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RIGOL Quick Guide DG1000Z Series Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator Mar. 2017 RIGOL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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Notices RIGOL products are covered by P.R.C. and foreign patents, issued and pending. RIGOL reserves the right to modify or change parts of or all the specifications and pricing policies at the company’s sole decision. Information in this publication replaces all previously released materials.
Do Not Operate With Suspected Failures. If you suspect that any damage may occur to the instrument, have it inspected by RIGOL authorized personnel before further operations. Any maintenance, adjustment or replacement especially to circuits or accessories must be performed by RIGOL DG1000Z Quick Guide...
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Do not expose the battery (if available) to high temperature or fire. Keep it out of the reach of children. Improper change of a battery (lithium battery) may cause an explosion. Use the RIGOL specified battery only. Handle with Caution.
RIGOL Safety Notices and Symbols Safety Notices in this Manual: WARNING Indicates a potentially hazardous situation or practice which, if not avoided, will result in serious injury or death. CAUTION Indicates a potentially hazardous situation or practice which, if not avoided, could result in damage to the product or loss of important data.
RIGOL Allgemeine Sicherheits Informationen Ü berprüfen Sie diefolgenden Sicherheitshinweise sorgfältigum PersonenschädenoderSchäden am Gerätundan damit verbundenen weiteren Gerätenzu vermeiden. Zur Vermeidung vonGefahren, nutzen Sie bitte das Gerät nur so, wiein diesem Handbuchangegeben. Um Feuer oder Verletzungen zu vermeiden, verwenden Sie ein ordnungsgemä...
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RIGOL betreiben, dass eine Untersuchung durch RIGOL autorisiertem Personal durchgeführt wird. Jedwede Wartung, Einstellarbeiten oder Austausch von Teilen am Gerät, sowie am Zubehör dürfen nur von RIGOL autorisiertem Personal durchgeführt werden. Belü ftung sicherstellen. Unzureichende Belüftung kann zu Temperaturanstiegen und somit zu thermischen Schäden am Gerät führen.
RIGOL Sicherheits Begriffe und Symbole Begriffe in diesem Guide: WARNING Die Kennzeichnung WARNING beschreibt Gefahrenquellen die leibliche Schäden oder den Tod von Personen zur Folge haben können. CAUTION Die Kennzeichnung Caution (Vorsicht) beschreibt Gefahrenquellen die Schäden am Gerät hervorrufen können.
RIGOL Care and Cleaning Care Do not store or leave the instrument where it may be exposed to direct sunlight for long periods of time. Cleaning Clean the instrument regularly according to its operating conditions. Disconnect the instrument from all power sources.
Freq. Content Conventions in this Manual DG1000Z series function/arbitrary waveform generator includes DG1022Z, DG1032Z and DG1062Z. In this manual, DG1062Z is taken as an example to illustrate the basic operations of the generator. For more details, please refer to DG1000Z Series Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator User’s Guide.
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RIGOL Content Guaranty and Declaration ................I Safety Requirement ..................II General Safety Summary .................. II Safety Notices and Symbols ................IV Allgemeine Sicherheits Informationen ..............V Sicherheits Begriffe und Symbole ..............VII Care and Cleaning ..................VIII Environmental Considerations ................ VIII Document Overview ..................
The consigner or carrier shall be liable for the damage to the instrument resulting from shipment. RIGOL would not be responsible for free maintenance/rework or replacement of the instrument. 2. Inspect the instrument In case of any mechanical damage, missing parts, or failure in passing the electrical and mechanical tests, contact your RIGOL sales representative.
RIGOL To Adjust the Handle To adjust the handle position of the instrument, please grip the handle by sides and pull it outward. Then, rotate the handle to the desired position. The operating method is shown below. Adjusting the handle...
(*.Bmp) into the USB storage device. TMC DS: seamlessly interconnect with the RIGOL DS that meets the TMC standard. Read and store the waveform data collected by the DS and rebuilt waveform lossless.
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RIGOL 4. Return to the Previous Menu Quit the current menu and return to the previous menu. 5. CH1 Output Connector BNC connector. The nominal output impedance is 50Ω. When the Output1 is enabled (the backlight goes on), this connector outputs the waveform based on the current settings of CH1.
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RIGOL Note To avoid damage to the instrument, the input signal voltage cannot exceed ± 7Vac+dc. 9. Counter Used to turn the counter on or off. — Press this key to turn the counter on, the backlight goes on and the indicator at the left of Counter blinks.
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RIGOL Output Square with frequency from 1μHz to 25MHz and variable duty cycle. — The backlight goes on when this function is selected. — You can set the parameters for square waveform including Freq/Period, Ampl/HiLevel, Offset/LoLevel, Duty Cycle and Start Phase.
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RIGOL — The backlight goes on when this function is selected. Output Burst waveform for Sine, Square, Ramp, Pulse and Arb (except DC). — 3 Burst types: NCycle, Infinite and Gated. — Noise can also be used to generate gated burst waveform.
RIGOL Rear Panel Overview Figure 2 Rear Panel 1. [CH1/Sync/Ext Mod/Trig/FSK] It is a BNC (female) connector which nominal impedance is 50Ω. The function of this connector is determined by the work mode of CH1. — Sync: when the output of CH1 is enabled, this connector output the corresponding sync signal.
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RIGOL modulation source is selected, this connector accepts an external modulation signal. — FSK: when ASK, FSK or PSK of CH2 is enabled and external modulation source is selected, this connector accepts an external modulation signal which polarity can be set by users.
RIGOL Power On and Inspection To Connect to Power Please connect the generator to AC power supply using the power cord supplied in the accessories as shown in the figure below. The AC power supply specification of this generator is 100-240V, 45-440Hz. The maximum input power of the instrument cannot exceed 30W.
RIGOL User Interface The user interface of DG1000Z provides three types of display modes: Dual Channels Parameters (default), Dual Channels Graph and Single Channel. This manual mainly introduces the user interface taking the first display mode as an example. Dual Channels Parameters Mode Figure 4 User Interface (Dual Channels Parameters Mode) 1.
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RIGOL 2. Current Function and Page Up/Down Indicator Display the function name selected currently. For example, “Sine” is displayed when the sine is selected and “Edit” is displayed when the arbitrary waveform editing function is selected. Besides, the up and down arrows at the right of the function name are used to indicate whether page up/down is permitted now.
RIGOL Dual Channels Graph Mode Press Utility System Display DispMode to select “Dual Graph”, as shown in the figure below. Figure 5 User Interface (Dual Channels Graph Mode) Single Channel Mode Press Utility System Display DispMode to select “Single View”, as shown in the figure below.
RIGOL To Use the Built-in Help System The built-in help system of DG1000Z provides help information for each key and menu softkey at the front panel. Users can view the help of any key when operating the instrument. 1. Acquire the built-in help Press Help and the backlight goes on.
RIGOL Basic Operations To Output Basic Waveform DG1000Z can output basic waveforms (Sine, Square, Ramp, Pulse and Noise) from one of the channels separately or from the two channels at the same time. This section introduces how to output a sine waveform (Frequency: 20kHz, Amplitude: 2.5Vpp, DC Offset: 500mV...
RIGOL 6. To set the start phase Press Start Phase, and then use the numeric keyboard to input 90. Then, select ° from the pop-up menu. The start phase ranges from 0° to 360°. 7. To enable the output Press Output1 to turn CH1 output on. At this point, the backlight goes on and the [CH1] connector outputs waveform with the specified parameters.
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RIGOL 3. To edit arbitrary waveform Press Arb Edit Wform to open the arbitrary waveform editing menu. Press Mode to select “Sample Rate”. Press HiLevel, use the numeric keyboard to input 4 and select V from the pop-up menu.
RIGOL To Output Harmonics DG1000Z can be used as a harmonic generator to output harmonic with specified order, amplitude and phase. This section introduces how to output the 2 and 4 harmonics from the [CH1] connector (Harmonic Amplitude: 2Vpp and 1Vpp, Phase: 30°...
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RIGOL 6. To set harmonic amplitude Press Harmonic Ampl in the harmonic setting menu to set the amplitude of the and 4 harmonics. 1) Press SN, use the numeric keyboard to input 2 and press Sure. 2) Press Harmonic Ampl, use the numeric keyboard to input 2 and select Vpp from the pop-up menu.
RIGOL To Output AM Modulated Waveform For amplitude modulation (AM), the amplitude of the carrier waveform varies with the instantaneous voltage of the modulating waveform. This section introduces how to output AM modulated waveform from the [CH1] connector (the carrier is sine with 5kHz frequency and 5Vpp amplitude, the modulating waveform is sine with 200Hz frequency and the modulation depth is 80%).
RIGOL Figure 9 AM Modulated Waveform To Output FSK Modulated Waveform For FSK (Frequency Shift Keying) modulation, the generator “shifts” its output frequency between two preset frequencies (carrier frequency and hop frequency). This section introduces how to output FSK modulated waveform from the [CH1] connector (the carrier is sine with 3kHz frequency and 5Vpp amplitude, the hop frequency is 500Hz, the FSK rate is 100Hz and the modulating polarity is Pos).
RIGOL 5. To set FSK rate Press FSK Rate, use the numeric keyboard to input 100 and select Hz from the pop-up menu. 6. To set modulating polarity Press Polarity to select the Pos polarity of the modulating waveform to control the output frequency.
RIGOL 5. To set the start frequency and stop frequency Start Frequency Press Start/Center to highlight “Start”, and then use the numeric keyboard to input “50”. Then, select Hz from the pop-up menu. Stop Frequency Press Stop/Span to highlight “Stop”, and then use the numeric keyboard to input 1.
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RIGOL When Burst is enabled, Mod or Sweep function will be automatically disabled (if currently enabled). Int and Burst will be displayed in the bottom of the screen. 4. To set the burst type and Cycles Press Type to select NCycle. At this point, the Cycles in the screen is highlighted and can be edited.
Programmable Instruments). This section introduces how to control the generator remotely by sending the SCPI commands using Ultra Sigma provided by RIGOL via the USB interface. For detailed information about the commands, please refer to the Programming Guide. When the instrument is working in remote mode, the indicator is displayed in the screen and the keys (except Help ) at the front panel are locked.
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RIGOL Figure 11 To View USB Instrument Resource 5) Communication test Right-click the resource name DG1062Z (USB0::0x1AB1::0x0642::DG1ZA000000000::INSTR) and select SCPI Panel Control to open the remote command control panel through which you can send commands and read data. Figure 12 Send and Read Commands via USB...
The commonly encountered failures and their solutions are listed below. When you encounter those problems, please solve them following the corresponding steps. If the problem remains still, please contact RIGOL and provide your device information (Utility System Info). 1. The screen of the generator is still dark (no display) after pressing the power key: 1) Check whether the power is correctly connected.
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RIGOL If the USB storage device still cannot be used normally, please contact RIGOL. 6. How to set the amplitude of the waveform in dBm? Press CH1|CH2 to select desired channel. Check whether the setting in Utility Channel Set Output Set ...
Utility System Info. For more information about this instrument, refer to the relevant manuals by logging in to the official website of RIGOL (www.rigol.com) to download them. G1000Z User's Guide : introduces the functions of the instrument and the operation methods, remote control methods, possible failures and solutions in using the instrument, the technical specifications, and order information.
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