noise and tone burst gen er a tor op tions and ded i cated intermodulation and wow
and flut ter mea sure ment mod ules.
An a log sig nals can be gen er ated in an a log circuitry, or can be gen er ated
dig i tally and con verted into an a log signals. In the same way, an a log sig nals
can be mea sured in the an a log do main, or can be con verted to the dig i tal do -
main for dig i tal anal y sis.
Dig i tal sig nals are al ways gen er ated and mea sured in the dig i tal do main.
Dig i tal anal y sis is per formed by one of seven DSP anal y sis tools, in clud ing a
gen eral-pur pose au dio an a lyzer, an FFT spec trum an a lyzer and a multitone an -
a lyzer. A ded i cated 80 MHz ADC is con nected across the dig i tal in put, and is
avail able to dig i tize the se rial in ter face bitstream for anal y sis.
These op er a tions are all di rected by AP2700, the 2700 se ries con trol soft -
ware. Nearly ev ery func tion of AP2700 can be au to mated us ing the Au dio
Pre ci sion pro gram ming lan guage AP Ba sic, which is pro vided with the con trol
soft ware.
About This Manual
You’re read ing Getting Started with Your 2700 Se ries In stru ment. This man -
ual de scribes how to set up the 2700 se ries in stru ment hard ware, and the
AP2700 con trol soft ware. It also con tains a quick tu to rial to fa mil iar ize you
with the sys tem. The manual is or ga nized as fol lows:
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Chap ter 1: In tro duc tion.
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Chap ter 2: Soft ware in stal la tion and hard ware setup in for ma tion.
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Chap ter 3: De scrip tion of the hard ware and its con nec tors.
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Chap ter 4: De scrip tion of the user in ter face.
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Chap ter 5: In tro duc tory tu to rial.
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Chap ter 6: Spec i fi ca tions.
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Chap ter 7: GPIB Con fig u ra tion
Other 2700 Series Documentation
Au dio Pre ci sion pub lishes a va ri ety of doc u ments, many in elec tronic form,
about hard ware and soft ware prod ucts, au dio the ory, and test and mea sure ment
tech niques. The fol low ing list de scribes the doc u ments that are in cluded as
Adobe Ac ro bat PDF files on the Re sources CD-ROM that is included with
your in stru ment. They can also be down loaded from our Web site at ap.com.
About This Manual Chapter 1: General Information
Getting Started with Your 2700 Series Instrument 3