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6 Type and Structure of Commands
The SCPI commands available for the SERIES 7000 are classified into 2 groups as follows.
6.1 SERIES 7000 commands
Commands specific to the SERIES 7000. They cover all measurement functions that the SERIES
7000 has and some general-purpose functions. The commands in this group are arranged in a
hierarchical structure called the command tree. Each command consists of character strings
(mnemonics) indicating each hierarchical level and colon (:) separators between hierarchical levels.
6.1.1
IEEE common commands
Commands to cover general-purpose functions defined in IEEE488.2 that are available commonly to
instruments that support this standard. The commands in this group have an asterisk (*) at the
beginning. For the commands in this group, there is no hierarchical structure.
6.1.2
Using SCPI for SERIES 7000
Berkeley Nucleonics instrument are message based, which means they are controlled through text
commands, typically following the SCPI standard which is vendor-independent and interface-
independent. Berkeley Nucleonics devices offer several I/O options use the same SCPI commands
through all these interfaces, especially LAN and USB.
Please see the SERIES 7000 Programmer’s Manual for detailed description of
supported SCPI commands.
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