Timing Behavior; Error Handling; Table B-5 Queries With Different Result Values; Table B-6 Timing Behavior Changes - HP 8163A Programming Manual

SYSTem:ERRor?
SOURce:AM:SOURce?
Table B-5
Table B-6
HP-IB Command Compatibility List
Compatibility Issues
Same functionality but different numbers and errors are
returned for instrument specific errors.
Returns different enum values than the HP 8167/8.
Queries with Different Result Values

Timing Behavior

Table B-6 details the ways in which timing behavior is different.
Change
Command execution may be different.
HP-IB will block during command execution, except when executing functions, such as
logging and sweep, that don't tolerate blocking. This is identical to the behavior of the
8167/8. A side effect of this is that *OPC? always returns 1.
When continuous triggering and averaging times are greater than 1 second, the read-out
values reset after the averaging time is over; there is no sliding behavior.
Timing Behavior Changes

Error Handling

Most error commands and error texts for all instruments are new.
The HP 8153A timed out for every error. Errors are handled
differently by the HP 8163A/4A; instead of timing out for every
error, special values are returned for erroneous queries. Table B-7
and Table B-8 detail the new errors
The error queue is written to as before.
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8153
8167/8