Making measurements from the trace
VI - 30
Virtual digital oscilloscopes, 60 MHz
Making measurements from the trace (continued)
1. Manual
measurements
using the cursors
These measurements are made on the 2500 points used for the display.
If the Zoom is active the cursors are available on the zoomed graph.
a) Snap to Point
measurements
In this mode the cursors are attached to the trace for the channel defined
as the measurement reference: the user can only move them on the
horizontal axis.
A click on the
button of the tool bar or on the 'Measure’ menu function
activates/deactivates the cursors:
The 'Snap to Point measurements’ are driven from the "Oscilloscope
Trace" window which becomes:
Origin of the time
base
Cursor 1
Cursor 2
Cursor 1 & 2
abscissa
Channel to which
the cursors are
attached
The values of the
CH1 signal at the
X1 & X2 abscissa
Variation of
abscissa dX = X 2
- X1
Difference in
values
dY = Y2 - Y1
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