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-8 AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator User Manual
Table A-13: Auxiliary inputs
Characteristics Description PV reference page
Trigger input
5
Connector Rear panel BNC connector
Impedance 1 kΩ or 50 Ω
Polarity (Trigger mode)/
Slope (Gated mode)
POS (positive) or NEG (negative)
Input voltage range ±10 V, into a 1 kΩ load
±5 V, into a 50 Ω load
Threshold
Level -5.0 V to 5.0 V
Resolution 0.1 V
Triggered mode
See Figure A-1 on page A-9
Minimum pulse width 10 ns, 0.2 V amplitude
Trigger hold off time ≤ 109.5 clocks + 500 ns ; Single operation
≤ 109.5 clocks + 700 ns ; Synchronous operation
Delay to analog out, Typical 275.5clocks + 17 ns (Output: Norm, Filter: Through)
Gated mode See Figure A-2 on page A-10
Minimum pulse width 1152 clocks + 10 ns, 0.2 V amplitude
Gate hold off time ≤ 1920 clock + 20 ns (The time interval between the last gate off point and the next gaate on
point)
Delay to analog out, Typical (1355 to 1563.5) clocks + 9 ns (Output: Norm, Filter: Through)
5
The characteristics are specified at the end of the BNC cable (012–0482–00).