AUDIO PRESICISON Series 2700 Getting Started also for SYS 20226

112 Pages·2006·3.33 MB·English

Getting Started with Your
2700 Series Instrument
(cid:2) (cid:2)
An Introductory Guide to SYS-2722
and (cid:2) SYS-2720 (cid:2) SYS-2712 (cid:2) SYS-2702 (cid:2)
APIB and GPIB Configurations
Copyright(cid:2)2003–2006AudioPrecision,Inc.
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AudioPrecisioninstrumentsequippedwiththeOPT-2711
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Contents
SafetyInformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
SafetySymbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Disclaimer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Chapter 1
GeneralInformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The2700Series:anOverview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2700SeriesCapabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
AboutThisManual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Other2700SeriesDocumentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2700SeriesUser’sManual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
APBasicLanguageManual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
APBasicExtensionsReferenceforthe2700Series . . . . . . . . . . . 4
OnlineHelp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
FilterDesignPackageManual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
OtherPublications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
GPIBDocumentationforthe2700series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2
InstallationandSetup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2700SeriesComponents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
GettingUpandRunning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
InstallingAP2700onaPC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
PCSystemRequirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
InstallingtheSoftware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SettingUptheHardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Connectingyour2700SeriesInstrument
totheElectricalMainsSupply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
CheckingtheMainsSupplyVoltageConfiguration . . . . . . . . . . 10
OpeningthePowerEntryModule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
ChangingtheMainsSupplyVoltageConfiguration . . . . . . . . . . 11
FuseInformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Getting Started with Your 2700 Series Instrument i
Contents
ChangingtheFusingArrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
ConnectingtheInstrumenttoYourPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
InstallingaPCIAPIBCard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
UsingaPCM-WINPCMCIAInterfaceCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 3
HardwareOverview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
TheSYS-2722FrontPanel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
The2700SeriesRearPanel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 4
2700SeriesControlSoftware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
TheUserInterface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
TheWorkspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The2700seriespanels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
PanelSettings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
PanelReadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The2700seriesmenus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
TheFileMenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
TheEditMenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
TheViewMenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
ThePanelsMenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
TheStatusBar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
TheToolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
TheStandardToolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
ThePanelsToolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
TheMacroToolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
TheLearnModeToolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
TheQuickLaunchToolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 5
QuickGuides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
TheAnalogSignalPath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
AnalogInputSelection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
AnalogGeneratorPanel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
UsingtheAnalogAnalyzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
AudibleSignalMonitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
ControllingtheAnalogGenerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Sweeps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SweepFundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SettingsandReadings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SourceRange,Steps,andSpacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Contents
DataDisplayRange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
ExampleSweep:FrequencyResponse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
ExampleSweep:AmplitudeLinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
DSPAnalysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
TheFFTSpectrumAnalyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Real-Timevs.Batch-ModeInstruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
TheFFTConcept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SettingupanFFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
PanelFields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Timevs.Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
QuickSweepSetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Fine-TuningtheDisplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SavingandLoadingTests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
TheNextStep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 6
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
AnalogSignalOutputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
D/AGeneratedAnalogSignals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
AnalogAnalyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
OptionFilters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
OptionS-AES17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
DSPAnalysisofAnalogSignals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
DigitalSignalGenerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
DigitalAnalyzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
DigitalInterfaceAnalyzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
GraphsofTypicalDigitalDomainPerformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
FrontPanelAuxiliarySignals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
RearPanelAuxiliarySignals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
MiscellaneousDigitalI/O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
General/Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Chapter 7
GPIBConfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
APIBorGPIB?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
TheGPIBSoftwareDevelopmentProcess. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
UsingbothGPIBandAPIBforSoftwareDevelopment . . . . . . . . . 94
EstablishingGPIBCommunication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
GPIBConnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
GPIBAddressandControlModeSwitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
GPIBStatusLEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
GPIBProgramMessageTerminators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Getting Started with Your 2700 Series Instrument iii
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iv Getting Started with Your 2700 Series Instrument
Safety Information
DoNOTserviceorrepairthisproductunlessproperlyqualified.Servicing
shouldbeperformedonlybyaqualifiedtechnicianoranauthorizedAudio
Precisiondistributor.
DoNOTdefeatthesafetygroundconnection.Thisproductisdesignedto
operateonlyfroma50/60HzACpowersource(250Vrmsmaximum)with
anapprovedthree-conductorpowercordandsafetygrounding.Lossofthe
protectivegroundingconnectioncanresultinelectricalshockhazardfromthe
accessibleconductivesurfacesofthisproduct.
Forcontinuedfirehazardprotection,fusesshouldbereplacedONLYwith
theexactvalueandtypeindicatedontherearpaneloftheinstrumentanddis-
cussedonpage12ofthismanual.TheACvoltageselectoralsomustbesetto
thesamevoltageasthenominalpowersourcevoltage(100,120,230,or
240Vrms)withtheappropriatefuses.Differentfusesarerequireddepending
onthelinevoltage.
TheInternationalElectrotechnicalCommission(IEC1010-1)requiresthat
measuringcircuitterminalsusedforvoltageorcurrentmeasurementbe
markedtoindicatetheirInstallationCategory.TheInstallationCategoryisde-
finedbyIEC664andisbasedontheamplitudeoftransientorimpulsevoltage
thatcanbeexpectedfromtheACpowerdistributionnetwork.Thisproductis
classifiedasINSTALLATIONCATEGORYII,abbreviated“CATII”onthe
instrumentfrontpanel.
DoNOTsubstitutepartsormakeanymodificationswithoutthewrittenap-
provalofAudioPrecision.Doingsomaycreatesafetyhazards.
Thisproductisforindooruse—pollutiondegree2.
Getting Started with Your 2700 Series Instrument v
Safety Symbols
Thefollowingsymbolsmaybemarkedonthepanelsorcoversofequip-
mentormodules,andareusedinthismanual:
WARNING!—Thissymbolalertsyoutoapotentiallyhazardouscondition,
suchasthepresenceofdangerousvoltagethatcouldposeariskofelectrical
shock.RefertotheaccompanyingWarningLabelorTag,andexerciseextreme
caution.
ATTENTION!—Thissymbolalertsyoutoimportantoperatingconsider-
ationsorapotentialoperatingconditionthatcoulddamageequipment.Ifyou
seethismarkedonequipment,refertotheOperator’sManualorUser’sMan-
ualforprecautionaryinstructions.
FUNCTIONALEARTHTERMINAL—Aterminalmarkedwiththissym-
boliselectricallyconnectedtoareferencepointofameasuringcircuitorout-
putandisintendedtobeearthedforanyfunctionalpurposeotherthansafety.
PROTECTIVEEARTHTERMINAL—Aterminalmarkedwiththissymbol
isbondedtoconductivepartsoftheinstrumentandisintendedtobecon-
nectedtoanexternalprotectiveearthingsystem.
Disclaimer
AudioPrecisioncautionsagainstusingtheirproductsinamannernotspeci-
fiedbythemanufacturer.Todootherwisemayvoidanywarranties,damage
equipment,orposeasafetyrisktopersonnel.
vi Getting Started with Your 2700 Series Instrument