Teledyne LeCroy TA660СА - Manual (Page 7)

TA660 User's Manual Catalyst Enterprises, Inc
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Introduction
What's In This Manual
This manual describes the installation and operation of your Catalyst
PCI Bus Analyzer / Exerciser. Examples of some typical applications
are included.
The terms TA660 and PCI analyzer thereafter are used for referring to
both PCI and CompactPCI analyzers (see Appendix B).
Overview
Your TA660 PCI Bus Analyzer is a powerful and versatile analysis
tool that will permit you to debug and characterize PCI designs
operating on any PCI system architecture . To perform analysis you
simply install the analyzer card in a PCI slot in the target machine and
connect it to the host computers Bi-directional parallel port using the
25 pin parallel cable, provided with your analyzer. A typical setup
may include a Host and a Target systems interconnected via the
parallel port with the analyzer card installed in the Target Machine
and a Windows based host running the analysis software.
If your target machine operates under Windows it may also act as the
host. In this case, the analyzer card and the analysis software reside in
the same machine and require you to connect the analyzer card to the
Host high-speed parallel port using the 25 pin parallel cable. See
Figure 1.
Caution: Operating the analyzer in this mode, however, may impact
Performance Analysis measurement accuracy since the
analyzer software runs in the same system space as the
application software. For a precise Performance Analysis it
is recommended that you use a separate Host system.