Customize the Analyzer Screen

You can customize your analyzer screen by showing or hiding the following display elements. All of these selections are made from the Response > Display menu.

• Layout (Separate topic)

• Windows (Separate topic)

• Measurement Setups (Separate topic)

• Display Labels

• Marker Display (Separate topic)

• Tables

• Toolbars

• Status and Title Bars

• Display Colors (Separate topic)

• Grid: SOLID | Dotted

• System Date and Time

• Minimize Application

See Also

Expanded display capabilities of the PNA-X

Traces, Channels, and Windows

See other 'Setup Measurements' topics

Status Toolbar

When enabled, the status bar is displayed along the bottom of the screen. The primary status bar shows the following:

TIP: Click on many of these items in the status bar for quick access to settings.

• Channel Trigger State (Cont, Groups, Single, Hold)

• Active channel

• Measurement parameter for the active trace

• Trace Math

• Error correction for the active trace

• Averaging Factor for the active channel

• Smoothing Percentage

• Transform (On)

• Gating (On)

• IF Gating Enabled for Pulsed App: (G)

• Manual IF Filtering for Pulsed App: (F)

• Delay if invoked using Phase Offset, Electrical Delay, or Port Extensions.

• Loss if invoked using Magnitude Offset or Port Extensions.

• GPIB status: Local (LCL), Remote Talker Listener (RMT), or System Controller (CTL).

• Error Status: (LVL, LCK, etc)

• System Date and Time - Can be set ON or OFF.

Note: A second level status bar appears when using External Test Set Control or Interface control.

The status bar state (ON or OFF) will not change when the analyzer is Preset.

Title Bars

The Title bar shows the window number and Minimize / Maximize icons.

• Checked - Title bars for all windows are shown.

• Cleared - Title bars for all windows are hidden. This allows more room to display measurement results.

Toolbars

You can display different toolbars to allow you to easily set up and modify measurements.

Your toolbar choices are reset to default settings only on analyzer startup (NOT on Preset).

List of toolbars

• Active Entry

• Softkeys

• Markers

• Time Domain

• Port Extension

• All Off (does NOT appear on softkeys)

Note: There is also a Cal Set toolbar available for Monitoring Error Terms

Beginning with PNA Rev. A.10.0, the Measurement, Sweep Control, and Stimulus toolbars were eliminated.

Active Entry Toolbar

When used with softkeys, this area allows numeric values to be entered for settings. From the keyboard, enter G for Giga, M for Mega or milli, K for kilo, and so forth.

Softkeys

Softkeys are automatically turned ON when one of the 'function' hardkeys is pressed. This setting allows you to turn the softkeys OFF to show more measurement space on the screen. The softkeys will reappear when another function hardkey is pressed.

Markers Toolbar

The markers toolbar allows you to set up and modify markers. It shows:

• Marker number

• Stimulation value

• Marker functions:

• • Delta

  • Start/Stop

  • Center/Span

Tip: To use the Front Panel Knob to change marker position, first click the Stimulus field of the marker toolbar. Then turn the knob.

Learn more about Markers

Time Domain toolbar

The Time Domain toolbar allows you to do the following:

• Turn Transform and Gating ON / OFF

• Change the Start / Stop times for both Transform and Gating

• More...launches the Time Domain Transform dialog box

• X  Closes the toolbar

The front panel Tab key steps through all of the settings on all of the toolbars on the display. If Tab does not work, press one of the Active Toolbar (color) keys.

Port Extension toolbar

The Port Extension toolbar allows you to set Port Extensions while viewing the measurement trace. Learn more about Port Extensions.

All Off

This allows you to hide all toolbars with a single selection. NOT available on sofkeys.

Tables

Tables are displayed at the bottom of the selected window.

List of tables

• Marker Table

• Limit Line Table

• Segment Table

Marker Table

You can display a table of marker settings. These settings include the:

• Marker number

• Marker reference (for delta measurements)

• Frequency

• Time and Distance (for Time Domain measurements)

• Response

Learn more about Markers

Limit Line Table

You can display, set up, and modify a table of limit test settings. These include:

• Type (MIN, MAX, or OFF)

• Beginning and ending stimulus values

• Beginning and ending response values

Learn more about Limit Lines.

Segment Sweep Table

You can display, set up, and modify a table of segment sweep settings. These include:

• State (On/Off)

• Start and Stop frequencies

• Number of Points

• IF Bandwidth (if independent levels)

• Power Level (if independent levels)

• Sweep Time (if independent levels)

Learn more about Segment sweep

Display Labels

List of Display Labels

• Window Title

• Trace Title

• Trace Status

• Frequency, Stimulus

Window Title

You can create and display a title for each window.

• The limit is set by the number of windows that are displayed.

• The title (My Window) is annotated in the upper-left of the window as follows:

How to enter a Window Title

1. Click in the window to make the window active.

2. Click Response, then Display, then Labels, then Window Title.

3. Click Enable, then type the trace title. Click Keyboard to type with a mouse.

4. To remove the trace title, clear the Enable checkbox, or delete the text from the dialog entry.

Trace Title

A Trace Title overwrites the Measurement Parameter in the Trace Status area, the Status Bar, and hardcopy prints.

• This title has priority over Equation Editor titles.

• The practical limit is about 70 characters if there is only one trace.

• Spaces are accepted but not displayed; use underscores.

• The title is annotated as follows:

How to enter a Trace Title

1. Click the Trace Status label to select a trace.

2. Click Response, then Display, then Labels, then Trace Title.

3. Click Enable, then type the trace title. Click Keyboard to type with a mouse.

4. To remove the trace title, clear the Enable checkbox, or delete the text from the dialog entry.

Trace Status

Trace Status shows the following:

• Trace number (Tr x). This is the trace number of the channel; NOT the window trace number which is used in many programming commands.

• Measurement parameter. This can be replaced with a custom Trace Title (see below).

• Format

• Scaling factor

• Reference level

How to show/hide Trace Status

Frequency/Stimulus

Frequency/stimulus information is displayed at the bottom of each window on the screen. It shows:

• Channel number

• Start value

• Stop value

How to show/hide Frequency/Stimulus information

Grid: SOLID | Dotted

Set whether to display ALL open window grid lines in solid or dotted lines. The selected setting is shown in CAPS. Once set, new windows are created using this setting. Grid lines return to SOLID when the analyzer is Preset.

Set the color of the grid using Display Colors.

How to display grid settings

System Date and Time (also known as Clock)

The system date and time can be shown in the far right corner of the status bar.

The format is: year-mo-day  hr:min and can NOT be changed.

Learn how to set the time

How to show/hide the clock

Minimize Application

The Network Analyzer application can be minimized to show the desktop and Windows taskbar.

1. Click File

2. then Minimize Application

To restore the analyzer application, click the analyzer application on the Windows taskbar.

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