Technical data

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86100A/B/C
Firmware Release Notes
86100C-Only Firmware Release Notes
A.09.01 Release Notes, July, 2010 (Differences from Release A.09.00)
General Defects Fixed
• Improved the behavior of Autoscale and Jitter mode when using the precision timebase
with spread-spectrum clocks.
Known Issues
• 86119A (Optical Sampling Oscilloscope) is designed to work on software versions A.03.06
and A.03.05 only.
A.09.00 Release Notes, June 10, 2010 (Differences from Release
A.08.10)
New Feature List
• Support for new 86115D 20 GHz optical module.
• Seven new standard masks. Five cover 802.3, Revision D3.1 and two cover FC-PI5,
Revision 1.0.
• Eye tuning in Eye/Mask mode adds the ability to tune a device while simultaneously
watching changes to the eye diagram and eye diagram measurements.
• Improved online help system with search capability.
General Defects Fixed
• Jitter Database file (.CSV) now correctly saves the TI CDF one level data.
• Several eye-measurements bugs were fixed.
• Increased number of digits in touchstone format.
• Fixed impedance values when saving differential and common mode s-parameters in
touchstone files.
• Fixed a crash that occurred after vertical calibration if histograms are turned on.
• Increased maximum average count in TDR mode.
Known Issues
• 86119A (Optical Sampling Oscilloscope) is designed to work on software versions A.03.06
and A.03.05 only.
A.08.10 Release Notes, April 8, 2009 (Differences from Release
A.08.00)
New Feature List
• Clock Recovery Up To 14.2 Gb/s: The 86108A Precision Waveform Analyzer and 83496B
Clock Recovery modules now run from 50 Mb/s to 14.2 Gb/s, allowing customers to recover