Display area
In addition to displaying waveforms, the display provides details about the
waveform and the oscilloscope control settings.
NOTE. For details on displaying the FFT function, Displaying the FFT spectrum
on page 55
The items shown below may appear in the display. Not all of these items are
visible at any given time. Some readouts move outside the graticule area when
menus are turned off.
1. The acquisition readout shows when an acquisition is running or stopped.
Icons are:
Run: Acquisition enabled
Stop: Acquisitions not enabled.
2. The trigger position icon shows the trigger position in the acquisition. Turn
the Horizontal Position knob to adjust the position of the marker.
3. The trigger status readout shows:
Armed: The oscilloscope is acquiring pretrigger data. All triggers are ignored
in this state.
Ready: All pretrigger data has been acquired and the oscilloscope is ready to
accept a trigger.
Trig’d: The oscilloscope has seen a trigger and is acquiring the posttrigger
data.
Stop: The oscilloscope has stopped acquiring waveform data.
Operating basics
10 TBS1000B and TBS1000B-EDU Series Oscilloscopes User Manual