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Chapter 3, Using the Software/HP 8920A FW Rev. Below 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 an SRAM card so that you may skip these steps in the

future.

See "Saving a Test Procedure Using the Procedure Manager," in chapter 3,

on page 83

You may customize your software at any time. Because your needs change, the

software allows changes to its default settings when you need to make them and in

any order that you choose. 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 test set’s Test Function

screens. These Test Function screens are accessed from the main

TESTS screen as

shown in the following figure. All Test Functions are explained in this chapter by

function.

NOTE: Edit Cnfg and IBASIC will not be explained in this customizing section.

• Edit Cnfg is used when setting up printers and external disk drives which is explained

in "Disks" on page 198and "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:

• HP 8920A,D

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

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

• HP 8920B

• HP Instrument Basic User’s Handbook Version 2.0 HP

part number E2083-90005.

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