Measurement Commands - Agilent Technologies U2000 Series Manual

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MEASurement Commands

MEASurement Commands

Measurement commands are high level commands used to acquire data. They
enable you to trade interchangeability against fine control of the measurement
process.
* INITiate is described in
The CONFigure, FETCh?, READ? and MEASure? commands all have a numeric
suffix which refers to a specific window/measurement.
example of the configuration returned result windows.
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Measurement Descriptions
Command
MEASure?
Provides the simplest way to program a power sensor for measurements.
MEASure? is a compound command which is equivalent to an ABORT
followed by a CONFigure and a READ?. It does not enable much
flexibility or control over measurement settings.
CONFigure Used to change the power sensor's configuration values. CONFigure
must then be followed by another command which takes the
measurement—for example, a READ? followed by a FETCh?.
READ?
Takes a measurement using parameters previously set up using either
CONFigure or lower level commands. READ? is equivalent to an ABORt
followed by an INITiate1 (which performs the data acquisition) and a
FETCh?
FETCh?
Retrieves measurements taken by INITiate
Chapter 11, "TRIGger Subsystem," on page 261.
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