Configuration - Screens and Control Fields

Control Fields on the Configuration Screens

Flow Control

The flow control field is used when sending or receiving serial data.

None disables the Xon/Xoff function.

Xon/Xoff lets the Test Set “talk/listen” to the transceiver to alter the rate of the data being sent.

Hardware uses the serial port’s RTS and CTS lines to transfer data at high baud rates.

NOTE

Do not turn flow control on (set Flow Cntl to Hardware in the I/O

 

CONFIGURE screen) for the serial port until you have a device

 

attached to the port that can respond to the flow control

 

communications.

 

Example: You have a printer attached to SERIAL PORT 9. Before you

 

run any IBASIC software (for example, the RFTOOLS program), you

 

must make sure that the printer is properly connected and that its

 

power is turned on.

 

Operating Considerations

 

This setting is retained when the instrument is turned off.

 

Baud rates of 38400 and above must use Hardware flow control.

 

When in remote mode (Remote Mode field is set to On), this field is

 

inaccessible.

 

Screen(s) Where Field is Present

 

I/O CONFIGURE

 

Frame Clock Output

 

This field selects the frame clock signal to send to the FRAME CLOCK

 

OUT connector.

 

Screen(s) Where Field is Present

 

INSTRUMENT CONFIGURE

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Agilent Technologies 8935 series e6380a manual Flow Control, Frame Clock Output, Inaccessible, OUT connector