Tabor’s ArbConnection software allows you to control all of Tabor’s AWGs via a remote PC. It is a powerful, Windows-based waveform generation software that not only allows on-screen creation and editing of waveforms, but also provides the means to access all instrument functions and features, and exploit the product’s full potential.
Some of Tabor’s AWGs offer a special Digital option, which enables generating digital patterns from the rear panel of the instrument, while generating analog waveforms from the analog channels. ArbConnection offers a special Digital Pattern Composer for programming these digital bits. In this tutorial you will learn about the Digital Pattern Composer and its capabilities.
To create complex pulses and pulse trains, ArbConnection offers the dedicated Pulse Composer. In this three part series of tutorials, Creating Complex Pulses and Pulse Trains, you will learn all about easily creating even the most complex pulse trains, using the dedicated Pulse Composer.
In this second tutorial of the series: Creating Complex Pulses and Pulse Trains, you will learn how to use the Pulse Editor and its many options. Creating pulses with the Pulse Editor is simple and intuitive, and once you draw your Pulse train, the Pulse Editor then processes the information, determines the appropriate function mode of the unit (Arbitrary or Sequence) and downloads the waveform to the instrument for generation.
Following the first 2 parts of the tutorial series: Creating Complex Pulses and Pulse Trains, you should now be familiar with the terms used for the pulse design, and with the Pulse Editor and its options. In this last tutorial of the series we will demonstrate, step by step, how to create a four sections pulse train.
The Tabor WaveXciter series of high speed AWGs offers two programmable differential markers per channel (or channel pair in the four channel units). Programming the markers is possible only through remote PC control. The ArbConnection software offers a dedicated Marker Composer for easily programming the Markers. In this tutorial you will learn about the Marker Composer and its capabilities.
In order to truly tap into the full power of your Tabor waveform generator, you need to be able to easily design, create and load waveform and sequence data. This three part series of tutorials, Creating Waveforms and Sequences, is intended to help you learn how to use ArbConnection and the Wave Composer to get the most out of your Tabor AWG.
One of the most powerful features of the ArbConnection software, and probably the feature that will be used the most, is the Equation Editor. The Equation Editor lets you write equations the same way you would do on a blank piece of paper. The equations are then translated to sequential points that form waveforms and are displayed on the waveform screen. In this tutorial, you will see the capabilities of the Equation Editor and learn how to use it.
In the first two parts of this tutorial series you learned how to create arbitrary waveforms using the Wave Composer. Now that you have created your waveforms, this tutorial will explain how to create and generate sequences and advance sequences.