Welcome to the R&S ZNB/ZNBT
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ZNB/ZNBT
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2 Welcome to the R&S ZNB/ZNBT
This manual is intended to provide you with all information that is necessary for setup,
manual and remote control of the R&S ZNB/ZNBT.
We also invite you to find out what's new in the current revision of the software and
learn how to make best use of our documentation and of the help system.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact your partners at Rohde &
Schwarz and give us your feedback.
2.1 What's new in firmware version 3.45
This manual describes version 3.45 of the R&S ZNB/ZNBT firmware. Compared to the
previous version 3.40, firmware version 3.45 provides the following changes:
New functionality
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Firmware support of new 2nd generation R&S ZNB model R&S ZNB43
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Option R&S ZNB40-B73/-U73: Reflector board with ESD limiters for R&S ZNB40
See Chapter 4.7.24, "R&S ZNB40 reflector module with ESD limiters", on page 262
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Deembedding assistant for ISD, SFD, and EZD: New dedicated softtool tab and
dock widget simplify common deembedding scenarios
See Chapter 5.13.11, "Deembed Assistant tab", on page 652
Note that the deembedding assistant requires at least one of the related software
options R&S ZNB/ZNBT-K220, R&S ZNB/ZNBT-K230, or R&S ZNB/ZNBT-K210.
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LO suppression function, reducing the LO power leaking out of the test ports.
See "LO Suppression" on page 579
Modified functionality
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Sound feature (limit line fail beeps, keyboard clicks etc.) no longer available
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Redefined physical ports: An external generator now must be configured before it
can be used as source port in remote command [SENSe:]UDSParams<Pt>:
PARam.
New remote control features
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New commands CALCulate:LIMit:POINts:LOWer? and CALCulate:LIMit:
POINts:UPPer? to query the effective limit line data
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New and improved HUMS commands (R&S ZNA-K980)
See Chapter 7.4, "HUMS and service date commands", on page 1439
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Various reference marker commands
CALCulate<Chn>:MARKer<Mk>:REFerence:... added; same functionality as
for regular markers
Improvements
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Delta-L 4.0 PCB characterization (R&S ZNB/ZNBT-K231): GUI improvements
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ISD (R&S ZNB/ZNBT-K220), SFD (R&S ZNB/ZNBT-K230), EZD (R&S ZNB/ZNBT-
K210):
What's new in firmware version 3.45