The UltraWave8G is the first wireless instrument available exclusively on the UltraFlexplus platform. The UltraWave8G provides the functionality of the UltraWave24 as well as the UltraWaveMX8 wireless instruments available on the UltraFLEX platform with added features, enhanced bandwidths and frequency operating ranges.

The same wireless IG-XL logical instruments available with the UltraWave24 and UltraWaveMX8 are available with the UltraWave8G. Further, with few exceptions, the same logical instrument programming syntax supporting UltraWave24 and UltraWaveMX8 will support the UltraWave8G.

Likewise, most of the DCVS and DCVI syntax supported on the UltraFLEX with the UultraVI80 and UltraVS256 is supported on the UltraFlexPlus with the UltraVI264 and UltraVS256-HP. Further, the digital instrument syntax of the UltraPin1600 is largely supported on the UltraPin2200 available on the UltraFLEXplus; though UltraPin1600 supported pattern files must be recompiled to be supported on the UltraPin2200. Finally, the UltraFLEX syntax for programming the support board User Supplies and Utility Data Bits also is largely supported on UltraFLEXplus.

With compatibility of much of the UltraFLEX and UltraFLEXplus syntax and the adoption of the UltraFLEXplus ChannelMap syntax, much of a wireless test solution supported on the UltraFLEX can migrate to the UltraFLEXplus with limited modifications to the test program.

This paper will share some programming lessons learned optimizing an UltraFLEXplus wireless program adapted from an UltraFlex program to take advantage of architectural enhancements of the UltraFLEXplus enhancing throughput of the final solution.