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 B-41: Relationship between trigger signal and waveform output . . . . . B-69
Figure B-42: Relationship between gate signal and waveform output . . . . . . . B-71
Figure B-43: Amplitude accuracy initial test hookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-73
Figure B-44: Direct DA output amplitude accuracy initial test hookup . . . . . . B-77
Figure B-45: Direct DA output pulse rise time initial test hookup . . . . . . . . . . . B-79
Figure B-46: Option02 output amplitude accuracy initial test hookup . . . . . . . B-81
Figure B-47: Optipn02 output pulse rise time initial test hookup . . . . . . . . . . . B-83
Figure B-48: Pulse response initial test hookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-85
Figure B-49: Trigger input initial test hookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-87
Figure B-50: Trigger signal and waveform output (+5 V check 1) . . . . . . . . . . B-89
Figure B-51: Trigger signal and waveform output (+5 V check 2) . . . . . . . . . . B-89
Figure B-52: Trigger signal and waveform output (-5 V check 1) . . . . . . . . . . . B-90
Figure B-53: Trigger signal and waveform output (-5 V check 2) . . . . . . . . . . . B-90
Figure B-54: Event input and enhanced mode initial test hookup . . . . . . . . . . . B-91
Figure B-55: Waveform while all ground disclosure switches are open . . . . . . B-93
Figure B-56: Waveform output when the SW1 is closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-93
Figure B-57: Waveform output when SW2 is closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-94
Figure B-58: Waveform output when the SW3 is closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-95
Figure B-59: Waveform output when SW4 is closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-95
Figure B-60: Initial waveform output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-96
Figure B-61: DC waveform output when the SW5 is closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-97
Figure B-62: 1/4 Clock frequency and 10 MHz reference input
initial test hookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-98
Figure B-63: Marker output initial test hookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-100
Figure E-1: File transfer interface outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E-1
Figure F-1: Equation differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-2
Figure F-2: Equation integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-3
Figure F-3: Conversion image example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-7