Boonton 4530 Peak Power Meter User Manual - Manual (Page 78)

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Chapter 4 Boonton Electronics
Remote Operation 4530 Series RF Power Meter
4.5 COMMAND REFERENCE.
This section contains a list of all remote commands accepted by the 4530. The list is grouped by SCPI or IEEE488
function, and detailed descriptions of each commands may be located by section. The final section contains a
summary list of commands.:
Command Group Section Page
MEASure Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.1 . . . . . . . . . 4-4
INITiate and ABORt Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.2 . . . . . . . . . 4-5
FETCh Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.3 . . . . . . . . . 4-6
READ Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.4 . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Native Mode Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.5 . . . . . . . . . 4-12
SENSe Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.6 . . . . . . . . . 4-19
CALCulate Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.7 . . . . . . . . . 4-24
MARKer Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.8 . . . . . . . . . 4-28
DISPlay Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.9 . . . . . . . . . 4-29
TRIGger Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.10 . . . . . . . . 4-33
TRACe Data Array Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.11 . . . . . . . . 4-36
SENSe:MBUF Data Array Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.12 . . . . . . . . 4-37
SENSe:SBUF Data Array Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.13 . . . . . . . . 4-39
SENSe:HIST and SENSe:CALTAB Data Array Commands . . . . 4.5.14 . . . . . . . . 4-40
CALibration Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.15 . . . . . . . . 4-42
MEMory Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.16 . . . . . . . . 4-43
OUTPut Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.17 . . . . . . . . 4-44
SYSTem Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.18 . . . . . . . . 4-48
STATus Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.19 . . . . . . . . 4-50
IEEE-488.2 Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.20 . . . . . . . . 4-52
Remote Interface Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5.21 . . . . . . . . 4-56
4.5.1 MEASure Queries
The MEASure group of commands is used to acquire data using a set of high level instructions. They are structured
to allow the user to trade off interchangeability with fine control of the measurement process. MEASure? provides a
complete capability where the power meter is configured, a measurement taken, and results returned in one operation.
The instrument is set to a basic, predefined measurement state with little user intervention necessary or possible.
Sometimes, more precise control of measurement is required. In these cases, MEASure? should not be used. Rather,
a sequence of configuration commands, generally from the CALCulate and SENSe groups should be used to set up the
instrument for the measurement, then READ? or FETCH? commands are used to return the desired measurement data
in a specific format.
MEASure:POWer
Description: Return average power using a default instrument configuration
Syntax: Measure[1|2]:POWer?
Returns: Average power in dBm
Modes: Automatically sets to Modulated or CW voltage mode before measurement