NAME

Lab::Moose::Instrument::SCPI::Format - Role for SCPI FORMat subsystem.

VERSION

version 3.842

METHODS

format_data_query

format_data

 # set to binary single precision
 $instr->format_data(format => 'REAL', length => 32);

 # set to binary double precision
 $instr->format_data(format => 'REAL', length => 64);

 # set to ASCII, 10 significant digits
 $instr->format_data(format => 'ASC', length => 10);

 my $format = $instr->cached_format_data();
 print "format: $format->[0], len: $format->[1]\n";

Set/Get data format.

format_border_query

format_border

 $instr->format_border(value => 'NORM'); # or 'SWAP'

Set/Get byte order of transferred data. Normally you want 'SWAP' (little-endian), which is the native machine format of the measurement PC.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2023 by the Lab::Measurement team; in detail:

  Copyright 2016       Simon Reinhardt
            2017       Andreas K. Huettel, Simon Reinhardt
            2018       Simon Reinhardt
            2020       Andreas K. Huettel, Sam Bingner

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.