HP 7470A Interfacing And Programming Manual
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4. The program step following the pause will now be executed. The
next steps of the program, in order, should be an OD command to
the plotter, a read statement by the computer to read the X- and
Y-coordinatesand the pen status, a statement to remove the prompt
(requesting you to enter a point) from the screen, and then steps to
process the digitized data in the appropriate manner.
Using this method, there is no need to monitor the status byte because
the program does not proceed to the OD command until the user enters
a point and causes the program to resume.
A simpler procedure, using 0A or OC instead of OD, can also be used.
It omits the DP in step 1 and pressing ENTERin step 3. Using the
shorter procedure with OC makes it possible to obtain coordinate
values in user units. Refer to Chapter 7.
A short program to digitize a single point and display the coordinates
and pen status is given below. The program is in BASIC for an HP-85
with an HP-IB interface. An I/O ROM is required in order to execute
the ENTER statement to obtain the digitized point.
10 PRINTER IS ?05,80
20 PRINT ”DP;”
30 DISP “ENTER H POINT“
40 PHUSE
50 PRINT "un;~
so ENTER 705 ; X,Y,P
70 DISP X;Y;P
so END
Monitoring the Status Byte
The second method can be used with any interface and is the only
method of checking based on software that can be done in an RS—232—C
environment. This method monitors bit position 2,the third least signifi
cant bit, of"theplotter’s status byte which is set when a digitized point
is available. Refer to The Output Status Instruction, OS, Chapter 7 for
more information.
Monitoring bit position 2 can be done in a variety of ways depending
on the commands available on the computer being used. If there are
instructions to check bits directly, the third least significant bit (lsb)
should be checked for the occurrence of a 1. If no bit operations are
available, the status byte can be operated on arithmetically to check for
the availability of a digitized point. Executing successive divisions of a
number by two and checking for an odd or even integer answer is a
common way of monitoring bits without converting the number to
binary form. Either of the following sequences of BASIC instructions
DIGITIZING 6-5