Tektronix RSA3303B, User Manual

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Functional Overview
1. Setup display area. Displays the current hardware value. (See page 29,
Setup Display .)
2. Progress bar. Indicates the progress of the acquisition cycle on the left bar
and the measurement cycle on the right bar. The progress fi lls up in blue
from left to right.
3. Date/Time display area. Shows the current date and time.
4. Status display area. Shows the trigger status. (See page 27, Status Display .)
5. Side menu display area. When you press a menu key on the front panel, the
menu associated with that key is displayed.
6. Menu setting display area. Displays the last setting of the menu item that
can be set with the general purpose knob.
7. View. The View window displays the waveform or the measurement results.
Multiple views can be displayed on one display screen, depending on the
measurement mode.
8. Measurement function display area. Displays the measurement function
currently in use (the settings of the Mode and Measure menus).
Status Display
The status display area in the upper right side of the screen shows the instrument
status as listed in the table below. (See Figure 21.)
Figure 21: Status display (RSA3408B shown)
Table 3: Status display
Item Description
ARM
The pre-trigger portion of the acquisition record is fi lling. A trigger event
occurring during this state will not be recognized.
READY Pre-trigger data has been acquired, and the instrument is waiting for a
trigger event.
TRIG’D Pre-trigger data has been acquired, and a trigger event has been
detected. The instrument is now acquiring post-trigger data.
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