Customize the Analyzer Screen

How to display labels

Using Hardkey/SoftTab/Softkey

Using a mouse

1. Press Display > Display Setup > Customize Display....

2. Select Labels tab.

OR

1. Press Marker > Marker Setup > Marker Display....

2. Select Labels tab.

1. Right click on any window area.

2. Click Customize Display....

3. Select Labels tab.

Labels tab Dialog Box Help

Show Labels

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

  • MTrn.m (Ex. MTr1.1) indicates the data trace for memory. See Data -> New Trace.

• Measurement parameter. This can be replaced with a custom Trace Title.

• Format

• Scaling factor

• Reference level

How to show/hide Trace Status.

Y-axis Labels

"Y-axis Labels" - allows user to show or hide the y-axis labels. 

How to show/hide Y-axis Labels.

X-axis Labels

How to show/hide X-axis Labels.

X-axis Annotation for All Traces

 Show the X-axis annotation for all traces. (Left: Checked, Right: Unchecked)

Trace Annotation for All Traces

Select to display trace annotation for all traces. (Left: Checked, Right: Unchecked)

How to set VNA Grid and display tables.

Each window can display only one table at a time.

Using Hardkey/SoftTab/Softkey

Using a mouse

1. Press Display > Display Setup > Customize Display...

2. Select Grid tab.

OR

1. Press Marker > Marker Setup > Marker Display....

2. Select Grid tab.

1. Right click on any window area.

2. Click Customize Display....

3. Select Grid tab.

Grid & Table Dialog Box Help

Grid Lines: 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 VNA is Preset.

Set the color of the grid using Display Colors.

How to display grid settings

Y-axis Divisions - Set the desired rows of Y-axis, it can shows 2 to 30.

Show Table

None - Turn OFF the 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.

Ripple Table

You can display, set up, and modify a table of maximum ripple limit over frequency range settings. These include:

• Type (ON or OFF)

• Beginning stimulus value

• Ending stimulus value

• Maximum ripple

Learn more about Ripple limits.

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.

Distortion Table

You can display,set up, and modify a table of modulation distortion measurement parameters. Each row represents a measurement band. Each column represents a measurement parameter.

Learn more about the Distortion Table.

Spurious, Integrated Noise, Spot Noise Tables

You can display,set up, and modify a tables of phase noise measurement parameters.

Learn more about the Phase Noise.

How to display Toolbars

Using Hardkey/SoftTab/Softkey

Using a mouse

1. Press Display > Display Setup > Customize Display...

2. Select Toolbars tab.

OR

1. Press Marker > Marker Setup > Marker Display....

2. Select Toolbars tab.

1. Right click on any window area.

2. Click Customize Display....

3. Select Toolbars tab.

Toolbars Dialog Box Help

Show Toolbar

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

Softkey

Softkey is a combination of softkeys and SoftTabs. 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.

Hardkey

These keys also known as Front Keys, perform interface operations that are equivalent to those of keys in the INSTRUMENT keys, RESPONSE keys, STIMULUS keys and UTILITY keys on the front panel of VNA. Learn more.

Port Extensions Toolbar

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

Transform (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.

• ? - Display the help file.

• X - Closes the toolbar.

Markers Toolbar

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

• Marker number

• Stimulation value

• Marker functions:

• • Delta

  • Max/Min

  • Start/Stop

  • Center/Span

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

Learn more about Markers

Cal Set Viewer Toolbar

Learn more about Cal Set Viewer.

All Off (NOT on softkeys)

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

Other Bars

Main Title

The Main Title shows the title of VNA window and Minimize / Maximize icons.

• Checked - Title bars for all VNA window are shown.

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

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.

Status Bar

2 Bars

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

Tip: Right-click on many of these items in the status bar for quick access to settings.

• Active trace

• Active channel

• Trigger source

• Channel Trigger State (Hold, Single, Continuous)

• IF Bandwidth

• Error correction for the active trace to the Basic cal, Smart cal and Calibrate All Channels.

• • F: Full Port Calibration, R: Response Calibration, -: Nothing

• Reference (Internal/ External/PXIRef[PXIe VNA], External [USB VNA])

• Source Power Calibration

• Service (shows when the measurement result is not guaranteed such as hardware failure. The advance mode in TDR also indicates the Service.)

• RF power

• Display Update

• Error messages

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

• System Date and Time - Can be set ON or OFF. How to show/hide the VNA clock.

• Status Area

  • Trace Deviation

  • DRA

  • TDR

  • Conversion

  • Time Domain

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 VNA is Preset.

Clock (System Date and Time)

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

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

To hide the clock, right click the mouse on the clock and then click Hide Clock.

Learn how to set the VNA time settings.

Active Port

Check to enable the active port feature. All VNA port numbers will be displayed in a status bar whether they are active or not. The currently active port will be highlighted in blue.

If the ports change state more quickly than 4 Hz in standard channel, all active ports will be highlighted with a constant blue color.

The location of the active port indicators depend on the state of the "2 Bars" selection, the number of VNA ports and the width of the display.

Selecting Measurement Class other than Standard will disable the Active Port Pane. If both Application and Standard measurement channels are selected, the indications for Standard channel will only be shown on the pane. 

Use-Case example:

1. "2 Bars" is OFF. The active port indicators on 2nd bar.

2.  "2 Bars" is ON. The active port indicators on 1st bar.

3. "2 Bars" is ON. The active port indicators on 3rd bar. (when number of port indicators > (Wapp-1000)/20, where Wapp is application width in pixels.)

Display Sheet Tabs

Top - Display sheet tabs above display.

Bottom - Display sheet tabs below display.

How to set Tools settings

Using Hardkey/SoftTab/Softkey

Using a mouse

1. Press Display > Display Setup > Customize Display...

2. Select Tools tab.

OR

1. Press Marker > Marker Setup > Marker Display....

2. Select Tools tab.

1. Right click on any window area.

2. Click Customize Display....

3. Select Tools tab.

Tools Dialog Box Help

Tools function to create a shortcut icon to display on Active Entry or Softkey Toolbar. The maximum icons can display on Active Entry is 9, while Softkey Toolbar is 12.

New Window - Create a new window.

New Channel - Create a new channel on active window.

New Channel + Window - Create a new trace and channel to a new window.

New Trace - Create a new trace on active window.

New Trace + Window - Create a new trace to a new window, but the channel is remain.

New Sheet - Create a new sheet.

New Trace + Sheet - Create a new trace to a new sheet, but the channel is remain.

New Channel + Sheet - Create a new trace and channel to a new sheet.

Home - Display VNA Home softkeys.

Favorite - Set favorite application. To Add a Favorite, press and hold any softkey for three seconds and select the desired Favorite number (Favorite 1 to 3).

Help - Shows Help file.

Show Task Bar - Shows Window bar.

Preference - Display preference dialog box.

Tile Windows

Manages Files - Use to manage the saved files in the "D:\" drive folder. Learn more.

Minimize Application - Restore VNA screen. Learn more.

About Network Analyzer - Display About Network Analyzer dialog box.

Undo - Recover to previous version. Learn more.

Redo - Set to latest version. Learn more.

Screenshot - Save screen figure to "D:\" drive (D:\).

Delete - Delete the active window.

How to set colors

Using Hardkey/SoftTab/Softkey

Using a mouse

1. Press Display > Display Setup > Customize Display...

2. Select Colors tab.

1. Right click on any window area.

2. Click Customize Display....

3. Select Colors tab.

Colors Dialog Box Help

Menu Color Theme - Select color theme

Display Colors... - See Display Colors

Print Colors... - See Print Preview

How to enter a Window Title

Using Hardkey/SoftTab/Softkey

Using a mouse

1. Press Display > Window Setup > Window Title....

1. Move a cursor in the grid and then right click.

2. Select Title....

Window Title Dialog Box Help

1. Click Enable, then type the window title. Click Keyboard to type with a mouse.

2. To remove the window title, clear the Enable checkbox or delete the text from the dialog entry.

How to enter a Trace Title

Using Hardkey/SoftTab/Softkey

Using a mouse

1. Press Trace > Trace Setup > Trace Title....

1. Move a cursor in the grid and then right click.

2. Select Trace Title....

Trace Title Dialog Box Help

1. Click Enable, then type the window title. Click Keyboard to type with a mouse.

2. To remove the window title, clear the Enable checkbox or delete the text from the dialog entry.