
Digital Storage Oscilloscope 51
2.12 DISPLAY
The waveform display is affected by settings of the oscilloscope. A waveform can be
measured once it is captured. The different styles to display a waveform on the screen
give significant information about it.
There are two modes to display waveforms Single-window and Dual-window. Refer to
for more information.
Push the DISPLAY button and the following menu appears.
Options
Settings
Comments
Type
Vectors
Dots
Vectors fill up the space between adjacent
sample points in the display; Dots only displays
the sample points.
Persistency
OFF
1S-30S selectable
Infinite
Sets the time length to display each displayed
sample point.
Contrast
Adjustable, Turn the multi-functional knob to
adjust.
Grid
Dotted line
Real line
OFF
Off only displays the horizontal and vertical
coordinates at the center graticule on the
screen.
Grid
Intensity
Adjustable, Turn the multi-functional knob to
adjust.
Wave
Intensity
Adjustable, Turn the multi-functional knob to
adjust.
2.12.1 XY Format
The XY format is used to analyze phase differences, such as those represented by
Lissajous patterns. The format plots the voltage on CH1 against the voltage on CH2,
where CH1 is the horizontal axis and CH2 is the vertical axis. The oscilloscope uses
the untriggered Normal acquisition mode and displays data as dots. The sampling rate
is fixed at 1 MS/s.
The oscilloscope can acquire waveforms in YT format at any sampling rate. You may
view the same waveform in XY format. To perform this operation, stop the acquisition
and change the display format to XY.