Agilent Technologies 6813B, 6834B Voltage and Frequency Slew Rates, Waveform Shapes, Voltage Slew

Programming Examples - 4

Frequency

The output frequency is controlled with the FREQuency command. To set the output frequency to 50 Hz, use:

FREQuency 50

Voltage and Frequency Slew Rates

Voltage Slew

The ac source has the ability to control the slew rate of ac amplitude changes. This can be used to generate ramps or to protect sensitive loads. To set the voltage slew rate to 20 volts per second, use:

VOLTage:SLEW 20

At *RST the slew rate is set to INFinity, which means that ac voltage changes occur at the fastest possible slew rate. The slew rate applies to programmed changes in ac output amplitude while the unit is operating in fixed mode. Amplitude changes made by the step, pulse, and list transients are controlled by the same rules that apply to all other functions that are subject to transient control. See "Programming Transient Outputs".

NOTE: Output voltage changes caused by the OUTPut:STATe or VOLTage:OFFSet commands, by a protection feature disabling the output, or as a result of load changes are not subject to this slew rate control.

Frequency Slew

The ac source also has the ability to control the slew rate of frequency changes. To set the frequency slew rate to 30 Hz per second, use:

FREQuency:SLEW 30

At *RST the slew rate is set to INFinity, which means that frequency changes occur instantaneously. The frequency slew rate applies to programmed changes in frequency while the unit is operating in fixed mode. Frequency changes made by the step, pulse, and list transients are controlled by the same rules that apply to all other functions that are subject to transient control. See "Programming Transient Outputs".

Waveform Shapes

At *RST, the ac source supplies a sine waveform, but other shapes can be selected. There are built-in tables for sine, square and clipped sine waveforms. In addition, the user can define arbitrary waveshapes by creating a 1024 point table of amplitudes for a single cycle.

As shown in the following examples, the FUNCtion[:SHAPe] command selects the output waveform.

Square Waveform

To select the square output waveform, use:

FUNCtion:SHAPe SQUare

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