Compliance Applications

Instrument
DCA-X
N109x
Applications

TRIAL LICENSES

Free trial licenses are available for the application. Go to keysight.com, search for the application's model number, and click on the Trials & Licenses tab.

  • Click Apps > Automated Test Apps on FlexDCA's menu to start available compliance applications.

DCA-X compliance applications add significant measurement capability to your oscilloscope. Compliance applications install on either the DCA-X or on a PC and use a common user interface. Compliance applications directly control FlexDCA which, in turn, controls a DCA-X or DCA-M oscilloscope.

The FlexDCA applications covered in this topic require a license that is managed and listed in the Keysight License Manager which is an application that is installed on the PC. Older version applications are handled by FlexDCA and shown in the FlexDCA Licensing dialog.

The stand-alone compliance applications help you by:

  • Saving time in understanding details of standards
  • Reducing the time it takes to characterize your designs from hours to minutes.
  • Test your device to compliance or chosen limits
  • Helping debug your device using custom configurations
  • Generating HTML reports that summarize the performance of your device

Compliance applications have the same look-and-feel as the compliance applications for Keysight's real-time oscilloscopes. Once you become familiar with one application, you can quickly learn any of the other real-time or sampling (DCA-X) oscilloscope applications.

Do not confuse compliance applications with DCA-X options and licenses. Options also add measurement capability, but are not stand-alone PC applications.

Starting compliance applications from within FlexDCA

You can start compliance applications , such as the N109228CA, from within FlexDCA. Links for each installed application are automatically placed on FlexDCA's Apps menu and Applications panel. To start your application within FlexDCA:

  • Press the DCA-X's front panel Apps button.
  • Click Apps > Automated Test Apps on FlexDCA's menu.

You can add your own file and PC application shortcuts to the Apps menu and Applications panel. The files targeted by a shortcuts must have their file-name extension assigned in Windows to an application. For FlexDCA to automatically locate them, place your shortcuts or files in the user data folder's \User App Menu Items subfolder.

Application Menu

Application Panel