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

AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator User Manual 3-249
Synchronous Operation Mode (AWG710B only)
Synchronous Operation is a feature that allows you to use two channels of signal
by operating two AWG710B. A word synchronous called here means that two
units of the AWG710B operate with the same clock and that start and stop of output
signals of two units are corresponding.
A unit that controls the overall system is called Master, and a unit that is used for
an additional channel is called Slave. In the Synchronous Operation mode, the
master and slave should be connected directly for the Clock and Trigger signals,
because the timing is critical. For other signals, the master controls the slave
through a LAN. Although loading of a waveform file and the setting parameter of
the Vertical menu are performed to Master and Slave each, control of other Slave
is performed from Master via LAN.
The remote command via LAN can be used also during synchronous operation.
Two units of synchronous operations are performed as follows:
Connect two LAN cables, four Clock signal cables and four Trigger signal
cables.
One unit is set as Slave and one more unit is set as Master.
Connect the Master and the Slave via LAN.
Load the waveform files to the Master and the Slave.
Set the output parameters such as frequency and amplitude
Master and Slave are connected via LAN.
Turn the OUTPUT and ALL MARKER OUT ON/OFF buttons to ON.
Figure 3-85: Outline flow for producing Synchronous operation
Connect the
cables
Set the units as
Master and Slave
Connect Master
and Slave via
LAN
Load the
waveform files
Set the output
parameters
Turn the
OUTPUT button
to ON
Output