Agilent Technologies N5980A manual Introduction, Advanced Mode

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Operating N5980A with the User Interface

3 Operating N5980A with the User Interface

Introduction

The graphical user interface runs on the PC, and the screen is divided into two areas; one for setting parameters, and the other for viewing results.

The Setting Parameters area of the screen has options for setting parameters like Data Rate, Data Pattern and so on. The Viewing Results area of the screen runs the test, and displays the results.

The User Software operates in two modes, Standard Mode and

Advanced Mode.

In Standard Mode you can modify the basic instrument setting, and view the results.

In Advaced Mode you can modify the detailed instrument settings, and view all the results.

NOTE	For more details check the Reference for the User Interface

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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 Error Detector InputSFP Data Pattern SMA Data PatternBER and Advanced BER Tab Gating BER BarGating Errors Actual ErrorsError Detector Pattern Advanced BERCommon Command Summary Agilent N5980A Command SummaryCommon Commands Scpi Instrument Command List- ReferenceID Query Read error queue Load factory default settingOperation complete Option QueryStore current setting Recall settingAll Channels DatarateSMA Output Electrical Generator PatternSOUR1PATT Either sets or gets the pattern of the SMA outputError Insertion Add Single ErrorInsertion Rate Output LevelSOUR2PATT SFP Output Optical GeneratorEither sets or gets the pattern of the SFP output SOUR2PATTEADD Once SOUR2PATTEADDRATESyntax SOUR2PATTEADD Once Trigger Output Detected PatternSOUR3PATT SENS1PATT?Actual Bit Error Rate Synchronization modeActual Number of Errors Gating Bit Error Rate Gating Number of ErrorsGating Time Start GatingDescription Selects the input for the error detector Gating ProgressInput Selection SENS1INPSample Code Communicate with the instrument Programming Reference