Fluke PM6685R User Manual

Fluke

Table of Contents

1 Getting Started

Finding Your Way Through This Manual . . 1-2
Manual Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Setting Up the Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Interface Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

2 Bus Commands for the

Benchtop User

Default settings (after *RST). . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

3 Introduction to SCPI

What is SCPI? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
How does SCPI Work in the Instrument? . 3-4
Program and Response Messages . . . . . . 3-8
Command Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Status Reporting System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
Error Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
Initialization and Resetting. . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21

4 Programming Examples

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

GW-Basic for National Instruments

PC-IIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

Setting up the interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
1. Limit Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
3. Frequency Profiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
4. Fast Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
5. Status Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
6. Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11

‘C’ for National Instruments PC-IIA

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

1. Limit Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
2. REAL Data Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
3. Frequency Profiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17
4. Fast Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
6. Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21

5 Instrument Model

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Measurement Function Block . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Other Subsystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Order of Execution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
MEASurement Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

6 Using the Subsystems

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Calculate Subsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Calibration Subsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Configure Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
Format Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Time Stamp Readout Format . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Input Subsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Measurement Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Output Subsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
Sense Command Subsystems . . . . . . . . 6-14
Status Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
Trigger/Arming Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . 6-30

7 How to Measure Fast

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
Rough Trigger Subsystem Description . . . 7-4
Some Basic Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
Basic Measurement Method . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

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