Instructions
Table Of Contents
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Getting started
- General features
- Before installation
- Standard accessories
- Operating requirements
- Power the instrument on and off
- Change instrument settings at power-on
- Erase waveforms from memory
- Select a local language
- Protect your instrument from misuse
- General care
- Update your instrument firmware
- Equivalent output circuits
- Instrument front panel, interface, and rear panel
- Operating basics
- Quick tutorial: How to select a waveform and adjust parameters
- Quick tutorial: How to generate a sine waveform
- Quick tutorial: Instrument help system
- Generate a pulse waveform
- Generate a built-in waveform
- Create/save a user-defined waveform
- Recall a user-defined waveform
- Generate noise
- Generate DC
- Sweep a waveform
- Modulate a waveform
- Generate a burst waveform
- Copy channel setting
- USB memory device
- Utility menu
- Save/recall instrument setup
- Application examples
- Appendix A: Line fuse replacement
- Index
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AFG1000 Series Quick Start User Manual
Operating basics
Quick tutorial: Instrument help system
The instrument help system allows you to access information about specific
menu
items and instrument functions when you need help. Access and
navigate
this help system using front panel buttons and knob; and then follow
the on-screen
instructions as they appear.
How to access the
instrument help system
Follow the steps described here to access the instrument help system.
1.
Push the front-panel Help button
to display the help screen.
2.
Turn the general purpose knob to
move the highlight from one link
to
another.
3.
Press Select
to display the topic
corresponding
to the highlighted
link.
4.
Press Previous to
display a
previous topic.
5.
Press Next to
display the next
topic.
6.
Press Back or push any
front-panel button to remove the
Help text from the screen and
return to the graphic or parameter
display.
Ways to access and
navigate the instrument
help system
Push the Help button to display information (topic) about the functions.
Turn the general purpose knob or press Previous and Next to move from
page to page within a displayed topic.
Turn the general purpose knob to hig
hlight a help topic in the index.
Press Select to display the topic from the index page.
Push the Utility button, press System, and then press Language to
choose the language in which you want the Help topics, bezel menus, and
on-screen messages to appear.