Agilent Technologies 8960 Series Reference Manual page 90

Step 5: INITiate and FETCh Measurements
Concurrent Measurement Process
Figure 7. Process for Making Concurrent Measurements
INITiate:DONE? query
returns WAIT (no
measurements are done).
Start a Set of Concurrent Measurements The INITiate command is used to start measurements. Each
individual measurement can be started using the INITiate command. For starting measurements, the syntax
of the INITiate command is as follows:
INITiate:<measurement mnemonic>[:ON]
More than one measurement can be started using a single INITiate command. For example:
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Start
Start a set of concurrent
measurements using
INITiate command.
Determine
if a measurement
is done using
INITiate:DONE?
query.
INITiate:DONE? query
returns NONE (all
measurements are done).
Continue
program
INITiate:DONE? query
returns name of
measurement that is done.
Use FETCh? query to
obtain a set of measurement
results.
Is measurement
result valid?
NO
Invoke Error Handler
YES