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

File Conversion
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TDS.ISF to Waveform
A waveform file generated with a Tektronix TDS3000 series oscilloscope
Internal File Format is converted into an AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary
Waveform Generator waveform file. The clock rate and position information
are inherited. The offset information is neglected in this conversion.
EASYWAVE.WAV to Waveform
A data file (.wav) generated with LeCroy EASYWAVE software is converted
into the AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator waveform file.
No attributes are inherited.
Text file to Waveform
An ASCII–form text file is converted into the AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary
Waveform Generator waveform file. Numeric values separated by separators
are loaded. Headers or similar codes are not defined. The separator can be a
space, comma, tab, or <CR><LF>.
An exponential notation (for example, -.1E–2) may be used as a numeric value.
A unit prefix (for example, m, u, n, p, k, M) may not be used. If you use a
numeric value followed by an alphabetical character (such as, 1.2 V), the value
will be interpreted properly, ignoring the alphabetical character.
If you use a sequence of consecutive separators, it will be interpreted as a
single separator.
Therefore, the meaning of the following line:
1,2,3,4<CR> <LF>
is the same as:
1 , 2, , 3,,, 4 ,,, <CR> <LF>
If an alphabetical character (such as A, B, C, and/or D) is placed instead of a
numeric value, the value 0 will result. (This is not handled as an error.)
The actual input file formats are as follows:
Format 1: Numeric values that are listed horizontally
0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4
The respective values are converted into the analog data. The marker value is
converted into 0.