Waveform Monitors User Manual

Functional Overview
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WFM700 Series Waveform Monitors User Manual
Front-Panel Buttons
Refer to Menus beginning on page 2--11 for a description of the menus accessed
by pressing the front-panel buttons. Table 2--3 describes the different categories
of front-panel buttons.
Table 2- 3: Front-panel buttons
Category Description Buttons
Major mode These but tons change the entire context and content of the LCD display, and
generally function as follows:
H Pressing a button selects a mode and opens a menu (for example, pressing
WFM selects the Waveform display mode and opens the Waveform menu).
H The button illuminates to show that the mode is activated.
NOTE: The Eye button is functional on WFM700M instruments only.
WFM
VECTOR
PICTURE
GAMUT
AUDIO
MULTI
STATUS
MEASURE
EYE
HELP
CONFIG
Minor mode These buttons activate a function that works with one or more major modes and
generally function as follows:
H Pressing a button activates a function (if that function is supported in the
currently sel ected major mode) and displays the menu for that function.
H The f ront -panel button illuminates to show that the mode is activated.
H Pressing t he CLR MENU button clears the function menu from the screen,
leaving the function active. The major mode button LED will be on, and the minor
one wi ll be off.
H Some minor modes like Line Select, Sweep, and Cursor remain active and
modify the display when their menu is not displayed. In this case, press the front
panel button once to bring the menu back and then again to exit the mode.
H Settings selected in Sweep can only be turned off by pressing the SWEEP button
and using the menu to change modes. The only exception is that when Eye
display mode is selected, if the instrument is in 2 Line or 2 Field sweep, the
sweep set ting is changed to 1 Line or 1 Field respectively and does not revert
back when you exit the Eye display mode.
SWEEP
GAIN
CURSOR
LINE SEL
FREEZE
DISPLAY
INPUT
PRESET
Misc. These but tons perf orm their function depending on the current mode.
H Press the SELECT but ton to make a menu selection.
H Press the PRINT button to print the instrument display.
H Press the CLR MENU button to clear a menu display.
SELECT
PRINT
CLR MENU