PhaseStation 53100A User’s Manual V1.04 25-Apr-2022
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Making your first measurements
To paraphrase Kernighan and Ritchie
, TimeLab is not a large program, and it’s not well served by a large
manual. Likewise, the 53100A hardware is easy to work with after some basic measurement concepts
are understood. As an introductory exercise – or a quick operational check – you may wish to perform a
measurement using the default acquisition parameters in TimeLab.
Getting started with the PhaseStation is as easy as connecting the 53100A’s USB cable to your PC and
launching TimeLab. Once TimeLab is running, select the
Acquire
→
Jackson Labs PhaseStation
menu
option. (This option may be named
Acquire
→Microchip 53100A
instead, depending on the version of
TimeLab installed on your PC.) The dialog box that pops up should contain a list of available device(s) in
a dropdown box at upper right, just below the instrument photo.
Assuming the appropriate 53100A instrument is selected, the acquisition parameters are all valid, you’ve
connected stable reference and DUT input sources to the 53100A, and you’ve allowed at least a few
minutes’ warmup time, all you need to do is press the
Start measurement
button. The acquisition
dialog will disappear and the
STATUS
indicator on the 53100A should change from white to green. Over
the next ten seconds or so, various informational messages will appear in the TimeLab status bar at the
4
The C Programming Language
, Second Edition (1988), Bell Telephone Laboratories
Figure 4: Acquisition dialog for all 53100A instruments, including PhaseStation and Microchip-labeled versions
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