User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- General Safety Summary
- Preface
- Getting Started
- Operating Basics
- Reference
- Reference
- Menu Structures
- The Setup Menu Screen
- The Graphical Waveform Editor
- The Pattern Editor
- Quick Editing
- The Table Editor
- The Equation Editor
- The Sequence Editor
- The APPL Menu
- The UTILITY Window
- External Keyboards
- Setting General Purpose Knob Direction
- Formatting a Floppy Disk
- Displaying Disk Usage
- Screen Display Enable/Disable
- Focused Color
- Displaying Instrument Status
- Internal Clock (Date and Time)
- Resetting the Instrument
- Connecting to a GPIB Network
- Ethernet Networking
- Hardcopy
- Calibration and Diagnostics
- Upgrading the System Software
- Capturing Waveforms
- Waveform Programming Language
- Command Descriptions
- Programming Examples
- File Conversion
- File Management
- FG Mode
- Waveform Mixing Mode
- Synchronous Operation Mode (AWG710B only)
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Specifications (AWG710B)
- Appendix A: Specifications (AWG710)
- Appendix B: Performance Verification (AWG710B)
- Conventions
- Self Tests
- Performance Tests
- Operating Mode Tests
- Amplitude and Offset Accuracy Tests (Normal Out), (except option 02)
- Amplitude, Offset Accuracy and Rise Time Tests (Direct DA Out), (except option 02)
- Amplitude, Offset Accuracy and Rise Time Tests (for option 02)
- Pulse Response Tests (Normal Out), (except option 02)
- Trigger Input Tests
- Event Input and Enhanced Mode Tests
- External Clock Input and VCO Out Output Tests
- VCO OUT Output Frequency and 10 MHz Reference Input Tests
- Marker Output Tests
- Synchronous Operation Tests
- Appendix B: Performance Verification (AWG710)
- Conventions
- Self Tests
- Performance Tests
- Operating Mode Tests
- Amplitude and Offset Accuracy Tests (Normal Out), (except option 02)
- Amplitude, Offset Accuracy and Rise Time Tests (Direct DA Out), (except option 02)
- Amplitude, Offset Accuracy and Rise Time Tests (for option 02)
- Pulse Response Tests (Normal Out), (except option 02)
- Trigger Input Tests
- Event Input and Enhanced Mode Tests
- 1/4 Clock Frequency and 10 MHz Reference Input Tests
- Marker Output Tests
- Appendix C: Inspection and Cleaning
- Appendix D: Sample Waveforms
- Appendix E: File Transfer Interface Outline
- Appendix F: Miscellaneous
- Appendix G: Sequence File Text Format
- Index

List of Figures
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List of Figures
Figure 1-1: Rear panel power switch, fuse holder, and power connector . . . . . 1-13
Figure 1-2: Location of the ON/STBY switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
Figure 2-1: Front panel controls (AWG710) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Figure 2-2: Front panel controls (AWG710B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Figure 2-3: Front panel keypad area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Figure 2-4: Front panel trigger and output controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Figure 2-5: Rear panel signal and power connectors (AWG710) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Figure 2-6: Rear panel signal and power connectors (AWG710B) . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Figure 2-7: Menu buttons, bezel menu buttons, and the CLEAR MENU button 2-8
Figure 2-8: Bottom and side menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Figure 2-9: Pop–up menu example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Figure 2-10: Dialog box example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Figure 2-11: Knob icon displayed in Status Display area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Figure 2-12: Keypad buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
Figure 2-13: Three type of Input text dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Figure 2-14: Shortcut controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Figure 2-15: Files and directories with read only attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
Figure 2-16: Input Filename dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
Figure 2-17: File list window examples in which Quick View is available . . . . 2-24
Figure 2-18: Viewing a file by Quick View function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25
Figure 2-19: Main Edit screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27
Figure 2-20: Edit top level menu screen with Edit side menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28
Figure 2-21: Editor screen elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29
Figure 2-22: Cursors and edit area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30
Figure 2-23: Multiple editor windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31
Figure 2-24: Main Setup screen (except option02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-34
Figure 2-25: Select File dialog on the Load menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-36
Figure 2-26: Viewing a file in the Setup screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-37
Figure 2-27: AWG710 block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43
Figure 2-28: AWG710B block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-44
Figure 2-29: Relationship between memory address control and
waveform memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-45
Figure 2-30: Cable connection between AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary
Waveform Generator and digital storage oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . 2-50
Figure 2-31: Initial screen (Right Figure: option02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-50
Figure 2-32: System utility screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-51
Figure 2-33: The Select File list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-54
Figure 2-34: Viewing a waveform loaded into memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-55
Figure 2-35: Waveform editor initial screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-57
Figure 2-36: The Standard Function dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-58
Figure 2-37: Standard sine wave function created in the Waveform Editor . . 2-59
Figure 2-38: Waveform created with the multiply operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-60
Figure 2-39: File Name Input dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-61
Figure 2-40: Waveform in the waveform editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-64
Figure 2-41: Waveform edit in quick editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-65
Figure 2-42: Viewer displaying compiled waveform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-69