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Performance Verification Procedures
1–2
TDS 510A Performance Verification and Specifications
Conventions
Throughout these procedures the following conventions apply:
Each test procedure uses the following general format:
Title of Test
Equipment Required
Prerequisites
Procedure
Each procedure consists of as many steps, substeps, and subparts as required
to do the test. Steps, substeps, and subparts are sequenced as follows:
1. First Step
a. First Substep
First Subpart
Second Subpart
b. Second Substep
2. Second Step
In steps and substeps, the lead-in statement in italics instructs you what to
do, while the instructions that follow tell you how to do it, as in the example
step below, “Initialize the oscilloscope” by doing “Press save/recall SETUP.
Now, press the main-menu button...”.
Initialize the oscilloscope: Press save/recall SETUP. Now, press the
main-menu button Recall Factory Setup; then the side-menu button OK
Confirm Factory Init.
Where instructed to use a front-panel button or knob, or select from a main
or side menu, or verify a readout or status message, the name of the button or
knob appears in boldface type: “press SHIFT; then UTILITY, press the
main-menu button System until Cal is highlighted in the pop-up menu.
Verify that the status message is Pass in the main menu under the Voltage
Reference label.”
STOP . The symbol at the left is accompanied by information you must read to do
the procedure properly.
Refer to Figure 1–1: “Main menu” refers to the menu that labels the seven
menu buttons under the display; “side menu” refers to the menu that labels