Operating Basics

Menu Operations

This section describes the AWG710 Arbitrary Waveform Generator menu system and numeric and text input methods.

Menu System The AWG710 Arbitrary Waveform Generator uses menus to make selections. There are four menu buttons labeled EDIT, SETUP, APPL, and UTILITY shown in Figure 2±7. Pushing a menu button displays the corresponding screen and menu buttons. These menus let you edit waveforms, initialize instrument settings, define instrument operation, and specify waveform output parameters.

You select items within the displayed menu by pushing the bottom or side bezel button nearest the menu item. These buttons consist of seven bottom buttons and five side buttons as shown in Figure 2±7. These menu bezel buttons are referred to as bottom menu buttons (or bottom buttons) and side menu buttons (or side buttons).

The CLEAR MENU button cancels the current menu operation, clears the current menus from the screen, and returns to the previous instrument state.

Menu buttons

Side menu bezel buttons ￿side buttons￿

Bottom menu bezel buttons

￿bottom buttons￿

CLE￿R MENU button

Figure 2-7: Menu buttons, bezel menu buttons, and the CLEAR MENU button

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