Lecroy WAVEACE 1012 2-channel oscilloscope, Digital Storage oscilloscope, WaveAce 1012 Information Guide
Product codes
WaveAce 1012
LeCroy Corporation
WaveAce Integration with Wavestation
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WaveAce Integration with WaveStation
APPLICATION BRIEF
August 3, 2012
Summary
Debugging sometimes
requires transfer of signals
from oscilloscope to waveform
generator. This document
describes how to transfer
signals from the WaveAce
oscilloscope to the
WaveStation waveform
generator and vice versa.
Introduction
All circuit designers hope for first-pass prototyping success, a scenario in
which the circuit or subsystem under test performs exactly as intended and
exhibits predictable, desired behavior. Unfortunately, this is rarely the
case. Rather, the “real world” intervenes, in which the circuit’s behavior is
not up to the design specification and requires debugging. Enter the
waveform generator and associated software for PCs, with which
engineers can create ideal waveforms, edit them, and transfer them to the
generator for use in debugging. Conversely, those less-than-ideal
waveforms found in the real world can be captured, analyzed, and stored
with an oscilloscope. Subsequently, they too can be transferred to the
waveform generator for use in further debug as a reference.
About the WaveStation
LeCroy’s WaveStation family of function/arbitrary waveform generators,
shown in Figure 1, serves as a vehicle for waveform creation. With 14-bit
resolution and a sample rate of 125 Msamples/sec., WaveStation creates
signals with great accuracy. That accuracy is enhanced by WaveStation’s
low jitter, low harmonic distortion, and low inter-channel skew. It also is
unusual amongst instruments in its class in that it comes standard with two
output channels, enabling it to drive differential signals.
Figure 1: Shown is LeCroy’s WaveStation 2052 function/arbitrary waveform
generator, which sports a bandwidth of 50 MHz, a 125-Msample/sec sampling
rate, 14-bit resolution, and 16 kpoints of memory per channel