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Logic Analyzer

Logic Displays:
The Logic Pod turns the MPAX into a full-featured logic analyzer, with the
depth, ease-of-use, symbolic decoding, and statistics that are needed by
software and systems testers. It also maintains the features needed by
hardware engineers such as multi-level triggering, filtering, state
configuration, and timing analysis. The State display provides event-level
access details for those needing to monitor software, device drivers, or
firmware. Signals can be grouped and decoded as Binary, Hex, ASCII, Decimal,
Signed Decimal, or Symbolically. Once groups are created and display format
chosen, trigger and filter terms can be created at a high level. Every one of
the analyzers 108 channels can be used as a clock or qualifier. For hardware
engineers, the Timing Waveform display provides for analysis of Logic signal
activity.


Logic Capturing:
The Logic analyzer provides 2 predefined capture
configurations:
- Timing Mode
- State Mode
Custom State Modes can also be created.

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Logic Triggering:
The user can create and save custom triggers including
operations like:
- Trigger if Two
Events are too close in time
- Trigger if Two
events are too far apart in time
- Trigger on the
10,000th occurance of Event X or Y
- Trigger on sequence
of up to 10 events

Logic Analyzer Trace
Filtering:
The Logic Analyzer provides commonly used high-level filter
configurations. Some of the high-level filters provide
drop-down boxes for configuration options. The user can also
create and save custom filters.

Logic Statistics:
The Real-Time Monitor can be easily configured by the user
for almost any type of Statistical or Bit Error Rate
measurement desired.

PROTOCOLS, STANDARDS,
& SPEED:
Also check out:
MultiBus
is a Protocol Analyzer capable of taking multiple traces from
different types of busses at the same time using the same reference
clock. This product provides a new class of analysis tools for design,
verification, and field engineers who work with networking, sub-systems,
SAN, NAS, complex systems, and other multiple communication bus
applications.
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The analyzer allows for
examining captured data at the Command, State, and Signal levels. The
different display formats can be individually displayed or
simultaneously displayed. When displayed simultaneously, each display
can be automatically synchronized with the others, or used
independently. A histogram provides a graphical summary of trace
activity for the entire trace and makes it easy to point and click to
any position within the trace.
The MPAX's Capture
Engine pushes protocol recording to new limits with the following
features: Transitional
Timestamping, Bandwidth-4.5
Gbytes/sec, Depth-Stores
up to 4 Gbytes, Segmentable
Trace Buffer More
Information
Custom
Capture States
Triggering is used to stop the trace
when a specific event or sequence of events occurs. The analyzer also
provides for stopping when the buffer is full, or looping endlessly
until the user manually stops the trace. High-Level triggering options
are provided for each bus. The user can also create custom triggers
using the powerful Trigger Sequencer. More
Information
Custom
Triggering
Pre-configured
filters for each bus allow the user to conserve buffer space and reduce
the stored data to those items that are of interest. Custom filters can
also be created. More Information
Custom Filters
Dedicated hardware is provided for
counting events. Software processes this data providing simple totals,
or ratios of events per time or per other events, such as Transfers per
Second, Transfers per Command, Errors per Second, or Data Transfers per
Error. These ratios are shown as Current Values, Average Values,
and Peak Values, providing a summary of the changes over time.
The analyzer decodes
many of the high-level protocols that are transmitted on each bus. The
Command listing is typically used for displaying high-level protocols
which may be transferred across a bus, while the State Listing typically
displays native, low-level protocols.
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