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Fourth Asian Test Symposium (ATS'95)
An SBus Multi-Tracer and its applications
Bangalore, India
November 23-November 24
ISBN: 0-8186-7129-7
H.A. Xie, Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
K. Forward, Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
K.M. Adams, Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
S. Kumar, Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
An SBus Multi Tracer (MT) is described, which is based on our previously developed SBus monitoring board (SMB), which can provide timing diagrams for all SBus signals. However, just like any other logic analyzer or a bus analyzer its trace length is limited by the board memory and it is difficult to cope with multi occurrences of trigger patterns in a single application. An effective answer to this problem is to design an SBus Multi Tracer instead of increasing the size of the board memory. An SMB with MT achieves multiple partitions of its tracing memory by tracing a fixed number of events after each trigger. In this way it provides systematic timing information for a series of pattern occurrences in a sequence of system operations. The possible operation of the SMB is enabled by a built-in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chip, which has access to all SBus signals, and can easily be reconfigured to provide additional triggering patterns.
Index Terms:
logic testing; automatic test equipment; field programmable gate arrays; system buses; computerised monitoring; SBus Multi Tracer; SBus monitoring board; timing diagrams; logic analyzer; bus analyzer; trace length; board memory; multi occurrences; trigger patterns; multiple partitions; tracing memory; systematic timing information; pattern occurrences; Field Programmable Gate Array; FPGA; triggering patterns; SUN SPARC station
Citation:
H.A. Xie, K. Forward, K.M. Adams, S. Kumar, "An SBus Multi-Tracer and its applications," ats, pp.9, Fourth Asian Test Symposium (ATS'95), 1995
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