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

Appendix A: Specifications (AWG710B)
A-4 AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator User Manual
Differential nonlinearity Within ±1/2 LSB
Integral nonlinearity Within ±1 LSB
Output impedance 50 Ω
Normal out (except option 02)
-1.5 V to +1.5 V, into a 50 Ω loadOutput voltage
Amplitude
20 mV
p–p
to 2 V
p–p
, into a 50 Ω loadRange
Resolution 1 mV
n DC accuracy ±(2.0 % of amplitude + 2 mV), offset: 0 V Page B-19
Offset
-0.5 V to 0.5 V, into a 50 Ω loadRange
Resolution 1 mV
nAccuracy ±1.5 % of offset ±10 mV,
(20 mV amplitude, waveform data: 0)
Page B-19
Pulse response
(Waveform data: -1 and 1, offset: 0 V, and filter: through,
Clock: 1.0 GS/s)
nRise time (10 % to 90 %) ≤ 480 ps (amplitude = 1.0 V
p–p
, calculated value ≥ 729 MHz) Page B-31
nFall time (10 % to 90 %) ≤ 480 ps (amplitude = 1.0 V
p–p
, calculated value ≥ 729 MHz)
Aberration, Typical ±6 % (amplitude + 1.0 V
p–p
, using 6 GHz bandwidth oscilloscope)
Flatness, Typical ±3 % (after 20 ns from rise or fall edges)
Sinewave characteristics (Clock: 4.2 GS/s, waveform points: 32, Signal frequency: 131.25 MHz,
amplitude: 1.0 V, offset: 0 V, filter: through)
Harmonics ≤ -40 dBc (DC to 1000 MHz)
Noise ≤ -50 dBc (DC to 1000 MHz)
Phase Noise, Typical ≤ -85 dBc / Hz (at 10 kHz offset)
Direct DA out (except option 02)
Amplitude
Range 20 mV
p–p
to 1 V
p–p
, into a 50 Ω load
nDC Accuracy ±(2 % of Amplitude + 2 mV) Page B-23
Resolution 1 mV
n DC offset accuracy 0 V ± 10 mV, (20 mV amplitude, waveform data: 0) Page B-23
n Pulse response (Waveform data: -1 and 1, at 0.5 V
p–p
) Page B-25
Rise time (10 % to 90 %) ≤ 280 ps (calculated value ≥ 1.25 GHz)
Fall time (10 % to 90 %) ≤ 280 ps (calculated value ≥ 1.25 GHz)
Extended Bandwidth output (option 02)
Amplitude
Table A-6: Main output (cont.)
Characteristics
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Description PV reference page