Command Descriptions
TDS Family Oscilloscope Programmer Manual
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Table 2–27: Commands that Affect BUSY? Response
Operation Command
Single sequence acquisition ACQuire:STATE ON or
ACQuire:STATE RUN
(when ACQuire:STOPAfter is set to SEQuence)
Hardcopy output HARDCopy STARt
BUSY?
might return 1, indicating that the instrument is busy.
*CAL? (Query Only)
Instructs the digitizing oscilloscope to perform an internal self-calibration and
return its calibration status.
NOTE. The self-calibration can take several minutes to respond. No other
commands will be executed until calibration is complete.
Calibration and Diagnostic
*CAL?
*CAL ?
<NR1> = 0 indicates that the calibration completed without any errors detected.
<NR1> 0 indicates that the calibration did not complete successfully.
*CAL?
performs an internal self-calibration and might return 0 to indicate that the
calibration was successful.
CH<x>? (Query Only)
Returns the vertical parameters. Because CH<x>:SCAle and CH<x>:VOLts are
identical, only CH<x>:SCAle is returned.
Examples
Group
Syntax
Returns
Examples