Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases

ESG Family Signal Generators

Release

Feature

Minimum Hardware Required

Firmware

Date

Required

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

06/01

GSM/EDGE BS Loopback BER,

ESG-D “B” with Opt. 300 and:

B.03.80

 

Opt. 300 Rev. B

• Opt. UN8 with Option 202 Rev D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Enhances the revision A to enable FER,

(Baseband Fuzzy board E4400-60070

 

 

 

BLER, RBER, and sensitivity

and Flex DG board E4400-60154)

 

 

 

measurements on an EDGE BTS or

• Opt. UNA

 

 

 

transceiver module.

Not available in ESG-DP

 

 

 

• New firmware revision supports the

 

 

 

Not compatible with Opt. UND

 

 

 

EDGE fully coded uplink signal

 

 

 

 

generation according to the GSM 05.03

 

 

 

 

standard, version 8.3.0.

 

 

 

 

• The demodulator board and the BER

 

 

 

 

board have been replaced to support the

 

 

 

 

real-time demodulation and decoding of

 

 

 

 

the EDGE signal in addition to the GSM

 

 

 

 

signal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

04/01

Updated W-CDMA 3GPP TFCI Coding

Opt. UND Rev.A or better (Dual Arb board

B.03.75

 

to match Standard, Opt. 100

E4400-60069 or E4400-60187)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enhanced the ESG with the ability to

All ESG Series

 

 

 

support Signal Studio software

 

 

 

 

Corrects recent erroneous reporting

 

 

 

 

of configuration Error 617

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/01

Updated Revision Numbers for Fully

ESG-D “B” with Opt. UN8 Rev. C or better

B.03.72

 

Coded 3GPP W-CDMA personality for

(Baseband Fuzzy board E4400-60070 and

 

 

 

user equipment (downlink) and base station

Flex DG board E4400-60154)

 

 

 

(uplink) testing, Opt. 200. Based on the

 

 

 

 

following 3GPP Technical Specifications:

 

 

 

 

3G TS 25.101 V3.5 (2000-12) for Reference

 

 

 

 

Measurement Channels,

 

 

 

 

3G TS 25.101 V3.3 (2000-06) for user

 

 

 

 

equipment receiver characteristics testing,

 

 

 

 

and

 

 

 

 

3G TS 24.141 V3.4 (2000-12) for base station

 

 

 

 

testing.

 

 

 

 

Added 64k UDI multiple block downlink

 

 

 

 

channel, per 3G TS 25.944 V3.3 (2000-12),

 

 

 

 

Opt. 200

 

 

 

 

Added UN3/4 time delay compatible GSM

 

 

 

 

Gaussian filter, Opt. UN8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated Revision Numbers for

Opt. UND Rev. A or better (Dual Arb board

 

 

 

W-CDMA 3GPP 3.4 12-00 for

E4400-60069 or E4400-60187)

 

 

 

Component Test, Opt. 100

 

 

 

 

Added multicarrier random phase,

 

 

 

 

Opt. UND

 

 

 

 

Added UN3/4 time delay compatible

 

 

 

 

GSM Gaussian filter, Opt. UND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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E4400-90363

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Agilent Technologies E4400-90363 manual GSM/EDGE BS Loopback BER, Updated W-CDMA 3GPP Tfci Coding, To match Standard, Opt

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