SCPI Basics

It's easy to send a command to Infiniium 2026. Simply create a command string from the various commands, and place the string in your program language's output statement. For commands other than common commands, include a colon before the subsystem name. Commands can be sent using any combination of uppercase or lowercase ASCII characters. Responses, however, are always returned in uppercase.

• Program Message Terminator
• Short or Long Forms
• White Space
• Combining Commands
• Adding Parameters to a Command
• String Arguments
• Numbers
• Infinity Representation
• Queries
• Endianness of Returned Binary Block Data
• NaN (Not A Number)
• Sequential and Overlapped Commands
• SCPI Tree