HP 54753A - Menu and Key Conventions

The Instrument at a Glance
Menu and Key Conventions
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Menu and Key Conventions
The keys labeled Trigger, Disk, and Run are all examples of front-panel keys.
Pressing some front-panel keys accesses menus of functions that are displayed
along the right side of the display screen. These menus are called softkey
menus.
Softkey menus list functions other than those accessed directly by the front-
panel keys. To activate a function on the softkey menu, press the unlabeled key
immediately next to the annotation on the screen. The unlabeled keys next to
the annotation on the display are called softkeys.
Additional functions are listed in blue type above and below some of the front-
panel keys. These functions are called shifted functions. To activate a shifted
function, press the blue front-panel Shift key and the front-panel key next to
the desired function.
Throughout this manual front-panel keys are indicated by bold lettering of the
key label, for example, Time base. Softkeys are indicated by italic lettering of
the key label, for example,
Scale . The softkeys displayed depend on the front-
panel key pressed and which menu is selected. Shifted functions are indicated
by the front-panel Shift key followed by the shaded shifted function, for example
the Local function (above the Stop/Single front-panel key) will be shown as Shift,
Local.
A softkey with On and Off in its label can be used to turn the softkey’s function
on or off. To turn the function on, press the softkey so On is highlighted. To
turn the function off, press the softkey so Off is highlighted. An On or Off softkey
function will be indicated throughout this manual as:
Test On.
A softkey such as
Sweep Triggered Freerun offers you a choice of functions. In
this case you could choose Triggered by pressing the softkey until Triggered is
highlighted, or choose Freerun by pressing the softkey until Freerun is
highlighted. Softkey choices will be indicated throughout this manual as:
Sweep
Triggered Freerun
Triggered.
When some softkeys, such as
Calibrate Probe , are pressed the first time, a
calibration will be made. Some softkeys, such as
Offset require the entry of a
numeric value. To enter or change the value, use the general purpose knob
located below the front-panel Measure section.