Tektronix To Set Roll Mode

Acquiring Waveforms
3-38 CSA7000 Series, TDS7000 Series, & TDS6000 Series Instruments User Manual
CSA7000 Series & TDS7000 Series: Use the procedure that follows to set up
roll mode acquisitions.
Overview To set Roll Mode Control elements and resources
Prerequisites 1. The horizontal and vertical controls must be set up.
Triggering should also be set up.
See page 3--34 for acquisition setup and
page 3--71 for trigger setup.
To enable roll
mode
2. Touch the Horiz button. Select the Acquisition tab from
the Horiz/Acq control window, or select Horizontal/Ac-
quisition Setup from the Horiz/Acq menu to display the
Acquisition Mode control window. Select the Acquisition
tab.
3. Select Roll Mode AUTO to enable roll mode.
When the horizontal scale is 100 ms per division at a
record length of 500 points and the acquisition mode is
Sample or Pk Detect, roll mode turns on. As the record
length becomes larger, the time per division required to
enter roll mode becomes slower.
Note. Envelope, Average, FastAcq and Waveform
Database acquisition modes inhibit roll mode.
To single
sequence roll
mode
4. Push the SINGLE button to start acquiring and acquire
enough waveforms to satisfy the acquisition mode and
then stop.
To Set Roll Mode