Hardware Setup For Direct Usb Connections; Setup For Cascaded Multiple Analyzer Use - LeCroy SATASuite User Manual

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Hardware Setup for Direct USB Connections

Connecting multiple analyzers to a single PC by USB gives you the convenience of being
able to control multiple analyzers from a single SATA Suite application. The application
provides you with a means of toggling back and forth between the analyzers.
To set up multiple analyzers via USB, you attach
USB cables between the analyzers and the host
PC as shown in the illustration on the right. If you
do not intend to group the analyzers together for
synchronized multi-analyzer recordings, no
further hardware setup is required. If you do
intend to group the analyzers, then you will need
to add BNC cables as described in the section below under "Setup for Multiple Analyzer
Use." Once the analyzers are connected and started, you can browse to the analyzers
via the command Setup > Analyzer Network ...

Setup for Cascaded Multiple Analyzer Use

If you add a BNC connection between the
SA Tracer analyzers shown, you create a
cascade which allows the analyzers to
function together as a logical unit.
Cascading increases the numbers of ports
that can be simultaneously recorded.
To set up a cascade, you connect a BNC
cable between the External Output port on the back of one
analyzer to the input port on the second. The first analyzer will
serve as the controlling or master analyzer. It will transmit clocking
information, Recording Option commands and other data to the
other analyzers. If you plan to group three or four analyzers
together, daisy-chain the remaining analyzers together, and then
loop the output of the last analyzer to the input of the first analyzer
as shown in the figure on the right.
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The SATA Suite software will allow you to toggle between the
Note:
analyzers but not run two copies of SATA Suite software on your
screen simultaneously.
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