• v1.31 SP9 available from May 22nd 2001
• v1.31 SP8 not released
• v1.31 SP7 available from October 2nd 2000
• v1.31 SP6 available from April 14th 2000
• v1.31 SP5 available from March 20th 2000
• v1.31 SP4 available from January 19th 2000
• v1.31 SP3 available from January 6th 2000
• v1.31 SP2 available from November 4th 1999
• v1.31 SP1 available from November 1st 1999
• v1.31 September 1999
• v1.30 In-house release only
• v1.21 January 1st 1999
• v1.20 October 9th 1998
  Advantest Driver Patch: Patch1 October 12th 1998
• v1.11 July 1st 1998
• v1.10 June 1st 1998 - maintenance release
• v1.00 January 1st 1998 - first release

Bugs fixed:

• AUP9211A black box device replaced with new device and loss/gain component
• CES.EXE modified to remove problem of not displaying trace when ambients are selected.

Enhancement:

• Drivers for SCR3501 and SCR3502 have been added

After this service pack has been run the SCHGRAPH.EXE file placed in the installation folder must be moved to the Windows folder. Failure to do so will result in major errors being reported when attempting to run CES9985.

Bugs fixed:

• CES.EXE modified to remove bug for GTEM setup by removing the decimal separator in the height field.
• AutoGen now supports regional settings for using "." or "," as the decimal separator.

Enhancement:

• The maximum number of result-set array strings have been increased to cater for larger results.

After this service pack has been run the SCHGRAPH.EXE file placed in the installation folder must be moved to the Windows folder. Failure to do so will result in major errors being reported when attempting to run CES9985.

Service Packs include the changes made in previous Service Packs.

Details of new changes in this Service Pack:

• Modifications to drivers: IFR2398.rad for IFR 2398 spectrum analyser
• CES.EXE modified to cater for regional settings. Now handles "." and "," notations for decimal numbers in the GTEM setup part of the configuration editor and also in the test editor.
• Build configuration added for Chinese windows to use a u for micro instead of mu.
• The array size for splicing the results sets from earlier versions of CES has been increased to allow larger sizes of results data to be converted.

After this service pack has been run the SCHGRAPH.EXE file placed in the installation folder must be moved to the Windows folder. Failure to do so will result in major errors being reported when attempting to run CES9985.

Service Packs include the changes made in previous Service Packs.

This service pack incorporates a number of changes included in lettered releases of version 1.31 (CES9985 v1.31a to v1.31g) as well as the changes introduced in previous Service Packs. The additional changes since v1.31SP3 are as follows:-

• New drivers:
  • ADV3132.rad for R3132 Advantest spectrum analyser
  • ADV3371a.rad for R3371A Advantest spectrum analyser
• CES.EXE modified to add Edit|Copy|Project Details to menu options to allow user to copy the application, project and test details to the clipboard for pasting into other applications.

After this service pack has been run the SCHGRAPH.EXE file placed in the installation folder must be moved to the Windows folder. Failure to do so will result in major errors being reported when attempting to run CES9985.

Service Packs include the changes made in previous Service Packs.

This service pack incorporates a number of changes included in lettered releases of version 1.31 (CES9985 v1.31a to v1.31e) as well as the changes introduced in previous Service Packs. The additional changes since v1.31SP2 are as follows:-

• CES.EXE modified to allow proper use of the database manager for copying items to new databases

After this service pack has been run the SCHGRAPH.EXE file placed in the installation folder must be moved to the Windows folder. Failure to do so will result in major errors being reported when attempting to run CES9985.

Service Packs include the changes made in previous Service Packs.

This service pack incorporates a number of changes included in lettered releases of version 1.31 (CES9985 v1.31a to v1.31c) as well as the changes in Service Pack 1. The additional changes since v1.31SP1 are as follows:-

• SCR3101.rad and SCR3102.rad drivers files modified to select average detector and to select specific attenuations or auto attenuation.
• CES.EXE modified to remove Edit|Copy|Graph from menu options since this feature has now been replaced with the File|Reports|Extract Portrait ( Landscape ) menu options to produce an OLE insertable object.
• CES.EXE modified to display over-range and under-range markers correctly with no loss of displayed points for the actual continuous trace.

IMPORTANT NOTE

After this service pack has been run the SCHGRAPH.EXE file placed in the installation folder must be moved to the Windows folder. Failure to do so will result in major errors being reported when attempting to run CES9985.

This service pack incorporates a number of changes included in lettered releases of version 1.31 (CES9985 v1.31a to v1.31c). Customers who are using version 1.31c have all the changes incorporated into SP1. The additional changes since v1.31 are as follows:-

• Peak (max) hold facility now exists for HP859x drivers and for R3131 driver. This is implemented as a new button which appears in the segment section of the test editor and is labelled Peak Hold. If pressed then a second form is displayed allowing the user to select the number of scans to be performed for each peak hold measurement. If this is set to 1 ( the default ) then peak hold is disabled. If set to > 1 then peak hold is enabled and the instrument is placed in peak hold mode for the number of passes selected. The button will not appear for drivers that do not support this feature.
• The database is updated to version 9 to include a new field in the segments table.
• dBm is now added to the list of units that can be used for transducer factors. The user should allow for the 107dBm difference between dBm and dBuV by creating a transducer with factors offset by -107dB.
• Limit lines are displayed even when frequency points are off-graph
• Mast & Turntable sequencing within CES core now operates without dropouts or loss of data from the peak list. This allows for single and multiplane tests and caters for no peaks in one of the planes ( this didn't happen with previous versions ).
• Printing onto printers of different DPIs now works with the graphs in the correct place.
• When verifying a test the scan form is not activated until the test validates OK. In earlier versions the form was activated before the test was validated and then cleared afterwards.
• Limit line titles are now displayed even if the line is off the graph.
• Rescans now work correctly when limit lines are present on the graph.
• Fonts are now selectable and can now be changed whilst a graph is being displayed. When displaying transducers, limits, ambients and cable loss/gain graphs the font will be shown as that selected but the font size is fixed. This is because the graphs are not expandable. Printing will use the font size selected by the user. The selected fonts and their size is also transposed onto OLE automation files such that they will also appear in the Word documents generated as part of the FlexReport and AutoGen reports.
• The problem reported regarding "Out of Memory" has now been fixed - this was a fault in the GDO. The GDO is now at version 1.0F.

New or modified drivers:

• HP8546A.rad
• ESCS30LD.rad
• ESCS30LN.rad

After this service pack has been run the SCHGRAPH.EXE file placed in the installation folder must be moved to the Windows folder. Failure to do so will result in major errors being reported when attempting to run CES9985.

• The VBW and RBW are now separately controllable. This feature only applies to instrument drivers that are written to support it. Existing drivers do not support this feature. The test editor form contains a new button which appears only if the driver supports this feature. The user can then select the button and a new form appears allowing them to set the continuous VBW and the stepped VBW individually.
• The version of the database is now upissued to version 8. This is to add 2 new fields to the segment table to contain the above VBW settings.
• Copying the peak table now works properly in that it copies the first line also.
• During a scan all options controlled by ribbon switches and menus at the top of the scan form are now disabled. This prevents the user from editing graph attributes, overlays and spreadsheet tables whilst the test is running.
• Tracking generator feature is now supported for instruments with this feature. Existing instrument drivers do not have this but as new driver files are created this will come on-line.
• The abort from a scan now works more quickly when in the middle of a frequency optimise.
• Rescanning peaks now allows manual optimisation.
• When selecting an attenuation values for a segment in a test the "Auto" feature is now a valid selection ( if supported by the instrument driver ) and will appear on the drop down list box. The selected reference level will be highlighted as out of cal when this selection is made. The user should then enter the required reference level according to the test and the instrument

New Drivers

SCR3101(2)

• This now works properly for frequency optimisation ( both manual and automatic ).
• Selection of the attenuation now works properly and includes the "Auto" feature.
• Stepped test now works properly for all selected detectors, including QP.
• The dwell time selected for a stepped test now is correct and the instrument does dwell for the required time using the selected detector.

HP8546A

• This is a new driver that also supports the separation of VBW and RBW.
• Tracking generator is supported for this device
• Addition changes
• The radio.dll library has been modified to include a new call for handling the VBW selection.
• The language files are updated to include the VBW selection text.

• Graph drawing is now done by our own Graphics Drawing Object (GDO) which is an OLE Automation server and is released as part of the CES/EPS installation disks. All graphs can now be exported to an OLE Server file and can then be inserted as objects into client applications, eg Word, Excel.
• The hooks for FlexReport and AutoReport generation are now included and use a Report Interface File (RIF) format to implement separation from the CES/EPS applications and the actual report generating applications.
• The AutoReport generation is included on the installation disks and comprises a set of base Word documents and templates containing macros which are used to generate the report. These are all installed automatically into the correct directories.
• The format of stored data for the results field in the database has now been improved to properly handle large data blocks. The items are now split into smaller 64K strings and are connected to each other by order and reference fields.

New Drivers

• SCR3101 and SCR3102 Teseq EMC Systems receivers
• ADV3551 - Advantest 3361analyser with a 3551 preselector
• HP8596 spectrum analyser ( 859X variant )

Changes

• Advantest 3131, 3261, 3361, 3271 and 4131 drivers have been modified to fix various bugs.
• HP8591E and 8593E drivers have been modified to fix various bugs and improve QP measurements.
• Sample tests for the Advantest R3131 analyser have been added to the database.
• CES9985 used to crash with error 2004 ‘DAO.Field Out of Memory’ if a scan containing more than 21000 points is saved. This limit has now been removed.
• The step editor now has the ability to export data.

A bug reported to the Helpdesk on 7th October 1998 was traced to the way that the various Advantest analysers dealt with the trace being on the bottom line of the graticule in linear modes of operation. The value returned to CES9985 under these conditions was 0.00 and gave rise to Error 6: Overflow. This was resolved on October 12th and a patch disk is available for users containing drivers for the R4131D, R3131, R3271A, R3261A/B/C/D and R3371A/B/C/D analysers.

The fatal Error 6 condition is now replaced by an under-range marker (red triangle) plotted on the results graph at any position where the response from the analyser is 0.00 using the average detectors.

Please contact Software Support if this problem affects you. The changes incorporated in the PATCH1 driver disk will be incorporated in the next full release of CES9985.

Note that the same drivers are used with EPS9980 and so users of EPS9980 should also contact Software Support for the modified drivers.

Changes and additions

• User, Folders and Data File names can now start with numeric characters

New Functions

• A scan can now be performed using only one GTEM plane
• X, Y or Z GTEM plane scans can be performed with eth data shown with or without GTEM corrections.
• GTEM septum height and height above floor are now stored in millimeters
• GTEM configuration printouts include GTEM angles
• SCR3101 and SCR3202 receiver drivers added

  Bugs Fixed

• Mast and turntable controllers have had a significant number of bugs fixed. CES9985 can now drive the following controllers:
  • Chase CAD6202
  • Deisel HD100
  • EMCO 2090
  • Shoshin CAT-100
  • Sunol SC98V
• AUP9211A range bug caused by IEEE-488 responses from certain analysers has been fixed.
• Graphs printed in landscape and remainder of printout in portrait orientation.
• Configuration details are only printed once if the same configuration appears in more than one segment of a test.
• The Mast controller form is now hidden before the the 'Abort Scan Yes/No' dialog box is displayed to make it easier to stop a scan.
• Toolbar buttons are correctly displayed if language is changed.
• The test editor form resizes correctly when three or more segments included with a test.
• The HP8593E now has its own icon.
• On-line help: Chase has been changed to Teseq EMC Systems.
• Gain/loss option labels are now translated in the Gain/Loss editor.
• Mast and Turntable icons changed.
• CPA9231 changed to CPA9231/CPA9231A.
• The word 'Measuring' has been removed form the main title bar.
• If 'Continuous then Step' mode is selected then continuous dwell time is no longer set to 0ms.
• The name of the Mast Controller has been tidied up.
• The Mast Controller uses the GPIBDebug value in ces.ini to determine whether to turn debugging on in the driver DLLs. WARNING: This is a development function as turning on debug mode slows down all operations involving the mast and all other controller.
• The unwanted third scan after the Peak Scan when using GTEMs has been removed.

New Functions

• The maximum number of antenna factors has been increased to 250 entries.
• A driver for the HP8593E analyser has been added
• Transducer spreadsheet help is now available by pressing F1.
• The details of the Test and Configuration editors are now added to the CESERROR.LOG file
• Notes can be printed for all editors.
• The Results, Test and Configuration editors can now print the tables and graphs of Loss/Gain components and transducers.
• The Test Editor allows the configuration data to be printed.

Bugs Fixed

• The software no longer crashes when Pause or Stop scan are clicked twice.
• Transducers created when heights were included can no longer be used. An error message is now displayed to explain the reason.
• The limit label is no longer truncated when it exceeds the width of one segment.
• The preselector parameters are now checked prior to a scan. This will prevent scans starting which exceed the frequency limit of the preselector.
• Ambient, Step and Transducers editors no longer crash if the close-form button is clicked before the form is completely open.
• Notes are now printed even if they were the only selection.
• Message and button labelling now agree for Manual Optimisation on Step Scan.
• Countdown timer operation improved to prevent countdown continuing during pause. This caused the timer to suddenly change when the test was resumed.
• The drop-down list box of configuration names has been made smaller to allow use on VGA resolution screens (640 x 480).

Comments

• There is no change to the database structure or usage at this release so current databases will be useable without modification.

New Functions

• Control of Advantest R3131 Spectrum Analyser.
• Continuous Scan data can be made into a standard comma separated variable (CSV) file. This format can be imported into Excel, Word, etc. Note. There was already the facility to export via the Windows clipboard, but the amount of data often exceeded the capability of the clipboard.
• A scan can now be aborted by pressing the Esc key.
• The Software Key Code is now permanently encoded into the Software Lock.
• All CES Software Locks enable all drivers.

Bugs Fixed

• If the Emission Limit was not defined in the first segment of the Continuous Scan it was not shown on screen and paper plots.
• Sometimes the Test Note field was printed over the top of the graph data on plotted results. Also the page footer was printed over the bottom of the graph on plotted results when landscape page orientation was used.
• In the Test Editor, Continuous Method was not always set to a valid value.
• Printing configuration, 'cancel' button did not work.
• Printing configuration, current transducer details were not printed unless the data had been saved.
• The Graphics Server is not closed properly when CES9985 closes, and stays as an item in the Windows 95 Taskbar.
• Printing configuration, current GTEM details were not printed unless the data had been saved.
• Printing configuration, GTEM distance is stored in metres, but is printed as if it is cm. Note: Distance will now be printed as metres, with 1cm resolution.
• CES crashes when using the step file after a continuous scan.
• There were also a number of other minor bug fixes.

Comments

• Minimum system requirements are increased to Windows '95 in a 120MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM.
• There is no change to the database structure or usage at this release so current databases will be useable without modification.