User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- General Safety Summary
- Preface
- Getting Started
- Operating Basics
- Reference
- Reference
- Menu Structures
- The Setup Menu Screen
- The Graphical Waveform Editor
- The Pattern Editor
- Quick Editing
- The Table Editor
- The Equation Editor
- The Sequence Editor
- The APPL Menu
- The UTILITY Window
- External Keyboards
- Setting General Purpose Knob Direction
- Formatting a Floppy Disk
- Displaying Disk Usage
- Screen Display Enable/Disable
- Focused Color
- Displaying Instrument Status
- Internal Clock (Date and Time)
- Resetting the Instrument
- Connecting to a GPIB Network
- Ethernet Networking
- Hardcopy
- Calibration and Diagnostics
- Upgrading the System Software
- Capturing Waveforms
- Waveform Programming Language
- Command Descriptions
- Programming Examples
- File Conversion
- File Management
- FG Mode
- Waveform Mixing Mode
- Synchronous Operation Mode (AWG710B only)
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Specifications (AWG710B)
- Appendix A: Specifications (AWG710)
- Appendix B: Performance Verification (AWG710B)
- Conventions
- Self Tests
- Performance Tests
- Operating Mode Tests
- Amplitude and Offset Accuracy Tests (Normal Out), (except option 02)
- Amplitude, Offset Accuracy and Rise Time Tests (Direct DA Out), (except option 02)
- Amplitude, Offset Accuracy and Rise Time Tests (for option 02)
- Pulse Response Tests (Normal Out), (except option 02)
- Trigger Input Tests
- Event Input and Enhanced Mode Tests
- External Clock Input and VCO Out Output Tests
- VCO OUT Output Frequency and 10 MHz Reference Input Tests
- Marker Output Tests
- Synchronous Operation Tests
- Appendix B: Performance Verification (AWG710)
- Conventions
- Self Tests
- Performance Tests
- Operating Mode Tests
- Amplitude and Offset Accuracy Tests (Normal Out), (except option 02)
- Amplitude, Offset Accuracy and Rise Time Tests (Direct DA Out), (except option 02)
- Amplitude, Offset Accuracy and Rise Time Tests (for option 02)
- Pulse Response Tests (Normal Out), (except option 02)
- Trigger Input Tests
- Event Input and Enhanced Mode Tests
- 1/4 Clock Frequency and 10 MHz Reference Input Tests
- Marker Output Tests
- Appendix C: Inspection and Cleaning
- Appendix D: Sample Waveforms
- Appendix E: File Transfer Interface Outline
- Appendix F: Miscellaneous
- Appendix G: Sequence File Text Format
- Index
Operating Basics
AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator User Manual 2-47
Waveform Edit
To enable editing, the AWG710&AWG710B Arbitrary Waveform Generator
provides you with Waveform, Pattern, Sequence, Equation, and Text Editors. See
Table 2-15 for the explanations of those editors.
Quick Edit
The Quick Editor lets you modify and/or output any part of a waveform you are
currently editing with the Waveform Editor. This is done in real time. The data
between cursors can be scaled or shifted vertically and/or horizontally
(Expand/Shift).
Table 2-15: Editors
Editors Descriptions
Waveform Editor The Waveform Editor lets you create or edit a waveform that is being displayed
on the screen. It enables you to create any waveform by an operation such as
cut and paste, partial inversion about the horizontal or vertical axis, shift, or
scaling. This operation can be based on a standard waveform, such as a sine
or rectangular wave, or the previously created waveform.
The Waveform Editor also has a unique feature that is capable of editing a
waveform with waveform calculation functions (absolute value of waveform,
differentiation/integration, convolution, correlation,
addition/subtraction/multiplication between waveforms and so on).
Pattern Editor The Pattern Editor displays a digital signal pattern with a pattern data placed in
8–bit creation waveform memory; it creates a digital signal pattern according to
the High/Low settings you made for the individual bits.
In addition to the functions supported by the Waveform Editor, the Pattern
Editor is capable of generating frequently used digital signals unique to digital
signals and pseudo random patterns.
Sequence Editor The Sequence Editor lets you create a more complex waveform by combining
a few types of the waveform data that you have created using Waveform and/or
Pattern Editors. This editor also enables a Waveform listing jump and output
stop to take place. They follow the external event information from the EVENT
IN connector as well as the number of repetitions and the order for the
individual pieces of waveform data.
Text Editor The Text Editor creates an equation, more exactly, a waveform by a method of
equations. When a equation has been created using this editor, you need to
perform compiling.
The Text Editor also enables you to edit a plain ASCII file. It should be used to
edit ASCII–format waveform data created with another equipment as well as
this instrument itself.