SETUP Menu
General Description
The SETUP menu is used to set a variety of output parameters during actual output of the waveforms and sequence waveforms that have been created with the editors. The menu can display output parameter values and selected items in both text form and as a graphic (in other words, with items connected in the form of a circuit).
When the power to the instrument is turned on, the SETUP menu appears automatically. Also when the power is switched on, if you have select from Disk or from NVRam in the Auto Load item of the LOAD/SAVE menu, all the files on the disk or in the NVRam, whichever is selected, are loaded automatically into internal memory. If the waveform or sequence file selected with the SETUP menu was in internal memory the last time you switched off the power, then that file is selected.
The bottom menu consists of seven items: the six output parameters that you can set (Clock, Waveform Sequence, CH1 Operation, Filter, Amplitude and Offset) and the Display item which allows you to set the format for menu displays. To set these items, press the corresponding button in the bottom menu and use the general purpose knob or the numeric keys to set the desired value.
A waveform or sequence file that is created with the editor has the default output parameters set in it. When the output parameters are changed with the SETUP menu, the new settings are saved together with the waveform data in the file.
When the operating mode is Autostep, the output parameters cannot be changed at all. If the file is locked and the operating mode is any other mode, the output parameters can be changed, but the changes are not written to the waveform file. For further information on locking files, see ªLocking and Unlocking Filesº item in the section on editors.
This section will discuss the menus found on the AWG2021 Option 02 with the CH2 output. Instruments without the Option 02 have no channel switching and parameters are only set for CH1.
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