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
Tutorials
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Tutorial 5: Using the Equation Editor
You can create a waveform by creating, compiling, and loading an equation file.
An equation file is a text file that you create and edit in the equation editor.
In this tutorial you will learn the following:
How to load an equation file
How to edit an equation
How to compile an equation file
Preparation
Do the following steps to set the instrument to the factory default settings:
1. Push the UTILITY button on the front panel to display the UTILITY menu
screen.
2. Push the Factory Reset side menu button.
The SETUP menu screen appears.
3. Push the OK side button.
The instrument is reset to the factory default setting.
The SETUP menu screen appears.
Load an Equation File
Do the following steps to load a sample equation file from the sample waveform
floppy disk:
1. Insert the sample waveform floppy disk into the drive unit.
2. Push the EDIT button on the front panel.
The screen listing the files in the default storage media appears. If the screen
does not show the file list, push the EDIT button again to display the file list.
3. Push the Drive bottom button.
4. Push the Floppy side button to select the floppy disk drive.
The file list for the floppy disk appears.
5. Select the file LOG_SWP.EQU from the file list using the general purpose
knob.
NOTE. If the Factory Reset side menu item is not shown, push the System bottom
menu button and then push the Factory Reset side menu button.
NOTE. Connect a standard 101– or 106–key PC keyboard to the instrument to make
it easier and faster to create and edit text.