Inside The Idle State; Inside The Initiate State - HP 8360 User Handbook Manual

8360 series synthesized sweepers

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Figure l-36. Inside the Idle State

Turning power on, or sending *RST or :ABORT forces the trigger

system to the idle state. The trigger system remains in the

idle state until it is initiated by 1NITiate:IMMediate or

the trigger system exits downward to the

Whenever the trigger system leaves the idle state, it sets the

instrument's Operation Pending Flag. Returning to idle clears

Operation Pending Flag

the flag. The

instrument that can affect how the instrument responds to certain

commands. You need to know this fact when using *OPC, *OPC?,

Inside the Initiate State. Figure l-37 illustrates the operation of the

Figure l-37. Inside the Initiate State

If the trigger system is on a downward path, it travels directly

through the initiate state without restrictions. If the trigger system

is on an upward path, and 1NITiate:CONTinuous is ON, it exits

downward to an event-detection state. If the trigger system is on an

state. Note that

is a special bit inside the

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