Using the Digital to Analog Converter (DAC)
VX4101A MultiPaq Instrument User Manual
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9. Enter the following command to initialize a continuous DAC output of
signals:
INIT:CONT ON
10. Enter the following command to abort the signals currently being generated:
INIT:CONT OFF
Reading a Trace from the DAC in Binary
1. Select the DAC as the active instrument:
INST:SEL DAC
2. Set the data format to binary:
FORMAT BIN
NOTE. ASCII is the default format. You can use the command FORMAT ASCII to
change the data format back to ASCII. The queries in this procedure can be used
in either ASCII or Binary.
3. Read the current trace from channel 1, starting at index 1 through the
currently programmed number of points:
TRACe? 1
4. Read the value of the third data point from channel 8:
TRACe? 8,3
5. Read from channel 3 data points 100 through 200:
TRACe? 3,(100:200)
6. Set the data format to ASCII:
FORMAT ASCII