Triggering on Waveforms
TDS 500B, TDS 600B, & TDS 700A User Manual
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3. Press the upper threshold button and, in turn, lower threshold button (side)
Use the general purpose knob or keypad to set the values for the high and
low thresholds.
Hint: To use the Trigger Bar feature to set the threshold levels on the pulse
edge, press DISPLAY ➞ Readout Options (main) ➞ Trigger Bar Style
(side) until Long appears in that menu item.
The threshold settings determine the voltage component of slew rate (Volts/Se-
cond). To finish specifying the slew rate, set the time component by doing the
following steps:
4. Press TRIGGER MENU ➞ Type (main) ➞ Pulse (pop-up) ➞
Class (main) ➞ Slew Rate (pop-up) ➞ Trigger When (main) ➞ Delta
Time (side).
5. Use the general purpose knob or keypad to set the delta time value for slew
rate.
NOTE. The menu item Slew Rate in the side menu is not a button label; rather it
is a readout of the slew rate setting. This readout varies as you vary the Delta
Time setting this side menu and as you vary either of the threshold settings from
the Thresholds menu. You adjust those parameters to adjust slew rate; you can’t
adjust slew rate directly.
Set to Trig When. The oscilloscope compares the pulse edge of the trigger source
against the slew rate setting read out in the Trigger When menu. To select
whether to trigger on edges with slew rates faster than or slower than that
indicated in readout, do the following step:
Press TRIGGER MENU ➞ Type (main) ➞ Pulse (pop-up) ➞ Class (main) ➞
Slew Rate (pop-up) ➞ Trigger When (main) ➞ Trigger if Faster Than or
Trigger if Slower Than (side). (See Figure 3–46.)