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)
AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator User Manual A-5
Range 500 mV
p–p
to 1 V
p–p
, into a 50 Ω load
nDC Accuracy ±(2 % of Amplitude + 2 mV) Page B-27
Resolution 1 mV
n DC offset accuracy 0 V ± 10 mV, (500 mV amplitude, waveform data: 0) Page B-27
n Pulse response (Waveform data: -1 and 1, at 1 V
p–p
) Page B-29
Rise time (10 % to 90 %) ≤ 175 ps (calculated value ≥ 2 GHz)
Fall time (10 % to 90 %) ≤ 175 ps (calculated value ≥ 2 GHz)
3
The characteristics are specified at the end of the SMA cable (174–1427–00) except for DC accuracy.
Table A-6: Main output (cont.)
Characteristics
3
Description PV reference page
Table A-7: Filter (except option 02)
Characteristics Description
Type Bessel low pass filter, 200 MHz,100 MHz, 50 MHz, and 20 MHz
Rise time (10 % to 90 %), Typical 20 MHz
50 MHz
100 MHz
200 MHz
17 ns
7 ns
3.7 ns
2 ns
Group delay, Typical 20 MHz
50 MHz
100 MHz
200 MHz
18 ns
8 ns
4.7 ns
3 ns
Table A-8: Auxiliary outputs
Characteristics Description PV reference page
Marker
4
Number of markers 2 (Complementary). Marker1, Marker1, Marker2, and Marker2
Connector Front panel SMA connectors
High Level (VoH)
Range
-1.00 V to +2.45 V, into a 50 Ω load
Refer to Figure A-8 on page A-16
Low Level (VoL)
Range
-2.00 V to +2.40 V, into a 50 Ω load
Refer to Figure A-8 on page A-16
Amplitude (VoH - VoL) Range 0.05 V
p–p
, to 1.25 V
p–p
into a 50 Ω load
Resolution 50 mV
n DC Accuracy ±0.1 V ±5 % of setting, into a 50 Ω load Page B-50
Maximum Output Current ±80 mA