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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 down
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Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases ESG Family Signal Generators Release Firmware Feature Minimum Hardware Required Required Date 06/01 GSM/EDGE BS Loopback BER, ESG-D “B” with Opt. 300 and: ≥ B.03.80 Opt. 300 Rev. B Opt. UN8 with Option 202 Rev D Enhances the revision A to enable FER, (Baseband Fuzzy board E4400-60070 BLER, RBER, and sensitivity and Flex DG board E4400-60154) measurements on an EDGE BTS or Opt. UNA transceiver module. Not available in ESG-DP New firmwar
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ESG Family Signal Generators Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases Release Firmware Feature Minimum Hardware Required Required Date 10/00 Fully Coded (3GPP 3.2 3-00) W-CDMA ESG-D “B” with Opt. UN8 Rev. C or better ≥ B.03.60 personality for user equipment (Baseband Fuzzy board E4400-60070 and (downlink) and base station (uplink) Flex DG board E4400-60154) testing, Opt. 200 (initial release). Based on the following 3GPP Technical Specifications: 3G TS 25.101 V3.2.2 (2000-04) for
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Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases ESG Family Signal Generators Release Firmware Feature Minimum Hardware Required Required Date 6/00 Quick Paging Channel, Opt. 201 ESG-D “B” with Opt. UN8 Rev. C or better ≥ B.03.50 (Baseband Fuzzy board E4400-60070 and F-FCH/F-SCH Frame Offsets 0 to 15, Flex DG board E4400-60154) Opt. 201 F-FCH/F-SCH Quasi Orthogonal Functions 0 to 3, Opt. 201 2-ESG Power Setting UI, Opt. 201 EDGE Specification Update to Revision 8.3.0-1999, Opt. 20
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ESG Family Signal Generators Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases Release Firmware Feature Minimum Hardware Required Required Date 11/99 Bluetooth Personality, Opt. UND Opt. UND Rev. A, or better (Dual Arb board ≥ B.03.20 E4400-60069) Multicarrier NADC, PDC, PHS, GSM, Opt. UND Rev. B or better (Dual Arb board DECT, EDGE, TETRA, PWT, CDPD, E4400-60187). Rev B board (E4400-60187) APCO25, Opt. UND will give flatter baseband signals than Rev A board (E4400-60069). Enhanced Cli
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Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases ESG Family Signal Generators Release Firmware Feature Minimum Hardware Required Required Date 8/99 ESG-AP Models E4424B - E4427B ≥ B.03.00 ESG-DP Models E4434B - E4437B Fast Pulse, Opt. 1E6 (initial release) ESG-A or ESG-AP (analog) Not available in ESG-D or ESG-DP (digital) Trigger then Continuous Run, Opt. UN8 Rev. D (Baseband Fuzzy board external frame trigger enhancement E4400-60070 and Flex DG board E4400-60154) EDGE Personal
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ESG Family Signal Generators Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases Release Firmware Feature Minimum Hardware Required Required Date 12/98 Multi-Carrier IS-95 CDMA for ESG ‘B” with Opt. UND Rev. B or greater. ≥ B.02.24 Component Test, Opt. UN5 Rev. B Rev B board (E4400-60187) will give flatter enhancement baseband signals than Rev A board W-CDMA Trial System Multi-Channel (E4400-60069). Rev. B board also allows Table Editor, Opt H97 enhancement for trigger inputs and marker out
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Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases ESG Family Signal Generators Release Firmware Feature Minimum Hardware Required Required Date 4/98 ESG “B” Revision Platform Roll, E4400B/20B/21B/22B (ESG “B”) ≥ B.01.03 includes more firmware memory, bigger E4430B/31B/32B/33B (ESG-D “B”) power supply to allow for more options in one instrument. Includes the following: Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Opt. UND Rev. A board (E4400-60069) Opt. UND Rev. A (initial release) Multichannel IS-95
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ESG Family Signal Generators Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases ESG-D Baseband Generator Evolution (Oldest to Newest) TDMA Baseband Generators 1EH - Original, single-board baseband generator. Provided NADC, GSM, PDC, and PHS personalities. Limited flexibility to change data rates and filters. UN3/4 - Two-board enhanced baseband generator. Provided NADC, GSM, PDC, PHS, and new DECT and TETRA personalities. More flexibility to change data rates and filters over a limited range. UN
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Agilent Technologies ESG Family Feature Releases ESG Family Signal Generators 10 E4400-90363
