
Chapter 6 177
Advanced Operations
Instrument Initialization
Instrument Initialization
This section discusses the various methods available to the programmer
to initialize the Test Set to a known state.
With over 22 instruments utilizing greater than 25 screens containing
hundreds of fields which can be programmed through the HP-IB bus, a
hard copy list of the default condition for every field in every
instrument screen would be cumbersome. The recommended method of
determining the default condition for every field in a particular
instrument screen is to select the PRESET key, display the instrument
screen of interest and view the contents of the fields.
Apart from the individual instruments it is important, from a
programmatic perspective, to know the default conditions of the I/O
configuration of the Test Set and how it may be affected by the various
methods of initialization. Seven screens are used to control the I/O
configuration of the Test Set:
• INSTRUMENT CONFIGURE screen
• I/O CONFIGURE screen
• PRINTER CONFIGURE screen
• SOFTWARE MENU screen
• TESTS (Execution Conditions) screen
• TESTS (External Devices) screen
• TESTS (Printer Setup) screen
The following sections discuss how the various methods of initialization
affect these seven screens as well as the Status Reporting Structure of
the Test Set.
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