Chapter 1 Overview RIGOL
DS6000 Performance Verification Guide
Chapter 1 Overview
Test Preparations
The following preparations should be done before the test.
1. Self-test: perform self-test to make sure that the oscilloscope can work normally;
2. Warm-up: warm the oscilloscope up for at least 30 minutes;
3. Self-calibration: calibrate the oscilloscope.
Self-test
When the oscilloscope is in power-on state, press the power key
at the lower left corner of the
front panel to start the oscilloscope. During the start-up, the instrument performs a series of self-test
items and users can hear the sound of relay switching. The welcome screen is displayed after the
self-test is finished. Users can view the self-test results by pressing UTIL System
SelfTestInfo.
If the self-test fails, make sure that the problems are found and resolved and do not perform
calibration and performance tests until the instrument passes the self-test.
Self-calibration
Make sure that the oscilloscope has been warmed up or running for more than 30 minutes before
performing self-calibration. Then, follow the steps to calibrate the oscilloscope.
1. Connect the [Trig Out/Calibration] connector at the rear panel of the oscilloscope to the four
analog input channels and the external trigger input channel at the front panel respectively using
a one-to-five BNC (M) cable.
2. Press UTIL Self-Cal at the front panel to enter the self-calibration interface.
3. Press Start and the oscilloscope will start to execute the self-calibration.
4. It takes about 20 minutes (15 minutes for dual-channel models) to finish the calibration. Restart
the oscilloscope when “Calibration finished, please restart the oscilloscope!” is displayed.
5. Press ACQ Acquisition to select “Average”; then, press Averages and use to set the
number of averages to 16.
6. Disconnect the input signals of all the channels. Set the vertical scale of each channel to 2 mV/div
and view the offset of the waveform of each channel. If the offset is greater than 1 div, you should
perform self-calibration again.
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