Acquiring Waveforms
CSA7000B Series & TDS7000B Series Instruments User Manual
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Overview Control elements and resourcesTo turn Fast Acquisitions on and off (Cont.)
To enable fast
acquisitions
mode
2. Enable fast acquisitions in one of three ways:
H Push the front-panel FastAcq button.
H Touch the Horiz button. Select the Acquisition tab
from the Horiz/Acq control window
or
H Select Horizontal/Acquisition Setup from the
Horiz/Acq menu to display the Acquisition Mode
control window. Select the Acquisition tab.
3. Touch Fast Acquisitions to toggle Fast Acquisitions to
On.
Fast Acquisitions mode will stay on until you turn it off or
until you select an incompatible mode that temporarily
inhibits fast acquisitions.
To set the
style
4. Touch the DISP button and select the Appearance tab.
5. Select between Vectors, Dots, or Inten Samp display
styles. (Dots is the default setting when in Equivalent
Time (ET) acquisition mode. Vectors is the default when
not in ET acquisition mode.)
6. Select between Off, Variable, and Infinite Display
Persistence. (Off is the factory default setting.)
Variable persistence is explained on page 3--134. No
Persistence erases the display each time a new
waveform array is displayed.
If your instrument supports mask testing, Mask Autofit
can affect persistence. When enabled Autofit moves the
waveform vertically and horizontally to reduce the
number of hits within a given mask. If infinite or variable
persistence is enabled, the movements will clear any
persisted data. If Autofit makes frequent adjustments,
there can be very little or even no persisted data
displayed.
7. If you select Variable, touch Persist Time and adjust the
persistence time (decay rate).