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Tektronix TDS 2012 

 Digital Storage Oscilloscope 

User’s Guide 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Authors/Contributors: Thomas 

Montoya 

 

 

 

 

James Free 

    Jake 

Gunderson 

    John 

Preheim 

Dr. Montoya 

Rev. 3/16/09 

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Summary of Contents for TDS2012

Page 1: ...cilloscope_guide doc 1 18 Tektronix TDS 2012 Digital Storage Oscilloscope User s Guide Authors Contributors Thomas Montoya James Free Jake Gunderson John Preheim Dr Montoya Rev 3 16 09 S t o c k C h e...

Page 2: ...5 Sec Div knob 5 Position knobs 5 Set to zero 6 Help 6 Run Stop 6 Single Sequnce 6 Horizontal menu 6 Math Menu 7 Menus 10 Save Recall 8 Measure 9 Acquire 10 Utility 11 Cursor 13 Display 15 Trigger Con...

Page 3: ...UN STOP PROBE COMP 5V 1kHz VERTICAL HORIZONTAL TRIGGER ON OFF SWITCH 0 1 Figure 1 Front panel layout of TDS2012 Digital Storage Oscilloscope In order to make measurements the oscilloscope must be conn...

Page 4: ...laced little white arrow labeled on top of screen The oscilloscope displays information regarding this position in the upper right corner Printing oscilloscope display 1 Press the UTILITY button in ME...

Page 5: ...will be shown at the lower left corner of the display These numbers refer to the number of volts between each horizontal gridline on the display for that channel s signal The separate knobs allow you...

Page 6: ...ed with angle brackets such as Autoset These are links to other topics Turn the Help Scroll Position knob to move the highlight from one link to another Push the Show Topic softkey button to display t...

Page 7: ...oosing Window expands the Window Zone to cover the entire screen When you change between the Main Window Zone and Window views the oscilloscope erases any waveform saved on the screen Math Menu Pushin...

Page 8: ...the waveform in the time domain use Autoset or the control knobs to center the waveform vertically Also make sure that the entire waveform is visible on the display Horizontally the FFT will only cons...

Page 9: ...the oscilloscope acquires a time domain waveform containing frequency components that are greater than the Nyquist frequency The frequency components that are above the Nyquist frequency are undersam...

Page 10: ...controls and the cursors to magnify and measure the FFT spectrum Once you have properly dealt with any aliasing issues you are free to use the knobs to position and zoom the display and use the cursor...

Page 11: ...toggle between choices of CH1 and CH2 Type which allows the user to cycle through the eleven types of measurements shown in Table 6 and Back which returns you to the top MEASURE softkey menu Pressing...

Page 12: ...pe_guide doc 12 18 Table 6 Types of measurements 3 Push the ACQUIRE button to bring up a softkey menu with the selections listed in Table 7 Table 7 ACQUIRE softkey menu Dr Montoya Rev 3 16 09 S t o c...

Page 13: ...button to bring up a softkey menu with the selections listed in the first column of Table 8 Some these selections bring up subchoices as listed in the second column of Table 8 Table 8 UTILITY softkey...

Page 14: ...now redefined as cursor control knobs The voltage Delta between the cursors Cursor 1 position and Cursor 2 position are shown on the screen under the softkey selections see bottom part of Table 9 When...

Page 15: ...ions listed in Table 10 Table 10 DISPLAY softkey menu Trigger Controls You can define the trigger see Table 11 by pushing the TRIG MENU button and front panel soft keys While in each trigger type the...

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Page 18: ...igger signal FORCE TRIG Completes an acquisition regardless of an adequate trigger signal This button has no effect if the acquisition is already stopped TRIG VIEW Displays the trigger waveform in pla...

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