User Manual

Getting Started Manual

WA-GSM-E-RevA

To choose a sampling mode, press the ACQUIRE

front panel button. On the Acquire menu, press the

Acquisition option button and select a sampling

mode. If you select the Average sampling mode,

press the Averages option button and select the

number of waveforms (4, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256).

Press the Mode option button and select Equ Time

or Real Time sampling.

Press the Sa Rate option button and turn the

Time/div front panel knob to display the sampling

rate at the corresponding timebase scale.

Acquiring Waveforms

You can choose to acquire a single waveform or to acquire waveforms

continuously. If you want to acquire a single waveform, press the SINGLE

front panel button. Each time you press the SINGLE front panel button, the

oscilloscope begins to acquire another waveform. After the oscilloscope

detects a trigger, it completes the acquisition and stops. If you want to

acquire waveforms continuously, press the RUN/STOP front panel button.

Press the button again to stop the acquisition.

When you start an acquisition, the oscilloscope goes through the following

steps:

1. Acquires enough data to fill the portion of the waveform record to the

left of the trigger point (pre-trigger).

2. Continues to acquire data while waiting for the trigger condition to

occur.

3. Detects the trigger condition.

4. Continues to acquire data until the waveform record is full.

5. Displays the waveform.

Changing the Timebase

The oscilloscope digitizes waveforms by acquiring the value of an input

signal at discrete points. The timebase allows you to control how often the

values are digitized. You can change the timebase using the Time/div front

panel knob in the Horizontal Control group. As you turn the Time/div front

panel knob, the value is displayed at the bottom of the screen.