AMETEK SFA Series Ethernet Programming - Manual (Page 113)

SG Series Programming SCPI Command Operation
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Command Description SCPI
:STATe? Returns the present state for the selected sequence. It
returns a state for the RAM copy of the sequence, and a
state for the slave processor copy. (Internally, the SGI
uses a two processor architecture, where one processor
processes the SCPI commands and the user interface
(display and keypad), and another processor (the slave
processor) processes commands to control the power
hardware.) The state of the slave is the actual state of
the sequence, since the slave processor actually
executes a sequence. The RAM copy will normally
reflect the state of the slave. The response of the query
is in the following format:
Ram{n} = "rstate", slave[m] = "sstate"
where rstate may be any of the following:
"RUNNING", "PAUSED", "STOPPED", "EDIT",
"EMPTY", or "ERROR"
and sstate may be any of the following:
"RUNNING", "PAUSED", "STOPPED", or
"ERROR"
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