Setup and Hold Trigger - Define Inputs configuration menu ................................................................ 397
Timeout Trigger configuration menu .................................................................................................... 397
Logic Qualification - Define Inputs configuration menu ........................................................................ 400
Window Trigger configuration menu ..................................................................................................... 401
Visual Trigger panel ............................................................................................................................. 404
Virtual Keyboard ......................................................................................................................................... 405
Bus trigger radix-specific virtual keypads ................................................................................................... 405
Virtual Keypad ............................................................................................................................................ 406
Visual Trigger Area configuration menu ..................................................................................................... 406
Visual Trigger Area Combinatorial Logic menu .......................................................................................... 408
Right click menu functions associated with visual trigger areas ................................................................ 409
Waveform View configuration menu .......................................................................................................... 409
Waveform acquisition concepts
Acquisition concepts .................................................................................................................................. 411
Acquisition hardware ............................................................................................................................ 411
Sampling process ................................................................................................................................. 411
Real-Time sampling ............................................................................................................................. 411
Interpolated Real-Time sampling ......................................................................................................... 411
Waveform record .................................................................................................................................. 412
Interpolation .......................................................................................................................................... 412
Acquisition modes ...................................................................................................................................... 413
How the acquisition modes work .......................................................................................................... 413
FastFrame concepts .................................................................................................................................. 414
Waveform sample interpolation .................................................................................................................. 415
Coupling ..................................................................................................................................................... 415
Scaling and positioning .............................................................................................................................. 416
Vertical acquisition considerations ............................................................................................................. 416
Horizontal acquisition considerations ......................................................................................................... 417
Trigger concepts
Triggering concepts .................................................................................................................................... 419
Trigger sources .......................................................................................................................................... 420
Trigger types .............................................................................................................................................. 420
Trigger modes ............................................................................................................................................ 421
Trigger holdoff ............................................................................................................................................ 421
Trigger coupling ......................................................................................................................................... 422
Trigger slope and level ............................................................................................................................... 422
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