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 UTILITY Window
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Screen Display Enable/Disable
In some instances, such as having the AWG710&AWG710B installed in a rack
mount, you may not want to have the LCD back light turned on.
Do the following steps to turn off the LCD Back Light:
1. Push UTILITY (front–panel)!System (bottom)!LCD Back Light (screen)
2. Turn the general purpose knob or a ' buttons to enable or disable the Screen
Display.
Push CLEAR MENU (front–panel) twice to turn on the LCD Back Light.
Focused Color
Do the following steps to adjust the Hilight Color:
1. Push UTILITY (front–panel)!System (bottom).
2. Select Hilight Color: using the y and b buttons.
3. Turn the general purpose knob clockwise or counterclockwise until you get the
color you want.
The changes take effect immediately. You can display the system utility screen and
set the highlight color at any time without exiting current tasks.
Displaying Instrument Status
Do the following steps to display the instrument software version and status of the
SCPI registers.
1. Push UTILITY (front–panel)!Status (bottom)!System (side) to display the
instrument software version.
2. Push UTILITY (front–panel)!Status (bottom)!SCPI Registers (side) to
display the current status of the SCPI registers.
Refer to the AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator Programmer
Manual for the SCPI registers.