Anritsu Spectrum Master MS2721A Programming Manual page 2

Table of Contents
Table of Contents................................................................................................................ 1
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................... 5
Scope of this Manual .................................................................................................. 5
References................................................................................................................... 5
Trademark Acknowledgments .................................................................................... 5
Firmware Revisions .................................................................................................... 5
2 Programming Overview................................................................................................... 6
Controller Interface..................................................................................................... 6
Command Structure .................................................................................................... 6
Conventions ................................................................................................................ 9
3 Remote Commands........................................................................................................ 11
3.1 IEEE Common Commands..................................................................................... 11
3.2 Spectrum Analyzer.................................................................................................. 12
ABORt Subsystem .................................................................................................... 12
CALCulate Subsystem.............................................................................................. 13
:CALCulate:MARKer Subsystem ............................................................................ 13
DISPlay Subsystem................................................................................................... 15
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Format ..................................................................................................................... 6
Command Tree........................................................................................................ 6
Subsystems.............................................................................................................. 7
Optional Subsystems............................................................................................... 7
Long Format vs. Short Format................................................................................ 7
Case Sensitivity....................................................................................................... 7
Parameters............................................................................................................... 7
Query Format .......................................................................................................... 7
Combining Multiple Commands............................................................................. 7
Creating Valid Commands...................................................................................... 8
Command Terminators ........................................................................................... 8
Notational Conventions .......................................................................................... 9
Identifiers .............................................................................................................. 10
Identity Query ....................................................................................................... 11
Reset...................................................................................................................... 11
Abort ..................................................................................................................... 12
Marker (Maximum) Peak Search.......................................................................... 13
Marker (Maximum) Peak Search Left .................................................................. 13
Marker (Maximum) Peak Search Right................................................................ 13
Peak Threshold...................................................................................................... 13
Marker Frequency to Center ................................................................................. 14
Marker to Reference Level ................................................................................... 14
Marker X Value .................................................................................................... 14
Marker Read Y Value ........................................................................................... 14
Scale...................................................................................................................... 15
Reference Level .................................................................................................... 15
Reference Level Offset ......................................................................................... 15
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