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During the warranty period, standards of design, manufacture, and intended use of the In the manuals: Agilent Technologies will, at its option, either repair or instrument. Agilent Technologies Inc. assumes no liability replace products that prove to be defective. For warranty...
Generators What You Can Do with the Agilent E8311/12A Basic Features Automated Testing The Front Panels Front Panel Agilent E8311A Front Panel Agilent E8312A Inputs and Outputs LEDs on the Front Panel Installing the Agilent E8311/12A Selecting a Mainframe Slot...
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Contents Agilent E8311/12A 165/330 MHz Pulse and Pattern Generators, April 2000...
Pattern Generators The purpose of this introductory chapter is to give a general overview of the Agilent E8311A and Agilent E8312A VXI instruments. The main features and methods of use are described in “What You Can Do with the Agilent E8311/12A” on page 6.
(for example, TTL, CMOS, ECL, PECL, LVDS, GTL) and other digital designs up to 165 MHz with the Agilent E8311A instrument and up to 330 MHz with the Agilent E8312A instrument.
This section shows the front panels of both Agilent E8311A and E8312A instruments and describes their input and output connectors. Front Panel Agilent E8311A The following figure shows the front panel of the Agilent E8311A with its input and output connectors. Agilent E8311/12A 165/330 MHz Pulse and Pattern Generators, April 2000...
Introducing the Agilent E8311/12A Pulse and Pattern Generators The Front Panels Front Panel Agilent E8312A The following figure shows the front panel of the Agilent E8312A with its input and output connectors. Agilent E8311/12A 165/330 MHz Pulse and Pattern Generators, April 2000...
The Front Panels Introducing the Agilent E8311/12A Pulse and Pattern Generators Inputs and Outputs The major inputs and outputs of the instruments Agilent E8311A and Agilent E8312A are: (For more details, please refer to “Using the Agilent E8311/12A” in the Quick Start Guide.)
Introducing the Agilent E8311/12A Pulse and Pattern Generators The Front Panels LEDs on the Front Panel The LEDs on the front panel are: • “Failed” LED This red LED is lit during module initialization. If it does not turn off after initialization, please contact your local Agilent support center.
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Installing the Agilent E8311/12A The Agiilent E8311/12A are VXI instruments that plug into a VXI mainframe. Installing the instruments requires the following steps: 1 “Selecting a Mainframe Slot” on page 12 2 “Setting Logical Addresses of the VXI Instruments” on page 13 3 “Installing the Instrument in the Mainframe”...
Installing the Agilent E8311/12A Selecting a Mainframe Slot Selecting a Mainframe Slot The first step to install a VXI instrument is to select a free slot in the VXI mainframe. When you have selected a slot, enter the instrument model number, name, and serial number for the instrument in the VXI Mainframe Overview table.
(LADDR) switch on the instrument. The logical address value is the sum of the values of the logical address switches set to the closed position. The following figure shows the defaults for the Agilent E8311A (LADDR 111) and the Agilent E8312A (LADDR 112):...
Installing the Agilent E8311/12A Installing the Instrument in the Mainframe Installing the Instrument in the Mainframe After setting the logical address as required, you can then install the instrument in the mainframe. 1 Turn mainframe power off. 2 Install the instrument in the slot you previously identified. 3 Turn mainframe power on.
Installing the Software Installing the Agilent E8311/12A Installing the Software The Agilent 81100 Graphical User Interface and the VXIplug&play drivers must be installed on the control PC. Depending on the system configuration, this may either be an external PC or a PC embedded in the VXI mainframe.
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Installing the Agilent E8311/12A Installing the Software Agilent E8311/12A 165/330 MHz Pulse and Pattern Generators, April 2000...
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Copyright Agilent Technologies 1999, 2000 Edition 1.0, E0400 Printed in Germany April 2000 E8311-91020...