ï‚· IEEE488.2, 1992 (fully compatible)
ï‚· SCPI, 1994 (partially compatible)
The SCPI standard is an ASCII based standard that
defines the command syntax and structure for
programmable instruments.
Commands are based on a hierarchical tree
structure. Each command keyword is a node on
the command tree with the first keyword as the
root node. Each sub node is separated with a
colon.
Shown below is a section of the SOURce[1|2|3|4]
root node and the :PM and :PULSe sub nodes.
Commands can be separated in to three distinc
types, simple commands, compound commands
and queries.