Specifications
TDS Family Performance Verification and Specifications
2–7
measurements in a production or research and development environment that
calls for repetitive data taking. Self-compensation and self-diagnostic features
built into the Digitizing Oscilloscope to aid in fault detection and servicing are
also accessible using commands sent from a GPIB controller.
The oscilloscope can also output copies of its display using the hardcopy feature.
This feature allows you to output waveforms and other on-screen information to
a variety of graphic printers and plotters from the TDS front panel, providing
hard copies without requiring you to put the TDS into a system-controller
environment. You can make hardcopies in a variety of popular output formats,
such as PCX, TIFF, BMP, RLE, EPS, Interleaf, and EPS mono or color. You can
also save hardcopies in a disk file in any of the formats above. The hardcopies
obtained are based on what is displayed on-screen at the time hardcopy is
invoked. The hardcopies can be stamped with date and time and spooled to a
queue for printing at a later time. You can output screen information via GPIB,
RS-232C, or Centronics interfaces.
Display
The TDS 500B, 600B and 700A Digitizing Oscilloscopes offer flexible display
options. You can customize the following attributes of your display:
H Color (TDS 644B, TDS 684B, and TDS 700A): Waveforms, readouts,
graticule, and variable persistence with color coding
H Intensity: waveforms, readouts, and graticule
H Style of waveform display(s): vectors or dots, intensified or nonintensified
samples, infinite persistence, and variable persistence
H Interpolation method: Sin(x)/x or Linear
H Display format: xy or yt with various graticule selections including NTSC
and PAL to be used with video trigger (option 05)
This oscilloscope also provides an easy way to focus in on those waveform
features you want to examine up close. By invoking zoom, you can magnify the
waveform using the vertical and horizontal controls to expand (or contract) and
position it for viewing.
Zoom