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Keysight InfiniiVision 1200 X-Series and EDUX1052A/G Oscilloscopes User's Guide
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Horizontal Controls
Panning and Zooming Single or Stopped Acquisitions
When the oscilloscope is stopped, use the horizontal scale and position knobs to
pan and zoom your waveform. The stopped display may contain several
acquisitions worth of information, but only the last acquisition is available for pan
and zoom.
The ability to pan (move horizontally) and scale (expand or compress horizontally)
an acquired waveform is important because of the additional insight it can reveal
about the captured waveform. This additional insight is often gained from seeing
the waveform at different levels of abstraction. You may want to view both the big
picture and the specific little picture details.
The ability to examine waveform detail after the waveform has been acquired is a
benefit generally associated with digital oscilloscopes. Often this is simply the
ability to freeze the display for the purpose of measuring with cursors or printing
the screen. Some digital oscilloscopes go one step further by including the ability
to further examine the signal details after acquiring them by panning through the
waveform and changing the horizontal scale.
There is no limit imposed on the scaling ratio between the time/div used to
acquire the data and the time/div used to view the data. There is, however, a
useful limit. This useful limit is somewhat a function of the signal you are
analyzing.
To change the horizontal time mode (Normal, XY, or Roll)
1
Press
[Acquire]
.
2
In the Acquire menu, press
Time Mode
; then, select:
•
Normal
— the normal viewing mode for the oscilloscope.
NOTE
Zooming into stopped acquisitions
The screen will still contain a relatively good display if you zoom-in horizontally by a factor of
1000 and zoom-in vertically by a factor of 10 to display the information from where it was
acquired. Remember that you can make automatic measurements on displayed data only.
