HP 16533A Manual

Programmer’s Guide
Publication number 16534-97004
First edition, August 1995
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HP 16533A 1-GSa/s and
HP 16534A 2-GSa/s Digitizing
Oscilloscope

In This Book
This guide, combined with the HP
16500B/16501A Programmer’s Guide,
provides you with the information needed
to program the HP 16533/34A
oscilloscope module. Each module has
its own reference to supplement the
mainframe manual since not all
mainframes will be configured with the
same modules.
Chapter 1 contains:
•Mainframe system commands that are
frequently used with the oscilloscope
module
•HP 16533/34A Oscilloscope command
tree
•Alphabetic command-to-subsystem
directory
Chapter 2 contains module level
commands.
Chapters 3 through 10 contain the
subsystem commands for the oscilloscope.
Chapter 11 contains program examples of
actual tasks that show you how to get
started in programming the HP
16533/34A oscilloscope. These examples
are written in HP BASIC 6.2; however,
the program concepts can be used in any
other popular programming language that
allows communications with either the
HP-IB or RS-232C buses.
Error messages for the HP 16533/34A are
included in generic system error
messages and are in the HP
16500B/16501A Programmer’s Guide.
Programming the HP 16533/34A
1
Module Level Commands
2
ACQuire Subsystem
3
CHANnel Subsystem
4
DISPlay Subsystem
5
MARKer Subsystem
6
MEASure Subsystem
7
TIMebase Subsystem
8
TRIGger Subsystem
9
WAVeform Subsystem
10
Programming Examples
11
Index
iii

iv

Contents
1 Programming the HP 16533/34A Oscilloscope Module
Introduction 1–2
Selecting the Module 1–3
Setting up an Oscilloscope 1–3
Mainframe Commands 1–5
Command Set Organization 1–9
Module Status Reporting 1–10
MESE <N> 1–11
MESR <N>? 1–13
2 Module Level Commands
AUToscale 2–3
DIGitize 2–4
VARiation 2–5
3 ACQuire Subsystem
Introduction 3–2
COUNt 3–4
TYPE 3–5
4 CHANnel Subsystem
COUPling 4–5
ECL 4–6
OFFSet 4–7
PROBe 4–8
RANGe 4–9
TTL 4–10
Contents–1

5 DISPlay Subsystem
ACCumulate 5–4
CONNect 5–4
INSert 5–5
LABel 5–7
MINus 5–8
OVERlay 5–8
PLUS 5–9
REMove 5–9
6 MARKer Subsystem
Introduction 6–2
AVOLt 6–6
ABVolt? 6–7
BVOLt 6–7
CENTer 6–8
MSTats 6–8
OAUTo 6–9
OTIMe 6–10
RUNTil 6–11
SHOW 6–12
TAVerage? 6–12
TMAXimum? 6–13
TMINimum? 6–13
TMODe 6–14
VMODe 6–15
VOTime? 6–16
VRUNs? 6–16
VXTime? 6–17
XAUTo 6–18
XOTime? 6–19
XTIMe 6–19
Contents
Contents–2

7 MEASure Subsystem
Introduction 7–2
ALL? 7–5
FALLtime? 7–6
FREQuency? 7–6
NWIDth? 7–7
OVERshoot? 7–7
PERiod? 7–8
PREShoot? 7–8
PWIDth? 7–9
RISetime? 7–9
SOURce 7–10
VAMPlitude? 7–11
VBASe? 7–11
VMAX? 7–12
VMIN? 7–12
VPP? 7–13
VTOP? 7–13
8 TIMebase Subsystem
DELay 8–4
MODE 8–5
RANGe 8–6
9 TRIGger Subsystem
CONDition 9–5
DELay 9–7
LEVel 9–8
LOGic 9–10
MODE 9–11
PATH 9–12
SLOPe 9–12
SOURce 9–13
Contents
Contents–3

10 WAVeform Subsystem
Format for Data Transfer 10–4
Data Conversion 10–6
COUNt? 10–9
DATA? 10–9
FORMat 10–10
POINts? 10–10
PREamble? 10–11
RECord 10–12
SOURce 10–12
SPERiod? 10–13
TYPE? 10–13
VALid? 10–14
XINCrement? 10–15
XORigin? 10–16
XREFerence? 10–16
YINCrement? 10–17
YORigin? 10–17
YREFerence? 10–18
11 Programming Examples
Introduction 11–2
Digitizing Waveform Data 11–3
Using the MEASURE ALL? Query 11–4
Combined Measurement Example 11–5
Contents
Contents–4

1
Programming the
HP 16533/34A Oscilloscope
Module

Introduction
This chapter introduces you to the basic command structure used to
program the oscilloscope. Also included is an example program that
displays a waveform and makes automatic parametric measurements.
Additional program examples are in chapter 11.
1–2