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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Figure 2-43: Waveforms created at the same time in three windows . . . . . . . . . 2-72
Figure 2-44: Initial sequence table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-73
Figure 2-45: Example of sequence (SUBSEQ.seq) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-75
Figure 2-46: Screen for setting jump mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-77
Figure 2-47: Screen for setting event jump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-78
Figure 2-48: Setup of Goto <N> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-79
Figure 2-49: Example of sequence (MAINSEQ.seq) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-80
Figure 3-1: Overview of AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform
Generator process flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Figure 3-2: Setup main screen (except option 02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33
Figure 3-3: 1/4 CLOCK OUT output format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41
Figure 3-4: 1/4 CLOCK OUT connection examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-42
Figure 3-5: Run mode and current status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44
Figure 3-6: Trigger slope and trigger level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-47
Figure 3-7: Waveform output sequence example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-51
Figure 3-8: Waveform editor initial screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-55
Figure 3-9: Standard Function Waveform dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-60
Figure 3-10: Register value and tap setting example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-66
Figure 3-11: Shift Register Generator dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-67
Figure 3-12: Set Pattern dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-68
Figure 3-13: Waveform compare operation example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-75
Figure 3-14: Digital Filter dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-78
Figure 3-15: XY View dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-80
Figure 3-16: Settings dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-83
Figure 3-17: Pattern editor initial screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-86
Figure 3-18: Code Convert dialog box and side menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-88
Figure 3-19: Code conversion table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-89
Figure 3-20: Operating data bits (scope) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-92
Figure 3-21: Area cursors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-94
Figure 3-22: Counter dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-95
Figure 3-23: Set Pattern dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-96
Figure 3-24: A waveform example under quick editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-100
Figure 3-25: Controls for quick editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-101
Figure 3-26: Table Editor window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-106
Figure 3-27: Equation editor window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-110
Figure 3-28: Text selection (example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-113
Figure 3-29: File list listing two waveforms created . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-116
Figure 3-30: Sequence editor initial screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-117
Figure 3-31: EVENT IN connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-124
Figure 3-32: Event signal timing and strobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-127
Figure 3-33: Compiling and storing sequences and subsequences . . . . . . . . . . 3-129
Figure 3-34: Outline flow for producing HDD reading test signal . . . . . . . . . . 3-131
Figure 3-35: Disk application initial screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-132
Figure 3-36: Writer Data menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-132
Figure 3-37: Isolated Pulse menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-133
Figure 3-38: Execution of superpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-133
Figure 3-39: Outline flow for producing network test read signal . . . . . . . . . . 3-140
Figure 3-40: Network application initial screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-140
Figure 3-41: Side menu will change after selecting a standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-141
Figure 3-42: Side menu for selecting the Isolated pulse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-142
Figure 3-43: Execution of superposing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-143