Fail Action - HP 54710A User's Reference Manual

Limit Test Menu

Fail Action

Fail Action
The Fail action softkey brings up a second level softkey menu on the display.
The Fail action menu allows you to specify what the oscilloscope does with
the test data after each test fails, or after the limit test is complete.
Store summary
The summary is a log of the limit test data from failed test results. There are
two parts to the summary. The first part is a header that is a running total of
the number of tests that have failed. For example, if you have selected 10
failures, after five failures the summary might have two rise time
measurements failed high, one rise time measurement failed low, and two
+ width measurements failed high. After each additional failure, the header
information is updated to include the most recent number of failures.
The second part is the log of the test results. After each failure, all of the
measurement parameters at the time of the failure are logged to the
summary. After the limit test is complete, the summary contains a log of all
the measurement results at each failure. When a failure does not occur
during a set of measurements, the header information is updated to show
that the measurements passed, but measurement results are not logged to
the summary file unless a failure occurred. When the screen or a waveform is
logged to a disk, a line is added to the summary file that indicates the
filename.
The format softkey allows you to determine if the summary file is either brief
or if it contains statistics. Brief is a one line log of the failure. Statistics
includes the measurement statistics plus the one line log. Either format also
documents files saved as a result of the failure.
When the destination is the printer, both the header portion and the log
portion of the summary are printed after each failure and at the end of the
test.
There is usually one summary file for the limit test.
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