Parallel serial bus trigger settings panel..................................................................................................................... 225
RS-232 serial bus trigger settings panel
.....................................................................................................................226
SENT serial bus trigger settings panel........................................................................................................................227
SPI serial bus trigger settings panel........................................................................................................................... 229
Virtual Keyboard.................................................................................................................................................................230
Bus trigger radix-specific virtual keypads...........................................................................................................................230
Virtual Keypad....................................................................................................................................................................231
Waveform View configuration menu.................................................................................................................................. 231
Waveform acquisition................................................................................................................................................................233
Acquisition concepts.......................................................................................................................................................... 233
Acquisition hardware...................................................................................................................................................233
Sampling process....................................................................................................................................................... 233
Real-Time sampling....................................................................................................................................................233
Interpolated Real-Time sampling................................................................................................................................233
Waveform record........................................................................................................................................................ 233
Interpolation................................................................................................................................................................ 234
Acquisition modes..............................................................................................................................................................234
Waveform sample interpolation..........................................................................................................................................235
Coupling.............................................................................................................................................................................235
Scaling and positioning...................................................................................................................................................... 235
Vertical acquisition considerations..................................................................................................................................... 236
Horizontal acquisition considerations.................................................................................................................................236
Triggering concepts...................................................................................................................................................................237
Trigger sources.................................................................................................................................................................. 237
Trigger types...................................................................................................................................................................... 238
Trigger modes.................................................................................................................................................................... 238
Trigger holdoff.................................................................................................................................................................... 238
Trigger coupling................................................................................................................................................................. 239
Trigger slope and level.......................................................................................................................................................239
Trigger position in waveform record...................................................................................................................................239
Advanced triggering........................................................................................................................................................... 240
Bus triggering concepts.............................................................................................................................................. 240
Pulse width trigger concepts.......................................................................................................................................240
Timeout trigger concepts............................................................................................................................................ 240
Runt trigger concepts..................................................................................................................................................240
Logic trigger concepts.................................................................................................................................................241
Setup and Hold trigger concepts.................................................................................................................................241
Rise/Fall time trigger concepts....................................................................................................................................241
Waveform display concepts...................................................................................................................................................... 242
Waveform preview mode................................................................................................................................................... 242
Horizontal position and the horizontal reference point.......................................................................................................242
Measurement concepts.............................................................................................................................................................243
Measurement variables......................................................................................................................................................243
Missing or out-of-range samples........................................................................................................................................245
Math waveforms.................................................................................................................................................................245
Math waveform elements...................................................................................................................................................246
Math waveform sources.....................................................................................................................................................247
Guidelines for working with math waveforms.....................................................................................................................247
Math waveform editor syntax............................................................................................................................................. 247
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