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Operating Concept
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Operating Concept
The operating concept for manual control enables the user to make settings as intuitively as possible
and at the same time gives a permanent overview of characteristics of the generated signal and of the
current instrument state. Numerous on-line help functions support user settings.
The block diagram is the core of the operating concept.
A large graphics display showing the current configuration and the signal flow in the form of a block
diagram is the core of the operating concept. The block diagram gives an overview of signal
configuration, and the graphical elements can be accessed for operation. The desired element is
selected by means of the cursor keys and the associated setting function is called by pressing the
Enter
key. Required menus and graphs are displayed on the block diagram which is displayed again in the
foreground whenever the
Ctrl
+
D
key combination is pressed.
Operation via the graphics interface
Menus are assigned to the specific function blocks in the block diagram. The function blocks represent
elements of signal generation, e.g. the baseband block which contains all dialogs required for baseband
signal configuration. Function blocks displayed with a blue frame can be directly switched on and off by
means of the
Ctrl
+
T
key combination.
The dialogs of the highlighted function blocks can be called by pressing the
Enter
key.
The signal flow between the function blocks and the employed inputs and outputs are also shown.
A menu tree can be opened and closed by the key combination
Alt
+
...
the underscored character of
the name in the windows toolbar. The menu tree is organized in the same way as the directories in the
Windows Explorer. The function blocks correspond to the first directory level, the menus to
subdirectories.
Operation corresponds to the Windows concept
