Table Of Contents - HP 16500B User Manual

Con tents
1 Trig ger ing
To store and time the exe cu tion of a sub rou tine 1-3
To trig ger on the nth it era tion of a loop 1-5
To trig ger on the nth re cur sive call of a re cur sive func tion 1-7
To trig ger on en try to a func tion
To cap ture a trace of ac tiv ity as so ci ated with a write of known bad data to a
par ticu lar vari able 1-11
To trig ger on a loop that oc ca sion ally runs too long 1-12
To ver ify that all stacks and reg is ters are re stored cor rectly bef ore ex it ing a
sub rou tine 1-13
To trig ger af ter all status bus lines fin ish tran si tion ing 1-15
To find the nth oc cur rence of as sert ing a chip se lect line 1-16
To ver ify that the chip se lect line of a mem ory chip is strobed af ter the ad -
dress on the ad dress bus is sta ble 1-17
To trig ger when ex pected data does not ap pear on the data bus from a re -
mote de vice when re quested 1-18
To test mini mum and maxi mum pulse lim its 1-20
To de tect a hand shake vio la tion 1-22
To de tect bus con ten tion 1-23
Cross- Arming Trig ger Ex am ples 1-24
To ex am ine soft ware exe cu tion when a tim ing vio la tion oc curs 1-25
To look at con trol and status sig nals dur ing exe cu tion of a rou tine 1-26
2 In ter mod ule Meas ure ments
In ter mod ule Meas ure ment Ex am ples 2-4
To set up a group run of mod ules within the HP 16500B 2-5
To start a group run of mod ules from an ex ter nal trig ger source 2-7
To start an ex ter nal in stru ment on com mand from a mod ule within the HP
16500 and 16501 main frame
To see the status of a mod ule within an in ter mod ule meas ure ment 2-11
o see time cor re la tion of each mod ule within an in ter mod ule meas ure ment
2-12
To use a tim ing ana lyzer to de tect a glitch 2-13
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