Interface Specification; Emulating The Ieee488 Bus Commands - THORLABS PRO8 Series Operation Manual

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4.1.1 Interface specification

Electrical characteristics
Connector
Communication
Baud rate
Start bit
Stop bit
Data length
Parity
Handshaking
Receive buffer length
Termination character

4.1.2 Emulating the IEEE488 bus commands

As the RS232 interface does not offer hardware control lines like the IEEE488 bus,
the according IEEE488 bus command are emulated by specials commands.
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(Please refer to chapter 4.2, "Hardware standard IEEE 488.1" starting on page 21)
Device clear
Syntax:
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Description: Clears the input buffer and output queue. Resets the parser unit and the
execution unit
Go to local
Syntax:
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Description: Switches the PRO8000 into LOCAL mode (manual operation).
Previously set values for laser current, laser power, temperature etc.
remain valid.
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Hardware standard RS 232-C 19
EIA RS232C
9pin D-SUB (male)
Full duplex
1200, 2400, 4800, 9600,
19200, 38400
1 bit
1 bit
8 bit
No parity
RTS/CTS
256 bytes
CR LF (ASCII 0DH0AH)
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