Agilent Technologies A.18.00 User Manual

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Chapter 5, Advanced Operations
Status Reporting
Communicate Status Register Group 
The Communicate Status Register Group contains information about the Test 
Set’s hardware. This status group is accessed using the STATus commands. The 
Communicate Status Register Group uses 16-bit registers and includes a 
Condition Register, Transition Filters, an Event Register, an Enable Register, and 
a Summary Message. Refer to th
 for a discussion of status register operation. 
 shows the structure and 
STATus commands for the Communicate Status Register Group. 
Figure 17
 Communicate Status Register Group
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