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M520 series oscilloscope

Rollmode

User’s Guide

Version 1.02

2004-2006 ETC s.r.o.

Summary of Contents for M520 Series

Page 2: ...ith up to date information please fill out the registration form at the ETC website For any further information or consultations please contact us via mail phone or preferably e mail on the following address Address ETC s r o Rosinská cesta 8 010 08 Žilina Slovak Republic Phone 421 41 5652687 Fax 421 41 5652687 Internet URL http www etcsk com e mail support etcsk com technical support sales etcsk ...

Page 3: ...ols 15 4 8 Data acquisition mode control 15 4 9 Trigger controls 16 4 10 ARM ing the data acquisition 17 4 11 Vertical range controls 18 4 12 Vertical shift controls 18 4 13 Signal source controls 19 4 14 Channel information 19 4 15 Main menu 19 4 15 1 Demo setup window 20 4 15 2 Color settings window 20 5 Data viewer main window 22 5 1 Opening the data file 22 5 2 Waveform screens 23 5 3 Cursors ...

Page 4: ...M520 series oscilloscope with rollmode User s Guide 6 3 1 Setting codes 38 4 ...

Page 5: ...1 Fig 5 1 The data viewer main window 22 Fig 5 1 1 Data file control elements 23 Fig 5 2 1 Waveform screens 23 Fig 5 2 2 File screen 23 Fig 5 2 3 Buffer screen 24 Fig 5 2 4 Main screen 24 Fig 5 3 1 1 Cursor manipulation menu 25 Fig 5 3 1 2 Cursor selection menu 26 Fig 5 3 1 3 Time periods table 26 Fig 5 3 1 4 Cursor modification menu 28 Fig 5 3 1 5 Property modification window 29 Fig 5 3 1 6 Time ...

Page 6: ...rbidden It is however allowed to pass SOFTWARE on as the DEMO version You may be held legally responsible for any copyright infringement which is caused or encouraged by your failure to abide by the terms of this License 4 DISCLAIMER OF THE WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING SOFTWARE This SOFTWARE and accompanying written materials are provided AS IS without a warranty of any kind Further ETC s r o d...

Page 7: ...use or other tracking device at least 20MB free space on the hard drive MS Windows 98 SE 2000 or XP 1 2 Hardware installation Connect one side of the cable to the computer other one to the device Proceed with the software installation WARNING Always use cable which is the part of the package Usage of the improper cable can disable communication with the computer 1 3 Software installation The softw...

Page 8: ...bes AC or DC coupling and type of probe can be independently selected for each vertical channel Any input can be grounded without disconnecting the probes from the measured system Vertical track position can be controlled with accuracy of 1 pixel of the oscilloscope screen Measurement can be triggered from the Channel A and Channel B and or blocked from Channel A Channel B and or External ARM inpu...

Page 9: ...er the object you want to move Then press the left mouse button and hold it down The chosen object moves with the mouse cursor After releasing the mouse button the object moves to the new location Enter the value into the edit box Click the edit box Use the keyboard to enter the desired value and confirm by pressing Enter Insert the value into the edit box Click the edit box Use the keyboard to en...

Page 10: ...independent applications The data acquisition application controls device measures and stores the measured data The data viewer displays the previously measured data and allows simple voltage and time relation measurements These applications are independent The only relations between them are the measured data 10 ...

Page 11: ...on starts Most of the oscilloscope functions are accessible via the controls located on this screen Fig 4 1 Main window All controls connected to one of the channels have channel color TIP The channel color can be changed in main menu 4 1 Oscilloscope screen The oscilloscope screen is located in the middle of the main window 11 ...

Page 12: ...oose of data continuity The device settings change is marked by read vertical line If the data acquisition is blocked by ARM conditions the data discontinuity is marked by olive green vertical line The waveforms are displayed in the colors selected for each channel The default colors are green for channel A and yellow for channel B TIP The channel colors can be changed in main menu 4 2 Grid contro...

Page 13: ...e of the screen Line activates deactivates mode where the sample is connected with adjacent one with line Rew Rewrite and Roll control the waveform drawing mode When Rew is selected the waveform is always drawn from the left to right side of the screen and the old waveform is continuously cleared off When Roll is selected the waveform is drawn always on the right edge of the screen and rolls to le...

Page 14: ...e appended to it 4 6 Waveform display mode control The controls are located in the bottom of the main window Fig 4 6 1 Waveform display mode controls If more than 1 sample is displayed to one dot of the waveform it is necessary to set the mode of creating the dot There are two buttons to choose the basic mode If SNG is selected only the first sample of time period represented by the dot is display...

Page 15: ...h the oscilloscope display off see chapter 4 4 If the oscilloscope is connected to computer via USB 1 1 interface the maximum usable sampling frequency is 250kS s The scrollbar on the right side controls the display timebase The following information are displayed above this scrollbar time of one grid division 1 time of one grid division number of samples aggregated to one screen point TIP For mor...

Page 16: ...it is necessary to press the Start button and then to reach the trigger conditions selectable by trigger controls see chapter 4 9 Pressing the Start button starts the data acquisition according to the conditions mentioned above Pressing the Stop button stops the data acquisition immediately 4 9 Trigger controls These elements are located in the bottom side of the main window They have effect only ...

Page 17: ...dle set the relations to value written in edit boxes located at the right side of the group The value written to these boxes represents voltage in volts or milivolts m If the condition set is FALSE the data acquisition is interrupted It starts again when all active conditions are met There are two buttons in the bottom row When the E button is active the data acquisition is controlled also by the ...

Page 18: ...re located in left channel B controls are located in the right side changes the range to less sensitive changes the range to more sensitive 4 12 Vertical shift controls The vertical shift controls are located in the right side of the main window Fig 4 12 1 Vertical shift controls Channel A controls are located in left channel B controls are located in the right the waveform is shifted upwards by s...

Page 19: ... to select coupling Click to ground input 4 14 Channel information The channel information are displayed in the top of the main window Channel A information are located in the left channel B information in the right Fig 4 14 1 Channel information Following information are displayed information about coupling and probe attenuation ratio range WARNING If the improper probe attenuation is set the inf...

Page 20: ...ecution of oscilloscope application Help Index Displays the Help index Help ETC web Starts the internet browser installed in the computer to display the ETC s web site This feature works only if the computer is already connected to internet Help Support Sends the e mail message to the ETC s customer support This feature works only if the computer has connection to internet Help About Displays info...

Page 21: ...Fig 4 15 2 1 Color settings window Click Set button located by label to open standard operating system color dialog to change color of Channel A channel A waveform and controls Channel B channel B waveform and controls Grid grid Background background 21 ...

Page 22: ...he data file The viewer is designed to use data created by the Roll mode of M520 series oscilloscopes Every file is created with extension rmd Structure of the data file is designed for handling huge amount of data To speed up operations with the data file some data integrity checks are not performed Please note that opening the file containing data incompatible with the viewer data structure can ...

Page 23: ...orm screens are shown on the fig 5 2 1 They are used to display the whole data stored in the data file part of data stored in internal buffer of the computer and part of data used for detailed measurements Fig 5 2 1 Waveform screens The file screen is located on the bottom side of the screens It shows whole data stored in the data file Fig 5 2 2 The violet color bar marks the data area cached in t...

Page 24: ...largest part of the screen area fig 5 2 4 Fig 5 2 4 Main screen Its vertical resolution is 256 points It is able to display all details of the waveform There are auxiliary information displayed on the bottom of this screen From right to left The real time of the left edge of the screen horizontal grid size time and time between the screen cursors red and blue cross VARNING Any place of the data ca...

Page 25: ...the red screen cursor It is also simple to change the position of the main screen for displaying the waveforms around any of these cursors see chapter 5 3 1 It is possible to activate two screen cursors on the main screen They are displayed as the red and blue crosses The information about the time period between these cursors is displayed under the screen i e The results of voltage measurements u...

Page 26: ...the cursors It is the difference between position of the cursor from the upper row and the cursor from left column If the time period value is negative the cursor from left column points to later time than the cursor from upper row Click Export to clipboard to save the time periods information to the clipboard The data consists of the pair of cursor s names followed by data period information from...

Page 27: ...99ns C2 C7 9s 937ms 949us 999ns C2 C8 10s 1ms 629us 999ns C2 C9 13s 435ms 569us 999ns C3 TimeSynchro 3s 433ms 929us 999ns C3 C1 3s 370ms 889us 999ns C3 C2 3s 307ms 139us 999ns C3 C4 158ms 610us C3 C5 2s 114ms 600us C3 C6 6s 568ms 420us C3 C7 6s 630ms 820us C3 C8 6s 694ms 500us C3 C9 10s 128ms 440us C4 TimeSynchro 3s 592ms 550us C4 C1 3s 529ms 510us C4 C2 3s 465ms 760us C4 C3 158ms 630us C4 C5 1s 9...

Page 28: ... 999ns C8 C1 10s 65ms 399us 999ns C8 C2 10s 1ms 649us 999ns C8 C3 6s 694ms 519us 999ns C8 C4 6s 535ms 899us 999ns C8 C5 4s 579ms 909us 999ns C8 C6 126ms 90us C8 C7 63ms 690us C8 C9 3s 433ms 929us 999ns C9 TimeSynchro 13s 562ms 379us 999ns C9 C1 13s 499ms 340us C9 C2 13s 435ms 590us C9 C3 10s 128ms 460us C9 C4 9s 969ms 840us C9 C5 8s 13ms 849us 999ns C9 C6 3s 560ms 29us 999ns C9 C7 3s 497ms 630us C...

Page 29: ...e The name of the selected cursor Time Sets the real time of the time synchronization mark position All real time information will be related to this time The following format is usable to enter the time xxhyymzz zzzs Where xxh time in hours yym time in minutes zz zzzs time in seconds While entering the time information the color of the string is blue It changes to black after pressing the ENTER k...

Page 30: ...he red screen cursor is not displayed The triangles are also usable to change the main screen position in the waveform Clicking to triangle changes the position of the main screen to display waveform around the selected cursor or time synchronization mark The screen cursors are also usable to measure voltages The voltage of the vertical position of red cursor blue cursor and voltage between red an...

Page 31: ...form display mode controls If more than 1 sample is displayed to one dot of the waveform it is necessary to set the mode of creating the dot There are two buttons to choose the basic mode If SNG is selected only the first sample of time period represented by the dot is displayed If Calc is selected the dot is calculated out of all samples The method of calculation depends on the following controls...

Page 32: ... indicator located in the lower left side of the main window informs you about the state of the operation Fig 5 7 1 Progress indicator The type of operation is indicated below the progress indicator 5 8 Main menu The main menu is located in the top of the main window Following menu items are available File Print Opens the print manager File Exit Closes application Settings Color setup Opens window...

Page 33: ...he red line outlines the printable area of the page Selected object is marked by black dashed outline To select an object click it You can move it into a desired position by dragging it To change the size of a chosen object drag its outline In the lower right corner of the window the following information on the properties of the selected object is shown Name Name of the object Position Coordinate...

Page 34: ...sert the text to be displayed It is possible to select automatic layout and predefined schemes of object display in the Layout combo box Choosing the Custom item does not affect the current layout WARNING In the Layout combo box only the layouts available for the current paper size are shown It is possible to save a modified layout under the current name choosing the Layout Save layout item of the...

Page 35: ...ayout into the New layout box This name has to differ from the names of the existing layouts If the name would be identical with the name of another layout this layout would be replaced by the new layout At the same time the existing layout would be highlighted in the layout list If you click a name of a layout in the list this name will appear in the New layout box To save the layout click the OK...

Page 36: ... 8 2 Color settings window The color settings window is opened after click on the main menu item Fig 4 15 2 1 Color settings window Click Set button located by label to open standard operating system color dialog to change color of Channel A channel A waveform and controls Channel B channel B waveform and controls Grid grid Background background 6 Data file format The format of acquired data is de...

Page 37: ...ata format The samples are represented as the 8 bit values with valid data range from 1 to 255 TIP The value 0 for acquired data is invalid It is used to indicate the field of special information The samples are stored chronologically in order of sampling Channel B is first The special indicators are stored in the place of occurrence There are two special indicators both are 16 bit wide ARM 0x0002...

Page 38: ... 1 or 255 0x0004 Attenuation of probe connected to input of channel A 16 bit attenuation value 1 1 1 2 1 10 3 1 100 4 1 1000 0x0005 Attenuation of probe connected to input of channel B 16 bit attenuation value 1 1 1 2 1 10 3 1 100 4 1 1000 0x0006 AC DC switch setting for channel A 16 bit word 1 AC 0 DC 0x0007 AC DC switch setting for channel B 16 bit word 1 AC 0 DC 0x0008 Position of zero in for c...

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