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
The Setup Menu Screen
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The Waveform/Sequence Menu
The Waveform/Sequence menu is used for loading, viewing, and editing waveform
files.
Load...
The Load... button lets you load a waveform, pattern, or sequence file to output.
Do the following steps to load a file:
1. Push SETUP (front)!Waveform/Sequence (bottom)!Load... (side).
2. Select a waveform file, pattern file or sequence from the file listing in the
Select File dialog box that appears on the screen.
3. Push the OK side button.
Waveform and Pattern File Restrictions. The following list describes some
restrictions regarding the loading of waveform and pattern files.
The waveform and pattern files can be loaded from different drives and/or
directories.
If you try to load a file that is larger than the available waveform memory, or
that is not a waveform, sequence or pattern format file, the instrument displays
the following error message and clears the waveform memory:
Illegal file format
A valid waveform, sequence, or pattern file needs to be loaded.
Sequence Files. The following list describes some restrictions on loading sequence
files.
When sequence file loading fails, the instrument clears loaded output file
names and waveform memory.
Sequence file loading fails if any one of the following conditions are true:
There is a null character (“ ”) in the CH1 file name field of the sequence
table.
The instrument cannot locate the waveform, pattern, or subsequence file
specified in the sequence table. All waveform, pattern, and subsequence
files must be at the same location and the instrument drive and path settings
must point to that location.
There are too many lines in the sequence table. The maximum number of
lines is 8000.
There is more than one nesting level of subsequence files. The maximum
nesting level is one.
The sequence calls itself.