Agilent Technologies 8163A Work Light User Manual


 
Introduction to Programming The Status Model
38 Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition
Operation/Questionable Status Summary Register
Bits 0 to 4 are built from the OSSER/QSSER and the OSSEM/QSSEM.
A summary of the event register, the condition register and the enable
mask is set in the status byte.
Operation/Questionable Slot Status
The Operation/Questionable Slot Status 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, the condition register and the enable
mask is set in the status byte.
Operation Slot Status Register
Bit 0 is set if the laser is switched on.
Bit 1 is set if the Coherence Control is switched on.
Bit 3 is set if Power Meter zeroing or Tunable Laser module lambda
zeroing is ongoing.
Bit 4 is set if the attenuator output is enabled (shutter open).
Bits 5 - 7 are set if the wavelength offset table is enabled (see page 68).
All other bits are unused, and therefore set to 0.
Questionable Slot Status Register
Bit 0 is set if excessive power is set by the user for any source module
or if excessive averaging time is set for any Power Meter.
Bit 1 is set if the last Power Meter zeroing failed.
Bit 2 is set if temperature is out of range.
Bit 3 is set if laser protection is switched on.