Chapter 2 Service

About the HP 53131A/132A Calibration Menu

The Fine Time Interval Calibration requires a special calibrator signal source to provide input—because it produces eight calibration terms, each tailored to a different combination of input conditions. It requires the synthesizer driving the calibrator to produce a very accurate 10 MHz waveform—because it calibrates the pulse width configuration against the 50-nanosecond pulse width so provided. It minimizes systematic error by calibrating the instrument in each of the eight configurations: falling to falling edges, falling to rising edges, etc., and both SEPARATE and COMMON routing.

Notes Pertaining to CAL: TI QUIK?

Advantage: Calibration signal is simple.

Disadvantage: One correction term for all slope and routing configurations.

Input signal: clean square wave, fast rise time, approximately

10 MHz, 1 volt peak-to-peak, no dc offset (oscillating about 0.0 volts), driving 50Ω.

Timebase: Any external timebase you provide is ignored during calibration.

Procedure: From the front-panel calibration menu, one keypress invokes the calibration.

Notes Pertaining to CAL: TI FINE?

Advantage: Calibration minimizes systematic error for any supported combination of input slope and routing.

Disadvantage: Calibration signal is more complex. If you perform a calibration that you feel is erroneous and do not feel you can perform the fine calibration, perform the CAL: TI QUIK? calibration instead, or restore the calibration factors that you saved prior to starting.

Equipment: HP 8130A Pulse Generator or equivalent.

HP 59992A J06 Time Interval Calibrator or equivalent.

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