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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Starting and Stopping
Output
When you load or create a waveform in the waveform memory, output does not
start until you push the RUN button on the front–panel. The RUN LED is on and
the instrument starts sweeping the waveform data in the waveform memory.
When the Waveform Generator is set to the Trigger mode, the Waveform
Generator waits for a trigger event to be generated by pushing the FORCE
TRIGGER button or by external trigger event signal. Refer to The Run Mode
Menu on page 3-44.
The current run state of the instrument is displayed in the status area at the upper
part of the screen as shown in Figure 3-5 page 3-44. Refer to Table 3-7 for state
messages.
If waveforms are not present, the Running or Waiting message will be changed to
the Stopped message. There will be no output when you push the RUN button and
the Stopped message will continue to be displayed.
The RUN LED is on when the run state is Running or Waiting.
The line circuit from internal generator module to the output connector must be
closed to output waveform from the front–panel output connector.
Turning Channel Output
On and Off
Push the CH1 OUT button to connect or disconnect the instrument output to the
CH 1 connector. When you push the CH1 button, the CH1 LED goes on and a
waveform is output from the CH1 connector if the instrument is in the Running
state. When you push the CH1 button again, the signal output is disconnected and
the waveform output is stopped, even if the instrument is in the Running state. If
there is no waveform loaded into a channel, you cannot turn that channel output on
or off.
The CH1 LED automatically turns off when the waveform data in that channel
becomes invalid. For example, you attempt to load an incorrect file, and the
instrument deletes the current waveform from memory.
Table 3-7: Instrument run state and state messages
State messages Descriptions
Stopped The output operation is currently stopped.
Waiting The instrument is waiting for a trigger or an event signal.
Running The instrument is outputting waveform(s).