Technical data

86100A/B/C

Firmware Release Notes

86100C/86100B/86100A Firmware Release Notes

A.05.00 Release Notes, February 16, 2005 (Differences from Release

A.04.20)

New Feature List

• Support for 86100A/B/C Mainframe

• Maximum/Minimum/Average Measurements in TDR Mode

• Export of waveform data in X & Y format

• Display of ER Cal factor

• Added the following masks (100BASE-BX_LX10.msk, SATA 1.5Gb TX 250 cycles.msk,

SATA 1.5GB TX 5 Cycles.msk)

General Firmware Defects Fixed in A.05.00

• 86100B + 54754A previously did not invert white trace color on print. The waveform color

is set to gray during printing to prevent a white waveform trace on a white background.

• Repaired 86106B and other modules with un-labeled filter rates not successfully

completing Autoscale when filter is enabled

• Phase is correct now for reference clock frequencies between 25 GHz and 39 GHz on the

40 GHz input of an 86107A Option 40 module.

• Repaired inconsistent pattern waveform loading behavior

• Extinction Ratio calibration factor is always loaded into dialog boxes

• Removed stray entry out of range message at end of ER calibration

• After 86100C power cycle, TDR mode is recalled properly

• Removed the ability to load and store TDR/TDT calibration data since not all instrument

states were being saved properly.

• Allowed TDT normalization to work with external TDR stimulus

• Repaired a crash if remote commands (:MEAS:TDR: MAX MIN AVE) was sent without

putting the oscilloscope in TDR mode first.

Known Issues

• PLTS customers should not upgrade to 5.0 software at this time since the executable will

fail to run properly. PLTS customers should use DCA firmware version 4.11.

• 86119A (Optical Sampling Oscilloscope) is designed to work on software versions A.03.06

and A.03.05 only.

A.04.20 Release Notes, June 9, 2005 (Differences from Release

A.04.11)

New Feature List

• Support for 83496A Clock Recovery Module

• Supports Picosecond Pulse Lab 4020 Single ended TDR sources and Picosecond Pulse Lab

4022 Differential TDR/T Sources. Provides external common and differential mode