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TLS 216 Programmer Manual
Glossary–1
Glossary
ASCII
Acronym for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
Controllers transmit commands to the logic scope using ASCII character
encoding.
Address
A 7-bit code that identifies an instrument on the communication bus. The
logic scope must have a unique address for the controller to recognize and
transmit commands to it.
Backus-Naur 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 responses
from the logic scope.
EOI
A mnemonic referring to the control line “End or Identify” on the GPIB
interface bus. One of the two possible end-of-message terminators.
EOM
A generic acronym referring to the end-of-message terminator. The
end-of-message terminator can be either an EOI or the ASCII code for line
feed (LF).
Real-time sampling
A sampling mode where the logic scope samples fast enough to completely
fill a waveform record from a single trigger event. Use real-time sampling to
capture single-shot or transient events.
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.
QuickC
A computer language (distributed by Microsoft) that is based on C.
TEKSecure
A Tektronix custom command that initializes both waveform and setup
memories. This overwrites any previously stored data.