Tabor Electronics 5251, User Manual

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ArbConnection© ............................................................................................................. 3-1
What’s in This Chapter? ..................................................................................................... 3-3
Introduction to ArbConnection ............................................................................................ 3-3
Installing ArbConnection .................................................................................................... 3-3
Quitting ArbConnection..................................................................................................3-4
For the New and Advanced Users .................................................................................3-4
Conventions Used in This Manual .................................................................................3-4
The Opening Screen .......................................................................................................... 3-5
ArbConnection Features .................................................................................................... 3-6
The Control Panels ............................................................................................................ 3-7
The Operation Panels ....................................................................................................3-8
Main ...........................................................................................................................3-9
Standard .................................................................................................................. 3-11
Arbitrary/Sequence ................................................................................................. 3-12
Using the Memory Partition Table .......................................................................... 3-14
Using the Waveform Studio .................................................................................... 3-15
Trigger ..................................................................................................................... 3-19
The Modulation Panels ............................................................................................... 3-21
FM ........................................................................................................................... 3-21
AM ........................................................................................................................... 3-22
Sweep ..................................................................................................................... 3-23
ASK/FSK/PSK ......................................................................................................... 3-24
Frequency Hop ........................................................................................................ 3-26
The Auxiliary Panels ................................................................................................... 3-28
Counter/Timer ......................................................................................................... 3-28
Pulse Generator ...................................................................................................... 3-30
Half Cycle ................................................................................................................ 3-31
The System Panels ..................................................................................................... 3-32
General/Filters ......................................................................................................... 3-32
Calibration ............................................................................................................... 3-33
The Composers Panels .............................................................................................. 3-34
The Wave Composer .............................................................................................. 3-35
The Toolbar ................................................................................................................ 3-41
The Waveform Screen ................................................................................................ 3-42
Generating Waveforms Using the Equation Editor ........................................................... 3-43
Writing Equations ........................................................................................................ 3-45
Equation Convention .................................................................................................. 3-46