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Extended triggering option 015 for 54825A scopes

Question asked by JayW on Feb 17, 2013
Latest reply on Mar 12, 2013 by JayW

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Hello,

I recently got my hands on a floppy disk that's labeled "Extended triggering for infiniium oscilloscopes" Part # 54810-17632
I can't seem to find any information on this at all. It is a boot floppy that supposedly installs the option, I booted it on a 54825A and allowed it to install which it did successfully. But I cannot find any changes in the triggering menu, and the help, about tab does not show the option is installed. Does anyone have any information on this option?

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JayW Feb 17, 2013 4:24 AM
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Ask a question, then you manage to find it on your own. Apparently it enables runt triggering, but I already had that capability, so maybe the later software versions gave it away for free. This scope has version 4.50 which I think is the last version that was released.
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- swperk @ JayW on Mar 6, 2013 5:01 PM
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  Hi Jay,
  
  My 54832B (software version 5.71--the latest version) does not have runt triggering as an option under the triggering menu, although it did have a lot of other advanced triggering options, such as setup and hold violations, pattern, glitch, etc. When I searched the scope's help section, it said that runt triggering could be enabled by software option N5414A or N5415A. In spite of that, I can find no information about either of these options ever having been available for the 54800-series scopes. The only references for them are for the 8000/80000 and 9000/90000 scopes.
  
  Where did you find that software disk? If there are any more available, I'd like to give it a try on my scope!
  
  Regards,
  Stan
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  - algoss @ swperk on Mar 7, 2013 4:20 AM
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    The 54832 and 54855 scopes were very different. Agilent scopes had HW runt triggering capabilities for a while, enabled by a license, but there was some sort of patent issue, so they didn't have it for a few generations. The current scopes have the capabilities once again, along with a whole lot more.
    
    There's no way, that I'm aware of, to enable runt triggering on a 54832 scope. It's just not in the HW.
    
    Al
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    - ksmith @ algoss on Mar 7, 2013 2:06 PM
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      there was no HW based runt trigger on the 54830s or 54850s or the 80,000A/B series. on the 80,000 series, though, InfiniiScan could do a sw based runt trigger, but Infiniscan was never enabled on teh 54830s or 850s.
      
      sometimes a carefully chosen pulse width trigegr can act as a runt trigger, but this doesn't work in all cases.
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  - JayW @ swperk on Mar 12, 2013 2:44 AM
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    Hi Stan,
    
    I found the reference to option 015 here:
    http://www.mrtestequipment.com/getfile.php?s=Agilent+54845A+Infiniim+Oscilloscope+Data+Sheet.pdf
    
    It would not work on your scope for the reasons that the moderators have stated, and the fact that this is a boot disk that modifies the registry on a Windows 98 OS. The disk came with a 54825A I purchased.
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