Safety Considerations; Product Description; Accessories Supplied - HP 16500A Service Manual

HP 16500A/16501A - General Information

1-3. Safety Considerations

Review the instrument and manual for safety
markings and instructions before operating it.
Specific warnings, cautions, and instructions are
placed wherever applicable throughout the
manual. These precautions must be observed
during all phases of operation, service, and repair
of the instrument. Failure to comply with these
precautions or with specific warnings elsewhere in
this manual violates safety standards of design,
manufacture, and intended use of this instrument.
Hewlett-Packard assumes no liability for the
customer's failure to comply with these safety
requirements.

1-4. Product Description

The HP 16500A is the mainframe of the HP Logic
Analysis System. The HP 16501A is an
expansion frame of the HP Logic Analysis System.
The HP 16500A/16501A is of modular structure
using plug-in cards with a wide range of data
acquisition and stimulus capabilities.
This allows the user to configure the system with
only the necessary modules for a particular
application.
Some of the key features of the
HP 16500A/16501A include the following:
Modular mainframe with five card slots.
Nine-inch color monitor.
The touchscreen user interface.
Dual 3.5-inch disk drives.
Intermodule triggering and time correlation of
acquired data.
HP-IB and RS-232C interfaces for hardcopy
output to a printer or controller interface.
Expansion frame, which expands the total
system card slots to nine.
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1-5. Accessories Supplied

The following accessories are supplied with the
HP 16500A/16501A:
One power cord. See section 2,
"Installation," for the available power cords.
One HP 16500A/16501A Logic Analysis
System Operation Reference Manual .
One HP 16500A/16501A Logic Analysis
System Programming Reference Manual .
One HP 16500A/16501A Logic Analysis
System Service Manual .
One Feeling Comfortable With Logic
Analyzers guide.
One Feeling Comfortable With Digitizing
Oscilloscopes guide.
Rear panel filler panels. The quantity of filler
panels depends on how many modules are
ordered with the HP 16500A/16501A.
Disk pouch containing composite software.
Disk pouch containing systemized operating
system software.
One RS-232C loopback connector.
One blank disk.