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N1010A FlexDCA and 86100A/B/C/D
Firmware Release Notes
A.01.50 Release Notes, September, 2011
(Differences from Release A.01.03)
New Feature List
• Ability to apply SIRC (System Impulse Response Capability) correction data for
86105C, 86105D, 86115D, or 86116C optical modules. SIRC data corrects for a
module’s specific response.
• Perform vertical module calibrations and dark calibrations from within FlexDCA,
as well as view the calibration status.
• FlexDCA now has a remote SCPI interface.
• When running on an 86100D mainframe, FlexDCA can be controlled using the
HiSLIP, Telnet, or Sockets protocols.
• When running on a 32- bit Windows operating system, FlexDCA can be con-
trolled using HiSLIP, Telnet, VXI- 11, Sockets, GPIB, or USB (hardware permit-
ting).
• New tools to explore and learn the SCPI command set:
• A new SCPI Recorder control that records and displays the equivalent SCPI
commands as the user interacts with the graphical user interface.
• A new Interactive SCPI Command Tree that allows the user to explore the en-
tire SCPI command set and execute individual commands directly from the tree
view.
• New optical channel measurements added:
• Average Power (Oscilloscope mode)
•Average Power (Eye/Mask mode)
• Extinction Ratio (Eye/Mask mode)
• Ability to apply RJ and RN compensation factors to compensate for the
measurement system's intrinsic RJ and RN. It is not yet available in conjunction
with signal processing operators, such as de- embedding.
• New Amplify and Square math functions.
• Added the following Fibre Channel masks:
• 4.25 Gb/s Fibre Channel Delta R
• 4.25 Gb/s Fibre Channel Delta T
• 4.25 Gb/s Fibre Channel Delta T (Norm)
• 8.5 Gb/s Fibre Channel Delta R
• 8.5 Gb/s Fibre Channel Delta T
• 16x Fibre Channel Delta R
• 16x Fibre Channel Delta T
• The 83496A/B/C and 86108A clock recovery modules now support an additional
front panel clock sub- rate of divide- by- 32, as well as new super- rates of x2, x4,
and x8.
• Added new standard bit rate 41.25 Gb/s (40Gb Ethernet) selection for pattern lock
triggering and clock recovery, external precision timebase frequency, and
horizontal (timebase) scale units of bits.
• Added CPRI and OBSAI bit rates to the standard rate selection lists.
• Optimized waveform graticule size to fill its available space. Towards this end, the
marker control- panel button has been moved inside the graticule area (upper
right- hand corner). The acquisition limit status and smoothing status annotations
now reside directly below the top menu area and, as before, are visible when the
associated feature is active.
• Sharper mini signal waveforms (displayed in the signals palette and the source
select dialog).
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