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 Tables
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List of Tables
Table 1-1: AWG710&AWG710B waveform editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Table 1-2: Power cord options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Table 1-3: Language options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Table 1-4: Standard accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
Table 1-5: Optional accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
Table 1-6: Fuse and fuse cap part numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
Table 1-7: Power cord identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
Table 2-1: Side menu elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Table 2-2: Text input button functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Table 2-3: Shortcut controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16
Table 2-4: AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator file types . . 2-17
Table 2-5: Drive and Directory menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Table 2-6: Waveform record length adjustment messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22
Table 2-7: Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26
Table 2-8: Edit screen bottom menu buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27
Table 2-9: Edit side menu buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29
Table 2-10: Setup screen parameter icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-35
Table 2-11: Setup bottom menu buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-35
Table 2-12: Setup output parameter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-38
Table 2-13: Run modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-41
Table 2-14: Extended operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-42
Table 2-15: Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-47
Table 2-16: Waveforms to be used in sample sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-71
Table 2-17: Sequence table contents in SUBSEQ.seq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-74
Table 2-18: Sequence table contents in MAINSEQ.seq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-76
Table 3-1: AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator main menus 3-2
Table 3-2: Waveform parameter icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34
Table 3-3: Setup bottom menu buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34
Table 3-4: Status area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35
Table 3-5: Clock signal output timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41
Table 3-6: External trigger signal requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-46
Table 3-7: Instrument run state and state messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53
Table 3-8: Waveform editor screen elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-56
Table 3-9: Waveform editor bottom menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-57
Table 3-10: Standard Function Waveform dialog box parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 3-60
Table 3-11: Shift Register Generator dialog box setting parameters . . . . . . . . . 3-67
Table 3-12: Set Pattern dialog box parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-69
Table 3-13: Mathematical function commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-72
Table 3-14: Compare dialog box parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-75
Table 3-15: Convolution dialog box parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-76
Table 3-16: Correlation dialog box parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-77
Table 3-17: Digital filter dialog box parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-78
Table 3-18: Re–sampling dialog box parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-79
Table 3-19: XY View dialog box parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-80
Table 3-20: Zoom/Pan side menu buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-81
Table 3-21: Setup window parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-83