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Chapter 2, Using the Software/HP 8920B or HP 8920A FW Above Rev. A.14.00

Customizing Testing

Because of the diversity of individual testing needs, the software has been

designed so that changes may be easily made from the test set’s front panel. You

may store these changes on a memory card so that you may skip these steps in the

future. See

"Saving a Test Procedure" on page 50.

Because your needs change, the software allows changes to its default settings

whenever you need to make them. For example, tests may be inserted or deleted,

and later after running the tests you can change the pass/fail limits or decide to test

different channels.

Most testing customization is accomplished through the customization screens.

These customization screens are accessed from the main TESTS (Main Menu)

screen as shown in the following figure. Customizing procedures is explained

later in this chapter.

NOTE: External Devices, Printer Setup, and IBASIC will not be explained in this customizing

section.

• External Devices and Printer Setup are used when setting up printers and external disk

drives which is explained in "Disks" on page 198 and "Printing" on page 212 in

chapter 5.

• IBASIC is used when writing your own programs and is not explained in this manual.

If you need to write your own IBASIC programs you may acquire the following

manuals:

•8920A,D

• HP Instrument Basic User’s Handbook HP part number E2083-90000.

• HP 8920A Programming Manual HP part number 08920-90220.

•8920B

• HP Instrument Basic User’s Handbook Version 2.0

HP part number E2083-90005.

• HP 8920B Programming Manual HP part number 08920-90222.