Agilent 16700 - Manual

6 System Overview Selecting the Right System Select a mainframe (page 7) Choose a system based on your needs:• Self-contained unit or a unit withexternal mouse, keyboard, and monitor • Expander frame for large channel count requirements Selecting a system for your application Determine your probing ...

7 12.1" LCD display with touch screen on the 16702B makes it easy to view a largenumber of waveforms or states. Dedicated hot keys give instant access tothe most frequently used menus, displays,and on-line help. "Touch Off" button disables the touchscreen and allows you to point out anom...

8 Connection for optional monitor. (Up to 1600x1200 video resolution with option 003) 10/100BaseT LAN - autosensing Parallel printer port SCSI-II connection for an external 18 GByte data drive orexternal removable hard drive Expander frame connection provides anadditional five slots for measurement ...

9 Mainframes System Screens Figure 2.4. Setup Assistant gets you up andrunning quickly. System Admin allows you to quick-ly set up the instru-ment on your net-work, configureprint servers, set upuser accounts forsecurity or installsoftware updates. Demo Center provides simpledemos of the mostcommonl...

12 Programming IntuiLink also includes an Active-Xautomation server to provide programmatic control of the logicanalysis system from an externalenvironment, such as LabVIEW or theMicrosoft VisualStudio environmentof Visual Basic and Visual C++ tools.The instrument's RemoteProgramming Interface (or R...

13 Probing Solutions Criteria for Selection Why is Probing Important? Your debugging tools perform threeimportant tasks: probing your targetsystem, acquiring data, and analyzingdata. Data acquisition and analysistools are only as effective as the physical interface to your target system. Use the fol...

14 Probing Solutions Technologies Choose the Optimum ProbingStrategy for Your Application Advantages Limitations Most flexible method. Can be time-consuming to connect a large Flying-lead probes are included with logic number of channels. Least space-efficient analyzer module (except 16760A). method...

15 Probing Solutions Technologies Advantages Limitations Very reliable connections. Requires advance planning in the design stage. Saves time in making multiple connections. Requires some dedicated board space.Moderate incremental cost. Figure 3.8. High-density probing solutions Model Description Re...

17 Data Acquisition and Stimulus State/Timing Modules Selecting the Correct Modules to Meet Your Needs Selecting the proper logic analyzermodules for your needs requires aseries of choices concerning performance, cost, and the amount ofdata you will be able to capture. Thefollowing table explains th...

19 Data Acquisition and Stimulus State/Timing Modules Key Features of Agilent’sState/Timing Modules • Memory depth up to 128M samples at a price to meet yourbudget • State analysis up to 1.5 Gb/s• Timing analysis up to 2 GHz• VisiTrigger combines powerful functionality with an intuitiveuser interfac...

22 Data Acquisition and Stimulus State/Timing Modules Save and recall up to ten of your custom trigger setups without loadinga new configuration file. View current information on the state of the timers, counters, flags, and the triggersequence level. VisiTrigger Your most commonly used triggers are...

24 Data Acquisition and Stimulus State/Timing Modules Eye Finder Agilent’s eye finder examines the signals coming from the circuit undertest and automatically adjusts thelogic analyzer’s setup and hold window on each channel. Eye finder,combined with 100 ps adjustmentresolution (10 ps on 16760A) onA...

25 Data Acquisition and Stimulus State/Timing Modules Eye Finder as an Analytical Tool Eye finder is very useful as a first-pass screening test for data validwindows. Because eye finder quicklyexamines all channels, it is considerably faster than examiningeach channel with an oscilloscope.After runn...

26 Data Acquisition and Stimulus State/Timing Modules Features Supported in Agilent State and Timing Analysis Modules Agilent Module Number 16710A, 16711A, 16715A 16716A, 16717A, 16760A 16712A 16740A, 16741A, 16742A, 16750A16751A, 16752A Eye finder √ √ √ Visitrigger √ √ √ Timing Zoom √ Transitional ...

27 Data Acquisition and Stimulus State/Timing Modules Agilent 16760A: Extending LogicAnalysis to New Realms • Differential inputs (single-ended probes also available). • State analysis up to 1.5 Gb/s.• Setup-and-hold time of 500 ps.• Input signal amplitude as low as 200 mV p-p. Logic analysis at sta...

28 Data Acquisition and Stimulus State/Timing Modules Eye scan In the eye scan mode, the Agilent16760A scans all incoming signals foractivity in a time range centered onthe clock and over the entire voltagerange of the signal. The results aredisplayed in a graph similar to an eyediagram as seen on a...

30 Data Acquisition and Stimulus Oscilloscope Modules When integrated into the 16700Series logic analysis systems, theoscilloscope modules make powerfulmeasurement and analysis moreaccessible, so you can find theanswers to tough debugging problemsin less time. Oscilloscope controls areeasy to find a...

32 Data Acquisition and Stimulus Oscilloscope Modules More Channels When You Need Them You can combine up to four 16534Aoscilloscope modules to provide up to eight channels on a single timebase. When you operate in this mode, you can use the master modulefor triggering. CHAN 1 & 2 1MW = 7pF250V ...

33 Data Acquisition and Stimulus Pattern Generation Modules Digital Stimulus and Response in aSingle Instrument Configure the logic analysis system toprovide both stimulus and responsein a single instrument. For example,the pattern generator can simulate acircuit initialization sequence andthen sign...

34 Data Acquisition and Stimulus Pattern Generation Modules Vectors Up To 240 Bits Wide Vectors are defined as a "row" oflabeled data values, with each datavalue from one to 32 bits wide. Eachvector is output on the rising edge ofthe clock. Up to five, 48-channel 16720A mod-ules can be inter...

36 Data Acquisition and Stimulus Pattern Generation Modules "User Macro" and "Loop" SimplifyCreation of Stimulus Programs User macros permit you to define apattern sequence once, then insertthe macro by name wherever it isneeded. Passing parameters to themacro will allow you to creat...

37 Speed Problem Solving With Off-the-Shelf Solutions for ManyCommon Microprocessors To help you design and debug yourmicroprocessor-based target systems,Agilent offers different microproces-sor specific products that let you getcontrol and visibility over your microprocessor’s internal and external...

38 Data Acquisition and Stimulus Emulation Modules Emulation Control Interface The emulation control interface isaccessed from the power up screen ofthe Agilent 16700 Series system. Theinterface is included with the AgilentE5901A/B emulation modules. Designed for hardware engineers,this graphical us...

39 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Software Tool Sets Once the data is acquired, you canrely on the post-processing tools torapidly consolidate data into displaysthat provide insight into your sys-tem's behavior. The tool setsdescribed in the following pages areoptional, post-processing softw...

40 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Software Tool Sets Figure 5.1. For a free, one-time, 21-day trial of any tool set, simply type “demo” in the password field for the productyou want to evaluate. Free Tool Set Evaluation To see which tool sets best fit yourneeds, Agilent Technologies offers a...

41 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Source Correlation Debug Your Source Code The Agilent B4620B source correla-tion tool set correlates a microproces-sor execution trace window with acorresponding high-level source codewindow. The source correlation toolset enhances your software develop-ment...

44 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Source Correlation Product Characteristics Data Sources All state and timing measurementmodules supported by the 16700Series logic analysis systems (exceptthe 16517A/518A) serve as datasources for the source correlationtool set. Microprocessor Support The so...

45 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Data Communications Monitor Packet Information onParallel Data Buses The data communications tool setshows parallel bus data at a protocollevel on the logic analyzer. Developershave the capability to find complex,system-level bus interaction problemsin appli...

46 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Data Communications Theory of Operation Use a logic analyzer to probe the system’s parallel data buses (e.g.,UTOPIA). The analyzer needs access to: • Data signals• Qualifying signals• Start of cell or packet bit• Synchronous clock for the bus The synchronous...

54 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets System Performance Analysis Optimize System Performance Your design has to meet consistentperformance requirements over arange of operating conditions andover a specific time period. Using thesystem performance analysis tool set,you can obtain answers to man...

57 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets System Performance Analysis State Overview Tool Narrow in on an area of interestusing built-in qualification and zoomfunctions. Pinpoint regions of high memory activity todetermine which routines or operations areresponsible for throughput bottlenecks. Measu...

58 Post-Processing and Analysis System Performance Analysis State Interval Tool Sort and display symbols alphabetically by eventname or by the number of hits. Display just the symbols youwant to evaluate by using thesymbol-navigation utility. The util-ity automatically configures thetool for the sel...

59 Post-Processing and Analysis System Performance Analysis Time Interval Tool Data is displayed in histograms, whichcan be exported to your host computereither as histograms or as tabular formatted text files. Statistics such as maximum time, minimum time, standard deviation andmean help you docume...

60 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets System Performance Analysis Time Overview Tool Elusive system crashes are oftencaused by too many interrupts occur-ring over a short period of time. If thesoftware cannot handle all simultane-ous service requests, the system canexhibit random defects while l...

61 Solve Serial Communication Problems Your system may use serial buses tocommunicate between ICs and totransfer data to and from peripheraldevices. Sifting through thousands ofserial bits by looking at long verticalcolumns of captured 1's and 0's canbe very tedious, time-consuming, anderror-prone. ...

62 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Serial Analysis ...specify which signal you want toconvert to parallel format byselecting a specific bit of anyavailable label. ...capture serial data with or with-out an external clock reference.Enable clock recovery for anincoming serial bit stream that ha...

64 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Serial Analysis Clock Recovery Algorithm 1. For analysis purposes the data is captured in conventional timingmode using the internal timinganalyzer clock as the clock refer-ence. Set the sample period of thetiming analyzer to take four ormore samples for eac...

67 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Tool Development Kit Customize Your Measurements The ability to interpret and displayinformation is vital to your project.At times the information you needcan be buried in the raw data of yourmeasurement. This might be due toone of several reasons: • The use...

68 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Tool Development Kit Custom Tool Example, Added Text inTrace This example shows how a customtool can convert data to text to pres-ent information in an easy-to-under-stand form. The original trace comes from a control unit in an automobile.Embedded in the da...

69 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Tool Development Kit Custom Tool Example, MicroprocessorCode Reconstruction The original trace came from the busof a MPC 555 processor. As you cansee, no data was placed on the bus atthe time of the trace because cachememory was turned on. Normally, itwould ...

70 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Tool Development Kit Custom Tool Example, Multiplex Data Custom tools can combine severallines of data acquired sequentiallyunder one label into one line of data.However the data to be combineddoes not have to come from the samelabel, it can come from differ...

73 Post-Processing and Analysis Tool Sets Licensing Information Licensing and Miscellaneous Description System Configuration Requirements • 16700 Series logic analysis system• Desired tool set(s)• Supported and compatible measurement hardware Tool Set Control • Locally control and view tool set meas...

74 Time Correlation with Agilent Infiniium Oscilloscopes E5850A Logic Analyzer - Oscilloscope Time Correlation Fixture • Automatic de-skew. Measurements between the logicanalyzer and Infiniium oscillo-scope are automatically de-skewedin time. This saves you time andgives you confidence in the meas-u...

75 Agilent 16700 Series TechnicalInformation System Software All features and functionalitydescribed in this document are available with system software version A.02.20.00 Mainframe Specifications andCharacteristics Mass Storage Hard Disk Drive 9 GB formatted disk drive Floppy Disk Drive• Capacity 1...

83 Probing Solutions Specifications andCharacteristics SIGNAL GND 4SIGNAL GND 6SIGNAL GND 8SIGNAL GND 10 POWER GND 2 SIGNAL GND 12SIGNAL GND 14SIGNAL GND 16SIGNAL GND 18SIGNAL GND 20SIGNAL GND 22SIGNAL GND 24 SIGNAL GND 26SIGNAL GND 28SIGNAL GND 30SIGNAL GND 32SIGNAL GND 34SIGNAL GND 36SIGNAL GND 38...

85 State/Timing Modules Specifications andCharacteristics Key Specifications* and Characteristics Agilent Model Number 16715A, 16716A, 16717A 16740A, 16741A, 16742A 16750A, 16751A, 16752A 16760A Maximum state acquisition rate on 16715A, 16716A: 167 Mb/s 200 Mb/s 400 Mb/s [1] Full channel: 800 Mb/s e...

96 State/Timing Modules Specifications andCharacteristics Specifications for Each Input Parameter Minimum Description/Notes 800, 1250, 1500 Mb/s modes 200, 400 Mb/s modes Data tWidth* 500 ps 1.25 ns Eye width in system under test [2] to Clock tSetup 250 ps 625 ps Data setup time required before tSam...

100 State/Timing Modules Specifications andCharacteristics Agilent Technologies 16760A Supplemental Specifications and Characteristics (continued) Eye scan mode 1.5 Gb/s mode 800 Mb/s mode Maximum clock rate 1.5 Gb/s 800 Mb/s Sample position range relative +5ns to 10 ns -4 ns to +4 ns to clock Sampl...

101 16534A Specifications* Bandwidth dc to 500 MHz dc offset accuracy ±(1% of offset + 2% of full scale) dc voltage measurement accuracy ±(1.5% of full scale + offset accuracy) Time interval measurement ±[(0.005% of D T) + (2E–6 x delay setting) + 100 ps] accuracy at maximum sampling rate, on a sing...

105 Pattern Generation Modules Specificationsand Characteristics Data Pod Characteristics Note: Data Pod output parametrics depend on the output driver and the impedance load of the targetsystem. Check the device data book for the specific drivers listed for each pod. Agilent 10461A TTL Data Pod Out...

108 Pattern Generation Modules Specificationsand Characteristics Agilent E8141A LVDS Data Pod Output type 65LVDS389 (LVDS data lines)10H125 (TTL non-3-state channel 7) 3-state enable positive true TTL; no connect=enabled Maximum clock 300 MHz Skew typical < 1 ns; worst case = 2 ns Recommended lea...

109 Pattern Generation Modules Specificationsand Characteristics Data Cable Characteristics Without a Data Pod The Agilent 16720A and 16522A data cables without a data pod provide an ECL terminated (1 K Ω to –5.2V) differential signal (from a type 10E156 or 10E154 driver). These are usable when rece...

110 Pattern Generation Modules Specificationsand Characteristics Clock Cable Characteristics Without a Clock Pod The Agilent 16720A and 16522A clock cables without a clock pod provide an ECL terminated (1 K Ω to –5.2V) differential signal (from a type 10E164 driver). These are usable when received b...

111 10463A ECL Clock Pod Clock output type 10H116 differential unterminated; and differ-ential with 330 Ω to –5.2V and 47 Ω series Clock output rate 300 MHz maximum Clock out delay approximately 8 ns total in 14 steps (16720A only); 11 ns maximum in 9 steps (16522A only) Clock input type ECL – 10H11...

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116 Ordering Information Mainframes and Mainframe Accessories Product Number Description Includes 16700B Modular mainframe with five measurement • One DIN keyboard module slots and one emulation or multiframe • One three-button DIN mouse module slot • One ten-conductor, flying lead cable for target ...

118 Ordering Information Measurement Module Compatibility Table Measurement Model Description 16700 16600A 16500C* 16500A/B* Module Category Number Series Series State and Timing 16510A* 25 MHz State; 100 MHz Timing; 1 K memory depth √ √ 16510B* 35 MHz State; 100 MHz Timing; 1 K memory depth √ √ 165...

119 Ordering Information Measurement Module Compatibility Table (continued) Measurement Model Description 16700 16600 16500C* 16500A/B* Module Category Number Series Series Oscilloscope 16530A/16531A* 2 Channel; 100 MHz Bandwidth; 400 MSa/s; √ √ 4 K memory depth 16532A* 2 Channel; 250 MHz Bandwidth;...

120 Ordering Information Agilent Wedge Probe Adapters IC Leg Spacing Number of Quantity of Probe Model Signals Probes Shipped Number 0.5 mm 3 1 E2613A 0.5 mm 3 2 E2613B 0.5 mm 8 1 E2614A 0.5 mm 16 1 E2643A 0.65 mm 3 1 E2615A 0.65 mm 3 2 E2615B 0.65 mm 8 1 E2616A 0.65 mm 16 1 E26144A Agilent Elastome...

121 Ordering Information Options and Accessories for Agilent 16534A Oscilloscope Modules Agilent Option Option Description • 001 • Add one Agilent 1145A, dual, active 750 MHz probe • ABJ • Japanese user's reference • 0B0 • Delete manuals • 1BP • MIL-STD 45662A calibration with test data • 0B3 • Add ...

122 Ordering Information Accessories for Agilent 16720A Pattern Generator Modules Product Numbers and Option(s) for Agilent 16700 Series Post-Processing Tool Sets Product or Option Number Description B4600B • System Performance Analysis (SPA) Tool Set B4601B • Serial Analysis Tool Set B4605B • Tool ...

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