Technical data

86100A/B/C

Firmware Release Notes

Defects Fixed

• Fixed a defect that was causing the trace to jump to the top of the graticule when vertical

offset was increased (the trace was moved down the screen).

• Release assertion on accessing algorithm for ACVrms. The MeasID for ACVrms and its

corresponding HelpID were not in the measurement help search list.

• Fixed issues with waveform memory dialog box.

• Fixed a defect where 40 GBit/s would not highlight in the timebase dialog, when the user

would choose it via the BitRateCtrl.

• Fixed a defect where failure occurred while bringing up saved waveform from file.

• Fixed a defect where saving screen image in .ps or .eps format causes a crash. A data buffer

wasn't being allocated large enough which caused the stack and memory to be corrupted.

• The :DISK commands: CDIRectory and DIRectory now accept the long form of the token

WAVeforms. WAVeforms was misspelled in the yuc code.

• "Orphan" radio controls - single radio controls which are not grouped with any other

controls - now appear as text labels. These "display only" radio controls do not respond to

any user action.

• 83485B and 86106A modules were defaulting to incorrect bandwidth for optical channels.

Changed code to default optical channels to high bandwidth. The user can still set to low

bandwidth via remote interface only.

• BackLight will not go off. Fixed this defect by ensuring that the screen saver timer only

resets in the event of an actual change in mouse coordinates.

• WAV:DATA? returns extra carriage return. Carriage return only appears at the end of the

output stream.

• The title of the cal failed dialog specifies the type of cal that failed instead of a generic

'Calibration failed' title.

• Exceeding # of display labels hangs the instrument. When the user tries to create more

than 32 labels from the remote, a dialog box is displayed. The user needs to click on the

continue button to continue. Since the front panel is locked by the remote, the user cannot

continue. The dialog was replaced with a message in the display and a remote error.

• Default Setup was generating hardware missing errors when clock recovery modules were

installed.

• Module channels of non clock modules were not being enabled when a clock module was

installed upon default setup or module install.

• Measurement queries repeated in fast succession caused invalid result to be returned.

• Resolved MEAS:RES returning bad data.

• Fixed issue where the electrical bandwidth for 86106A and 86109A modules are incorrect.

Changed Module script to reflect the actual bandwidth. Made changes so that the correct

IFGain is used for building the acquisition look through table.

• Remote command to create directories only accepts drive A: or User Files, resolved.

• Remote disk commands don't permit the use of mapped drives, resolved.

• Autoscale resets power units from dBm to Watts when Quick measure is on, resolved.

• Autoscale improved to accommodate more waveforms.

Factory Only Enhancements

• Improved timebase calibration routine by making the polynomial calibration internal. This

allows field timebase calibration, prior revisions can not be supported