Tektronix TDS 500C User Manual

Saving Waveforms and Setups

TDS 500C, TDS 600B, & TDS 700C User Manual

TDS 500C or TDS 700C: Press SAVE/RECALL WAVEFORM ➞ Normal
(pop-up) ➞ Recall Wfm To Ref (main) ➞ Recall From File (side).

Then use the general purpose knob to select the exact file from the resulting
scrollbar list. Only files with 

.WFM

 extensions are displayed. Finally, press To

Ref1, To Ref2, To Ref3, or To Ref4 (side) to complete the operation.

To recall an acquisition from disk to an acquisition channel, press SAVE/RE-
CALL WAVEFORM ➞ Extended (pop-up) ➞ Recall Acq To Chan-
nel (main) ➞ Recall From File (side) Then use the general purpose knob to
select the exact file from the resulting scrollbar list. Only files with 

.WF

1

extensions are displayed. Finally, press To Ch1, To Ch2, To Ch3, or To Ch4
(side) to complete the operation. You can only select channels in use. Saving or
recalling an acquisition stops acquisitions in process.

To use autosave:

TDS 600B: Press SAVE/RECALL WAVEFORM ➞ Autosave (main)  ➞
Autosave Single Seq ON (side).

TDS 500C and TDS 700C: Press SAVE/RECALL WAVEFORM ➞ Normal
(pop-up) ➞ Autosave (main)  ➞ Autosave Single Seq ON (side).

Also turn on Single Acquisition Sequence in the Acquire menu. (See Stop After
on page 3–35.)

To disable this feature, simply press Autosave (main)  ➞ Autosave Single Seq
OFF (side).

If you enable both autosave and single sequence, the oscilloscope will save all
live channels to reference waveforms at the completion of each single sequence
event. All previous reference waveform data will be erased.

To rearm the oscilloscope for taking a new autosave single acquisition sequence,
press RUN/STOP.

To avoid loss of reference waveforms, you can save them to disk (use the
SAVE/RECALL WAVEFORM menu), before rearming the oscilloscope.