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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Slope (or Polarity)
This button lets you set the external trigger signal slope (or polarity in the Gated run
mode) on which to trigger the instrument. You can select the trigger slope for either
the positive-going (rising) or the negative-going (falling) edge (see Figure 3-6).
Figure 3-6: Trigger slope and trigger level
To set the trigger slope, push SETUP (front)!Trigger (bottom)!Slope (side) to
toggle between Positive and Negative.
Trigger Leve l
This button lets you set the level at which the TRIG IN external trigger signal
triggers the instrument. You can set the trigger level from -5.0 V to +5.0 V.
Do the following steps to set the signal level:
1. Push SETUP (front)!Trigger (bottom)!Level (side).
2. Use the general purpose knob, numeric buttons, or the keyboard to adjust the
trigger level value.
You can set the trigger level with TRIGGER LEVEL knob (front) regardless of
the Trigger side menu.
Impedance
This button lets you set the impedance value of the TRIG IN back–panel connector.
You can set the TRIG IN impedance to either 50 Ω or 1 kΩ.
Do the following to set the TRIG IN back–panel connector input impedance:
1. Make sure that the trigger source is set to External.
2. Push SETUP (front)!Trigger (bottom)!Impedance (side) to toggle
between 50 Ω and 1 kΩ.
Trigger level
Trigger slope can be positive or
negative
Negative–going
edge
Positive–going
edge
NOTE. In the Gated run mode, triggering occurs for the time period that the
external trigger signal level is greater than or equal to the specified trigger level
setting.