Status Bar

The status bar displays information related to your software status, connection status, carrier and channel parameters, waveform generation and downloading progress.

Run Status

This area shows the status of the software's setup.

The following are some of the possible run status messages:

Initializing...

The software is setting up system parameters when the program starts.

Ready

The program successfully initialized.

Generating....

The program is generating the waveform

Generation Succeeded

The program successfully generate the waveform

Downloading.....

The program is downloading the waveform to the signal generator

Download Succeeded

The program successfully download the waveform to the signal generator

Opening the settings file...

The program is reading the parameters from the settings file.

Saving the settings file...

The program is saving the parameters to a settings file.

 

Connection Status

This area shows the connection status of the software to the signal generator.

The following are some of the possible connection status messages:

Blank (no text)

Simulated hardware mode.

Connected

The instrument connection is checked and verified.

Not Connected

The software cannot connect to the signal generator.

Error Message Area

This area shows the information relating to the latest error for your setup for 5 seconds.

Progress Bar

This area shows the waveform generation and downloading progress.