Readme notes for E2920 Series PCI/PCI-X Exerciser/Analyser cards. Updated March 12th, 2002
Table of contents
Overview
System Requirements
General Release Notes
General Known Problems and Issues
Technical Support
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Overview
This readme file contains last minute product information about the Agilent E2920 PCI series Exerciser and Analyser cards
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System Requirements
- Microsoft Internet Explorer for online help
- Pentium II based personal computer with at least 200MHz clock speed
- Microsoft Windows 98SE,Me,NT4,2K,XP32 or XP64
- 150 MB free disk space (full installation)
- Minimum display resolution of 800 x 600 pixels
- PCI or PCI-X test card
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General Release Notes
(for detailed release notes resticted to one product only, see the PCI,PCI-X or SVP
readme files (all available from the start menu))
Version 1.3
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Changes from version 1.2 to 1.3
- SVP SIG tests added
- Coloring and searching improvements for buscyle- and transaction listers
- limited Linux support
- Some bugfixes
Version 1.2
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Changes from version 1.1 to 1.2
- Some enhancements and bugfixes for PCI and PCIX software (see corresponding readme.txt files)
- Installation contains changed dialog for selecting the setup type
(custom,full,compact). It contains descriptions for each choice.
Custom installation is now the default choice.
Version 1.1
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New features:
- Support of Windows XP (XP32 and XP64 version)
Notes for XP64 users:
To install the 64 bit files (dlls, libs, drivers, infs (PCI+PCIX capi+ppr files)), do a custom installation
and check the component "64 bit support files". If already installed, you can modify your
installation by selecting the modify option, appearing when you execute
Add/Remove Software from the control panel.
All 64 bit support files are copied to <INSTDIR>\ia64
To install 64 bit drivers (XP64 only !):
Copy driver binaries (<INSTDIR>\ia64\*.sys) into directory c:\WINNT\system32\drivers
Copy driver infs (<INSTDIR>\ia64\*.inf) into diretory c:\WINNT\inf
- SVP support for WIN98
- PNP (Plug and Play) WDM drivers (not on NT)
- Tcl support (currently only PCIX supported).
The card can now be programmed by Tcl commands very similar to the C-API.
The tcl interpreter can be accessed from the user interface like the CLI.
For details and examples see the file <instdir>\PCIX\tcl\readme.txt
This is currently restricted to 32 bit, i.e. not available for XP64.
- Installation:
- All three products (PCI,PCI-X,SVP SW) now combined into one single setup executable.
Installation of subsets is possible via custom installation
- It is possible to modify or repair the current installation (Add/Remove SW in control panel)
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General Known Problems and Issues
- Drivers do not support the Hibernate OS mode
- Drivers are not certified
- Installation does not support XP64 driver installation (manual installation needed; see above)
- GUI: Some buttons are not drawn correctly under XP
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Technical Support
Further Information (updates, FAQ) can be found on
http://www.agilent.com/find/pci_software
Technical Support is provided under the mail address
bvs-pci_support@agilent.com
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