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UWBTracer/Trainer User Manual Chapter 1: Overview
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Chapter 1: Overview
This chapter describes the UWBTracer/Trainer™ product and Ultra-Wideband
technology in general.
1.1 UWBTracer/Trainer Ultra-Wideband Analyzers
The LeCroy UWBTracer/Trainer is a portable Ultra-Wideband (UWB) test and debug
platform that combines non-intrusive recording with extensive decoding features. The RF
(wireless) recording functionality is designed to record non-intrusively off-the-air WiMedia
UWB traffic from one or more devices, while the MPI recording functionality is designed
to connect to the specification-defined MAC-PHY Interface (MPI) bus between the MAC
and the PHY subsystems in WiMedia-compliant devices and to capture the traffic
between them. The WLP protocol uses the MUX sublayer and services of the WiMedia
MAC for data networking.
By leveraging years of experience in protocol analysis tools for emerging markets,
UWBTracer/Trainer blends sophisticated functionality with practical features to allow
designers and validation engineers to easily specify multi-level, conditional trigger
scenarios to pinpoint intermittent problems in the UWB connection.
System-level validation requires non-intrusive monitoring. UWBTracer/Trainer ensures
accurate data collection by providing transparent electrical taps. At the heart of
UWBTracer/Trainer is the CATC BusEngine™ protocol processor that features a
real-time recording engine for UWB MAC-to-PHY traffic.
UWBTracer/Trainer also supports remote operation over a LAN and unattended control
of the analyzer with an Automation API. UWBTracer/Trainer includes an advanced
search capability that allows to search for specific fields in the recorded trace and to
navigate faster to places of interest inside the trace.
UWBTracer/Trainer features a real-time statistics display that continuously monitors and
presents metrics for the recorded MAC-to-PHY traffic, providing a high-level view of
network performance.
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