When equipped with Option 7, the MS20xxC VNA Master provides for careful management of confidential data for both the setup parameters and the resulting measured data.
Highly sophisticated systems and equipment have technical applications that must remain secure in their operations. The particular parameters that must remain secure usually involve operating frequencies and a variety of other setup configurations.
To accommodate the measurements and yet preserve the data as confidential, Option 7 can be used to prevent any setup data or measured data from being stored on any internal memory location of the VNA Master. Instead, all such data are forced to be stored on removable memory such as an external USB memory device.
Caution
Note that even with Option 7 enabled, operating parameters (such as frequency range, power level, number of points) that are set by the user are stored in the VNA Master EEPROM when the VNA Master is turned OFF. These parameters can be erased, however, via a Master Reset operation, as described later in this chapter.