Displaying Waveforms 3
InfiniiVision 7000B Series Oscilloscopes User’s Guide 87
To display waveforms as vectors or dots
Agilent InfiniiVision oscilloscopes are designed to operate optimally with
vectors (connect the dots) on. This mode produces the most insightful
waveforms for most situations.
To disable or enable vectors:
1 Press [Display].
2 Press Vectors.
When enabled, Vectors draws a line between consecutive waveform data
points.
• Vectors give an analog look to a digitized waveform. Complex analog
signals like video and modulated signals show analog- like intensity
information with vectors on.
• Vectors allow you to see steep edges on waveforms, such as square
waves.
• Vectors allow subtle detail of complex waveforms to be viewed, much
like an analog oscilloscope trace, even when the detail is just a small
number of pixels in size.
You may want to turn vectors off when highly complex or multivalued
waveforms are displayed. Turning vectors off may aid the display of
multivalued waveforms such as eye diagrams.
Having vectors on does not slow down the display rate.
The oscilloscope turns vectors on whenever the acquisition system stops.
Digital channels on a mixed- signal oscilloscope are not affected by the
Display Menu. They are always displayed with vectors on. They also only
contain one acquisition worth of information.
To freeze the display
To freeze the display without stopping running acquisitions:
1 Press the [Display] key.
2 Press the Freeze Display softkey.
To un- freeze the display, press Freeze Display again.
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