Agilent Technologies N5980A Advanced BER

Reference for the User Interface

The screenshot below shows the Gating BER Bar.

Elapsed Gating Time

This bar shows the gating time while the test runs.

Before the test begins this bar is empty as shown below:

And after the gating time is complete this bar appears as shown

below:

Advanced BER

This page contains Gating Error, Actual Error, Error Detector Pattern

Gating BER Bar, and Elapsed Gating Time.

Gating Errors

This indicates the number of Errors that occurred during the gating

time.

Actual Errors

This indicates the number of errors that occurred during the last

update interval of 200ms.

Error Detector Pattern

This displays the pattern that is currently being used by the Error

Detector.

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Contents

Main Notices Manual Part Number Edition For Assistance and Support Safety Summary Safety Symbols on Instruments Environmental Information Contents Page 1 Introduction 2 Getting Started Inspect Shipment Connect the Instrument Front Panel SFP NOTE LED Rear Panel NOTE Install User Software for N5980A NOTE To Install the User Software for N5980A Page To Access N5980A NOTE Demo Offline 3 Operating N5980A with the User Interface Introduction NOTE Running the BER Test NOTE Setting the Instrument Parameters Setup NOTE Advanced Viewing the Results 4 Reference for the User Interface File Menu Advanced Mode Store Setting Store Setting As Connection Menu Connect NOTE Info Help Menu Error Indicators BER Bar Error Sync Loss NOTE Setup and Advanced Tab Setup General Generator NOTE Advanced Generator NOTE NOTE Error Detector BER and Advanced BER Tab BER Gating BER Bar Advanced BER 5 Programming Reference Introduction Common Command Summary Agilent N5980A Command Summary SCPI Instrument Command List- Reference Common Commands ID Query Read error queue Load factory default setting Operation complete Option Query Self test All Channels Datarate Programming Reference SMA Output (Electrical Generator) 34 N5980A User Guide The SMA output is accessed via the root node :SOUR1 Programming Reference Error Insertion N5980A User Guide 35 Insertion Rate Add Single Error Output Level SFP Output (Optical Generator) Programming Reference Error Insertion N5980A User Guide 37 Insertion Rate Add Single Error Trigger Output 38 N5980A User Guide The trigger output is accessible via the root node :SOUR3 Pattern Synchronization mode Actual Bit Error Rate Actual Number of Errors Gating Time Gating Bit Error Rate Gating Number of Errors Start Gating Abort Gating Gating Progress Input Selection Programming Reference Sample Code 42 N5980A User Guide Programming Reference Communicate with the instrument N5980A User Guide 43