Theory of Operation
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Figure 3- 19: Sequence of Events When Writing Data to the Waveform Memory
The two DS1210’s, U6 and U28, are usedto provide battery backup power to the
RAM devices while the instrument is in the offstate.
Readouts and Waveform Drawing. The Readouts and WaveformDrawing section
places all readouts and waveforms on the CRT screen.It does this using an
XC3042 LCA (U46), a CY7C291 PROM (U48), two 22V10 PALs (U39 and
U40), a 74HCT541 buffer (U47), andthree 74HCT257 quad 2--1 multiplexers
(U50, U51, and U52).
The easiest way to view the display secti on of this board to look at it as if each
waveform or screen of text werea page. There are eight pages, four pages of
waveforms (waveformsA through D) and four pages of text (one for readouts
and 3 more for menus). U39 and U40 forma state machine called the Readout
State Machine which is used to turn th eC RTbeam on an d off, load data for
display from RAM, and determine which pagesshould be displayed. The
Readout State Machine begins by determiningwhich page needs to be displayed,
starting with page 0. By taking the contents of theDisplay Control Register (U21
and U25) and comparing it to a 3 bit counter(Page Counter, internal to U46) it
can be determined whichpages need to be displayed. For example if DISPA is
high and the page counter is atzero, then Waveform A should be displayed. This
comparison is performedin U40. Once U40 determines that a page should be
displayed, the Readout State Machine will then load the appropriate data and
display the page. Depending on whetherthe page to be displayed is text or
waveform, the Readout State Machine takes one of two paths.
Table3 --14 illustrates the relation between the page counter, page number and
the waveform or text page.