Waveforms, Components, and Primitives

Waveforms are made up of one or more components.

Components are made up of one or more primitives.

Primitives are the lowest level of the waveform. A primitive can be anything from sine waves and triangle waves to pulses and noise. Primitives of the component are added, subtracted, multiplied, or divided into each other.

Waveform Example 1

The following waveform has one component with a sine wave primitive. The sine wave has the following properties:

• Samples: 1,000
• Amplitude: 2 V pk-pk
• Frequency: 100,000 Hz
• Phase: 0°

Waveform Example 2

The following waveform has two components:

• Component 1 has a sine wave primitive with the following properties:
  • Samples: 1,000
  • Amplitude: 2 V pk-pk
  • Frequency: 100,000 Hz
  • Phase: 0°
• Component 2 has a square wave primitive with the following properties:
  • Samples: 1,000
  • Amplitude: 2 V pk-pk
  • Frequency: 100,000 Hz
  • Phase: 0°
  • Duty Cycle: 50%

Waveform Example 3

The following waveform has one component with two primitives:

• The first primitive is a sine wave with the following properties:
  • Samples: 1,000
  • Amplitude: 2 V pk-pk
  • Frequency: 100,000 Hz
  • Phase: 0°
• The second primitive is a sine wave with an associated operation of multiplication. This primitive has the following properties:
  • Samples: 1,000
  • Amplitude: 2 V pk-pk
  • Frequency: 2,000,000 Hz
  • Phase: 0°

Tip  For the installation location of this example waveform (AmplitudeModulation.hws), refer to the Analog Waveform Editor Readme.

Waveform Example 4

The following waveform has one component with three primitives:

• The first primitive is Gaussian white noise with the following properties:
  • Samples: 1,000
  • Standard Deviation: .1 V RMS
  • Seed: Random
• The second primitive is a lowpass Butterworth filter. It has the following properties:
  • Samples: 1,000
  • Cutoff: 10,000,000 Hz
  • Order: 3
• The third primitive is a sine wave with an associated property of addition. This primitive has the following properties:
  • Samples: 1,000
  • Amplitude: 2 V pk-pk
  • Frequency: 100,000 Hz
  • Phase: 0°

Tip  For the installation location of this example waveform (SineWithBandLimitedNoise.hws), refer to the Analog Waveform Editor Readme.