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1256E User Manual
Racal Instruments
©
2002
Appendix A-1
Appendix A
SPECIFICATIONS
General
Switch Plug-In Interface
Compliant with Racal Instruments Adapt-a-Switch
™
platform
Compatible with all Adapt-a-Switch modules
Eight plug-in slots
Front Panel
Vacuum fluorescent display
Menu soft keys
Optically-encoded knob
Rear-Panel Connectors
IEEE-488 (standard GPIB)
RS-232 (9-pin D-SUB)
TCP/IP (Ethernet, RJ-45)
Trigger in (BNC)
Trigger out (BNC)
AC power input (IEC)
System
Analog Bus
Four two-wire buses on backplane for interconnecting the plug-ins
Non-Volatile Memory
101 non-volatile memory locations for storage of switch states
and user preferences
Additional power-on state
Switch Settling Time
Automatically selected by 1256 according to each plug-in