Agilent Technologies E4400-90326 quick start Front Panel

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Exploring the User Interface	ESG Family Signal Generators
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The following pages describe the numbered items shown in the ﬁgure below.

2-2	Quick Start Guide

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Contents Agilent Technologies ESG Family Signal Generators Part No. E4400-90326Supersedes April Copyright 1999, 2000 Agilent Technologies Contents Getting Started Signal Generator at a Glance Setting the Power Level Creating an FM SignalSetting the Carrier Frequency Press PresetRF Output connector Setting the FM DeviationSetting the FM Rate Turning On Frequency ModulationState Creating a Step Sweep and a List SweepConﬁguring a Step Sweep ﬁrst level of sweep softkeys is displayedPress Return RF ON. The swept RF signal is now available atTurning On Continuous Step Sweep PressConﬁguring a List Sweep Using Step Sweep Data Turned off Turning On List Sweep for a Single SweepData You triggered the single sweep in the previous stepSaving and Recalling an Instrument State Creating an Instrument StateSaving an Instrument State Recalling an Instrument StatePress Save followed by Setting Up a Digital Modulation in the GSM Format Enter −5 using the numeric keypad and press the dBm softkeyThis selects the GSM communications standard Setting Up TimeslotSelecting the Data Format Conﬁgure Timeslots has become an active softkeyPress the Timeslot Type softkey Press the Normal softkey Press the following softkeysThis moves the softkey menu up one level Turning On the GSM Format and the Modulation Press Return twiceExploring the User Interface Front Panel Associated with the event ConnectorWill be returned to normal instrument operation Numeric keypad consists of the digit keys 0 through 9, aProvided only on ESG-D and ESG-DP Series Signal Generators This connector accepts an externally supplied, analogComponent of I/Q modulation. This female BNC connector is Darken in comparison to the text on the displayTo their adjacent keys are located on the right-hand side Frequency and power capabilitiesLCD display provides information on the current instrument DisplaySoftkey or via Scpi command. The maximum input for this This hardkey lets you restore any instrument state that youApplications. This female BNC connector is provided only on Previously saved in a memory register. You can save up toDisplay DisplayALC circuit is disabled Multiple error messages occur, only the most recent messageCan be viewed by pressing Utility Error Info This annunciator appears when a sweep has been initiatedView and delete error messages using the Utility menu Series Signal GeneratorsThis annunciator appears when an error message is placed Modulations that you have enabled are modulating the RFGenerated a service request SRQ over the Gpib RF signal is present at the RF Output connectorS annunciator appears when the signal generator has List or step modeRear Panel Timebase or 1 ppm high stability timebase TTL/CMOS high to TTL/CMOS low edge trigger. With Option UN8 Output signals for this connectorOption 201 this connector is used for system reset output Second output is generated every two seconds indicatingConnector is present only on instruments with Option UN7 Q OUT connector outputs the analog, quadrature-phaseBER Meas END connector outputs a signal that indicates BER Sync Loss connector outputs a signal that indicatesExploring the User Interface