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TDS 310, TDS 320 & TDS 350 Programmer Manual
GĆ1
Glossary
ASCII
Acronym for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
Controllers transmit commands to the digitizing oscilloscope using ASCII
character encoding.
Address
A 7Ćbit code that identifies an instrument on the communication bus. The
digitizing oscilloscope must have a unique address for the controller to
recognize and transmit commands to it.
BackusĆNaur Form (BNF)
A standard notation system for command syntax diagrams. The syntax
diagrams in this manual use BNF notation.
Controller
A computer or other device that sends commands to and accepts reĆ
sponses from the digitizing oscilloscope.
EOI
A mnemonic referring to the control line End or Identify" on the GPIB
interface bus. One of the two possible endĆofĆmessage terminators.
EOM
A generic acronym referring to the endĆofĆmessage terminator. The endĆ
ofĆmessage terminator is either an EOI or the ASCII code for line feed
(LF).
GPIB
Acronym for General Purpose Interface Bus, the common name for the
communications interface system defined in IEEE Std 488.
IEEE
Acronym for the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
QuickBASIC
A computer language (distributed by Microsoft) that is based on the
Beginner's AllĆPurpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
QuickC
A computer language (distributed by Microsoft) that is based on C.
RSĆ232
A serial, fullĆduplex, asynchronous communication port that follows
ANSI/EIA/TIA-562-1989[1], ANSI/EIA/TIA-574-1990[2], and CCITT
V.24-1989[3] standards.
TEKSecure
A Tektronix custom command that initializes both waveform and setup
memories. This overwrites any previously stored data.