Concepts and Features
R&S
®
ZNC
11
User Manual 1173.9557.02 ─ 13
3 Concepts and Features
The following chapter provides an overview of the analyzer's capabilities and their use.
This includes a description of the basic concepts that the analyzer uses to organize,
process and display measurement data, of the screen contents, possible measured
quantities, calibration methods and typical test setups.
For a systematic explanation of all menus, functions and parameters refer to
3.1 Basic Concepts
The analyzer provides a variety of functions to perform a particular measurement and to
customize and optimize the evaluation of results. To ensure that the instrument resources
are easily accessible and that user-defined configurations can be conveniently imple-
mented, stored and reused the instrument uses a hierarchy of structures:
●
Global resources can be used for all measurements, irrespective of the current mea-
surement session or recall set.
●
A recall set comprises a set of diagrams with all displayed information that can be
stored to a recall set file.
●
The diagrams show traces which are assigned to channels. See
"Traces, Channels and Diagrams"
3.1.1 Global (Persistent) Settings
The analyzer provides global settings that are mostly hardware-related and can be used
for all measurements, irrespective of the current measurement session or recall set. The
settings are stored in independent files and do not enter into any of the recall set files.
The following list contains examples of global settings:
●
Calibration kits
Basic Concepts