Initiate Subsystem; Continuous Or Single Measurements - HP ESA-E Series Programmer's Manual

INITiate Subsystem

The INITiate subsystem is used to control the initiation of the trigger.
Refer to the TRIGger and ABORt subsystems for related commands.

Continuous or Single Measurements

:INITiate:CONTinuous OFF|ON|0|1
:INITiate:CONTinuous?
Selects whether the trigger system is continuously initiated or not.
This command affects sweep if not in a measurement, and affects
trigger when in a measurement. A "measurement" refers to any of the
functions under the
sweep or single sweep operation when not in a measurement, and
continuous measurement or single measurement operation when in a
measurement.
When not in a measurement, this command does the following:
NOTE
• When ON at the completion of each sweep cycle, the sweep system
• When OFF, the sweep system remains in an "idle" state until
• The query returns 1 or 0 into the output buffer. 1 is returned when
When in a measurement, this command does the following:
• When ON at the completion of each trigger cycle, the trigger system
• When OFF, the trigger system remains in an "idle" state until
• The query returns 1 or 0 into the output buffer. 1 is returned when
Factory Preset: Continuous
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immediately initiates another sweep cycle.
CONTinuous is set to ON or an :INITiate[:IMMediate]
command is received. On receiving the :INITiate[:IMMediate]
command, it will go through a single sweep cycle, and then return to
the "idle" state.
there is continuous sweeping. 0 is returned when there is only a
single sweep.
immediately initiates another trigger cycle.
CONTinuous is set to ON or an :INITiate[:IMMediate]
command is received. On receiving the :INITiate[:IMMediate]
command, it will go through a single trigger cycle, and then return to
the "idle" state.
there is continuous triggering. 0 is returned when there is only a
single trigger.
key. This corresponds to continuous
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