This is from the original email from Quantum Change:
1. Resolution above 1 GHz – The new TILE4! supports 12 decimal places, where the old version only allowed 6, which should maintain 1 Hz minimum accuracy until 100 GHz. This is significant in both emissions and immunity. This is probably one of the most extreme improvements, requiring the rewrite of the whole entire code base. But it has a significant impact upon the future.
2. Import – Import of settings from other actions will allow a function similar to Cut-Paste. This will make editing flowcharts much easier, especially when you need to insure different steps have the exact same measurement parameters.
3. Assume you are going to define three measurement steps, using different antennas, but with the same RBW, VBW, Sweep time, etc. With the new version you would place the three actions on the flowchart. Setup the first action with the appropriate information. Now edit the remaining two actions and just import the settings from the first action. The only restriction on importing is that you can NEVER import the output data elements. This is done to prevent accidental loss of information – a critical data integrity issue. Data integrity is the primary reason that Cut-and-Paste has never been an option.
4. Bookmarks – In the current version of TILE!, the primary output is graphs and tables. You can export data also, but for report writing purposes, graphs and tables were the sole output. They could be cut/pasted into a word processor (or exported and imported). But TILE4! profiles can have an immense amount of technical information that the user would want in his or her report. The ‘Bookmark’ feature is a way to define linkages between a TILE4! profile and specific parts of a document. This information can then be imported and inserted directly into the document, saving untold hours of editing. This information can be specific information (such as Resolution Bandwidth, Start Frequency, etc) or it could be graphs and tables (which you can automatically export and import now). Utilization of this feature will require some knowledge of the Macro functions in the word processing software, but we are supplying a working sample of a TILE4! profile transferring data to a Word document.
5. Graph Refresh – In all emissions and most immunity steps, we are adding the capability to associate a math step(s) to a measurement step. Now when a measurement step is executing the math function will update data at regular intervals. This will allow graphs and tables to be updated as the test runs, in place of the current method where math is only executed after completion of the test. This will let your engineers or customers see nearly life presentations of the data from the test.
6. Instrument Driver Structure – The basic structure of instrument drivers (specifically true receivers) has also been changed. This will allow us to put the same immediate update capabilities into play for these types of instrument in the future. With this change, old instrument drivers will not work. The instrument driver library is being rewritten to place all drivers are at a 4.0 level.
7. Updated Manual – The new manual is available and included in the download. It covers all the new features of TILE4!, but will also be applicable to those using the current release of TILE!.
There are certain updates that will be made to the file structure for a profile, so when an existing profile is opened and saved in TILE4!, its format will be modified. It will no longer be readable by version 3.4 and prior versions. But contrary to previous releases of TILE!, you will be able to install the Version 4 and run it in parallel with the new version. You just need to be very careful not to ‘update’ a profile that you expect to go back to run in a previous version. It will be as simple as creating a copy of the profile in the Version 4 directory (or some other intermediate directory).