INFICON MDC-370 Thin Film Deposition Controller - Manual (Page 33)

MDC-370 DEPOSITION CONTROLLER
4. PROGRAMMING AND CONTROLLER SETUP
4.1 GENERAL
4.1.1 NAVIGATING THE MENU STRUCTURE
Before attempting to navigate the menu structure of the MDC-370 controller,
please refer to Section 2 which provides a brief summary of the front-panel
displays and key functions. A graphical menu structure is shown in Figure 16-1.
Note that first key press following power-on will bring up the display function
used when power was switched off, i.e. either a status display screen or a
programming screen.
This may be confusing until the full scope of the controller’s capabilities are
understood. However, as their names suggest, the Status, Graph and Program
keys select the display of status screens, graph screens and programming screens,
respectively. Also note that the last viewed screen for each type is remembered
and will be displayed the next time that display type is selected.
Figure 4-1 The Main Menu
Press the Program key to enter the programming mode. The programming
screens can be visualized as a two-dimensional menu format. The Main Menu is
visualized at the far left, with an increasing level of detail in the menus to the
right. The Left and Right-arrow keys are used to move between menus. The Up
and Down-arrow keys are used to scroll through a list of parameters or options in
each menu. To select a menu option, align the cursors with the option, then press
either the Enter key or the Right-arrow key. This will present the next screen
associated with the selected option. Please note that holding the Left arrow
key will always bring you back to the Main Menu screen no matter where
you are in the menu structure.
Each of the programming screens is described in detail later in this section.
Main Menu
>View/Edit Process <
View/Edit Material
View Results
Edit System Setup
PROGRAMMING AND CONTROLLER SETUP 4-1