Viewing the Results | Agilent Technologies N5980A manual

Operating N5980A with the User Interface

Viewing the Results

There are two options for viewing the results, BER and Advanced

BER, as shown below.

BER displays Gating BER and the Elapsed Gating Time.

The Advanced BER page can be opened only when Advanced Mode is enabled. See below:

In this page you can see the Gating Errors, Actual Errors , and the

Pattern that is currently being used by the Error Detector.

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Agilent Technologies N5980A manual Viewing the Results, BER displays Gating BER and the Elapsed Gating Time

Contents

Agilent 125 Gb/s Serial Bert Revision 1.0 May Herrenberger Str Safety Summary Environmental Information Contents Programming Reference Introduction Serial Bert CD content isInspect Shipment 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 File Menu Advanced ModeStore Setting Connection Menu Connect Each PC can control only one N5980A Info Error IndicatorsHelp Menu Sync Loss ErrorBER Bar Generator Setup and Advanced TabGeneral 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 ID Query Scpi Instrument Command List- ReferenceCommon Commands 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 Either sets or gets the pattern of the SFP output SFP Output Optical GeneratorSOUR2PATT Syntax SOUR2PATTEADD Once SOUR2PATTEADDRATESOUR2PATTEADD Once Trigger Output Detected PatternSOUR3PATT SENS1PATT? Actual Number of Errors Synchronization modeActual Bit Error Rate 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