Acquisition Menu
The menu selects and configures one or more input channels and selects the data source, as described below:
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Select whether the measurement's time data source is Hardware or Recording. |
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Select the input channel configuration. |
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Set the input channel parameters. |
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Configure the external mixer when an External Mixer input channel is selected. |
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The HW-Specific Extensions dialog is used to configure the measurement hardware platform (front-end). This dialog contains parameters specific to the current measurement platform, see About Extensions. |
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Select the type of trigger signal to use for an input channel (non-Power Spectrum measurements only) |
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Set the time-domain parameters for fixed-length and variable-length segmented time-captures. |
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Other Tabs in the Analyzer Dialog |
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Set the digital input properties for a logic analyzer. |
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Set up a gate trigger when making Power Spectrum measurements. |
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Set up a trigger signal for recordings. |
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Configure corrections to compensate for external devices connected to the input of the measurement hardware (Data From Hardware). |
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Configure corrections to apply to a recorded signal during playback (Data From Recording). |
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Compensate the acquired signal such that the measured EVM Error vector magnitude (EVM): A quality metric in digital communication systems. See the EVM metric in the Error Summary Table topic in each demodulator for more information on how EVM is calculated for that modulation format. will not include the contribution from the analysis hardware. |
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Open the Player Window which can be used to control playback of a recorded signal. |
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Open the dialog box to configure recording length, set start and stop times, and view information about the recording. |
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Start, pause, stop, sweep and record measurements. |
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