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HP 437B EMULATION
COMMANDS
This section provides an alphabetical listing of the commands (mnemon
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ics) used to program the Model ML2430A Series Power Meter when in HP
437B Emulation mode. The emulation mode can be set through the front
panel SYSTEM|Rear Panel|GPIB|MODE menu (see Chapter 4, Opera
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tion) or through the GPIB command EMUL (page 6-105).
HP Emulation commands must not
have a space between the command
header and the parameter, or commas between the parameters.
The format for HP Emulation commands is:
<command header><parameter 1><parameter
n
>...
The end of the command text must be terminated with a line feed charac
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ter (0Ah, decimal 10) or a GPIB End of Transmission State (EOI), or both.
*CLS Clear GPIB status bytes
Syntax:
*CLS
Remarks:
This command performs a status structure clear command. The event
status register and the status register are cleared except for the MAV bit.
*ESE Set the Event Status register enable mask
Syntax:
*ESE<val>
val:
8-bit mask
Remarks:
Event registers for the HP 437B (see Figure 6-8):
Bit 7: Power ON
Bit 6: N/A
Bit 5: Command error
Bit 4: Execution error
Bit 3: Device Dependent error
Bit 2: N/A
Bit 1: N/A
Bit 0: N/A
See the HP 437B manual for details about the HP status registers.
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HP 437B EMULATION COMMANDS GPIB OPERATION