33500 Series Waveform Generator Generating Waveforms from Excel

Hello. My name is Jim Walters. I'm a Senior Test Engineer with Agilent Technologies and today I'm going to give you a demo on how to create a waveform in Excel and then move that waveform to our new 33500 Series function generators. On the display here, this is a trapezoidal waveform with two dropouts. This waveform represents movement on a head drive for a hard drive and I will show you how to move that data to the function generator now. First I'm just saving the file, and you need to save the file in a format that the function generator understands. In this case, it's going to be a comma-separated file -- CSV -- and I'm saving it to the USB drive. Okay. The waveform is now saved on the USB drive. I'll insert it into the function generator. To load it, you select, "Waveform," "Arb," "Arbs," and, "Import data." It asks me if I want to import data. I select the waveform, "Trapezoid", and now it asks me if I want to have a binary or an ASCII waveform. I'll take the ASCII and select the arb. Okay. Now we have the waveform in what we call our thumbnail on the function generator and I'm going to turn on the output, and we have the waveform now on our function generator. You can see we have the trapezoid with the two dropouts. Thank you for watching. You've now seen how you can create a waveform in Excel, move it to our function generator and see the output on our display.