the module commands with the SELECT
command and the number of the slot in which the desired module is installed.
The mainframe is selected in the same way as an installed module by using
the SELECT 0 command
Example
To select the module in slot 3 use the following:
OUTPUT XXX;":SELECT 3"
See Also
Chapter 6, "Mainframe Commands" for more information on the SELECT
command.
Initialization
To make sure the bus and all appropriate interfaces are in a known state,
begin every program with an initialization statement. BASIC provides a
CLEAR command that clears the interface buffer. If you are using HP-IB,
CLEAR will also reset the parser in the logic analysis system. The parser is
the program resident in the logic analysis system that reads the instructions
you send to it from the controller.
After clearing the interface, you could, for example, preset the logic analyzer
module to a known state by loading a predefined configuration file from the
disk.
Refer to your controller manual and programming language reference manual
for information on initializing the interface.
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