Agilent Technologies E4438C General Characteristics, RS-232 connector, Auxiliary I/O connector

General Characteristics

RS-232 connector

This male DB-9 connector is an RS-232 serial port that can be used for controlling the signal generator remotely. It is functionally equivalent to the GPIB connector. The following table shows the description of the pinouts. The pin configuration is shown below.

Pin number			Signal description		Signal name
1			No connection
2			Receive data		RECV
3			Transmit data		XMIT
4			+5 V
5			Ground, 0 V
6			No connection
7			Request to send		RTS
8			Clear to send		CTS
9			No connection
5	4	3	2	1
	9	8	7	6

View looking into rear panel connector

Auxiliary I/O connector

This connector enables you to access the inputs and outputs of the baseband generator. The figure below shows the Auxiliary I/O pin connector configuration.

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Event 3

GND

Event 4

GND

Patt trig in 2

GND

Alt pwr in

GND

Parallel data 1*

Parallel data 2*

GND

Parallel data 3*

GND

Parallel data 4*

GND

Parallel data 5*

GND

Parallel data 6*

GND

Parallel data 7*

Parallel data 8*

GND

Parallel data clk*

GND

Data out

GND

Data clk out

GND

Sym sync out

GND

BER sync loss

BER meas trig/BER no data

GND (BER)

BER err out

GND (BER)

BER test out

BER meas end

*Future capability

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1

View looking into rear panel connector

Mating connector 37 pin male D-subminiature, available from AMP, 3M, others.

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