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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Table 3-22: Setup general parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-84
Table 3-23: Pattern editor screen elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-86
Table 3-24: Pattern editor bottom menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-87
Table 3-25: Code conversion commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-89
Table 3-26: Code conversion parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-89
Table 3-27: Patterns to be selected in Counter dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-95
Table 3-28: Set Pattern dialog box parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-97
Table 3-29: Equation editor screen elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-110
Table 3-30: Equation editor bottom menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-111
Table 3-31: Front–panel Equation editor controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-112
Table 3-32: Control keys from the external keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-114
Table 3-33: Sequence table columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-118
Table 3-34: Sequence editor bottom menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-119
Table 3-35: Pre–defined patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-134
Table 3-36: Code Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-134
Table 3-37: Superpose parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-138
Table 3-38: Pre–defined patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-144
Table 3-39: Code conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-144
Table 3-40: Network parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-145
Table 3-41: Pre–defined patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-151
Table 3-42: Jitter composer parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-152
Table 3-43: External keyboard edit operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-156
Table 3-44: Available FTP commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-169
Table 3-45: Diagnostic categories and error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-176
Table 3-46: BNF symbols and meanings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-185
Table 3-47: Programming language math functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-200
Table 3-48: Math operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-202
Table 3-49: Predefined variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-205
Table 3-50: File utility commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-225
Table 3-51: Special symbols used for expressing file path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-226
Table 3-52: File operation in double windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-231
Table 3-53: Confirmation selection for copy–all and move–all operations . . . 3-232
Table 3-54: Output frequency and filter cut–off frequency (except option02) 3-237
Table 3-55: Predefined Marker signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-238
Table 3-56: Output Frequency and Waveform Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-239
Table 3-57: Combination of the file type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-243
Table 3-58: Difference between AWG mode and
synchronous operation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-254
Table 3-59: Error/Warning messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-255
Table A-1: Operation modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Table A-2: Extended Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Table A-3: Arbitrary waveforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Table A-4: Clock generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Table A-5: Internal trigger generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Table A-6: Main output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Table A-7: Filter (except option 02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5
Table A-8: Auxiliary outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5
Table A-9: Marker output Period Jitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7
Table A-10: Marker output Cycle to Cycle Jitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7
Table A-11: VCO output Period Jitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7
Table A-12: VCO output Cycle to Cycle Jitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7