The Agilent 83480A, Agilent 54750A-At A Glance - Agilent Technologies 83480A Quick Start Manual

Introducing the Instrument
The Agilent 83480A, Agilent 54750A—At a Glance
The Agilent 83480A, Agilent 54750A—At a
Glance
The Agilent 83480A-series digital communications analyzer or
Agilent 54750A-series digitizing oscilloscope are modular, high-performance
mainframes that contain digitizers, timebases, and display circuitry behind
vertical channel plug-in modules containing samplers, IF amplifiers, power
monitoring circuitry and O/E converter (Agilent 83485A).
The Agilent 83480A-series digital communications analyzer include these
unique capabilities:
• A full range of custom and standard telecom and datacom masks and tem-
plates with automated conformance and margin testing.
• Automated extinction-ratio and q-factor measurements.
• The ability to set the timebase display to bit period, select the appropriate
telecom bit rate, and enter the number of bits to be displayed.
If you wish to add these capabilities to an Agilent 54750A-series digitizing
oscilloscope, or use the Agilent 83485A optical plug-in module, a firmware
upgrade must first be installed. Order the Agilent 83480K communications
firmware kit and follow the installation instructions.
NOTE
The Agilent 83480A and Agilent 54750A mainframes do not accept plug-in modules
designed for use with the Agilent 54710A and Agilent 54720A.
The instrument also has software modularity by having a 3-1/2 inch disk drive
and flash ROMs to allow for simple firmware upgrades of the firmware fea-
tures.
The plug-in modules provide optical and electrical signal conditioning for the
A/D converters that are inside the mainframe.
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