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Using the Oscilloscope
The Scope Display Menu
The Scope Display Menu
The Display options control how the oscilloscope acquires and displays
waveforms.

Mode field

The Mode field provides three selections: Normal, Average, or
Accumulate.

Normal mode

In Normal mode, the oscilloscope acquires waveform data and displays
the waveform acquired from that data. New acquisitions overwrite old
data.

Average mode

In Average mode, the oscilloscope averages new data with previously
acquired data. Averaging helps eliminate random noise from your
displayed waveforms.
When you select Average mode, a new field appears next to the Mode
field which allows you to set the number of waveform acquisitions to
average. The number of averages can be set to 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128,
or 256.