Release Notes, April 8, 2009 (Differences From Release A.08.00); Release Notes, June 18, 2008 (Differences From Release A.07.00) - Agilent Technologies 86100A Release Notes

A.08.10 Release Notes, April 8, 2009 (Differences from Release
A.08.00)
New Feature List
• Clock Recovery Up To 14.2 Gb/s: The 86108A Precision Waveform Analyzer and
83496B Clock Recovery modules now run from 50 Mb/s to 14.2 Gb/s, allowing
customers to recover embedded clocks from optical and electrical signals up to
16X Fibre Channel.
• Support for 86105D Optical/Electrical Module: The 86105D is a new module
supporting 8X and 16X Fibre Channel as well as 10 Gb Ethernet and 10 G SONET/
SDH line rates.
• Improved Clock Recovery Support For SATA: The upper limit for the loop
bandwidth (LBW) has been increased to line rate/250, allowing 6 MHz LBW
required for SATA I signals (1.5 Gb/s). The absolute LBW limit remains at 10 MHz.
• J2 and J9 TJ Measurements: J2 and J9 are new Total Jitter (TJ) measurements
from standards requiring stressed eye analysis for optical and electrical receiver
compliance.
• TJ Upper Limit Increased To 10E- 1: The upper limit for the BER used in of Total
Jitter (TJ) measurement BER has been increased from 1E- 3 to 1E- 1.
• I- Q Diagram in Color Grade: The math function ?gVersus?h allows color- graded I-
Q diagrams, a key insight tool to visualize the I/Q signals after demodulation of
a complex optical modulation.
• Remote Skew Control For 86118A- H01: New GP- IB commands now allow remote
skew control for option H01 of the 86118A, a dual remote sampling head with
over 70 GHz electrical bandwidth.
• Additional Trigger Divide Ratio: 1:55 has been added to support more applications
using subrate clocks to trigger the oscilloscope.
• Additional Loop Bandwidth Value: Added 637.5 kHz to "Select from List" for target
loop bandwidth (LBW) of the clock recovery.
• Calibration Timeout Increased to 30 Seconds: During most calibrations the
hardware reacts within a fraction of a second. External programs, such as anti-
virus and anti- spyware software, may keep the CPU busy for seconds. The long
timeout ensures successful calibration in most if not all cases.
General Defects Fixed
• Fixed corner case where too much jitter was reported
• Fixed issue: jitter algorithm related to transition density that resulted in over-
reported DJ/TJ numbers.
• Fixed occasional ghost error message (?gReset PTB?h) when no precision timebase
was installed.
Known Issues
• 86119A (Optical Sampling Oscilloscope) is designed to work on software versions
A.03.06 and A.03.05 only.
A.08.00 Release Notes, June 18, 2008 (Differences from Release
A.07.00)
New Feature List
• Support for the new 86108A Precision Waveform Analyzer module. The 86108A is
a double wide module that features two electrical inputs, clock recovery and a
N1010A FlexDCA and 86100A/B/C/D
Firmware Release Notes
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