Documentation Supplement
September 27, 2001 - Release A.09.02

Thank you for purchasing the Agilent E7400 Series Drive Test System. This file contains changes or additions to the printed manual.

Contents

Getting Started
Improvements from A.09.01
Improvements from A.09.00
Improvements from A.08.02
Improvements from A.08.01
Improvements from A.08.00
Improvements from A.07.01
Improvements from A.07.00
Improvements from A.06.03
Improvements from A.06.02
Improvements from A.06.01
Improvements from A.06.00
Improvements from A.05.09
Improvements from A.05.08
Improvements from A.05.06
Improvements from A.05.05
Improvements from A.05.04
Improvements from A.05.03
Improvements from A.05.01
Improvements from A.04.06
Improvements from A.04.03
Improvements from A.04.01
Improvements from A.03.02
Improvements from A.03.01
Improvements from A.02.03
Notes and Anomalies

Getting Started

Details on how to get started can be found in the Agilent E74xxx Getting Started Guide.

If you have any problems with your GPS unit, please check the documentation for setup instructions. For further information use your internet browser to consult http://www.agilent.com/find/networks.

Improvements from A.09.00 & A.09.01

A.09.02 includes the following enhancements & defect fixes:

1)On the Data Measurement VFP, IP Throughput measurements would read high under certain conditions when compared to Radio Link protocol throughput results an error in the calculation has been fixed.

2) The ability to log and store RLC/MAC Data headers supplied by the Motorola GPRS phone has been added, however the logging is turned OFF by default. To enable this requires the customer to make a change to the set-up string for the phone in the database. Please contact Agilent Technologies if this feature is required!

3) A defect that prevented the linking of carrier frequency to the following receivers has been fixed. (E6450C,E6452C & E6450C H02).

4) The database version has been updated also as only database's supplied with A.09.0x onwards should be used for data collection, a warning message will be issued if an older version is used.

5) An issue of occasional serial port hanging with multiple looped receivers has been fixed.

Improvements from A.08.02

A.09.00 includes the following enhancements & defect fixes:

1) Improvements to the Data Call Control VFP and the ability to define custom geometry's using a text file. The ability to Web Browse or FTP from the DataCallControl sequencer has been added. However some IE5.5 components are installed to enable Web Browse, warnings will be issued if the version of IE installed is not IE5.0 or greater. Please see ON-LINE HELP for details.

2) Support for a new GSM Dualband phone, SAGEM OT76M which is a replacement for the OT75.

3) New GPS Datum added for Ireland 1965.

4) Autoconfigure works for OT76M & OT96GPRS phones.

5) New GPRS measurements added for both Motorola & Sagem phones.

6) GPRS BLER measurement is now functioning for the Motorola GPRS phones - calculated from protocol messages and NOT the BLER value supplied by the phone, which was always zero.

7) New Data Measurements have been added, requires connection to the latest E7478A Data Server for operation.

8) Support for the new 'E645x' 'C series' receivers, which includes a defect fix for a multiple receiver RS232 loop issue.

9) The Version of E7478A Data Server which is compatible with this release is A.02.00.

10) GSM Forcing Functions are now available for the SAGEM OT76M & OT96GPRS phones, please note that Motorola Phones do not support any forcing functions.

Improvements from A.08.01

A.08.02 includes the following enhancements & defect fixes:

1) Beta support (QA'd) for the Motorola Timeport Tri-band GPRS mobile. Requires an M-PLUS PCMCIA card from Motorola to interface to the mobile. Revisions at QA: phone - af.7f.bb mplus card - 4C5

2) Data Throughput Graphs on the Data Measurements VFP now auto scale. There were also and improvements to the averaging algorithm used to calculate the Throughput results (it is now time averaged over 2 secs).

3) A new indicator was added the the GPRS measurements VFP QoS graph that indicates when a cell selection/re-selection takes place. This appears as a vertical yellow line on the graph.

4) Auto-configure can hang on Win98 with Edge Port USB with no devices connected, on versions of driver that are less than version 1.24. (Check the web site http://www.ionetworks.com/ for latest drivers)

5) Additional GPRS RLC/MAC messages can be decoded.

Improvements from A.08.00

A.08.01 includes the following enhancements:

1) Improved dynamic range on the W-CDMA/UMTS Scrambling Code Analyzer VFP.

2) Introduction of the E6455C and E6456C receivers, faster versions of the E6455A and E6456A receivers.

Improvements from A.07.01

A.08.00 includes the following enhancements and fixes:

1) New GPRS phone measurements supporting the Sagem OT 96MGPRS mobile. This is a new VFP covering DATA Quality of Service (QoS) and GPRS specific parameters.

2) GSM Message VFP updated to include GPRS specific protocol decodes e.g. SM, GMM & RLC/MAC, and add extensions to the existing RR messaging.

3) Support for the OT 96MGPRS mobile in GSM mode (with the exception of Forcing functions)

4) New DATA Measurements VFP for generic IP and Application throughput analysis. Supports GPRS only at this release.

5) New DATA Call Control VFP to script data transactions via the mobile. This operates in conjunction with the DATA Measurements VFP.

6) cdma2000 phones measurements.

7) New CDMA phones: QCP-2035, QCP-3035, Audiovox PCX-1100/3600.

8) New CDMA Mobile Debug VFP.

9) Now compatible with HP Omnibook6000 internal modem.

10) Computer VFP now works with just the Code Domain Power license.

11) MOST measurement now supports more than 10 channel cards and handles the same service options as the Call Control VFP.

12) Re-configure no longer causes program errors with CDMA phones connected via an Edgeport USB hub.

13) Now supports the Qualcomm QCP2760 and QCP2760M phones maunfactured in the year 2000.

14) Alpha support (not QA'd) for the Motorola Timeport Tri-band GPRS mobile. Requires an M-PLUS PCMCIA card from Motorola to interface to the mobile.

Improvements from A.07.00

A.07.00 introduced a defect in the GSM BCH User List when BSIC Decode was not selected that reported powers with the wrong channel. A.07.01 has corrected this defect. This is the only change between A.07.00 and A.07.01.

Improvements from A.06.03

A.07.00 includes a new W-CDMA (UMTS) receiver measurement and some other enhancements requested by customers.

1) To support W-CDMA (UMTS) there is a new receiver (E6455A) and a new VFP (Scrambling Code Analyzer).

2) Cell site name are now displayed on CDMA, TDMA, GSM, and W-CDMA (UMTS) VFPs based on entries in the StationInfo.txt file.

3) The Help and Tutorial have been localized for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.

4) Windows/2000 is now supported.

5) USB license keys are now supported for Window/95/98/2000.

6) Moved from MapX 3.5 to MapX 4.0 for customers with licences for Indoor or Mini-Map Enhancements.

7) TDMA DVCC code of zero is now supported.

8) TDMA Channel Analyzer user list can now support up to 250 entries instead of just 40. Only the first 40 will be displayed on the VFP, but all 250 can be exported.

9) A performance defect that impacted GSM Phone systems has been fixed.

Improvements from A.06.02

A.06.03 includes the following fix:

The only change between A.06.03 and A.06.02 allows the GSM phone driver to operate with the latest firmware version of the OT-75 GSM Phone.

Improvements from A.06.01

A.06.02 includes the following enhancements and fixes:

1) The E74XX now supports the KTF-2016 phone (Korean PCS, CDMA).

2) A resource leak associated with the GPS VFP has been corrected.

3) An active sector link from a CDMA phone to the GPS VFP will now correctly display 3 active sectors.

4) GSM Phone Rxlevel Range extended from -110..-47dB to -110..-11dBm.

5) Gsm phone actual TxPower in dBm has been substitued for TxLevel. TxPower can be exported in dBm.

6) Code Domain Power license now enables the full Spectrum Analyzer functionality.

Improvements from A.06.00

A.06.01 fixes several problems:

1) Prior to A.06.01, the GSM and TDMA Channel Analyzer and Interference VFPs could generate phantom signals under certain conditions.

2) The binning operation in export now performs all averaging in linear units (e.g. logged data - dB, dBm - is first unlogged, then averaged, then logged).

3) A "stray" control which obscures the GPS VFP when the system is not licensed to use MapX has been removed.

Improvements from A.05.09

Based on direct customer feedback, there have been a number of improvements made in revision A.06.00 compared to A.05.09. These improvements include new or improved features as well as increased robustness of the software. These include:

1) Import User List functionality from user supplied text files

2) Enhanced StationInfo.txt file

3) Filter Export by Result to improve user interface

4) Auto-Launch for faster startup

5) VFP print

6) UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates

7) Report Generation provides a snap shot of the current VFP state

8) DVCC Decode for E7474A TDMA

9) New hot keys for better usability

10) Hide/View various GUI components to increase usable display area

11) Default Datum can be specified in Tools->Options->Datum

12) New datums

13) Enhanced Alarm functionality

14) Support for Bosch TravelPilot GPS

15) Support for CDMA 860, 1960, and 2760 phones

16) Support for Orbitel ST-907 phone

17) GSM Layer 2 message decoding

Additional features are also available for additional cost:

- Indoor Mapping (Option 180)

- Code Domain Power and MOST testing (Options 111/101)

- Real Time Mapping (Option 160)

- GSM Phone Scan BCH measurement (Option 130)

For more detailed information about features and/or options, please refer to the Getting Started Guide or http://www.agilent.com/find/drive_test

Improvements from A.05.08

A.05.09 corrects 4 problems:

- The call control form was not available for the Toshiba CM10 in the configuration context.

- The call control VFP did not allow call termination for the Toshiba CM10.

- The TDMA digital to analog handoff alarms also triggered on analog to digital transitions.

- Call termination was allowed for the StarTAC TDMA phone even thought the phone does not support this mode (call termination for the StarTAC is disabled
in A.05.09).

Improvements from A.05.06

A.05.08 corrects a problem with the StarTAC TDMA phone message handling.

Improvements from A.05.05

A.05.06 includes a new phone device, the Motorola StarTAC TDMA phone.

Improvements from A.05.04

A.05.05 includes a new positioning device, the Magnetti Marelli receiver.

Improvements from A.05.03

The only change between A.05.03 and A.05.04 is a fix to the E6452A H02 receiver measurements which did not apply I.F. corrections correctly under some circumstances.

Improvements from A.05.01

Based on direct customer feedback, there have been a number of improvements made in revision A.05.03 compared to A.05.01. These improvements include new or improved features as well as increased robustness of the software. These include:

1) The database has been modified to reduce the raw size of the database during data collection.

There is the possibility that a non-HP application may be counting on the database properties that have been modified. If this occurs you may enable "Database Compatibility Mode" for a specific database using SetDatabaseMode.exe included in the installation directory. This can be done after data collection.

If you need Database Compatibility Mode on for all of your databases, copy the contents of
<Installation Directory>\DB Templates\Compatible to the installation directory. To restore the Reduced Size Database (which is the default) copy the contents of <Installation Directory>\DB Templates\Reduced Size to the installation directory.

In order to minimize the database size, please do not access the database with any other application while data collection is in progress.

Improvements from A.04.06

Based on direct customer feedback, there have been a number of improvements made in revision A.05.00 compared to A.04.06. These improvements include new or improved features as well as increased robustness of the software. These include:

1) Auto-configure - the software can scan the hardware connected to the computer and automatically configure the hardware content of a project.

2) Export - the functionality of export has been greatly improved and now allows export of multiple data items in a single file. The details of an export (e.g. which data items, what format, the column order, etc.) are saved in an export plan so you only need to set up the
export once.

3) The Agilent E6450B and Agilent E6452A now support TDMA channel and interference measurements.

4) Support for two new receivers for GSM measurements. The E6453A DCS1800 receiver and E6454A GSM1900 receiver each support the full set of GSM measurements available on the E6451A EGSM900 receiver.

5) The GSM co-channel interference measurement has been improved and now supports a delay spread measurement and is capable of decoding the BSIC of the interfering signal.

6) The Broadcast Channel Analyzer now includes an option to color code the bar chart columns based upon the value of the specific Network Color Code (NCC) of each decoded Base Station Identity Code (BSIC). This feature is enabled by selecting Color Code NCC from the measurement editor window for this VFP.

7) GSM users please note as a result of fixing a Record / Stop button behavior defect for the GSM phone that the 'Stop Recording' (Black square) button will now end the recording of data to the database and will also stop the measurements on the VFPs in use from updating. Press the play button to re-start all of the measurements on all of the VFPs in use. The 'Record' button (Black circle) will only stop the recording of data, the VFPs in use will continue to update.

Improvements from A.04.03

Revision A.04.06 provides support for 7 models of Sagem GSM Test mobiles and adds 2 new measurements. There is now support for GSM Layer3 Measurement reports and System Information Messages type 5 and 6.

1. FER (Frame erasure Rate) is now available on supported mobiles (All OT55G/D/P and OT75M).

2. RLTC (Radio Link Timeout Counter) is available for all GSM supported mobiles.

3. Radio Resource System Information Messages Types 5 and 6 are now available on the GSM messages VFP for GSM phones.

4. Radio Resource Measurement Report Messages are now available on the GSM messages VFP for supported mobiles (All OT55G/D/P
and OT75M).

Improvements from A.04.01

Revision A.04.03 fixes two problems with the A.04.01 release.

1. Problems with the Agilent E6452A E02 and Agilent E6451A E03 receivers.

2. A problem running as normal user (not administrator) under Windows NT.

Improvements from A.03.02

Based on direct customer feedback, there have been a number of improvements made in revision A.04.01 compared to A.03.02 and A.03.01. These improvements include new or improved features as well as increased robustness of the software. These include:

1. Support for the Sagem OT-35G/D (GSM) phone

2. Support for the Agilent E6451A receiver and associated GSM measurements.

Improvements from A.03.01

Based on direct customer feedback, there have been a number of improvements made in revision A.03.02 compared to A.02.03 and A.03.01. These improvements include new or improved features as well as increased robustness of the software. These include:

1. The auto-naming of binary files for the "Log To File" feature on the phone messages VFP is optional now. To turn off the auto-naming, use Tools->Options->Other. When the auto-naming
is turned off, a file browser will open when the system is about to create the binary file.

2. The latitude and longitude units are selectable on the GPS VFP.
The user may choose one of
- signed decimal degrees (-123.456789)
- decimal degrees + direction (123.456789 W)
- signed degrees, minutes, seconds (-123:45:15)
- degrees, minutes, seconds, direction (123:45:15 W)

3. Tool tips have been added for the multi-media controls on the main form and on the playback form.

Improvements from A.02.03

1. Multiple Agilent E64xxx receivers can be operated from a single COM port.

2. Additional phone models are supported: Sony CM-S1101SPR and Samsung SCH1000.

3. The Alarm Wizard simplifies setting up commonly used alarms.

Notes and Anomalies

1. Auto-configure does not identify the Toshiba CM10.

2. Importing or Exporting data from the File->Import/Export menu takes a long time. Usually it is faster to copy the database and delete the unwanted data sets.

3. Caution:

It is possible to exceed Windows 95/98 allocated resource levels by opening too many windows while running your Agilent E74xxx system. This will cause erratic behavior of the application and require the operator to reboot the operating system in order to recover. This will also corrupt an open Agilent E74xxx database, with potential loss of data. Windows 95 will not display any warning or feedback when this occurs.

The number of allowable open windows is dependent on the types you choose, as different windows require varying amounts of Windows 95 resources. The maximum number of windows is
approximately 12, although up to 14 can be opened in certain configurations.

To provide the maximum amount of available Windows 95 resources to the measurement application, it is strongly recommended that you close all other applications before running the Agilent E74xxx software. This includes all applications found in the startup folder. This also includes screen savers -- most screen savers use additional resources when activated. It is also recommended that you run the Windows 95 resource meter in a minimized configuration in order to monitor available remaining resources. 

To start the Windows 95 Resource Meter:

1. Choose Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Resource Meter.
The Resource Meter dialog box appears.
2. Click OK.

While this application utilizes system resources, it provides a way of determining when the system is running low on available resources. Opening new windows with less than 20% remaining resources in any of the three categories could cause Windows 95 to overrun its resources.

One solution for increasing the potential number of measurements made in a given project without exceeding Windows 95 resources is to configure the measurement with the associated virtual front
panel turned off. You will be able to record the data but not display it. This can be done in Configuration mode, under the Display/Logging tab found under the Measurement tab. 

A solution for increasing the number of windows available during a measurement is to use Windows NT. It does not have the same systems resource limitations as Windows 95. 

4. When the current E74xxx software runs with older E6452A receivers the amplitude accuracy may be slightly degraded. Receivers that are affected can be returned to your HP service center for a complimentary calibration that will restore your receiver to specified performance. The serial numbers of the affected E6452A receivers are:

All units less than US38260200 need calibration and
201 - 217
218-219
222-232
234-236
239-254
256, 260, 262, 267, 269
273-280
295
297-299
302

5. Old Socket I/O serial cards running under Windows 95/98 have an anomaly that can lock up the computer up under certain conditions. Both the single and dual port cards have this problem. New Socket I/O serial cards do not exhibit this behavior. The new cards can been identified by the part number on the back of the card (1810-0077 for the dual serial card) or the copyright (© 2000 for the new card).

If you have an old Socket I/O card, you can avoid the conditions that cause the lock up by not connecting a GPS unit directly to a Socket I/O port. GPS units may be connected to either non-Socket I/O ports or to the E64XX receivers.

If you must connect a GPS unit to a Socket I/O port, you must prevent auto configure from looking at that port by enabling auto configure device customization (via Tools->Options) and
deselecting that COM port in the auto configure wizard. You will need to manually add the GPS unit after auto configure is finished.

The is a very small chance that a lock up may occur with other devices attached to a Socket I/O port. If this happens, remove the Socket I/O card (you do not need to shut the computer down), which will clear the lock up condition, then cycle power on the device, re-insert the Socket I/O card, and try again.

6. The images from reports and printing are generated with raster screen captures. Because of this, if you manipulate the screen (moving windows, scrolling content, using other applications, etc.) while the screen captures are occurring, the report/printout will not contain the correct image. When requesting a report or printout, please allow the system to finish the report/printout prior to performing any more work on the system.

7. Agilent recommends attaching or removing Sentinel keys when the power is off. If the key is attached or removed when the power is on, there is a chance that the key's license contents could
be corrupted.

8. The mini-map enhancements (real time mapping) and indoor options use MapX from MapInfo. MapX has an anomaly that prevents adding a raster image if the current regional setting uses comma as the decimal symbol (the computer will lock up). If you need to add as raster image, you must work with a regional setting that uses a period (.) for the decimal symbol.

9. It is possible that the Motorola TDMA phone will power down when receiving an incoming call while connected to the E74xxx collection tool. It is recommended that phones likely to receive
an incoming call not be used for drive test. We are working with Motorola to resolve this issue.

10. On Windows NT (including Windows2000), the user must be a member of the "Power Users" or "Administrator" groups. Otherwise, the E74xx application software will not be able to correctly check for installed components and the application will fail with a list of missing components.

11. It not possible to configure a Data Call Control measurement from Configuration mode. The Data Call Control VFP works with a dial-up instance, created within the windows environment and this instance is only initiated when in Collection mode. If the measurement editor for Data Call Control measurement is started, the software will lock-up. The software has then to be closed using a soft reset (ctrl-alt-del, and end the e74xx software). This will be corrected in the next release.

Versions supported

• Version of database supported has changed to 0.46
• Versions of Agilent E645x receiver firmware supported: