Teledyne T3SP Series User manual

Operator’s Manual
T3SP-Series Time Domain
Reectometer

T3SP-Series Operator’s Manual
T3SP-Series Operator’s Manual
Revision B - October 2019
Relang to the following release versions:
Soware Version Rev. 1.6.0
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Contents
1 General Information about the T3SP Series 6
1.1 Intended Applicaon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2 Disclaimer............................ 6
1.3 Contents of packing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Commissioning 8
2.1 GeneralRemarks........................ 8
2.2 Soware Conguraon File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3 SowareStartup........................ 9
2.4 Power Supply & USB Connecon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.5 Descripon of the Applicaon Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.5.1 MainWindow ..................... 10
2.5.2 Oscilloscope Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.5.3 Result Visualizaon Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.5.4 Opons Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.6 Soware Operaon Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.6.1 Sample List Operaon Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.6.2 Macro Operaon Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.6.3 Quick Operaon Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.7 Login with limited User Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3 Quick Start Guide 24
4 Three-Term & 12-Term Correction 30
4.1 Fundamentals ......................... 30
4.2 Requirements.......................... 30
4.3 Calibraon Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.4 General Remarks on reloading TTC/12TC Data . . . . . . . . 32
4.5 Status Indicators for TTC & 12TC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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5 Measurement Modes 35
5.1 Impedance Measurements (Modes TDR & DTDR) . . . . . . 35
5.1.1 General Recommendaons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.1.2 Reference Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5.1.3 Impedance Measurement Properes Window . . . . 39
5.1.4 User-dened Impedance Masks . . . . . . . . . . . 44
5.2 (D)S11 - Measurement Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5.3 Full 2-Port S-Parameter Measurements (F2P, oponal) . . . . 47
6 Import & Export Modules 49
6.1 PDF-Export Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.2 CSV-Export Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.3 Touchstone-Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.4 Matlab-Export ......................... 51
7 Workshop Files 52
8 ESD-Protection Module 53
9 Additional Information 54
9.1 Descripon of the Toolbar Items in the Main Window . . . . 54
9.2 Descripon of the Toolbar Items in the Result Window . . . 55
9.3 Descripon of the Main Window Menu Items . . . . . . . . 56
9.4 Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
10 Technical Specications 63
10.1 T3SP-Series Mainframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
10.2T3SP-DPROBE.......................... 64
10.3T3SP-DPROBE-F......................... 64
11 Troubleshooting 65
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12 Safety Instructions 67
12.1 Operang Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
12.2Power.............................. 67
12.3 Safety Symbols & Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
12.4 Safety Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
13 Maintenance 70
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1. General Informaon about the T3SP Series
The T3SP series is developed to perform true dierenal TDR measurement.
Complementary step signals with an ultra-wide bandwidth are emied and
acquired by the instrument. The signals are applicable to external compo-
nents via the coaxial connectors.
Please read this operaon manual carefully before commissioning the T3SP,
to avoid incorrect operaon of the instrument. Keep this manual carefully
the enre life-me of the instrument. Subsequently the T3SP TDR is gener-
ally described as ”device”.
1.1 Intended Application
The device is exclusively intended for usage in conjuncon with the deliv-
ered soware. Upon request soware libraries are available to integrate
the device control into other soware environments. Beware of using the
device for purposes other than intended!
1.2 Disclaimer
Warranty or liability claims for personal or property injury are excluded if
they are caused by one or more of the following reasons:
•Usage of the device for other purposes as described in this manual
•Disregarding the instrucons for correct operaon of the device
•Disregarding the safety instrucons listed in this operaon manual
•Opening of the instrument by the customer or user
1.3 Contents of packing
•T3SP me-domain reectometer
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•USB 2.0 cable, Mini USB-B to USB-A
•External power supply: input 100-240VAC, output 24VDC, max. 3A
•Seunis installation program
•Integrated ESD-protection module
•Metal or plastic storage and transport case (optional)
•ESD-protection kit
•Cable(s), probe(s), adapters(s) (optional)
•Calibration Kit including RF connector torque wrench (optional)
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2. Commissioning
Before the rst start of operaon you have to install the provided soware
(on old Windows XP systems also the USB-driver has to be installed). Please
follow the installaon instrucons given by the soware.
2.1 General Remarks
The Seunis measurement soware was designed to make series measure-
ments and therefore the central element of the main window is a spreadsheet-
like table. For a beer understanding, some regularly used terms are de-
ned below:
Sample Describes the individual objects/devices under
test (DUT)
Sample List Collecon of samples in the spreadsheet table
(D)TTC =
(Dierenal)
Three-Term
Correcon
Error correcon method, removes systemac
device & external cable/connector errors
12TC = Twelve
Term Correcon
Error correcon method for full 2-port
S-parameter measurements. Only used if full
2-port measurement mode is available
Measurement
Modes
The soware is capable of measuring various
parameters (impedance, S11, etc.). These
funconalies are called measurement modes
2.2 Software Conguration File
Some specialized opons & funconalies can be modied via the soware
conguraon le Seunis.cong. The default locaon of the conguraon
le can be found via Seunis in the Windows start menu. For proper use on
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mul-user systems the locaon of the conguraon le can be changed via
the Opons Dialog (see secon 2.5.4).
2.3 Software Startup
The device must be turned on to operate the device, because the soware
queries the device for available measurement modes. Alternavely the so-
ware can be started with the Teledyne Viewer Key.
2.4 Power Supply & USB Connection
To enable measurements, connect the USB port of the instrument to a com-
puter. Please follow the instrucons given below:
•If available plug the Mini-USB-B plug connector of the USB-cable into
the corresponding USB-jack connector of the device and the USB-A
plug into an USB-port of your computer.
•Turn on the device by pressing the power buon for more than 1 sec-
ond. Aer a few seconds, the buon LED changes from green to red.
The device can be turned o by pressing the power buon for more
than 3 seconds.
•The 2-state red-green LED signals have the following meaning:
Green blinking LED: Device switched o, baery charging acve
Red blinking LED: Device switched on, baery charging acve
Red permanent LED: Device switched on, baery charging nished
•The soware will automacally probe your USB ports to communicate
with the device. You can check if this was successful in the status bar
on the boom of the main window, which shows whether the device
is Connected or Not connected.
•If the connecon to the device failed, retry to connect by pressing
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CTRL-U or via the menu Extras. If you are not able to establish a con-
necon, check the USB-drivers in your device manager.
•Like other RF-measurement systems, the device needs some me to
warm-up for performing stable and accurate measurements. During
the warm-up phase, measurements are prohibited. If the tempera-
ture is stable, the status bar shows OK. If you try to measure during
the warm-up phase, the measurement is aborted, accompanied by an
audio warning and the nocaon Device temperature instable.
2.5 Description of the Application Windows
2.5.1 Main Window
Fig. 1: Main Window with sample list and control elements
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