Agilent Technologies N5980A manual Revision 1.0 May, Herrenberger Str

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Revision 1.0 May 2006

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N5980A User Guide

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Contents Agilent 125 Gb/s Serial Bert Revision 1.0 May Herrenberger StrSafety Summary Environmental Information Contents Programming Reference Introduction Serial Bert CD content isInspect Shipment 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 TimeFile Menu Advanced ModeStore Setting Connection Menu Connect Each PC can control only one N5980AInfo Error IndicatorsHelp Menu Sync Loss ErrorBER Bar Generator Setup and Advanced TabGeneral 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 SummaryID Query Scpi Instrument Command List- ReferenceCommon Commands 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 LevelEither sets or gets the pattern of the SFP output SFP Output Optical GeneratorSOUR2PATT Syntax SOUR2PATTEADD Once SOUR2PATTEADDRATESOUR2PATTEADD Once SOUR3PATT Trigger OutputDetected Pattern SENS1PATT?Actual Number of Errors Synchronization modeActual Bit Error Rate 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