Configuration Translation For Analyzer Modules - HP 16500B User Manual

Configuration Translation for Analyzer Modules

Configuration files provide an easy way for you to save and restore
measurement setups, simplifying repeated measurements. However,
sometimes you might change analyzer modules in the HP 16500B
Logic Analysis System to gain additional measurement features. Or,
you might want to use a configuration file from one HP 16500B system
on another HP 16500B with a different analyzer module. But, the
analyzer configuration files cannot be transferred directly from one
type of analyzer to the next. Each analyzer has internal architectural
differences, reflected in the number of pods, clock configurations,
trigger sequencer features, analyzer resources, and so on.
To help you move configuration files from one analyzer to another,
some analyzer measurement modules for the HP 16500B Logic
Analysis System support automatic translation of analyzer
configurations. If you save an analyzer configuration from one kind of
analyzer module, then load that configuration into a module that
supports configuration translation, the translator will adjust the
configuration as required to account for differences between the
modules.
The configuration translator needs to account for many aspects of the
analyzer architecture. Some of the considerations are as follows:
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For some analyzers, demultiplexing data will require separate
analyzer pods, because a master clock and a slave clock can't be
assigned on the same pod to perform the demultiplexing. The
translator may display messages on the analyzer screen that ask you
to reconnect pod cables in a different configuration.
•
When a range term is split across multiple pods, the term must span
adjacent odd/even pairs, starting with 1. Thus, terms could span
pods 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, or 7 and 8, but not 2 and 3. Again,
the translator may display messages asking you to reconnect cables
in a different configuration.
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When loading a configuration into an analyzer with fewer pods than
the one on which the configuration was saved, the translator must
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