HP 8920A Programmer's Manual page 298

Chapter 5, Advanced Operations
HP-IB Service Requests
Setting Up and Enabling SRQ Interrupts
Table 26 Status Byte Register Bit Assignments
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Test Set status information is maintained in eight register groups. Information in
each register group is summarized into a Summary Message. All of the Summary
Messages are, in turn, summarized into the Status Byte Register, either directly to
specific bit positions in the Status Byte Register as shown in
through another register group (refer to
detailed discussion of the register groups and status reporting).
Bit Binary
Position Weighting
7 128
6 64
5 32
4 16
3 8
2 4
1 2
0 1
Bits in the Status Byte Register can be used to generate a Service Request (SRQ)
message by enabling the associated bit in the Service Request Enable Register.
When an enabled service request condition exists, the Test Set sends the Service
Request message (SRQ) on the HP-IB bus and reports that it has requested service
by setting the Request Service (RQS) bit in the Status Byte register to the TRUE,
logic 1, state. When read by a serial poll, the RQS bit is cleared (set to logic 0) so
that the RQS message will be FALSE if the Test Set is polled again before a new
reason for requesting service has occurred.
"Status Reporting" on page 246
Assignments
Operation Status Register Group Summary Message
Request Service (RQS) message when read by serial poll,
or, Master Summary Status (MSS) message when read by
STB? command
Standard Event Status Bit (ESB) Summary Message
Output Queue Message Available (MAV) Summary
Message
Questionable Data/Signal Register Group Summary
Message
Unused in Test Set
Hardware #2 Status Register Group Summary Message
Hardware #1 Status Register Group Summary Message
, or indirectly
table 26
for a