Specifications

Chapter 1 5

Operating the Agilent Technologies 83212D Software

Compatibility with earlier software versions

several seconds the new Procedure Menu is displayed, from which

you can make a selection.

• To run modiﬁed test procedures which have not yet been saved to a

card, you must use the

Edit Proc

screen (see “Making your own test

procedures” on page 24). Attempting to run from elsewhere may

cause another procedure to be loaded, thus overwriting any

modiﬁcations.

• Printer set-up now may be performed using a single Printer Menu

(see “Printing test results” on page 35). There is no need to use the

Edit Conﬁgure screen. The 83212D also supports the Centronics

printer interface.

• You can now access the

Manual

procedure using the

Flowchart

option from the Sequence Menu (see “Flowchart Test” on page 20).

HP/Agilent 83212B users

The 83212D Software supports PCS1900 in addition to GSM900 and

DCS1800. Dual-Band Handover test and GSM Phase II power levels

are now also supported.

The 83212D is fully backwards compatible with the 83212B. All test

procedures developed for the 83212B also run on the 83212D (see

“Overview of changes contained in Agilent 83212D” on page 3 for more

details).

In addition to GPIB and RS-232 printer interfaces, the 83212D also

supports the Centronics parallel printer interface.

HP/Agilent 83212C users

Dual-Band Handover test and GSM Phase II power levels are now also

supported.

The 83212D is fully backwards compatible with the 83212C. All test

procedures developed for the 83212C also run on the 83212D, although

if certain speciﬁcation values have been edited then these will be

overridden by the hardcoded values in the new software (see “Overview

of changes contained in Agilent 83212D” on page 3 for more details).