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Contents
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Contents................................................................................................................................................. 2
Legal Disclaimer, Warnings and Restrictions ............................................................................................. 4
Product Description ................................................................................................................................. 5
Installing the Software ............................................................................................................................ 7
Installing the Software from the CD ...................................................................................................... 7
Software and Firmware Web Updates ................................................................................................... 9
Using the CypherGraph Software ........................................................................................................... 12
Menu Bar .......................................................................................................................................... 13
Tool Bars........................................................................................................................................... 28
Status bar ......................................................................................................................................... 30
Viewing a graph................................................................................................................................. 31
Measuring Amplitude Response.............................................................................................................. 39
Obtaining optimum results ................................................................................................................. 43
Measuring Impedance Response ............................................................................................................ 45
System Limitations ................................................................................................................................ 49
Harmonics ......................................................................................................................................... 49
Phase detection ................................................................................................................................. 50
Phase accuracy.................................................................................................................................. 52
Dynamic range .................................................................................................................................. 53
Time smearing................................................................................................................................... 54
Impedance boundaries....................................................................................................................... 55
Impedance accuracy .......................................................................................................................... 57
Applications Notes................................................................................................................................. 58
Filter responses ................................................................................................................................. 58
Ceramic resonators ............................................................................................................................ 60
Ultrasonic transducers........................................................................................................................ 61
Acoustic transducers .......................................................................................................................... 63
Simple reactive components – L C R ................................................................................................... 64
Battery impedance ............................................................................................................................. 68
Characteristic impedance – Cables ...................................................................................................... 69
Measuring delay times – Cables .......................................................................................................... 71
Digital audio devices .......................................................................................................................... 72
Transformer – Transmission ............................................................................................................... 73
Transformer – Reflected Impedance ................................................................................................... 74
Appendix A ........................................................................................................................................... 75
Amplitude responses and phase shifts in simple electrical circuits ......................................................... 75
Appendix B ........................................................................................................................................... 79
Reactance and Impedance in simple electrical circuits .......................................................................... 79
Appendix C ........................................................................................................................................... 81
The scripting language ....................................................................................................................... 81
Script commands ............................................................................................................................... 82
Appendix D........................................................................................................................................... 95
Installing CypherGraph....................................................................................................................... 95
Installation on Windows ’98................................................................................................................ 96
Installation on Windows ME.............................................................................................................. 101
Installation on Windows 2000........................................................................................................... 106
Installation on Windows XP .............................................................................................................. 113
C60 & CypherGraph User Manual
November 2006
Part # MAN-C60-1.2