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 3-44: Outline flow for Jitter waveform creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-147
Figure 3-45: Jitter composer application initial screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-148
Figure 3-46: Input Data menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-148
Figure 3-47: A pre–defined pattern was selected as an input data . . . . . . . . . 3-149
Figure 3-48: Jitter profile menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-149
Figure 3-49: Execution of jitter composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-150
Figure 3-50: Jitter parameters and jitter waveform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-153
Figure 3-51: GPIB setup screen menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-161
Figure 3-52: Network setup screen menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-163
Figure 3-53: Message box to indicate the establishment of communication . . 3-165
Figure 3-54: Network Status screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-165
Figure 3-55: UTILITY screen mounting remote file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-166
Figure 3-56: Drive selections in EDIT menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-168
Figure 3-57: Hardcopy setup screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-171
Figure 3-58: Hardcopy complete message box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-172
Figure 3-59: Calibration and diagnostic screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-173
Figure 3-60: Status message box (except option02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-174
Figure 3-61: Source instrument selection dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-182
Figure 3-62: Source instrument selection under Others... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-183
Figure 3-63: Waveforms generated from the Example 1 equation . . . . . . . . . 3-208
Figure 3-64: Waveform generated by the Example 2 equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-209
Figure 3-65: Waveforms generated by the Example 3 equation . . . . . . . . . . . 3-210
Figure 3-66: Sequence generated by the Example 3 equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-211
Figure 3-67: Source waveform and those generated by the Example 4
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-212
Figure 3-68: Noise waveforms after filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-213
Figure 3-69: Noise waveforms before (upper) and after (lower) 7–point
smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-215
Figure 3-70: Gaussian noise and ramp waveforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-217
Figure 3-71: Screen and side menu buttons for importing and exporting . . . 3-222
Figure 3-72: Select the conversion type dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-222
Figure 3-73: Double Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-230
Figure 3-74: Overwrite confirmation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-232
Figure 3-75: Outline flow for producing Function Generator signal . . . . . . . . 3-233
Figure 3-76: FG mode screen (except option 02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-233
Figure 3-77: Change the generator mode (except option 02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-234
Figure 3-78: Waveform type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-235
Figure 3-79: Output parameters (except option 02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-236
Figure 3-80: Marker pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-238
Figure 3-81: Pulse sub–side menu (except option 02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-240
Figure 3-82: Outline flow for producing Mixed signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-241
Figure 3-83: Waveform Mixing mode screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-241
Figure 3-84: Change the generator mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-242
Figure 3-85: Outline flow for producing Synchronous operation . . . . . . . . . . 3-249
Figure 3-86: Synchronous Operation cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-251
Figure 3-87: Change the generator mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-252
Figure 3-88: Synchronous Operation mode screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-253
Figure A-1: Signal Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9
Figure A-2: Gated Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-10
Figure A-3: Enhanced mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-11
Figure A-4: Sequence 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-12