What is Autoset ............................................................................................................................ 28
Probes and ground leads tip .......................................................................................................... 28
Getting on-screen help for settings - Help Everywhere ............................................................... 29
Signal path compensation SPC ..................................................................................................... 32
The Scope Intro function .............................................................................................................. 33
Sampling oscilloscope concepts
Sampling and acquisition concepts ............................................................................................... 35
Acquisition mode concepts ........................................................................................................... 37
Trigger concepts ........................................................................................................................... 38
Trigger slope and level concepts .................................................................................................. 40
Available trigger types .................................................................................................................. 42
Trigger coupling ........................................................................................................................... 43
Trigger modes ............................................................................................................................... 43
Auto Untriggered Roll trigger mode ............................................................................................ 43
Normal trigger mode .................................................................................................................... 44
Holdoff trigger mode .................................................................................................................... 44
Trigger delay acquisition mode .................................................................................................... 44
Setting channel input parameters
Setting input signal coupling ........................................................................................................ 45
Inverting the input signal .............................................................................................................. 46
Setting the oscilloscope bandwidth .............................................................................................. 47
Setting the probe type voltage or current ...................................................................................... 48
Setting the probe attenuation factor .............................................................................................. 49
Quickly setting the probe attenuation to 1X or 10X ..................................................................... 50
Setting the measure current mode for voltage probes .................................................................. 51
Setting the input signal vertical offset .......................................................................................... 52
Setting the waveform vertical position ......................................................................................... 53
The difference between vertical position and vertical offset ........................................................ 54
Setting channel deskew ................................................................................................................ 55
Deskew tips ................................................................................................................................... 56
Trigger setup
Triggering on a waveform edge .................................................................................................... 57
Triggering on a specified pulse width .......................................................................................... 59
Triggering on a runt pulse ............................................................................................................ 61
Setting the trigger mode ............................................................................................................... 63
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