Chapter 4 To Set the Sample System    RIGOL     
MSO7000/DS7000 User Guide  4-5 
Acquisition Mode 
 
The acquisition mode is used to control how to generate waveform points from the 
sample points. 
 
MSO7000/DS7000 supports the following four acquisition modes: Normal, Average, 
Peak, and High Resolution. By default, the acquisition mode is Normal. 
 
Press Acquire → Acquisition on the front panel, and then rotate the multifunction 
knob    to select the desired acquisition mode. Then, press down the knob to 
select the mode. You can also press Acquisition continuously to select the mode or 
enable the touch screen to tap the desired mode and select it. 
 
Normal 
 
In this mode, the oscilloscope samples the signal at a specified fixed time interval to 
rebuild the waveform. For most of the waveforms, using this mode can produce the 
optimal display effects. 
 
Average 
 
In this mode, the oscilloscope averages the waveforms from multiple samples to 
reduce the random noise of the input signal and improve the vertical resolution. 
Greater number of averages can lower the noise and increase the vertical resolution; 
while at the same time, it will slow the response of the displayed waveform to the 
waveform changes. 
 
When you select "Average" mode, press Averages and rotate the multifunction 
knob    or use the numeric keypad to set the desired number of averages. You can 
also use the pop-up numeric keypad to input the average count. When the average 
count value is not in power-of-2 increments, a prompt message "Truncation average 
error" will be displayed. At this time, a value that is smaller than the one you input 
and the closest to power-of-2 increments will be input automatically. For example, if 
you input 9 with the numeric keypad, the average count will be input 8 automatically.   
 
The number of averages can be set to 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 
4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, or 65536. By default, it is 2.