Agilent Technologies manual Rear Panel, To Connect N5980A

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Getting Started

LED

LEDs	Function

Power LED	Indicates power-on
USB Active	Indicates that the instrument is currently being
	used/controlled by the user software
Signal Detect	Indicates the status of the Signal Detect line when the
	inserted SFP module supports a Signal Detect Control line.
	Usually this pin indicates whether the optical input power
	is above or within the specified range.
Data Error	Indicates that the error detector has detected bit errors

Rear Panel

The Rear Panel has the USB connector,the Power in, and the safety symbols.

	Figure 2 Rear Panel
		For proper ventilation keep the Serial BERT at a distance of 2 cm on both sides,
NOTE
		and 10 cm at the back.

To Connect N5980A

1Connect the N5980A power cord at the rear panel Power In.

2Connect the instrument, via USB, to the PC on which the User Interface will be installed.

	Some USB hubs might decrease performance. If possible, directly connect the
NOTE
	N5980A to your PC.

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Contents Agilent 125 Gb/s Serial Bert Revision 1.0 May Herrenberger StrSafety Summary Environmental Information Contents Programming Reference Introduction Inspect Shipment CD content isSerial Bert Connect the Instrument Front PanelRear Panel To Connect N5980AInstall User Software for N5980A Serial Bert setup diagramTo Install the User Software for N5980A Select the folder in which N5980A will be saved To Access N5980A Demo Offline Advanced Mode IntroductionRunning the BER Test Setting the Instrument Parameters SetupAdvanced Viewing the Results BER displays Gating BER and the Elapsed Gating TimeStore Setting Advanced ModeFile Menu Connection Menu Connect Each PC can control only one N5980AHelp Menu Error IndicatorsInfo BER Bar ErrorSync Loss General Setup and Advanced TabGenerator SFP Data Pattern Error DetectorInput SMA Data PatternBER and Advanced BER Tab Gating BER BarError Detector Pattern Gating ErrorsActual Errors Advanced BERCommon Command Summary Agilent N5980A Command SummaryCommon Commands Scpi Instrument Command List- ReferenceID Query Operation complete Read error queueLoad factory default setting Option QueryAll Channels Store current settingRecall setting DatarateSOUR1PATT SMA Output Electrical GeneratorPattern Either sets or gets the pattern of the SMA outputInsertion Rate Error InsertionAdd Single Error Output LevelSOUR2PATT SFP Output Optical GeneratorEither sets or gets the pattern of the SFP output SOUR2PATTEADD Once SOUR2PATTEADDRATESyntax SOUR2PATTEADD Once SOUR3PATT Trigger OutputDetected Pattern SENS1PATT?Actual Bit Error Rate Synchronization modeActual Number of Errors Gating Time Gating Bit Error RateGating Number of Errors Start GatingInput Selection Description Selects the input for the error detectorGating Progress SENS1INPSample Code Communicate with the instrument Programming Reference