Firmware Updates - Agilent Technologies 1100 Series Reference Manual

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Introduction to the Variable Wavelength Dector
• an instrument specific section, called main system.
Resident System
This resident section of the firmware is identical in all Agilent 1100 series modules. Its
properties are:
• the complete communication capabilities (GPIB, CAN, LAN and RS-232C),
• memory management, and
• ability to update the firmware of the main system.
Main System
Its properties are:
• the complete communication capabilities (GPIB, CAN, LAN and RS-232C),
• memory management, and
• ability to update the firmware of the resident system.
In addition the main system comprises the instrument functions that are divided into
common functions like
• run synchronisation through APG remote
• error handling,
• diagnostic functions and so on, or module specific functions like
• internal events such as lamp control, grating and filter movements,
• raw data collection and conversion to absorbance (see

Firmware Updates

Firmware updates can be done using your user interface:
• handheld control module with files from a PC-card, or
• Agilent ChemStation with files from floppy disk.
The file naming conventions are:
xxxx-vvv.DLB, where
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Absorbance" on page 199 , and so on.
"Raw Data Conversion to