HP 53131A Operating Guide

Chapter 2 Operating Your Universal Counter
Using the Calibration Menu
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5 Press Enter key to display the setup instructions.
Notes Pertaining to the CAL: TI QUIK?
Advantage: Calibration signal is simple.
Disadvantage: One correction term for all slope and routing
configurations.
Input signal: clean square wave, fast rise time, approximately 10 MHz,
1 volt peak-to-peak, no dc offset (oscillating about 0.0 volts), driving 50
Ω
.
Timebase: Any external timebase you provide is ignored during
calibration.
Procedure: From the front-panel calibration menu, one keypress
invokes the calibration.
Notes Pertaining to the CAL: TI FINE?
Advantage: Calibration minimizes systematic error for any
supported combination of input slope and routing.
Disadvantage: Calibration signal is more complex. If you perform a
calibration that you feel is erroneous and do not feel you can perform
the fine calibration, perform the CAL: TI QUIK? calibration instead,
or restore the calibration factors that you saved prior to starting.
Equipment: HP 8130A Pulse Generator or equivalent.
HP 59992A J06 Time Interval Calibrator or equivalent.
Equipment and Counter Setup: See Figure 2-4.
Figure 2-4. Calibration Setup for CAL: TI FINE?
HP 53131A/132A
Counter
1234
In
AB
HP 59992A J06
Time Interval Calibrator
Start
Stop
HP 8130A
Pulse Generator
Output

HP 53131A Specifications

General

Brand	HP
Model	53131A
Category	Cash Counter
Language	English