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June
26, 2014
Contains latest information on the Keysight 81150A
Content:
- Installation
- Preparing
a USB flash drive for use with the 81150A
- On-Line Information
- Known
Problems
Installation
Package Contents
The software package should contain the following
files:
·
81150A.bin
·
nk.bin
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fb\update.txt
·
update.xml
·
ReadMe.html
Supported Models
This software update package supports the Keysight
81150A only.
Software History
·
3.0.0.0 – Do NOT downgrade your instrument
firmware
·
2.0.11.0 – Do NOT downgrade your instrument
firmware
- Browser Web-Control: Digitally
signed applet, because of stricter security handling
by new JAVA runtime versions.
- Resolved problem: Pattern
option is falsely stated as PAT_330.
- Resolved problem: The
parameter 'output impedance' does not appear in GUI any more.
·
2.0.10.0 – Do NOT downgrade your instrument
firmware
- Browser Web-Control:
Removed limitation to SUN Java runtime.
·
2.0.9.0 – Do NOT downgrade your instrument
firmware
- Resolved problem:
Memory handling has been improved
·
2.0.7.0 – Do NOT downgrade your instrument
firmware
- Resolved problem:
Prevent signal interruptions when changing from remote to local
·
2.0.5.0 – Do NOT downgrade your instrument
firmware
- Support of new DAC
revision
- Enhancement: Support
burst length up to 2E31-1
- Resolved problem:
Updating parameters in manual trigger mode
- Resolved problem:
Modulation parameter check caused misleading error messages
·
2.0.1.0 – Do NOT downgrade your instrument
firmware
- Pattern functionality
added
- Support of new front
panel board
·
1.2.0.0
- Enhancement: Allow 25mV
overprogramming for Amplitude
- Enhancement: Reduce
Delay Resolution from 100ps to 1ps
- Resolved problem:
Switching output polarity has no effect in triggered/gated mode if there
is no trigger/active gate
- Resolved problem:
Manual Trigger does not work correctly
- Resolved problem:
Crash when downloading an ARB waveform with length < 2
- Resolved problem:
Bursts after Frequency changes in Coupling mode
- Resolved problem:
Amplitude values not fully scalable (dbm - values)
- Resolved problem: *RST
changes signal before turning off outputs
Software Update Requirements
To install this software update on the Keysight
81150A, a USB memory key with at least 100MB of free space is required. The USB
memory key must be formatted using the FAT32 file system on a primary
partition. Do not use a USB key that contains an extended partition, since this
will not be recognized by the BIOS and the recovery mechanism that will
continue a broken update will not work USB keys that are formatted as super
floppy are not supported.
Refer to your computer's documentation on how to
check the type of partitioning and how to change the partition type of the USB
memory key.
Software Update Procedure
- Copy the zip file to the root
directory of the USB memory key. Do not extract the contents of the zip
file!
- Disconnect any USB memory
devices from the Keysight 81150A.
- Connect the USB memory key
that contains the software update to the Keysight 81150A.
- Press the Utility key,
then the System softkey. On the system screen, press the Configuration
softkey to enter the configuration screen.
- The Configuration screen does
show the currently installed software version and hardware configuration.
Pressing the Software Update softkey will enter the software
update screen.
- The software update screen
displays a brief instruction on how to install the software update. The
Update softkey is only enabled when a USB memory key that holds a valid
update package is being detected. Pressing the Update softkey will
start the software update application.
- The software update
application will scan the connected USB memory key for a valid software
update package and displays the software revision contained in the
package if one is found. It will then prompt whether to install the
update or not.
- If selecting No, the
software update application is being closed again and the normal
instrument firmware will continue to run.
- If selecting Yes, the
update will do the following:
·
Extract the new instrument firmware and a system
recovery firmware to the USB memory key.
·
Verify the validity of the extracted images.
·
Erase the instrument's currently used firmware
image.
·
Update the instrument's flash memory with the
extracted firmware image.
·
Verify the just written flash memory content
against the firmware image file on the USB memory key.
·
Delete all the extracted files from the USB
memory key.
·
Reboot the instrument.
The USB memory must stay connected until the
instrument has finished the reboot and the updated instrument firmware is
running successfully.
If the update is getting interrupted during the
erase or write of the flash memory, the instrument will boot the system
recovery image from the USB memory key at the next power up. The system
recovery update is fully automatic. It is using the already extracted files
from the previous regular software update.
Note: During
the software update from revision 1.x to 2.0 the image on the display is
shortly rotated by 180° followed by a black display for about 10s. This is normal behavior. Do not power down
the instrument while the display is black!
Preparing a USB Flash Drive for usage with the
81150A using Windows Vista®
The following description is intended to help you prepare an USB flash drive if
it is not being detected by the 81150A, or if the recovery mechanism of the
software update was not able to bring up the instrument after an interrupted
software update.
Notes:
·
You need to have administrative rights on your
computer to execute the following steps.
·
The steps mentioned below will erase all data from
the USB flash drive.
·
The procedure does not work on computers that
have Windows XP installed on them, since the required partition tool does not
support USB flash drives on Windows XP.
- Click on the Windows logo and
type “cmd”.
- At the command prompt type “diskpart”
and press enter (allow permissions and continue).
- When you are at the diskpart>
prompt type “list disk” and press enter.
- Insert the USB flash drive
into the Windows Vista PC.
- Wait until Windows Vista has
recognized the USB flash drive.
- At the diskpart>
prompt type “list disk” and press enter. Check which drive has been
added to the list, usually disk 1 depending on how many disk drives are
installed.
- Type “select disk #”
where # is the disk number of the USB flash drive.
Continue only if you are sure that the selected drive is the USB flash key
that you want to prepare. The following steps will erase all data from the
selected drive!
- Type “clean” and press
enter.
- Type “create partition
primary” and press enter. This creates the partition on the flash
drive.
- Type “active” and
press enter.
- Type “exit” and press
enter. This exits the disk partition utility.
- Now the flash drive needs to
be formatted. Click on the Windows logo and then click on Computer.
- Find the drive letter of the
removable disk drive that needs to be formatted.
- In the command prompt window
type “format ?: /fs:fat32 /q” where ? is the removable drive
letter that needs to be formatted. Press enter.
- Enter a volume label of your
choice and press enter.
If you need to recover the 81150A from an interrupted software update, you need
to do the following in addition:
- Copy the software update zip
file on the USB flash drive’s root directory.
- Extract the content of the
software update zip file to the root directory of the USB flash drive.
Remember to maintain the folder structure in the zip file when doing this.
- Connect the USB flash drive
to the 81150A and switch the instrument on.
- The 81150A will now boot the
recovery image from the USB flash drive and continue to update the
instrument firmware.
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Corporation.
On-Line Information
For latest Data Sheets, Product Notes, Application
Information and Support related information please refer to: http://www.keysight.com/find/81150A
Known Problems
For latest known bugs and workarounds please refer
to the information to be found in the Support Area: http://www.keysight.com/find/81150A