E5720 Connection Manager

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E5720 Connection Manager reads data from, downloads data to, and controls selected instruments. It also provides new functionality such as automatic discovery of the instruments connected to it; a built-in swept power s-parameter application for creating behavioral models of an amplifier; the ability to connect to instruments from a UNIX computer; saving the Connection Manager configuration; and context sensitive help. Click on the following links for complete information. Product Information Ordering and Configuration Product Literature User Support

Product Highlights

• Reads data from, downloads data to, and controls selected instruments.
  
• Automatic discovery of connected instruments.
  
• Built-in swept power s-parameter application for creating behavioral models of an amplifier.
  
• Instrument connections from UNIX computers.
  
• Confuguration of Connection Manager is saved.
  
• Context-sensitive help.
  

Product Description

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Connection Manager

The Connection Manager greatly expands the Advanced Design System's ability to connect and control Agilent Instrumentation, and thus expands the Agilent Connected Solutions possible with ADS. The Connection Manager can read data from, download data to, and control an instrument, but it also provides new functionality such as: automatic discovery of the instruments connected to it; a built-in swept power s-parameter application for creating behavioral models of an amplifier; the ability to connect to instruments from a UNIX computer; saving the Connection Manager configuration; and context sensitive help.

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Connection Manager Block Diagram

The Connection Manager consists of two parts: a client side, which is what the user interacts with and runs on UNIX or PC, and the Connection Manager Server. The Connection Manager Server only runs on a PC, but the Connection Manager Client runs on all supported ADS platforms. The connection from this Connection Manager Server PC to the instruments can be via any connection available on a PC: LAN, firewire, serial port, USB, etc.

The Connection Manager Client is accessible from both the circuit and system simulators in ADS. The Connection Manager user interface is available from the circuit simulation tools in ADS and has several Measurement Panels to talk to Agilent’s network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and oscilloscopes. From the System Simulator, the Connection Manager provides high-speed links to Agilent’s Electronic Signal Generators, Performance Signal Generators, and Vector Signal Analyzers. The large data transfers generally involved when using an ESG, PSG or VSA are processed quickly using these links.

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Power Swept S-Parameter Measurement Panel

Built into the Connection Manager is the Power Swept S-Parameter Measurement Panel, which is used to measure the S-parameters of an amplifier over swept RF power levels. Multiples sets of s-parameters, at different power levels, are then combined and converted to one of four different amplifier behavioral models for use in ADS. This application is used to create a behavioral model of the amplifier under test. When an amplifier model is used instead of a full circuit schematic, system simulations are much faster. The behavioral model can also be given to potential customers for their use, without giving away your valuable design IP.

Connection Manager Measurement Panels

Connection Manager Measurement Panels exist for the following instruments:

Connection Manager Ptolemy Links exist for the:

• 16700, E4438C, E443xB, E8267C, E4406A, and E444xA
  

Connection Manager Support

• Agilent EEsof EDA Connected Solutions Support (PDF, 46 KB). 2-page data sheet. 28 January 2003.
  

How To Buy

To request immediate sales assistance - for help choosing the best system; for product configuration and integration details; to request telephone assistance or an on-site demo of the software; or to request a price quotation - click on the following link:

• Agilent EEsof EDA Sales Assistance

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• E8900A Design Environment
  

Product Literature

• Agilent EEsof EDA Connected Solutions Support (PDF, 46 KB). 2-page data sheet. 28 January 2003.
  
• Connected Simulation and Test Solutions Using the Advanced Design System (PDF, 5.6 MB). 56-page application note. 26 August 2002.
  

Example Files

E-Seminar: Combine Simulation and Test to Shorten RF Systems Design Cycles

Agilent Test & Measurement e-Seminar, 20 January 2004

Today's communications products and Aerospace/Defense programs require moving from concept to final product quickly. New ways of improving the verification process are needed to shorten the product development cycle.

This Agilent Technologies e-Seminar provides an overview of Agilent's Connected Solutions, which integrates the test and simulation worlds. Its use is applied to two practical examples: creating an amplifier behavioral model; and determining the effects of component performance on system Bit Error Rate.

Click on the following link for an archived version of this seminar:

• Combine Simulation and Test to Shorten RF Systems Design Cycles
  

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