Technical data

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86100A/B/C
Firmware Release Notes
A.06.01 Release Notes, September 21, 2006 (Differences from Re-
lease A.06.00)
New Feature List
• Added eye masks for 10G BASE LRM, 1000Base-LX10, 100Base-BX10, ITU g.984.2
General Defects Fixed
• Corrected the 100Base-BX/LX mask scale to now have Delta T set to 8E-9 seconds
• Function<N>:Vertical? Now returns correct value.
• Differential TDR deskew is correctly locked out when calibration is active.
• Missing specification for max input for 83496A included in help file.
• Missing note on specification for 83491/2/3 included in help file.
• Changed module vertical calibration messages for 86118A modules to say "Connect all
necessary cables and adaptors for measurement to the <Left | Right> module.
• Addressed MEAS:TDR:MAX, MIN, AVE queries after default setup causing a crash.
• No longer issues a GPIB hardware missing error using autoscale after tdr/tdt cal.
• LTER? Now correctly sets bit 0 (COMP) when acquisition is complete.
• :TDR:STIMulus:EXTernal:POLarity? now returns correct data when longform is on.
• Fixed a problem when reading in a pattern waveform csv file written by hand.
• Fixed intermittent application crash during certain TDR mode recall setups.
• Fixed crash that happened with :MEAS:VTIM? .000001 in TDR mode right after default
setup.
• Fixed a bug causing probe calibrations to fail (Traces may be displayed during
calibrations).
• Added special options H93 and H95 for 5.00Gb/s and 6.25Gb/s to the 86105C.
Software Option Packages (#200 and #202) Defects Fixed
• Fixed problems with jitter plots after default setup (#200).
• Fixed problem where PJ is greater than DJ in some cases. (Still possible for PJ to be
greater than DJ if DJ/PJ small enough since they are calculated from different histograms)
( #200).
• Added new S-parameter specs to TDR (#202).
• Fixed defect preventing the save of differential or common mode S-Parameters from
remote (#202).
Known Issues
• PLTS customers should not upgrade to A.06.00 and above software at this time since the
executable properly. PLTS customers should use DCA firmware version A.04.11.
• 86119A (Optical Sampling Oscilloscope) is designed to work on software versions A.03.06
and A.03.05 only.
• 86100A/B Mainframes are not supported on DCA Firmware Revision A.06.00 and above.