Agilent Technologies InfiniiVision 3000 3024A MSO-X, User Manual

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Waveform Generator
Creating New Arbitrary Waveforms
The New Waveform Menu is opened by pressing
Create New
in the Edit
Waveform Menu.
To create a new arbitrary waveform:
1 In the New Waveform Menu, press Initial Pts ; then, use the Entry knob to
select the initial number of points in the new waveform.
The new waveform will be a square wave with the number of points
you specify. The points are evenly spaced over the time period.
2 Use the Frequency/Frequency Fine/Period/Period Fine softkey to set the time
period bounding parameter (repetition frequency) of the arbitrary
waveform.
3
Use the
Amplitude
/
High-Level
and
Offset
/
Low-Level
softkeys to set the
voltage bounding parameter of the arbitrary waveform.
4 When you are ready to create the new arbitrary waveform, press Apply
& Edit
.
Interpolate Specifies how lines are drawn between arbitrary waveform points.
When enabled, lines are drawn between points in the waveform editor. Voltage levels
change linearly between one point and the next.
When disabled, all line segments in the waveform editor are horizontal. The voltage level of
one point remains until the next point.
Source Selects the analog channel or reference waveform to be captured and stored to the arbitrary
waveform. See
"Capturing Other Waveforms to the Arbitrary Waveform" on page 258.
Store Source to Arb Captures the selected waveform source and copy it to the arbitrary waveform. See
"Capturing Other Waveforms to the Arbitrary Waveform" on page 258.
Softkey Description
N O T E
You can use the [Save/Recall] key and menu to save arbitrary waveforms to one of four
internal storage locations or to a USB storage device, and you can recall them later. See
"To
save arbitrary waveforms" on page 272 and "To recall arbitrary waveforms" on page 275.