Tektronix TDS420A User Manual

Command Descriptions

TDS Family Oscilloscope Programmer Manual

 
might return 

, indicating that repetitive signal acquisition mode is on.

Starts or stops acquisitions. This is the equivalent of pressing the front-panel
RUN/STOP button. If ACQuire:STOPAfter is set to SEQuence, other signal
events may also stop acquisition.

Acquisition

ACQuire:NUMACq?, ACQuire:REPEt, ACQuire:STOPAfter

              

 or  or   = 0 stops acquisitions.

 or   or    0 starts acquisition and display of waveforms. If the
command was issued in the middle of an acquisition sequence (for instance
averaging or enveloping), 

 restarts the sequence, discarding any data

accumulated prior to the 

. It also resets the number of acquisitions.

   
starts acquisition of waveform data and resets the number of acquisitions count
(NUMACQ) to zero.

 
returns either 

 or , depending on whether the acquisition system is running.