Agilent Technologies N5980A specification

Getting Started

To Install the User Software for N5980A

1Insert the CD in the PC’s CD Drive.

2Double-click

Displays the Welcome screen.

3The Installer guides you through the installation process.

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Agilent Technologies manual To Install the User Software for N5980A

Contents

Agilent 125 Gb/s Serial Bert Revision 1.0 May Herrenberger Str Safety Summary Environmental Information Contents Programming Reference Introduction CD content is Inspect ShipmentSerial Bert Connect the Instrument Front Panel Rear Panel To Connect N5980A Install User Software for N5980A Serial Bert setup diagram To Install the User Software for N5980A Select the folder in which N5980A will be saved To Access N5980A Demo Offline Advanced Mode Introduction Running the BER Test Setting the Instrument Parameters Setup Advanced Viewing the Results BER displays Gating BER and the Elapsed Gating Time Advanced Mode Store SettingFile Menu Connection Menu Connect Each PC can control only one N5980A Error Indicators Help MenuInfo Error BER BarSync Loss Setup and Advanced Tab GeneralGenerator Error Detector InputSFP Data Pattern SMA Data Pattern BER and Advanced BER Tab Gating BER Bar Gating Errors Actual ErrorsError Detector Pattern Advanced BER Common Command Summary Agilent N5980A Command Summary Scpi Instrument Command List- Reference Common CommandsID Query Read error queue Load factory default settingOperation complete Option Query Store current setting Recall settingAll Channels Datarate SMA Output Electrical Generator PatternSOUR1PATT Either sets or gets the pattern of the SMA output Error Insertion Add Single ErrorInsertion Rate Output Level SFP Output Optical Generator SOUR2PATTEither sets or gets the pattern of the SFP output SOUR2PATTEADDRATE SOUR2PATTEADD OnceSyntax SOUR2PATTEADD Once Trigger Output Detected PatternSOUR3PATT SENS1PATT? Synchronization mode Actual Bit Error RateActual Number of Errors Gating Bit Error Rate Gating Number of ErrorsGating Time Start Gating Description Selects the input for the error detector Gating ProgressInput Selection SENS1INP Sample Code Communicate with the instrument Programming Reference