Teledyne LeCroy TA700_800_850 User Manual - Manual (Page 24)

Catalyst Enterprises, Inc. TA700/800 Overview
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TA700/800 Overview
The TA700/800 PCI Bus Analyzer/Exerciser offers analysis/exerciser capability for
either PCI or PCI-X applications with the following capabilities:
• A convenient, easy to use Easy Mode that allows you to perform
95% of your PCI bus data capture & trigger without any
programming.
• An Advanced Mode offers you a powerful programming capability
for complex triggering.
• An Exerciser that generates bus transactions to exercise the bus as a
master or target while allowing you to monitor and capture the
resulting performance. An on board target memory allows testing
read/write operation of master agents.
• A Timing Analyzer capability is also included that allows the user to
capture bus timing violations. Not available for TA700P (PMC).
Not in current version for TA800.
Additionally, the TA700/800 includes Performance Analysis for real-time and
statistical measurement as well as comprehensive Device Compliance Test capability.
TA700/800 Working Mode Configurations
The TA700/800 may be operated in one of 6 working mode configurations, each
offering a convenient Easy Mode which requires no programming:
The working mode configuration is selectable on the Main Menu Bar.
State Analyzer Only (PCI - PCI-X)
The TA700/800 Capture and Trigger mode allows hardware or software oriented PCI/
PCI-X bus debug without any programming or setup in the convenient to use Easy
Mode. A comprehensive selection of Pre-defined setups allows a variety of data
capture on several available trigger conditions for PCI and PCI-X applications.
The Advanced Mode provides for comprehensive user definition of complex data
capture and triggering projects. Users may define up to eight events covering all PCI/
PCI-X signals and employ them in a 32 level Sequencer program for a custom data
capture and triggering project. Sequencer state changes in a program may be defined
in terms of events, Boolean expressions of events and Protocol Errors.