Flex DCA Sampling Oscilloscope Software Packages

  • N1010100A, Research and Development Package for FlexDCA Sampling Oscilloscope Software
    Intended for R&D engineers who want to characterize their design and gain more insights into why a signal deviates from the expected performance
  • N1010200A, Manufacturing Package for FlexDCA Sampling Oscilloscope Software
    Focuses on cost of test in Optical Transceiver manufacturing applications with capabilities like RapidEye and FlexEye that enhance measurement speed and flexibility
  • N1010300A, Signal Integrity Package for FlexDCA Sampling Oscilloscope Software
    Adds powerful tools to measure impedances, transfer characteristics and S-parameter calculations to the basic TDR/TDT measurements

Requirements and Compatibilities:

Instrument Compatibility:

  • N1000A
  • 86100D
  • DCA-M when connected via USB to a PC meeting the below system requirements
  • Stand-alone PC meeting the below system requirements

System requirements

Recommended minimum system requirements (if installing FlexDCA on a PC)

DCA Setup: 1 Channel 4 Channel 8+ Channel
Processor: Dual core Dual core +
hyper-threading		 Quad core +
hyper-threading
Memory 4 Gbytes 8 Gbytes 16 Gbytes
Display 1920x1200 pixels
64K colors
 		 1920x1200 pixels
64K colors
 		 1920x1200 pixels
64K colors
 
Windows 7/8/10: 32 or 64 bit 64 bit  

Mapping to N1010A Legacy Software Feature-Based Licenses:

Keysight recommends the use of the FlexDCA Sampling Oscilloscope Software PACKAGEs mentioned above, not the legacy software FEATURE options. Support subscriptions are available for FlexDCA Sampling Oscilloscope Software PACKAGEs which enable both bug fixes and new functionality. Software FEATURE options like those below will get no new functionality.

Feature Description Legacy Option N1010100A (RND) N1010200A (MFG) N1010300A (SI)
Advanced Amplitude Analysis/RIN/Q-Factor

          300

X

    
Advanced Eye Analysis

          401

X

    
Automatic Fixture Removal in TDR Mode

          BFP

    

X
Enhanced Impedance and S-Parameters

          202

  

X

X
Enhanced Jitter Analysis

          200

X

    
Equalizers (CTLE, DFE, LFE)

          201

X

    
Access to Licenses on Remote DCA

          DCA

X

X

X
Independent Eye Acquisition and Analysis (FlexEye)

          EFP

X

X

  
PAM-N Analysis (Basic: includes TDECQ, EW/EH, Linearity: excludes 802.3cu measurements)

          9FP

X

X

  
Send Data to Analytics Web Service

-

X

X

X
TDEC Transmitter and Dispersion Eye Closure for NRZ

          500

X

X

  
TDECQ Measurement and Equalizer, OOMA, OER, Ceq, noise margin

          TFP

X

X

  
Partial TDECQ, Noise Margin, and SER Measurements

      TFP/9FP

X

    
Unrestricted Data File Import

-

X

    
User Defined Measurements and Operators

          201

X

  

X
Waveform Transformations (embedding/de-embedding)

          SIM

X

    
AWG Waveform Optimization

-

X

    
Keysight Arbitrary Waveform Generator Control

-

X

    
Chord Operators (CNRZ-5-EE, ENRZ)

-

X

    
Overshoot, Undershoot and Peak-to-Peak Amplitude (802.3cu)

-

X

X

  
PAM4 Mask Test Measurements (OpenEye MSA)

-

X

X

  
IEEE 802.3ck 53 GBd PAM4 Electrical test (CTLE, DFE, VEC in jitter mode)

-

X

    
FlexPLL Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Analysis

-

    

X
FlexRT – Basic (includes optical TX measurements such as TDECQ, OOMA, OER, Power)

-

X

X

  
FlexRT – Advanced (basic and advance optical measurements, remote connection from PC to RT scope)

-

X