Page 1 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference *P077017504* 077-0175-04...
Page 3 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference This document supports ﬁrmware version 4.6 and above. Warning The servicing instructions are for use by qualiﬁed personnel only. To avoid personal injury, do not perform any servicing unless you are qualiﬁed to do so. Refer to all safety summaries prior to performing service.
Page 4 Copyright © Tektronix. All rights reserved. Licensed software products are owned by Tektronix or its subsidiaries or suppliers, and are protected by national copyright laws and international treaty provisions. Tektronix products are covered by U.S. and foreign patents, issued and pending. Information in this publication supersedes that in all previously published material.
Page 5 Tektronix, with shipping charges prepaid. Tektronix shall pay for the return of the product to Customer if the shipment is to a location within the country in which the Tektronix service center is located. Customer shall be responsible for paying all shipping charges, duties, taxes, and any other charges for products returned to any other locations.
Page 6 In order to obtain service under this warranty, Customer must notify Tektronix of the defect before the expiration of the warranty period. If Tektronix is unable to provide a replacement that is free from defects in materials and workmanship within a reasonable time thereafter, Customer may terminate the license for this software product and return this software product and any associated materials for credit or refund.
Page 7: Table Of Contents
COFDM Interface ..................2-52 8PSK Interface ..................... 2-53 DVB-S2 PSK Interface..................2-53 QPSK (L-Band) Interface................. 2-54 QAM (Annex A and Annex C) Interface ............... 2-55 QAM (Annex B II) Interface ................2-56 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 8 Channel Polling ....................3-54 Polling Setup ....................3-55 Polling Screen ....................3-57 Reference Event Log......................Event Log Control ................... Pinning the Event Log..................Copying the Event Log..................Exporting the Event Log ..................MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 9 Daylight Saving Time Conﬁguration File............... 4-18 Icons......................4-19 Context Menus ....................4-20 Maintenance Maintenance....................... Preventative Maintenance .................. Removing or Replacing an Interface Card ..............Battery Maintenance..................5-15 Repacking for Shipment .................. 5-16 Index Index MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 10 Figure 2-25: Interface view (typical)................. 2-41 Figure 2-26: Interface view - GbE................2-42 Figure 2-27: IP Trafﬁc view (tear-off view) ..............2-43 Figure 2-28: GbE interface Readings view (tear-off view) ..........2-46 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 11 Figure 4-6: Set Bit Rate Limits context menu..............Figure 4-7: Set Bit Rate Limits dialog box ..............Figure 4-8: Pie chart ..................... Figure 4-9: Historical multiplex graph ............... 4-10 Figure 4-10: Typical timing graph display..............4-12 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 12 (L-Band, old version) interface cards..............5-12 Figure 5-9: Cable connections for QAM (Annex B2), 8PSK/QPSK, DVB-S2, 8VSB, and COFDM interface cards ....................5-13 Figure 5-10: Cable connections for GbE interface card............ 5-14 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 13 Table 5-1: QAM (Annex A), QAM (Annex B1), QAM (Annex C), and QPSK (L-Band, old version) card connectors ....................Table 5-2: QAM (Annex B2), 8PSK/QPSK, DVB-S2, 8VSB, and COFDM interface card connectors Table 5-3: GbE interface card connectors ..............MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 14: General Safety Summary
Do Not Operate in an Explosive Atmosphere. Keep Product Surfaces Clean and Dry. Provide Proper Ventilation. Refer to the manual’s installation instructions for details on installing the product so it has proper ventilation. viii MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 15 WARNING indicates an injury hazard not immediately accessible as you read the marking. CAUTION indicates a hazard to property including the product. The following symbol(s) may appear on the product: MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 16 General Safety Summary MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 17: Preface
MPEG analysis option allows diagnostics to be performed on live ATSC signals without having to use deferred-time analysis of captured streams. Refer to the QAM400A DTV Monitor Quick Start User Manual, Tektronix part number 071-2784-XX. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 18 Video and DTV Monitor probe types to alert, locate and diagnose video network Management System problems. It is a software product which will run on a server (not Tektronix supplied) to aggregate and report on the status of broadcast signals measured by up to 500 distributed probes across a video distribution network, providing alarms, logs, trending and reporting of key performance metrics.
Page 19: Product Documentation
RFM300 DTV Monitor Test test parameters and conﬁguration Parameter and Conﬁguration ﬁles File Technical Reference (077-0177-XX) MTM400A, IPM400A, Provides information about remote QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV command syntax Monitor Programmer Manual (077-0178-XX) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference xiii...
Page 20 IPM400A RFM3UP Upgrade Instructions Provides instructions for installing (075-0993-XX) software and hardware upgrades in the RFM300 QAM4UP Upgrade Instructions Provides instructions for installing (075-1012-XX) software and hardware upgrades in the QAM400A MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 21: Remote User Interface Overview
Remote User Interface Overview...
Page 23: Table 1-1: Dtv Monitor Interface Options
Optional – – – COFDM Optional (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation) – – – QPSK Optional (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) – – – 8PSK Optional (Eight Level Phase Shift Keying) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 1–1...
Page 24: Rui Components
– IP Video Gigabit Optional Standard Ethernet RUI Components The following ﬁgure shows the main components of the RUI. They are described in the following paragraphs. Figure 1-1: RUI components 1–2 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 25: Table 1-2: Menu Options
Opens the Conﬁguration dialog box. Alt + I Interface... Opens the Interface Conﬁguration dialog box. Standard... Alt + T Opens the DTV Standards Selection dialog box. Help About... Displays application and system information. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 1–3...
Page 26: Figure 1-2: Toolbar Controls
Opens the Recording Settings dialog box. You can set up and initiate stream recording (See page 3-4.) Reset Tests Resets all tests, including Stream, Device, and Interface tests and Informational warnings. 1–4 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 27: Figure 1-3: Button Bar
Monitoring buttons. All of the buttons associated with monitoring are grouped under the Monitoring primary button. You can hide or show the monitoring buttons by clicking on the ▲ or ▼ symbols. Figure 1-3: Button bar MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 1–5...
Page 28: Figure 1-4: Customize Button Bar Dialog Box
Move Up and Move Down buttons. You can customize the display to show or hide the button bar depending on your monitoring needs. (See page 1-7.) Figure 1-4: Customize Button Bar dialog box 1–6 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 29 Detail view(s). The detail views vary depending on which node is highlighted in the tree view. Detail views include summary views, error logs, and thumbnail views. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 1–7...
Page 30: Figure 1-5: Panel Slide Controls
Figure 1-5: Panel slide controls Tear-off Function. Click the tear-off icon to display a view in a window separate from the main application view. (See Figure 1-6.) Figure 1-6: Tear-off view 1–8 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 31: Figure 1-7: Status Bar
Processing status, Shows the "overwhelmed" processor status; that is whether the processing engine is able to Overwhelmed cope with the amount of information in the stream even after throttling. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 1–9...
Page 32: Figure 1-8: Breadcrumb Trail
RUI structure immediately beneath the title bar. (See Figure 1-2 on page 1-4.)(See Figure 1-8.) Click on an element of the breadcrumb trail to open the corresponding Analysis view. Figure 1-8: Breadcrumb trail 1–10 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 33: Flexvuplus Display
FlexVuPlus window. When you click the icon, you can then select the FlexVuPlus panel in which the view will be displayed. Figure 1-10: FlexVuPlus select icon MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 1–11...
Page 34 Remote User Interface Overview 1–12 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 35: Analysis Views
Analysis Views...
Page 37 From the Analysis view window, you can access the following views: Programs Tests SI/PSI (Tables) Packets Interface These views are described on the following pages. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–1...
Page 38 Analysis Views 2–2 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 39: Programs View
(PIDs). The transport stream carries a number of programs and each program carries a number of elementary streams. Elementary streams are carried in packets that are identiﬁed by packets identiﬁers (PIDs). MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–3...
Page 40: Table 2-1: Programs View Nodes
LED in the current view. Only the lowest level nodes will be considered and highlighted in the search because the parent nodes simply reﬂect the state of the lowest level nodes. 2–4 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 41: Transport Stream Node
Event Log The Event Log displays the log entries for the whole transport stream. A detailed description of event log management is provided. (See page 4-1, Event Log.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–5...
Page 42: Figure 2-2: Thumbnail Display
PID. The Brief Details and Full Summary views provide progressively more detailed information about each video channel. Selecting the thumbnail viewing size from the context menu affects all thumbnails. Figure 2-2: Thumbnail display 2–6 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 43 Select the audio content to be streamed. The available audio content will vary from stream to stream. Stop the current streaming session. Refer to the decode set up to conﬁgure the decoder to be used by backhaul. (See page 3-33.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–7...
Page 44 However, a template can subsequently be uploaded to any device. The presence of service 8258 in the transport stream is being checked. (See Figure 2-3.) In addition, details of the service and associated PIDs are checked. 2–8 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 45: Figure 2-3: Template View
The State icons indicate that an element listed in the template has conformed to the requirement. The following template section of a conﬁguration ﬁle resulted with the display. (See Figure 2-3.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–9...
Page 46 Programs View 2–10 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 47 The grid is 64 rows (time periods) deep and 100 PIDs wide. So up to 100 PIDs may be monitored, with a common timing resolution. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–11...
Page 48: Figure 2-4: Service Logging - Data Storage
ﬁnal row. Accumulated data is added to the bottom row for up to three days. After this time the data is discarded and the PID is no longer monitored. 2–12 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 49: Figure 2-5: Stream View - Summary
This RUI will then be guaranteed to get all of the data without another RUI consuming the data. Where the data is logged to disk, the logging RUI must be the consuming RUI. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–13...
Page 50 The PIDs may be speciﬁed as separate elements or as a space delimited list. This conﬁguration can be embedded in a full conﬁguration ﬁle, or just uploaded as an incremental change. (Refer to Conﬁguration File Structure in the DTV Monitor Programmer Manual). 2–14 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 51: Program Node
PID related information is available under the Summary view. The Thumbnails view displays details of the streams and thumbnails for each of the programs (where available). The Program Tests view shows tests related to the program. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–15...
Page 52: Elementary Stream Node
Figure 2-7: Elementary stream node An LED associated with each elementary stream node indicates the status of the tests relating to the elementary stream. 2–16 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 53: Figure 2-8: Pcr Graphs View
Similarly, the Event Log shows the errors for the highlighted test. When no tests are selected, the event log will show the events related to all tests associated with the elementary stream selected in the program tree. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–17...
Page 54: Table 2-2: Timing Measurement Graphs
PCR on the Y-axis. Expected PCR values are calculated from the byte index of the PCR. The Maximum PCR Accuracy Error limit can be adjusted by modifying the Max PCR accuracy error. 2–18 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 55 Presentation Time Stamps (PTS) graph provides a display of the time interval between successive PTSs. PTS-PCR Variation Signiﬁcant variation between the PTS and PCR arrival intervals may indicate that there are timing problems in the monitored stream. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–19...
Page 56 Programs View 2–20 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 57: Tests View
The view is displayed when the Tests button is selected in the button bar or when the Tests tab is selected in the tree view. (See Figure 2-9.) Figure 2-9: Tests view MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–21...
Page 58: Figure 2-10: Test View Nodes
Where relevant, PIDs will be associated with a test in the test tree when the test has either been disabled, or when it has failed. Two other primary nodes are displayed, Informational Events and Device Tests. 2–22 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 59: Figure 2-11: Test Filtering Buttons
Maintenance mode. Test Filtering Interpreting the display of tests can be made easier using the three ﬁlter buttons at the top of the Tests navigation view. Figure 2-11: Test ﬁltering buttons MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–23...
Page 60: All Tests Node
The right column lists all tests that have failed at some point since monitoring began (or since the last reset), but are not currently failing. Any tests that were not present in a list in the previous update are shown shaded. 2–24 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 61: Test Nodes
When you select a test node, the Associated PIDs pane displays a summary of all of the PIDs and an event log listing all events that are associated with the test. Figure 2-13: Tests view - test nodes MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–25...
Page 62: Pid Nodes
Where tests have failed, the PIDs affected are listed under the test node in the Tests navigation view. Selecting a PID will display the Event Log for that PID. Figure 2-14: Test view - PID nodes 2–26 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 63: Si/Psi (Tables) View
Some of the nodes that represent less common tables or table groups may not have speciﬁc summary views available in the analyzer. In these cases, a generic summary view is used. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–27...
Page 64 EPG Views A speciﬁc departure from the Table Summary view is the EPG view that is displayed when a section of the EPG table is highlighted. (See page 2-31, EPG Views.) 2–28 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 65: Section View
ﬁelds are arranged in a hierarchical order. The presence of subordinate ﬁelds is indicated using { } bracket symbols adjacent to the container ﬁeld. The container can be expanded or collapsed by clicking the + or - icon. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–29...
Page 66: Figure 2-18: Section Payload
If the section is corrupt or empty, the hexadecimal view background is red instead of blue. The view is continually updated. Updating can be paused, to allow you to examine speciﬁc details. Pause table section updating Resume table section updating 2–30 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 67: Si Repetition Graphs View
Nodes representing an individual table or subtable will offer the usual Summary, Section, and SI Repetition graph detail views. However, the higher nodes will display the programming information graphically. (See Figure 2-19.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–31...
Page 68 Display Range. Shows the extent of the event panel. More detail can be displayed by choosing a shorter time period. Select the required range from the drop-down list. The adjacent zoom buttons select the next/previous range in the drop-down list. 2–32 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 69 Green: Following event Blue: Schedule event Yellow: (ISDB only) After event Event Detail Panel. Shows details of the selected event. The details are contained in the EIT (event information table). MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–33...
Page 70: Figure 2-20: Epg Nodes
Service Summary Nodes. Graphical view of the events identiﬁed in the service. EIT Nodes. Detailed view of event information for a single EIT subtable. Where appropriate, program content advisory information is displayed in abbreviated text form. 2–34 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 71: Pids View
(See Figure 2-21.) The tree view contains the PID tree structure representing all of the PIDs that have occurred within the transport stream. Figure 2-21: PIDs view MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–35...
Page 72: All Pids Node
Event Log and Parameters for only that test. The Thumbnails tab displays views of the PIDs carrying video information. Three modes of thumbnail display are available: Thumbnails only, Brief Details, and Full Summary. (See page 2-6.) 2–36 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 73: Detail View (All Pids And Pid Group)
ISDB streams. Icons provide an indication of the PID content. The combination and detail of the views vary depending on the selected PID type and node. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–37...
Page 74: Detail View (Pids)
Name header in the PID panel. PCR PID Selected When the selected PID contains PCR information, the PCR timing graphs are made available. (See Figure 2-23.) Figure 2-23: PID detail view - timing graphs 2–38 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 75 PIDs View A Presentation Time Stamp (PTS) graph may also be available on PIDs carrying audio and video information. (See page 4-11, Graph Management.) (See page 2-18, Timing Graphs.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–39...
Page 76: Packets View
(IIPs) and TMCC data in ISDB-T mode. The following ﬁgure shows an example of the IIP view in an ISDB-T transport stream. Figure 2-24: Packets view - ISDB-T, IIP detail example 2–40 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 77: Interface View
Interface related tabbed views and panels are described in the remainder of this section. Setting up the interface cards is described in Interface Card Conﬁguration. (See page 3-35.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–41...
Page 78: Gbe Interface
IF Warnings Collection. (See Figure 2-26.) The secondary nodes are speciﬁc to the GbE interface. The detail views are contained under ﬁve tabs: IP Tables, Diagnostics, Graphs, Interface Event Log, and All Session Event Log. Figure 2-26: Interface view - GbE 2–42 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 79: Figure 2-27: Ip Traffic View (Tear-Off View)
(See Table 2-4 on page 2-44.) If a single subscription mode is selected, all sessions will be suspended except the one currently subscribed. Figure 2-27: IP Trafﬁc view (tear-off view) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–43...
Page 80: Table 2-4: Gbe Ip Traffic View Column Descriptions
Session bitrate (not the same as the stream bitrate, this includes IP wrappers) At the top of each of the IP tables (Multicast Database and IP Trafﬁc) is a Show ﬁlter option. (See page 4-17.) 2–44 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 81 Selecting from the drop-down menu is equivalent to applying a conﬁguration in the Conﬁgure Interface dialog box. Use the Edit button to open the Edit Interface Settings. (See page 3-38.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–45...
Page 82: Figure 2-28: Gbe Interface Readings View (Tear-Off View)
Interface View Figure 2-28: GbE interface Readings view (tear-off view) 2–46 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 83: Table 2-5: Gbe Interface Readings
Maximum packet interarrival time (PIT) of the currently selected stream. Time IP Errored Packet Rate The calculation is maintained per session on the interface card. The ﬁeld pkt/min displays a red background if the rate is greater than zero. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–47...
Page 84 VLAN Tag Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tag displayed in hex format. This is a two byte value containing priority bit, canonical format indicator (CFI), and VLAN ID (VID). 2–48 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 85 Ping button is clicked. The address format, IPv4 or IPv6, should be selected in accord with the address format used. Figure 2-29: GbE interface - Diagnostics MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–49...
Page 86 This log collects all events. Apart from displaying all events, two other subsets of all events can be selected from a drop-down list and displayed, that is Selected Stream Events and All IP Session Events. 2–50 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 87 An SFP (Small Format Pluggable) module is used to facilitate the Ethernet Optical interconnection feature. The GbE interface card has been tested with SFP module(s) ordered from Tektronix. SFP modules purchased from a supplier other than Tektronix are not warranted to work.
Page 88: Cofdm Interface
Linear Amplitude response (selected carriers). A linear amplitude response is shown for the carriers selected using the carrier START and STOP controls. Allows you to view and zoom in on frequency dependent amplitude distortions. 2–52 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 89: 8Psk Interface
Front End Lock. Indicates when the FEC (Forward Error Correction) is in lock. Input Sync Active. Indicates that multiple stream frames are occurring within the received signal, and that the receiver has correctly locked on to the frame MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–53...
Page 90: Qpsk (L-Band) Interface
EVM (%). (Error Vector Magnitude) Closely related to, and can normally be calculated from, MER. It is a ratio of "errored signal vectors" to maximum signal amplitude expressed as a percentage (ref: TR 101 290 Annex). 2–54 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 91: Qam (Annex A And Annex C) Interface
The Persistence setting in the graph context menu sets the time in seconds that the dots persist on the graph. QAM (Annex A and Annex C) Interface Readings (See page 2-54, QPSK (L-Band) Interface.) Graphs (See page 2-54, QPSK (L-Band) Interface.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–55...
Page 92: Qam (Annex B Ii) Interface
Equalizer display will display the amplitude of the corresponding tap correction values versus time. MER. This graph gives a time record of MER over the last 255 seconds. 2–56 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 93: 8Vsb Interface
Equalizer. The equalizer coefﬁcients are plotted across the graph display. The display illustrates the presence of multi-path echoes by indicating how the equalizer is adjusting to cancel them out. NOTE. The Equalizer graph amplitude values are approximate. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 2–57...
Page 94 Interface View 2–58 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 95 Conﬁguration...
Page 97: Stream Configuration
Recording Settings, Test Parameters, PCR Filters, Slot Management, and Schedule Management. Each page can be accessed by selecting the relevant node in the tree view. Figure 3-1: Conﬁguration dialog box MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–1...
Page 98: Stream Global Settings
Select Stream in the tree view to access the Stream conﬁguration global settings. (See Figure 3-2.) NOTE. The changes made to the Miscellaneous check boxes are applied immediately. Figure 3-2: Stream global settings conﬁguration page 3–2 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 99 Factory Default. Resets all conﬁguration items, including interface card settings, to their factory defaults. Reset SI Throttle. Resets the SI table processing throttle. The status of this throttle is shown graphically on the RUI status bar. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–3...
Page 100: Recording Settings
PC for storage and further analysis. The ﬁle is stored as a valid MPEG ﬁle; however extra information is encoded in the ﬁle to allow Tektronix MPEG analysis products to reconstruct the real-time timing artifacts present at the time of recording.
Page 101 For example, if the available memory will hold a 20 second recording, with 25% pretrigger speciﬁed and an event-triggered recording starting ﬁve seconds or more into the run, the contents of the recorded ﬁle will be as illustrated in the following ﬁgure. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–5...
Page 102 ﬁrst 15% of the ﬁle would hold pretrigger data. The ﬁle contents would be as illustrated in the following ﬁgure. Figure 3-5: 15% pretrigger example 3–6 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 103 Test Failure. Tests can be associated with record trigger actions. (See Figure 3-6.) When a test with an associated record trigger action fails and Arm has been selected, recording starts. Figure 3-6: Record trigger set - example MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–7...
Page 104: Test Parameters
(although the test result may then not conform to the standard). The Test Parameters conﬁguration page can be accessed using Conﬁguration (toolbar) > Stream > Test Parameters. (See Figure 3-7.) 3–8 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 105 Parameters from the context menu of a test. Not all tests have parameters that can be edited. All of the test parameters are described in the MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitor Test Parameter and Conﬁguration File Technical Reference, which can be downloaded from the Tektronix Web site (www.tektronix.com).
Page 106: Pcr Filters
MGF4 and entering a value between 1 MHz and 10000 MHz (10 Hz). Alternatively, these ﬁlter values can be changed in the Test Parameters page. Search for "PCR_" to ﬁnd the high- and low-pass ﬁlter parameters. 3–10 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 107: Table 3-1: Pcr Settling Times
100 MHz 50 s MGF2 TSCA default for PCR_OJ/AC high-pass ﬁlter cut-off. 1000 MHz (1 Hz) MGF3 1 MHz - 10,000 MHz 5000 s - 0.5 s MGF4 User-deﬁned proﬁle MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–11...
Page 108: Slot Management
Internet Explorer or they can be viewed and edited in a text editor, for example, Microsoft Notepad. For more information, see the MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitor Test Parameter and Conﬁguration File Technical Reference, which can be downloaded from the Tektronix Web site (www.tektronix.com).
Page 109 Stream Conﬁguration Figure 3-10: Conﬁguration - Slot Management page Figure 3-11: Conﬁguration ﬁle handling MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–13...
Page 110 ﬁle header; however, the position of the slot in the list remains the same. For the conﬁguration ﬁle structure, refer to the MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitor Test Parameter and Conﬁguration File Technical Reference.
Page 111 4. Save the ﬁle, ensuring that the ﬁle name extension is xml. 5. Upload the ﬁle to a slot as required. NOTE. The ﬁle name in the header is used as the slot name. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–15...
Page 112: Schedule Management
The schedule will be speciﬁed in a text ﬁle using XML. The following is an example of the schedule ﬁle format: 3–16 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 113 There should be only a single day listed in the LoadDay entry in the BaseScheduleItem section; there can be multiple days listed in the LoadDays entry in the ScheduleItem section. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–17...
Page 114 Figure 3-12: Schedule Management conﬁguration page With a prepared schedule ﬁle available, you can upload, download, and enable scheduling from the stream Conﬁguration dialog box. 3–18 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 115 If an uploaded schedule is replacing a running schedule, the Enable Scheduler check box on the Schedule Management page should be cleared and then checked to allow the new schedule to take effect. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–19...
Page 116 11:00 - 60 minutes = 10:00 UTC. This method of operation is useful where there are multiple DTV monitors monitoring a transmission chain that spans several time zones, and 3–20 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 117 Stream Conﬁguration conﬁgurations that check features of the transport stream have to be loaded by each DTV monitor at the same instant in time. Figure 3-13: Scheduling and time zones MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–21...
Page 118: Device Configuration
The product name is identiﬁed as DTV monitor. Device Name The device name identiﬁes the DTV monitor. The name is used in the Device button. Use the Set button to apply the name. 3–22 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 119: Passwords Settings
User. Gives read only access to all views and settings, including options where installed. You can also reset alarms. The Passwords conﬁguration page can be accessed using Conﬁguration (toolbar) > Device > Passwords. (See Figure 3-15.) Figure 3-15: Passwords conﬁguration page MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–23...
Page 120: Network Settings
SNMP community strings can also be set using the Network Settings dialog box. The Network Settings page can be accessed using Conﬁguration (toolbar) > Device > Network Settings. (See Figure 3-16.) 3–24 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 121 The trap destination ﬁeld allows you to enter several addresses to which SNMP traps should be sent. This may limit the effects of multiple traps messages overwhelming the management system. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–25...
Page 122: Time Settings
UTC, local time at the client PC, or local time at the DTV monitor. All times are calculated with respect to UTC. Figure 3-17: Time zones example 3–26 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 123 Longitudinal Time Clock. An analog-format time clock often available from a centralized source. Simple Network Time Protocol. A UTC-synchronized time clock available over the internet. The appropriate IP addresses of time servers should be available from the System Administrator. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–27...
Page 124 The DST adjustments are supplied by an XML ﬁle, which, when imported, is becomes part of the overall conﬁguration ﬁle. For more detailed conﬁguration ﬁle information, refer to the MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitor Test Parameter and Conﬁguration File Technical Reference.
Page 125 If daylight saving is already in force, any new settings will take effect at the next DST update. You can ﬁnd a description of the DST conﬁguration ﬁle in this manual. (See page 4-18, Daylight Saving Time Conﬁguration File.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–29...
Page 126: Preferences Configuration
Fonts and Decode. The page can be accessed by selecting the relevant node in the tree view. The Preferences conﬁguration page can be accessed using Conﬁguration (toolbar) > Preferences. (See Figure 3-19.) Figure 3-19: Preferences conﬁguration page 3–30 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 127: Preferences Global Settings
Set to Default button. The Log Entries and Stream Content fonts can be set to the same as the Standard font and size using the Copy Standard button. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–31...
Page 128 The DTV monitor RUI is capable of displaying these private character extensions, but the operating system must be correctly conﬁgured. The instructions for installing custom font extensions are located in the related Quick Start User Manual. 3–32 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 129: Decode
The VideoLAN VLC player facilitates the video and audio backhaul feature. (See page 2-7.) The Tektronix VQS1000 Video Quality Software facilitates QoE analysis of video and audio content. (See VQS1000 Quick Start User Manual, Tektronix part number 077-0489-XX.) Figure 3-21: Conﬁguration - Decode page Select Player pane The Select Player ﬁelds show the location and setting of the players available...
Page 130 VLC player from the connected DTV instrument. Streaming Permissions You can designate who is able to play out streams by selecting one of the following buttons: pane 3–34 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 131: Interface Card Configuration
Each conﬁguration setup can be allocated a preset name. The test results and readings displayed in the Interface view for each of the interface cards are described. (See page 2-41.) MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–35...
Page 132: Configuring An Interface Card
Interfaces drop-down list, for example, COFDM. 3. Create a new preset conﬁguration by clicking the + (plus) button. This will duplicate the currently active (bolded) conﬁguration and allocate a name beginning with the word "Preset". 3–36 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 133 4. Click Apply to activate the highlighted preset. If you click OK, the highlighted preset will be activated and the dialog box will close. 5. Click OK to close the dialog box. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–37...
Page 134: Ip Interface Configuration
The following conﬁguration settings are available for the GbE interface card. (See Figure 3-23.) Figure 3-23: GbE Conﬁgure Interface dialog box Preset Name The name allocated to a preset interface conﬁguration setup. 3–38 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 135 If you require interaction with the network to receive trafﬁc, such as identifying speciﬁc sources or pinging other instrument, select Active. Selecting IPv4 and/or IPv6 in active mode will depend on your intended data sources. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–39...
Page 136 IPv4 Address: Enter the IP address of the GbE card. This address will be allocated by your network administrator. The null value is 0.0.0.0. IPv4 addresses are normally written as four octets in decimal separated by periods, for example, 192.0.2.235. 3–40 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 137 Null packets are inserted into the stream to achieve a constant bit rate output. The result can be recorded and played back with the timing preserved. VBR Detection: Enhances VBR detection. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–41...
Page 138 Destination: Enter the destination port address to ﬁlter. Input port number in integers between 0 and 65535. Protocol: Select the session protocol: Don’t Care, UDP (User Datagram Protocol), or RTP (Real time Transport Protocol). 3–42 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 139 GbE trafﬁc or use Single or Off. In all modes the IP Trafﬁc table will be displayed showing all the trafﬁc visible to the network card. Figure 3-24: Single subscription mode MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–43...
Page 140 The multicast database lists the sources of trafﬁc sessions that are available on the network. The IP trafﬁc table lists the sessions available from the sources that have been joined. 3–44 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 141 Add Current Subscription dialog box must be used to create a new subscription; this can then be edited. The Add dialog box is identical in contents to the Edit Current Subscription dialog box. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–45...
Page 142 Session Alias column. For adding multiple aliases it is recommended to download the Session Aliases list for manual editing in a text or XML editor. This can then be uploaded to overwrite the previous list. 3–46 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 143: Rf Interface Configuration
0.5 dB. However, for more detailed analysis of COFDM constellations, a much higher ultimate SNR is required, preferably in excess of 40 dB. For this reason, two modes of COFDM operation are provided. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–47...
Page 144: 8Psk Interface Settings
1000 ppm to ensure successful lock. Modulation Format. The card supports a number of modulation formats: Turbo FEC 8PSK, Turbo FEC QPSK, DVB QPSK and Digicipher ™II. Enter the 3–48 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 145: Dvb-S2 Psk Interface Settings
RF signals using the input stream identity (Input Stream ID). S2 Input Sync. For slow RF signals carrying multiple streams, this setting enables a stream synchronization and smoothing function. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–49...
Page 146: Qpsk (L-Band) Settings
Viterbi Rate. Select the code rate from the drop-down list: 1/2; 2/3; 3/4; 5/6; 6/7; 7/8. It might be overwritten if the Viterbi Rate Auto selection is enabled. Symbol Rate (MS/s). Symbol rate value in mega symbols per second. 3–50 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 147: Qam (Annex A And C) Settings
AFC Range. Two carrier recovery ranges are available: Normal and Wide. In Normal mode, the range is approximately 150 kHz. In Wide mode, the range is MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–51...
Page 148: Qam (Annex B2) Settings
Normal mode is recommended for general use. Equalization Range. The channel equalizer can be conﬁgured to give a long equalization range, at the expense of equalizer resolution, or, in normal mode, 3–52 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 149: 8Vsb Settings
Tuner Phase Noise. Normal and High. This control modiﬁes the carrier loop bandwidth to allow the acquisition of noisy carriers. Normal mode is recommended for general use. Signal Detection. NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) and VSB (Vestigial Side Band). MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–53...
Page 150: Channel Polling
Figure 3-27: GbE interface card channel polling overview The results of the simultaneously monitored session tests are displayed in the Information screen. The results of the user-deﬁned sequential tests are displayed in the Polling screen. 3–54 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 151: Polling Setup
The Interface Card Lock (or Front End Lock) LED should be green when the settings are successful. 6. Close the Interface Settings dialog box. NOTE. The Interface Settings dialog box is modal. You cannot open any other windows while it is open. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 3–55...
Page 152 Generate Script button. This action will delete any redundant entries. A new script must be generated each time that a conﬁguration is deﬁned or deleted (in the Interface Setting dialog box). 3–56 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 153: Polling Screen
Channel Polling, Channels to be polled can also be deﬁned as part of the conﬁguration ﬁle, see MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitor Test Parameter and Conﬁguration File Technical Reference. Figure 3-29: Stream view - Polling screen Error states are maintained (remembered), even when another channel is being polled.
Page 154 The generated polling script accounts for the interface card that is present and all the currently deﬁned preset card conﬁgurations. The script defaults to spending 60 seconds interrogating each preset and allowing 15 seconds settling time at the start of each channel change. 3–58 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 155: Reference
Reference...
Page 157: Event Log
At this point the entry will be lost, the view will return to the most recent entries at the top of the screen, and automatic scrolling will start again. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–1...
Page 158: Pinning The Event Log
Export the log by selecting the Export icon or Export Log from the context menu. Select the format in which the log ﬁle is to be saved, either xml or csv, and a location for the ﬁle. 4–2 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 159: Color Coding Events
HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) or RGB (Red, Green, Blue) terms by selecting the appropriate tab and entering the required values. 3. Select OK. All events of the same type are now highlighted in the selected color. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–3...
Page 160 Event Log context menu. Color-coding can be removed from all event types by selecting Reset All Colors from the context menu. Figure 4-2: Event log - Color dialog box 4–4 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 161: Chart Views And Bit Rates
The bit rate bars are scaled so that all bars are displayed relative to the one with the highest bit rate. Column widths can be adjusted by dragging the line dividing the column headers to the left or right. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–5...
Page 162: Error Status
A range bar indicates the variation of bit rate in each program or PID. (See Figure 4-5.) The ends of the bar show the maximum and minimum values of the bit rate since monitoring started. Figure 4-5: Bar chart range bar 4–6 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 163: Bit Rate Limits
Set Bit Rate Limits... from the context menu and to open the dialog box. (See Figure 4-6.) (See Figure 4-7.) Figure 4-6: Set Bit Rate Limits context menu MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–7...
Page 164 Stream Occupancy test. This can be found under the Other tab in the Tests view. The Bit Rate Limits of all programs in a stream can be disabled and reset by selecting the Clear Bit Rate Limits (All PIDs) from the context menu. 4–8 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 165: Pie Charts
The maximum and minimum values are not shown. If a segment label is hidden at the edge of the window, click on a segment to display the label in full. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–9...
Page 166: Historical Multiplex Graph
You can display trend graphs of the programs in the transport stream using the historical multiplex icon. This graph displays stacked program bit rates over a period that you have selected from the Time period drop-down list. Figure 4-9: Historical multiplex graph 4–10 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 167: Graph Management
The phrase "Settling Time" will be displayed brieﬂy in the graph area while the necessary data is gathered. Graphs may occasionally display discontinuities; however, the underlying testing process is continuous. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–11...
Page 168: Cursor Data And Control
If this point has a point at exactly the same timestamp, a square and crosshair will also be displayed. If no data point has a matching timestamp, only a vertical line will be drawn on the additional graphs. 4–12 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 169 Data for the selected cursor position is displayed in the Data at Cursor panel. Figure 4-11: Graph cursors MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–13...
Page 170: Graph Menu And Toolbar
Hide/show settling time Rotate graph layout The graph context menu can be displayed by right-clicking anywhere in a graph display area. The options on the menu are applicable to all graphs. 4–14 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 171: Adding And Removing Graphs
When a graph is zoomed in, its axes will not change as new data is collected. Eventually when the displayed data is overwritten in the MTM, the points will be removed from the graph. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–15...
Page 172: Graph Controls
Uses a logarithmic scale for the summary bars. This setting applies to 8VSB interfaces only. Toggles the use of a logarithmic scale for the summary bars shown at the bottom of the 8VSB Symbol Distribution graph. 4–16 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 173: Miscellaneous
Table Column Conﬁguration Most of the views in tabular form allow you to conﬁgure the column layout. The layout will be remembered between sessions. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–17...
Page 174: Daylight Saving Time Configuration File
TrigHour and TrigMin. The hour (24 hour clock) and minute when the event will occur. AdjMins. The required offset, in minutes, from UTC. This can be a positive or negative value. 4–18 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 175: Icons
SI table Video Teletext Zoom in Zoom out Programs Program (single) Closed caption - CC-EIA608 Closed caption - CC-EIA708 Where appropriate, program content advisory information is displayed in abbreviated text form. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–19...
Page 176: Context Menus
Enables the selected test and all of its subtests Enable All Tests Enables all the tests in the Tests tree Enable Listed Tests Enables only the tests in the list 4–20 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 177 Resets the minimum and maximum range indicators (Range Bars) shown on the PID Group Summary Table for each PID Group Reset All Tests Resets all previously failed tests (amber) to green MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–21...
Page 178 Switches to the SI/PSI tab and selects the Program’s PMT Table node in the Tables tree View this PID in PIDs tree Switches to the PIDs tab and selects this PID in the PIDs tree 4–22 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 179 Zooms into the graph by 25%. Holding down the Shift key locks the Y axis, holding down the Ctrl key locks the X axis Zoom Out Zooms out of the graph by 25% MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 4–23...
Page 180 Context Menus 4–24 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 181: Maintenance
Maintenance...
Page 183: Preventative Maintenance
MTM400 monitor; those interface cards will operate properly if they are installed in the MTM400A monitor. The following procedure includes instructions for removing or replacing those older version interface cards. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 5–1...
Page 184 Remove the Instrument 1. Remove the 21 cover retaining screws and set them aside. (See Figure 5-1.) Cover 2. Lift the cover clear of the instrument. 5–2 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 185 (See Figure 5-3.) (See Figure 5-4 on page 5-6.) Each card type has different cable connections. 6. If a QAM (Annex A), QAM (Annex B1), QAM (Annex C), or QPSK (L-Band, old version) interface card is currently installed, perform the MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 5–3...
Page 186 QAM (Annex A), QAM (Annex B1), QAM (Annex C), or QPSK (L-Band, old version) interface card. c. Disconnect the eight-wire power cable from the connector labeled J7 on the interface card. d. Proceed to step 9. 5–4 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 187: Table 5-1: Qam (Annex A), Qam (Annex B1), Qam (Annex C), And Qpsk (L-Band, Old Version) Card
Miniature coaxial O/P A on TS Processor card Data and control (serializer) Figure 5-2: QAM (Annex A), QAM (Annex B1), QAM (Annex C), and QPSK (L-Band, old version) interface card location MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 5–5...
Page 188 Maintenance Figure 5-3: (See Figure 5-2.)QAM (Annex B2), 8PSK/QPSK, DVB-S2, 8VSB, and COFDM interface card location Figure 5-4: GbE interface card installation 5–6 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 189: Table 5-2: Qam (Annex B2), 8Psk/Qpsk, Dvb-S2, 8Vsb, And Cofdm Interface Card Connectors
Table 5-2: QAM (Annex B2), 8PSK/QPSK, DVB-S2, 8VSB, and COFDM interface card connectors Interface card connection (See Figure 5-3.) Cable type Connects to location Function Eight wires J7 on Power Distribution card Power Ribbon J750 on TS Processor card Data and control MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 5–7...
Page 190: Table 5-3: Gbe Interface Card Connectors
(See Figure 5-6.) c. For GbE interface cards, remove the six retaining screws from the card and remove the three retaining screws from the rear panel. (See Figure 5-7.) 5–8 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 191 Figure 5-5: Retaining screw locations for QAM (Annex A), QAM (Annex B1), QAM (Annex C), and QPSK (L-Band, old version) interface cards Figure 5-6: Retaining screw locations for QAM (Annex B2), 8PSK/QPSK, DVB-S2, 8VSB, and COFDM interface cards MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 5–9...
Page 192 12. Place the new interface card into the right side of the instrument (as viewed from the rear of the instrument). (See Figure 5-2 on page 5-5.) (See Figure 5-3.) (See Figure 5-4 on page 5-6.) 5–10 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 193 O/P A on the TS Processor card. Connect the eight-wire power cable from P1 on the interface card to J7 on the Power Distribution card. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 5–11...
Page 194 Connect the eight-wire power cable from JR1 on the interface card to J7 on the Power Distribution card. Verify that the two coaxial cables on the interface card are ﬁrmly attached to their connectors. 5–12 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 195 J750 on the TS Processor card. (See Figure 5-10.) Connect the eight-wire power cable from J8 on the interface card to J7 on the Power Distribution card. MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference 5–13...
Page 196 Before the Interface card can be used, it must be selected through the user interface and an input must be provided. Refer to the Interface Card Conﬁguration for instructions on how to conﬁgure the interface card. (See page 3-35.) 5–14 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 197: Battery Maintenance
NOTE. The following precautions must be observed when replacing and handling the batteries: Batteries must be replaced only with the correct Tektronix part. (Refer to the MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 Speciﬁcations and Performance Veriﬁcation Technical Reference.) Both batteries must always be replaced.
Page 198: Repacking For Shipment
8. If required, reinstate the conﬁguration information. (See page 3-12, Slot Management.) Repacking for Shipment If an instrument is to be shipped to a Tektronix ﬁeld ofﬁce for repair, attach a tag to the instrument showing the following: Owner’s name and address Serial number Description of the problem(s) encountered and/or service required.
Page 199 (and its supporting packaging material) or in such a way as to provide similar protection. To prevent the loss of your instrument’s warranties, Tektronix strongly recommends that you use an DTV monitor shipping carton (that is in good condition) when you ship your instrument to another location or when you return the instrument to a Tektronix service center for repair.
Page 200 Maintenance 5–18 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...
Page 201: Index
Index...
Page 203 4-20 COFDM interface, 2-52 MTM400A, xi Conﬁguration, 3-1 Help menu, 1-3 device, 3-22 interface, 3-35 Navigation menu, 1-3 preferences, 3-30 Network settings, 3-24 slot management, 3-12 Icons, 4-19 stream, 3-1 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference Index-1...
Page 204 Tables view See SI/PSI View panel slides, 1-7 QAM (Annex A & C) Tear-off function, 1-8 tear-off function, 1-8 interface, 2-55 Templates, 2-8 QAM (Annex B II) interface, 2-56 Test ﬁltering, 2-23 Index-2 MTM400A, IPM400A, QAM400A, and RFM300 DTV Monitors Technical Reference...

This manual is also suitable for:

Ipm400a Mtm400a Rfm300

Tektronix QAM400A Technical Reference

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Quick Links

Chapters

Need help?

Questions and answers

Related Manuals for Tektronix QAM400A

Summary of Contents for Tektronix QAM400A

This manual is also suitable for:

Table of Contents