Agilent Technologies N4906B Serial BERT User Manual page 37

User Patterns
Agilent N4906B Serial BERT, User's Guide, October 2005
Editing Patterns
To edit a user pattern:
1 Press the Edit Pattern on File icon in the Pattern menu.
2 If no pattern is loaded in the editor, first open a pattern file as
described in "Opening Existing Patterns" on page 36 or create a
new one as described in "Creating New Patterns" on page 36.
3 To change the pattern length or description or to switch between
standard and alternating patterns, press the Properties button.
The Pattern Properties dialog box appears.
4 Define the pattern length, whether it is alternate or standard, and
give it a description. Click OK when finished.
5 Edit the pattern as required. For the function of the different tool
buttons, see "Edit Pattern Window" on page 40.
Saving Patterns
To save the current user pattern:
♦ In the toolbar, click the Save icon.
If the pattern has already been saved earlier, the saved file is
updated. Otherwise, the Windows standard Save As dialog box
opens, where you can define the file's path and name.
The available file formats to save the file in are:
• Pattern File (*.ptrn) in binary (8 bits/byte), hex (4 bits/byte), or 01
(1 bit/byte) format
• ASCII Pattern Files (*.txt)
See "Pattern File Specifications" on page 25 for descriptions of these
file types.
If you want to save the pattern file in one of the 12 memory slots, use
the file names from UPAT1.ptrn through UPAT12.ptrn respectively.
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