CSA8000B & TDS8000B User Manual 3-3
Acquiring Waveforms
Before you can display, measure, or analyze a waveform, you must acquire it
from a signal. This instrument comes equipped with the features you need for
capturing your waveforms. The following topics provide an overview of captur-
ing signals and digitizing them into waveform records:
HSignal Connection and Scaling: How to connect signals to the instrument
channels; how to offset channels and position and scale the time bases for
acquiring waveforms; how to scale and position waveforms in the display.
HSetting Acquisition Controls: How to choose the appropriate acquisition mode
for acquiring your waveforms; how to start and stop acquisition.
HAcquisition Control Background: Information describing the data-sampling
and acquisition processes.
HFrameScan Acquisitions: How to use FrameScan acquisition to help analyze
pattern-dependent failures in high bit-rate communications signals.
Acquisition
system
Trigger
system
Sampling
module
User Interface
and display
Output and
storage
Signal processing
& transformation
system
Time base
system
NOTE. This section describes how the vertical and horizontal controls define the
acquisition of live, channel waveforms. These controls also define how all
waveforms are displayed, both live and derived waveforms (math and reference
waveforms). The following sections cover display-related usage:
HDisplaying Waveforms on page 3--53.
HCreating Math Waveforms on page 3--101.