Operator's Manual
Working with WaveStation
Function Buttons
These Front Panel buttons control major functional areas of the software.
They appear white when inactive, unlike the navigation and selection
controls, which are black.
Function buttons are lit blue when they are active. You can perform a
Self
Test
to check that the LED is working properly.
Channel and Waveform Buttons
The
Ch1/Ch2
button is the starting point in waveform configuration. Press it to select the output channel and
activate the corresponding tab on the display.
The
Waveform
button opens the menu of basic and arbitrary waveform shapes. Whatever you select is
immediately assigned to the active channel.
Signal Conditioning Buttons
The top three function buttons are waveform signal conditioning buttons and apply
Mod
ulation,
Sweep
, or
Burst
functions to the active waveform.
The first press of a Signal Conditioning button applies that functionality to the active waveform and opens a
menu of corresponding parameters. You'll see the name (e.g., "Mod" for Modulation) appear next to the carrier
waveform on the Channel tab. The second press removes the functionality from the waveform and closes the
menu.
Other Function Buttons
The next three function buttons,
Parameter
,
Utility
, and
Help
, open menus of functionality other than waveform
configuration.
l
Parameter restores the menu of waveform parameters to the display for quick re-adjusting. This can be
useful if you've moved onto one of the other functional menus.
l
Many output and system settings can be made through Utilities; see the topics in that section of this
manual.
l
Help opens a menu of Help topics.
Output Buttons
These buttons, both labeled
Output
, each correspond to one of the output channels. They enable and disable
output on that channel. Connect a BNC cable to the output before activating the button.
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