Agilent Technologies N5980A manual Advanced BER, Elapsed Gating Time, Gating Errors, Actual Errors

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Reference for the User Interface

The screenshot below shows the Gating BER Bar.

Elapsed Gating Time

This bar shows the gating time while the test runs.

Before the test begins this bar is empty as shown below:

And after the gating time is complete this bar appears as shown below:

Advanced BER

This page contains Gating Error, Actual Error, Error Detector Pattern Gating BER Bar, and Elapsed Gating Time.

Gating Errors

This indicates the number of Errors that occurred during the gating time.

Actual Errors

This indicates the number of errors that occurred during the last update interval of 200ms.

Error Detector Pattern

This displays the pattern that is currently being used by the Error Detector.

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Contents Agilent 125 Gb/s Serial Bert Herrenberger Str Revision 1.0 MaySafety Summary Environmental Information Contents Programming Reference Introduction Serial Bert CD content isInspect Shipment Front Panel Connect the InstrumentTo Connect N5980A Rear PanelSerial Bert setup diagram Install User Software for N5980ATo Install the User Software for N5980A Select the folder in which N5980A will be saved To Access N5980A Demo Offline Introduction Advanced ModeRunning the BER Test Setup Setting the Instrument ParametersAdvanced BER displays Gating BER and the Elapsed Gating Time Viewing the ResultsFile Menu Advanced ModeStore Setting Connection Menu Each PC can control only one N5980A ConnectInfo Error IndicatorsHelp Menu Sync Loss ErrorBER Bar Generator Setup and Advanced TabGeneral Input Error DetectorSFP Data Pattern SMA Data PatternGating BER Bar BER and Advanced BER TabActual Errors Gating ErrorsError Detector Pattern Advanced BERAgilent N5980A Command Summary Common Command SummaryID Query Scpi Instrument Command List- ReferenceCommon Commands Load factory default setting Read error queueOperation complete Option QueryRecall setting Store current settingAll Channels DataratePattern SMA Output Electrical GeneratorSOUR1PATT Either sets or gets the pattern of the SMA outputAdd Single Error Error InsertionInsertion Rate Output LevelEither sets or gets the pattern of the SFP output SFP Output Optical GeneratorSOUR2PATT Syntax SOUR2PATTEADD Once SOUR2PATTEADDRATESOUR2PATTEADD Once Detected Pattern Trigger OutputSOUR3PATT SENS1PATT?Actual Number of Errors Synchronization modeActual Bit Error Rate Gating Number of Errors Gating Bit Error RateGating Time Start GatingGating Progress Description Selects the input for the error detectorInput Selection SENS1INPSample Code Communicate with the instrument Programming Reference