Hardkey and Softkey Reference ESG Family Signal Generators
FM
4-22 User’s Guide
FM
Pressing the front panel FM/ΦM key reveals a menu of softkeys. The 
softkeys for FM are described in this section in alphabetical order. For a 
description of the 
Φ
M softkeys, refer to the “Phase Modulation” section 
in this chapter.
Bus
This softkey is one of the choices in the FM Sweep Trigger menu. With 
Bus selected, you use the GPIB to trigger single sweeps of swept-sine 
frequency modulation.
Softkey Location: 
FM/ΦM > FM Waveform > Swept-Sine > FM Sweep Trigger > 
Bus
DCFM/DCΦM Cal
Pressing this softkey initiates a DCFM calibration. This calibration 
eliminates the offset in DC FM so that the carrier frequency remains 
the same with no modulation applied. External, DC-coupled FM must 
be active when this calibration is executed.
Softkey Location: 
FM/ΦM > DCFM/DCΦMCal
Dual-Sine
Pressing this softkey reveals a menu of choices for setting the dual-sine 
frequency modulation parameters. In this menu you can set the FM 
rates for two separate tones. In addition, you can set the FM deviation 
for 
FM Path 1 and FM Path 2 and also set a ratio of the tone 2 FM deviation 
to the tone 1 FM deviation.
Softkey Location: 
FM/ΦM > FM Waveform > Dual-Sine