Agilent Technologies 8163A Work Light User Manual


 
The Status Model Introduction to Programming
Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition 37
Annotations
Status Byte Register
Bit 3, the QSB, is built from the questionable event status register and
its enable mask.
Bit 4, the MAV, is set if the message output queue is not empty.
Bit 5, the ESB, is built from the SESR and its SESEM.
Bit 7, the OSB, is built from the operation event status register and its
enable mask.
All other bits are unused, and therefore set to 0.
Standard Event Status Register
Bit 0 is set if an operation complete event has been received since the
last call to *ESR?.
Bit 1 is always 0 (no service request).
Bit 2 is set if a query error has been detected.
Bit 3 is set if a device dependent error has been detected.
Bit 4 is set if an execution error has been detected.
Bit 5 is set if a command error has been detected.
Bit 6 is always 0 (no service request).
Bit 7 is set for the first call of *ESR? after Power On.
Operation/Questionable Status Summary
The Operation/Questionable Status Summary consist of a condition and
an event register.
A "rising" bit in the condition register is copied to the event register.
A "falling" bit in the condition register has no effect on the event
register.
Reading the condition register is non-destructive.
Reading the event register is destructive.
A summary of the event register and its enable mask is set in the status
byte.