Ver 2.06c
FIX: PG7000 may stop communications with an AMH when an external barometer or vacuum sensor is not being used.
Ver 2.06b
FIX: Torr and mTorr unit conversions.
Ver 2.06a
FIX: In PG7302, AutoGen with PPCH may control pressure in wrong direction in certain situations when floating or refloating the piston.
FIX: Upgrades from version 2.05h and earlier will leave AutoGen by PPCH operation inoperable.
FIX: "NONE" selection was missing from the [SPECIAL], <2presU>, <2other> menu.
FIX: PG did not report a Ready condition when vented with a PPC3 AutoGen active and an external vacuum sensor.
Ver 2.06
FIX: Sending "MMODE=G" command to result in normal gauge mode operation.
FIX: With AutoRotate ON, after a PG Terminal initiated deceleration of piston rolation, AutoRotate will not rerotate the piston until a new pressure or mass request is entered. This avoids having the piston rerotate immediately after deceleration if the piston is floating.
FIX: Remote definition of AMH mass sets so that subsequent mass loads are made correctly.
ADD: pressure units "Torr" and "mTor"
ADD: When using AutoGen with PPCH, do not refloat the piston if the piston position is between the float target and the upper ready limit. This avoids needless pressure regeneration when making small mass load changes.
ADD: New option in the [AutoGen] menu to skip having the automated pressure controller (PPC) readjust piston position to the target position when a new pressure command is given and the piston is already anywhere within the piston position "Ready" limits.
ADD: Improved PPCH low pressure control. Avoids excessive overshoots on low pressure (100 to 500 kPa/kg) piston-cylinders.
ADD: In the response to the "PR" command, list a "V" in the 3rd character space (after "R " or "NR") to indicate that the vacuum reference is "Not Ready".
ADD: Support for external vacuum sensor isolation valve controlled by a valve driver on the PPC3 use for automated pressure generation. Actuation of the isolation valve occurs automatically if an external vacuum sensor is active in the current SETUP.
CHG: Default low piston rotation limit in piston-cylinder file to 10 RPM rather than 20 on gas operated piston-cylinders (PG7102, PG7601, PG7607
Ver 2.05h
CHG: Change the user "PRTAMB" command to a factory only.
FIX: Add piston rotation deceleration routine to AutoRotate in differential mode.
FIX: MINMAX command to contain a 3rd return parameter that is the pressure resulting from floating the piston only.
FIX: High line differential mode screens.
FIX: Forced rotation would attempt even if currently rotating and meeting other force rotation criteria.
FIX: Forced rotation should "give up" after three attempts.
FIX: New offset determined from an external barometer while in differential mode incorrectly read from the barometer resulting in a mass load error.
FIX: Allow selection via a menu to select old style LF-CR or normal CR-LF as the transmit termination for COM2 & COM3.
FIX: RPM4 would be improperly set to gauge mode when used as an external barometer.
Ver 2.05g
FIX: PG7302 could not initialize PPCH as AutoGen pressure controller.
Ver 2.05f
CHG: New method for use of a PPC2+ or PPC3 with AutoGen when floating the piston in the "spring zone".
ADD: When using AutoGen with PPCH, set upper limit (UL) to 10% above the maximum PG7302 pressure to prevent PPCH from grossly exceeding the target when autofloating using rate mode.
ADD: RESUME=0 / RESUME=1 remote commands to not require / require the use of the RESUME command to complete remote pressure setting sequences.
Ver 2.05e
ADD: Support for use of an RPM4 as an external barometer.
ADD: When automated pressure generation is on, when floating, piston position must be out of the ready band for three consecutive measurements. This avoids premature refloating.
FIX: With automated rotation on, forced rotation routine would not hand control off to the normal auto rotation control in some conditions and would continue to attempt forced rotation regardless of rotation speed.
CHG: When using automated pressure generation with PPCH and with "raise piston before mass handling" on, increase (by 2x) the rate used to raise the piston before mass handling and the rate used to detect if the piston is not progressing.
CHG: Do not alter the state of the control reference (VAC/ATM) on an external PPC2+ or PPC3.
CHG: When using automated pressure generation and with "raise piston before mass handling" on, change limit to raise piston to before mass handling to 2.5 mm.
CHG: resolution reported by the "MASSSETx" command is now 0.1mg for masses 500g and less, 1mg for masses greater than 500g but less than 10kg and 10mg for 10kg and up
Ver 2.05d
ADD: Support of PPCH as a pressure controller for AutoGen.
FIX: After a reset SETS or reset ALL, set active mass set and piston/cyclinder to the first valid one instead of the first one to prevent activating a previously deleted item
CHG: Forced rotation uses standard acceleration control instead of full power.
Ver 2.05c
ADD: Support for AMH-38 and AMH-100 automated mass handling systems.
ADD: Piston rotation deceleration function to stop piston rotation before changing pressure or manipulating masses (activation of this feature requires re-creating piston-cylinder files).
FIX: Internal real time clock could not properly set the date past year 2009
FIX: "MMODE" correctly accepts the "AATM" argument FIX: Auto generation does not stop floating piston when it crosses the midfloat position but floats piston at target position.
FIX: "PRTAMB" command and "PRTPC" command functions were swapped.
FIX: Piston position would occasionally falsely indicate '0.0' during remote use.
FIX: Longer timeout and retry for communications with extern PPC
Ver 2.05 - 2.05b
Internal mfg only.
Ver 2.04b
FIX: Recognize presence of motorized rotation system in PG7102, PG7202, PG7302 when upgrade path is not from most recent previous version.
Ver 2.04a
FIX: Display "*****" in numeric data fields which have overflowed (exceeded their width).
FIX: Modify the make up mass view screen to allow the "kg" text to be fully visible following the make up mass value.
FIX: Fatal Exception would sometimes occur when initializing an external RPM1.
FIX: Update the screen when head, unit or measurement mode is changed remotely.
FIX: '#' command now passes data onto COM2 without adding any additional addressing information.
FIX: Use correct piston file default rotation speed ready criteria for the PG7307.
Ver 2.04
ADD: Support for new PG7202.
ADD: Gas density calculations up to 100 MPa for head corrections.
ADD: Platform model based maximum pressure limits.
ADD: Allow PG7302 and PG7202 to be used in high line differential modes.
ADD: Allow use of PG7302 module in PG7202 platform.
FIX: External barometer configuration could become corrupt if an RPM1 is used, and COM2 settings do not match the RPM1's setting.
Ver 2.03 Rev f
ADD: Support for PG7307
FIX: The "DUTHEIGHT=" remote command setting would be ignored if the DUT height was locally set to '0'.
Ver 2.03 Rev e
FIX: Remote command "PGEN" would not return the correct error if an external PPC was not detected.
Ver 2.03 Rev d
ADD: Support of PG7102 high line differential mode operation.
FIX: Prevent deleting make up mass when editing mass sets.
ADD: 0.1 mg resolution in bell and piston mass edit and view fields.
CHG: AutoGen (piston floating) routine sets piston to 1/2 of positive float deadband rather than to in deadband only.
FIX: Identification of PPC2+ in AutoGen (piston floating) routines to avoid hanging up in AutoGen initialization. |
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