Agilent Technologies HP 16500B Manual page 5

Part 1 Part 1 consists of chapters 1 through 7 and contains general
information about programming basics, HP-IB and RS-232C interface
requirements, documentation conventions, status reporting, and error
messages. If you are already familiar with IEEE 488.2 programming and
HP-IB or RS-232C, you may want to just scan these chapters. If you are
new to programming logic analyzers you should read part 1.
Chapter 1 is divided into two sections. The first section, "Talking to the
Instrument," concentrates on program syntax, and the second section,
"Receiving Information from the Instrument," discusses how to send queries
and how to retrieve query results from the instrument.
Read either chapter 2, "Programming Over HP-IB," or chapter 3,
"Programming Over RS-232C" for information concerning the physical
connection between the HP 16500B/16501A Logic Analysis System and your
controller.
Chapter 4, "Programming and Documentation Conventions," gives an
overview of all instructions and also explains the notation conventions used
in the syntax definitions and examples.
Chapter 5, "Message Communication and System Functions," provides an
overview of the operation of instruments that operate in compliance with the
IEEE 488.2 standard.
Chapter 6 explains status reporting and how it can be used to monitor the
flow of your programs and measurement process.
Chapter 7 contains error message descriptions.
Part 2 Part 2, chapters 8 through 12, explain each command in the
command set for the mainframe. These chapters are organized in
subsystems with each subsystem representing a front-panel menu.
The commands explained in this part give you access to common commands,
mainframe commands, system level commands, disk commands, and
intermodule measurement commands. This part is designed to provide a
concise description of each command.
Part 3 Part 3, chapter 13, contains program examples of actual tasks
that show you how to get started in programming the HP 16500B/
16501A Logic Analysis System at the mainframe level. The complexity of
your programs and the tasks they accomplish are limited only by your
imagination. These examples are written in HP BASIC 6.2; however, the
program concepts can be used in any other popular programming
language that allows communications over HP-IB, RS-232C, or the
optional HP 16500L LAN Interface Module.
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