Norsat ATOMControl - Manual (Page 4)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE ........................................................................................................................................ 3
Purpose and Scope of the User Guide ............................................................................... 4
Audience ............................................................................................................................. 4
Revision History .................................................................................................................. 4
1 ATOMCONTROL BASICS ....................................................................................................... 5
Overview ............................................................................................................................. 6
Launching ATOMControl .................................................................................................... 7
ATOMControl User Interface .............................................................................................. 8
Initializing Communication .................................................................................................. 8
Deinitializing Communication ............................................................................................. 9
2 MONITORING DEVICE INFORMATION ................................................................................ 10
Monitoring Device Information .......................................................................................... 11
3 CONTROLLING ATOM DEVICES ......................................................................................... 14
Controlling the Mute State ................................................................................................ 15
Attenuation Control ........................................................................................................... 25
Sending Custom Commands ............................................................................................ 26
TABLE OF FIGURES
Figure 1: ATOMControl Start-Up Screen ........................................................................................ 7
Figure 2: The Device Info Tab ....................................................................................................... 11
Figure 3: Mute Tab Controls .......................................................................................................... 15
Figure 4: Standard Mute State Logic ............................................................................................. 16
Figure 5: Revised Mute State Logic .............................................................................................. 17
Figure 6: Hardware-Based Muting Controls .................................................................................. 19
Figure 7: Fault-Based Muting Controls .......................................................................................... 22
Figure 8: Software-Based Muting Controls ................................................................................... 23
Figure 9: Mute State ...................................................................................................................... 24
Figure 10: Attenuation Tab Controls.............................................................................................. 25
Figure 11: The Custom Commands Tab ....................................................................................... 26
Figure 12: Command and Response Strings Showing and ...................................... 28
Figure 13: Command and Response Strings Without and ........................................ 28
TABLE OF TABLES
Table 1: Product Type Values ....................................................................................................... 12
Table 2: Detectable Faults ............................................................................................................. 12
Table 3: Number of Expected Power Modules for Each ATOM Device Type ............................... 13
Table 4: Hardware-Based Muting .................................................................................................. 18
Table 5: Standard Fault-Based Muting .......................................................................................... 20
Table 6: Individual Fault-Based Muting ......................................................................................... 21