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C H A P T E R
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GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus) is the common name for
ANSI/IEEE
Standard 488.2-1987
, an industry standard for interconnecting test instruments in
a system. Everything you can do from the front panel can also be done remotely,
and in some cases, with more flexibility. For instance, in remote mode you have
access to commands for functions not found on the front panel. This chapter
explains the fundamentals of operating the LDC-3926339 remotely through the
General Purpose GPIB or RS-232 interfaces.
Remote Configuration
This section contains information about the command set, command syntax, as
well as error and status registers. Refer to the Chapter 4,
Command Reference
for
information about specific commands.
Command Syntax
This section describes command syntax and structure. You need this information
to effectively write GPIB control programs. The syntax of GPIB commands follow
the rules defined in the ANSI/IEEE 488.2-1987 standard.
Letters
Any GPIB command or query must contain all of the letters that are shown in
upper case in the command definition, though they do not need to be typed in
upper case. Some of the device dependent commands include optional letters
shown in lower case in the command reference (Chapter 4,
Command
Reference
). Letter case does not matter. Lower case characters are used in this
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