Agilent Technologies 35670A Manual page 553

STATus
Commands in this subsystem provide access to most of the Agilent 35670A's status groups (register sets).
Some of the common commands described in chapter 3 provide access to the other register sets.
Most of the commands in this subsystem are used to set bits in status registers. Most of the queries are
used to read status registers. Decimal weights are assigned to bits according to the following formula:
To set a single register bit to 1, send the decimal weight of that bit with the command that writes the
register. See figure 20-1. To set more than one bit to 1, send the sum of the decimal weights of all the
bits. Queries that read registers always return the sum of the decimal weights of all bits that are currently
set to 1.
See "Using Status Registers" in chapter 1 for more information on the Agilent 35670A status groups.
Note
The STATus commands are listed alphabetically. Therefore, the
STATus:QUESTionable:NTR command and the STATus:QUESTionable:PTR
command follow the STATus:QUESTionable:LIMit commands.
weight = 2
where n is the bit number with acceptable values of 0 through 14.
Figure 20-1. Table of Bit Weights
n
20
20-1