Agilent Technologies E4400-90363 User Manual

ESG Family Signal Generators

Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases

If your ESG signal generator is older than the most current release date, and it hasn’t been upgraded, you are missing recently released features. Updating the firmware in your ESG lets you take advantage of feature enhancements and improvements. Hardware has also been enhanced periodically, to add capability or improve performance, based on customer requests.

New features may be as simple as a free firmware download (www.agilent.com/find/esg) or may also require upgrading ESG hardware (call Agilent Technologies).

NOTE This is a reverse chronological sorting of firmware and hardware feature

releases for the ESG family. Use this list to determine the firmware revision and minimum hardware needed to support a specific feature.

Release

Date

4/02 • Added External Frame Trigger

capability to EDGE Loopback BER.

• W-CDMA Specification Update to

3GPP 3.5 2001-03, Opt. 100-Volume 2. Added SCCPCH channel to downlink.

• Added Long Code Generation Mode data field to reverse link, Opt. 201 Real-Time cdma2000.

9/01 • Improves BER transport channel coding

of the DPCH channel at high data rates of 384 kbps.

8/01 • Corrects recent erroneous reporting of

SERR instead of DERR when synchronization is lost.

Feature Minimum Hard ware Required

ESG-D “B” with Opt. 300

ESG-D “B” with Opt. 100

ESG-D “B” with Opt. 201

ESG-D “B” with Opt. UN7

ESG-D “B” with Opt. 300

Firmware Required

≥ B.03.86

≥ B.03.84

≥ B.03.83

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Release

Date

06/01 • GSM/EDGE BS Loopback BER,

Opt. 300 Rev. B

• Enhances the revision A to enable FER, BLER, RBER, and sensitivity measurements on an EDGE BTS or transceiver module.

• New firmware revision supports the EDGE fully coded uplink signal generation according to the GSM 05.03 standard, version 8.3.0.

• The demodulator board and the BER board have been replaced to support the real-time demodulation and decoding of the EDGE signal in addition to the GSM signal.

04/01 • Updated W-CDMA 3GPP TFCI Coding

to match Standard, Opt. 100

• Enhanced the ESG with the ability to

support Signal Studio software

• Corrects recent erroneous reporting of configuration Error 617

02/01 Updated Revision Numbers for Fully

Coded 3GPP W-CDMA personality for

user equipment (downlink) and base station (uplink) testing, Opt. 200. Based on the following 3GPP Technical Specifications:

3G TS 25.101 V3.5 (2000-12) for Reference Measurement Channels,

3G TS 25.101 V3.3 (2000-06) for user equipment receiver characteristics testing, and

3G TS 24.141 V3.4 (2000-12) for base station testing.

Added 64k UDI multiple block downlink channel, per 3G TS 25.944 V3.3 (2000-12),

Opt. 200

Added UN3/4 time delay compatible GSM Gaussian filter, Opt. UN8

Feature Minimum Hard ware Required

ESG-D “B” with Opt. 300 and:

• Opt. UN8 with Option 202 Rev D (Baseband Fuzzy board E4400-60070 and Flex DG board E4400-60154)

•Opt. UNA

Not available in ESG-DP Not compatible with Opt. UND

Opt. UND Rev.A or better (Dual Arb board E4400-60069 or E4400-60187)

All ESG Series

ESG-D “B” with Opt. UN8 Rev. C or better (Baseband Fuzzy board E4400-60070 and Flex DG board E4400-60154)

Firmware Required

≥ B.03.80

≥ B.03.75

≥ B.03.72

• Updated Revision Numbers for W-CDMA 3GPP 3.4 12-00 for Component Test, Opt. 100

• Added multicarrier random phase, Opt. UND

• Added UN3/4 time delay compatible GSM Gaussian filter, Opt. UND

Opt. UND Rev. A or better (Dual Arb board E4400-60069 or E4400-60187)

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Release

Date

10/00 • Fully Coded (3GPP 3.2 3-00) W-CDMA

personality for user equipment

(downlink) and base station (uplink) testing, Opt. 200 (initial release). Based on the following 3GPP Technical Specifications: 3G TS 25.101 V3.2.2 (2000-04) for user equipment testing and 3G TS 24.141 V3.1.0 (2000-03) for base station testing.

• Added reverse link capability to the Real-Time cdma2000 personality for fully coded base station testing, Opt. 201

• Added signal-selection capability for

certain BNC output connectors to the Real-Time cdma2000 personality,

Opt. 201

• Enhanced Bluetooth capability, Opt UND. Added sine frequency drift impairment, AWGN, continuous PN9 sequence, and clock/gate signal for BER testing.

9/00 • Changed Walsh code assignments for

reverse link channels to match specifications, Opt. 101

• Changed reverse link Q long code from 1 chip advance (relative to I long code) to 1 chip delay, Opt. 101

• Correctly display the power when PSCH and SSCH channels are on at the same time, Opt. 100

• Removed 307200 rate for RC3 suppl 1 and suppl 2 traffic channels, Opt. 101

• Replaced a suppl 1 traffic channel in reverse link 5 setup with a suppl 2 traffic channel, Opt. 101

• Changed cdma2000 spread rate default to SR1, Opt. 101

Feature Minimum Hard ware Required

ESG-D “B” with Opt. UN8 Rev. C or better (Baseband Fuzzy board E4400-60070 and Flex DG board E4400-60154)

Opt. UND Rev. A or better (Dual Arb board E4400-60069 or E4400-60187)

Firmware Required

≥ B.03.60

≥ B.03.51

7/00 • Improved ACP, Opt. H99 (Revision B) ESG-D/DP “B” with Opt. H99 (Revision B)

or better (A9 Output Board, E4400-60188)

≥ B.03.50

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