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Instrument Setup and Status Interface/Instrument Behaviour Settings – The SYSTem Subsystem
76 Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition
Interface/Instrument Behaviour
Settings – The SYSTem
Subsystem
The SYSTem subsystem lets you control the instrument’s serial interface.
You can also control some internal data (like date, time, and so on).
command:
:SYSTem:DATE
syntax: :SYSTem:DATE<wsp><year>,<month>,<day>
description: Sets the instrument’s internal date.
parameters:
• the first value is the year (four digits),
• the second value is the month, and
• the third value is the day.
response: none
example: syst:date 1999, 1, 12
command:
:SYSTem:DATE?
syntax: :SYSTem:DATE?
description: Returns the instrument’s internal date.
parameters: none
response: The date in the format year, month, day (16-bit signed integer values)
example: syst:date? → +1999,+1,+12<END>
command:
:SYSTem:ERRor?
syntax: :SYSTem:ERRor?
description: Returns the next error from the error queue (see “The Error Queue” on page 22).
Each error has the error code and a short description of the error, separated by a comma, for
example 0, "No error".
Error codes are numbers in the range -32768 and +32767.
Negative error numbers are defined by the SCPI standard. Positive error numbers are device
dependent.
parameters: none
response: The number of the latest error, and its meaning.
example: syst:err? → -113,"Undefined header"<END>