Dsa815 Crack

List of DSA815 RF Front-End/IF Components – Rev B, This document applies to DSA815s with RF/Digital FPGA Boards 00.05 (Boot 01.02 and 01.03), and Newer Units with Main Board 00.07 and above, with Boot 01.04) with notes. * Newer Units... This describes the IF Frequencies, Mixers, LO Frequencies, the on board LEDs that tell you which LO is currently active, etc. This architecture is valid for all versions of the DSA815s with the different Main Boards. I didn't provide a schematic or block diagram (I could have) just because I didn't need any except for my personal hand sketches I made while tracing it out.

You will be able to construct it yourself if needed, as I described it clearly in order of signal flow from SA Input through the Last IF (DSP Input). You will find the Front-End through the last IF (DSP) active, PIN diodes, and Mixer components (with Manufacturer and P/N) for the the DSA815 with Main Board up to v.

And most for those with Main Board v. Please See the attsched PDF file. FYI, long time not here so I don´t know what the current state of the hack is. I have a: Main Board 00.04 RFB FPGA 00.05 DB FPGA 00.05 Boot 00.01.03 went from FW 1.09 to 1.18 and only the SSC-SDA option is not active, the others are still there. Hacked the DSA back in installed sucessfull with FW 1.08 with riglol (I did not soldered nothing on the unit): 1 - AAAB - Tracking Generator (do not enter it, already active by default) 2 - AAAC - Advanced Measurement Kit 3 - AAAD - 10Hz RBW 4 - AAAE - EMI/Quasi Peak 5 - AAAF - VSWR Oh wait the 3- 10Hz is no more there, I got a new option SSC-SDA to activate.

Serial: Options: Privatekey. DSA815 device options: first character: A = official, S = trial AAAB - Tracking Generator AAAC - Advnced Measurement Kit. Prog-Studio 9. Prog-Studio is a modern, comprehensive, and very productive micro-controller development environment for industry standard 8051 (MCS-51.

Any suggestions? Just to clarify, I have an older 1.03 bootloader and currently run 1.06 f/w (on a 0.04 mainboard). I have all the options opened up fine (thank you wonderful EEVbloggers) and would like to keep them! The latest f/w available is 1.18 and it is clearly marked 'no downgrades possible from this release'. It sounds risky to go on this one-way trip just in case all resets itself. I suppose really should just do the 1.17 upgrade - does that sound sensible? And if so where could I get it?

Many thanks Jeremy. I have a DSA815 with old Bootverision 01.02. With firmware version 01.07 all licenses with the key generator were entered. I have not used the write protection of the FRAM. The firmware was updated step by step up to current firmware 01.18.

Now I have entered a trial license for the SSC-DSA option, and then activated the write protection of the FRAM. After switching on, the trial time is counted down, but after a new start the time starts again with the time of the write protection activated. Good day All First I would like to thank all the members here who have dedicated their time to furthering the hackability of the Rigol DSA815-TG. I just purchased the DSA815-TG and wanted to say that it came with All functions operational as Trial with 35 plus hours out of the box, except for the SSC-DSA option. I have attached photos of the license screen. My questions is; since the wanted options are enabled now, should I do the FRAM write mod.?

I see from the above that the mod. Does indeed work with the 1.18 firmware, but what about the *new* hardware that this model has?

All ideas and opinions are welcome, as I really want to keep the VSWR option functional. Thanks take care, peace lost_bro EDIT: added firmware photo. I have a DSA815 with old Bootverision 01.02. With firmware version 01.07 all licenses with the key generator were entered.

I have not used the write protection of the FRAM. The firmware was updated step by step up to current firmware 01.18.

I see from the above that the mod. Does indeed work with the 1.18 firmware, but what about the *new* hardware that this model has? All ideas and opinions are welcome, as I really want to keep the VSWR option functional.

Thanks take care, peace lost_bro EDIT: added firmware photo. Hello everyone, First of all, let me thank you all for all the precious informations shared in this topic. I will try to do my part now, as much as possible from me. I just finished reading all 35 pages of posts in this topic and I must say that I learned a lot. Thank you all!

Now, I own one DSA815-TG since February and so far, I am happy with it; although, I have not given it much use until recently. Right now, my SA has the latest firmware available (1.18) as shown below. Also, this SA hasn't been hacked, opened or modified. One thing I read in some topics (page 22), is about the 'missing steps' in the power sweep.

So, I tried to replicate this function and I think the thing has been solved as you may see in the picture below: If anyone would like me to do some experiments, please feel free to ask. Also I need the experiment procedure detailed so I can do exactly what you want (as long as it doesn't imply to open the instrument).

Now for the down side of updating my SA to the latest firmware version. Before the update I had firmware version 1.12 and about 23 hours of trials left. The update process went smoothly without a problem, except that, at the end, my trial timers were set to ZERO.

I contacted the SA vendor (in Europe) and they provided me some new trial licenses for some of the options I still wanted to try. I installed the licenses as per normal procedures, they got installed, but the option aren't active, as one can see in the following screenshots. The final result is that I have the trial timers with 36 hours but the options inactive. Contacted the vendor again (as a pivot to reach Rigol) and the answer was that Rigol said that there may be some incompatibility between the hardware and the new trial licenses. I will try to contact directly Rigol Europe or whatever to try to solve this issue. Any feed back I have, I'll post here just in case it may be useful to someone.

Best regards to all, Emmanuel. I had exactly the same issue with mine. Funny thing is: After some time of use (must have been 10 to 20 hours), the original trial licenses magically reactivated themselves with full 35 odd hours (noticed only some five hours later since a colleague was using the instrument). Before that I tried everything to uninstall the old trial licenses to make the newly provided ones the only and active ones -- without success. I guess all this relates to a new number format in FRAM for the time totalizer Rigol has introduced with f/w 1.17.

Anyway, after the trials reappeared, I quickly closed the WP jumper and the trial time is frozen again. Greetings, Thomas.

I was in the market for an oscilloscope, but I didn't want to spend much. I found out about Rigol and their line of $300-400 scopes, and was getting ready to buy one. Then I found a post on how to make your DS1052E, which costs about $400 into a DS1102E, which costs about $700 with a simple firmware modification! I bought the scope right after, and I received it in the mail today. It's pretty nice by default, but doubling the bandwidth is always a plus. The DS1052E has a 50Mhz maximum frequency, but it has exactly the same hardware (as far as the reverse-engineering folks can tell) as the DS1102E, which has a 100Mhz maximum. This guide will show you how to make the switch very easily using Linux.

You can do it in Windows too, but it's a bit more involved, and Linux makes it really really easy. I've attached the Rigol user guide for both units, in case you don't have one. WARNING: It's entirely likely that this completely voids your warranty. Make sure you know what you're doing - you can brick your scope if you screw anything up.

I used this as a guide for the process. As more firmware versions come out, the post will be updated, and this instructable might not. Therefore, in this step, you need to click the link above, and find something resembling the following: DS1052_to_DS1102.zip This file contains a collection of different firmwares. At this point, for my original firmware, I needed the following parts: 02.02.SP2_patched_to_02.05.01.02 02.04.SP1_original The first one has a hex-edited version of firmware 02.02.SP2 that makes a 02.05 Rigol think it's an upgrade when it's really a downgrade. You need to downgrade to 02.02.SP2 to enable the modifications we're going to make.

Refer to the forum post for more instructions if you have a different firmware than I have. I simply put the first firmware on a USB key (02.02.SP2_patched_to_02.05.01.02) in the root. The key was formatted with FAT16.

Then, I safely ejected the key, put it back in the computer, mounted it, and ran the following: md5sum DS1000EUpdate.RGL I compared this to the.md5 file that was also in the directory from the zip file. They matched. If they don't match, DO NOT CONTINUE. YOU WILL PROBABLY BRICK YOUR SCOPE. Step 6: Load the 02.02 Firmware Onto the Scope.

Now that we're running the old firmware, we can do the traditional hack to change this scope. I found really handy for this step. Hook up the USB cable to the back of the unit. Any generic USB cable will do - there's nothing special about it. I used one from my Arduino:). Once you have the device connected, make sure using dmesg: [170] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 11 [147] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbtmc If you don't see that, try a different Linux (a newer kernel perhaps?) or check your connections a few times.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, and it worked perfectly the first time. Now, we just need to get our commands straight.

The first command sets the model number. You should probably leave this line as-is: echo ':INFO:MODEL DS1102E' sudo tee /dev/usbtmc0 This second line is where you have some wiggle room. Apparently, the firmware cares what your serial number is, so you have to make it a valid DS1102E serial number. The following was taken from the cited blog post above, and he states it was found in an eBay auction. Your original serial number is on the back sticker on the case in case you ever want to change it back. Echo ':INFO:SERIAL DS1EB11305432' sudo tee /dev/usbtmc0 There.

That's all you need to do with your computer. At this point, the scope had locked up on me, so I just unplugged it from the USB and rebooted it. Then, I went into the System Info and checked the model and serial numbers. See the picture. Step 8: Flash an Actual DS1102E Firmware. There was some discussion in the comments that I didn't have enough testing in here.

That's mainly because I don't have a function generator (yet), and I had other results to look. There's some true scope enthusiasts who've confirmed this mod works by using a function generator and looking at the maximum analog bandwidth and rise times. Going through the gets some good results. This is a sampling: an analysis using a sine wave of the analog bandwidth. Rigol DS1102E 100MHz 1GS/S Start:100kHz End:117MHz Notes:Used 16X average. Equivalent seems to extend bandwidth. I still have to research the difference between the two.

Rigol DS1052E 50MHz 1GS/S (This is the modded scope) Start:100kHz End:123MHz Notes:Used 16X average. Equivalent seems to extend bandwidth. Yes really slightly better then the real DS1102E I went back and forth several times.

It against a 200Mhz Tek and an unmodified unit. Notice how much the waveform looks like the Tek image? Someone measuring a 109Mhz signal with a modified unit. Having used Agilents a bit in College (I'm CS by trade, not EE, but I had a couple EE classes), this probably doesn't quite compare, but it's still a bargain at $300. The unit is pretty heavy (maybe 8 lbs?), knobs are well-made, it's responsive, I like the button layout, the menus are fine. But I haven't tested it thoroughly - it's my first scope, and I'm a EE novice, but there's a pretty large community that seems to like this scope.

I wish I could give you a more detailed response:). I really like that it's so low-profile - it's not deep like most of the scopes I've seen. It's about the size of a small shoebox.

I think it's a great scope for a beginner, but if one had more stringent requirements, they should look elsewhere and spend more. Thanks for reading!

I have the same scope, but I wouldn't upgrade until I finally get to the >50MHz level with my hacking. Overall its a very nice scope.

Big, glowing buttons, easy to navigate interface, and long list of features. One problem: I'm coming from using university-level HP Analog oscilloscopes, so I was a bit spoiled with the near instant Auto-Scale times. The Rigol takes about 2-3 seconds to lock onto a signal, which once again wasn't a deal-breaker for me, just something I missed when switching from analog to DSO. I suggest playing with it first if it is within your budget. Like many other tools, you get what you pay for. I wish I had ~10k to buy an HP/Agilent, but I don't so I had to go for this. 'Linux always makes things easier' I totally, 100% disagree with this.

Linux makes a few techy things easier, but most things that people want to do with their computers are much much harder. Run Windows as your main OS, because it works well, is easy to use, and is actually compatible with the hardware it was shipped with, and then run Linux in a virtual machine for the few times you need it.

Buat Windows Palsu Menjadi Windows Asli more. It will work reasonably well with the virtual hardware, while it's pretty much guaranteed not to work with your real hardware. Thanks for the trackback! Windows PCs are very hard to come by in my house, and amongst every one of my friends. Everyone I know either has an Apple (where this method should work with very slight modifications) or Linux.

I don't see what would be any safer in Windows - the USB driver in Linux is absolutely fine:). It seems like since there's so many more steps in Windows there'd be more to screw up. Here, it's just 2 commands - no software to download and install, etc. But, whatever floats your boat! Thanks for writing up those instructions - I couldn't have done this without them.

Manufacturing an 80MHz function generator can be a nice project. However you need at least two different scopes (or two firmware loaded on the same hardware), else you will not be able to compare the results. Rigol looks a nice scope. I'm playing with scopes since about 20 years (I've started with vacuum tubes scopes, now I'm using a Tektronix MSO4104, which btw is worse than old and real scopes), and can tell that the analog bandwidth is everything in a digital scope. With other words, is unlikely two different bandwith scopes have the same hardware in the input stage (high impedance amplifier and D2A converter) and just a different firmware. That is a stupid way of thinking for the scope designer. Usually even the hardware is the same, the cip used for D2A conversion is much slower on lower bandwidth scope.

That's why, if I'll be in your place I'll be very circumspect about the real effect obtained. There's some writeups on hardware teardowns of the scopes, and from the sounds of it, they've shown no discernable differences.

In a way, it kind of makes sense from an engineering standpoint - if your main cost is research and development, just make one product and neuter it, but don't tell anyone. Download Software Img2gps Software. Usually this works great, but if anyone ever finds out, your more expensive model will sell less of the time (but for each of those sales, you're probably selling a cheaper one, and you have the added advantage of selling to a growing DIY community like this one that will choose Rigol since the scope can be modified). Remember the Chevy Nova? You could get a lot of the same V8 engines offered in the Corvette, but at a much lower cost. Sure, you're not making as much per engine, but you're opening yourself up to a whole new market. At this point, most electronics hobbyists either don't have a scope or are buying used equipment since new scopes cost a fortune.

This is one of the first decent and cheap new scopes. Also, since doing this modification voids the warranty, that reduces their cost even more. So, I'm just saying, it's not necessarily bad business (or a 'stupid way of thinking for the scope designer') to neuter a good product. You may have right, I'm agree with your point. I'm also appreciate your work. But, I'm an old designer involved in mixed, analog and RF design, and the way you're describing (which could be correct in those weird times) it hasn't any logic for me.

You have to prove that your modified scope works as expected. Find a way and please do it for yourself, not for me. Is not enough to show a nice screen, borrow (from your school lab) a real signal generator, a real scope and test your modified scope. Show the differences of the rising and falling edges (measured between 10% and 90% amplitude as the standard require) within your scope and the reference scope. I have this oscilloscope, without upgrade -all upgrade is a risky and i don't need 100mhz for now- anyway i have all the files and instructions to upgrade it in the future;).

I'm very happy with this tool, it's well finished, with specifications as a Tektronic DS101x equivalent serie -i don't remember the exact model. I think it's a good investment: low price and good quality. I only find a problem: the fan is a little noisy, not annoying but. Well but it's really easy to change. The upgrade shouldn't avoid the specificatiosn because the ADC, and other componens are overrated to such frecuency. In fact, there's a picture of Rigol website with the same rigol DS1052E labelled with 100mhz!!!! Check the 'view large image' and you'll see the model with the 100Mhz in the upper label over the screen.