Agilent 16700A Product Overview

HP 16600A and 16700A Series
Logic Analysis System Mainframes

Product Overview

The Advantage of Insight

Debugging today’s digital systems is
tougher than ever. Increased prod­uct requirements, complex software,
and innovative hardware technolo­gies make it difficult to meet your
time-to-market goals.

Solutions for
Digital System Debug

As a digital designer, you need test
equipment that quickly provides
reliable insight into your toughest
problems. That is why HP has com­bined logic analysis, emulation and
software tools into one integrated
system — to give you a complete
view of your prototype, from
signals to source code.

HP has a solution to help you
completely outfit your team while
providing budgetary flexibility. With
HP’s scalable systems, you won’t
waste money on features you'll
never use. And you won’t be faced
with scrapping recently bought tools
just because you changed micro­processors.

Figure 1. (left to right) The HP 16700A, 16702A and 16600A logic analysis systems.

Key Features Overview

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Figure 2.
Acquire state data
at 333 MHz and
timing data at up to
2 GHz through the
same connection.

Figure 3.
Configure your
HP 16700A Series
system for your spe­cific application with
modular mainframes.

Features Benefits

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Scalable System

• State/timing analyzers • Select the optimum combination of performance, features, and price that you need

• Oscilloscopes for your specific application today, with the flexibility to add to your system as your

• High-speed timing measurement needs change.

• Pattern generator • View system activity from signals to source code.

• Emulation module

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Timing Zoom Technology • Simultaneously acquire data at up to 2 GHz timing and 333 MHz state through the same connection.

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VisiTrigger Technology • Use graphical views and sentence-like structure to help you define a trace event .

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Processor and Bus Support • Get control over your microprocessor’s internal and external data.

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Post-Processing Analysis Tools • Rapidly consolidate large amounts of data into displays that provide insight into your

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Setup Assistant • Quickly configure the logic analysis system for your target microprocessor. (See pg 5).

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Tabbed Interface • Groups like tasks together so you can quickly find and complete the task you want to perform.

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Multi-Windowed View of • View your cross-domain measurements, time-correlated on the same screen. (See pg 5)
Target System Activity • Debug faster because you can view system activity at a glance.

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Global Markers • Track a symptom in one domain (timing) to its cause in another domain (analog).

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• Room to grow

Timing Zoom is available across all channels, all the time. (See pg 9)

• Select trigger functions as individual trigger conditions or as building blocks to easily customize a
trigger for your specific task.

• Quickly and reliably connect to the device under test. (See pg 10-11)

system’s behavior. (See pg 10)

• Spend your time solving problems, not setting up a measurement.

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Features Benefits

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Resizable Windows and Data Views • Magnify your view or zoom in on a boxed area of interest.

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Web-Enabled System • Directly access the instrument’s web page from your web browser. (See pgs. 6 & 7)

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Direct Link to Microsoft®Excel via • Automatically move your data from the logic analyzer into Microsoft Excel with just a
HP BenchLink XL 16700 click of the mouse. (See pg 7)

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Direct Links to Industry • Debuggers provide visibility into software execution for systems running software written
Standard Debuggers and in C and C++ as well as active microprocessor execution control (run control). (See pg. 11)
High-Level Language Tools • Import symbol files created by your language tools. Symbols allow you to set up trigger

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Direct Links to EDA Tools • Use captured logic analysis waveforms to generate simulation test vectors.

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Transfer Data for Offline • Fast binary (compressed binary) from the FileOut tool provides highest performance transfer rate.
Analysis – Data Export • ASCII format provides same format as listing display, including inverse-assembled data.

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Transparent File System Access • Access, transfer, and archive files.

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Documentation Capability • Save graphics in standard TIFF, PCX, and EPS formats.

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Remote Programming with • Perform pass/fail analysis, stimulus response tests, data acquisition for offline analysis, and
Microsoft’s COM Using system verification and characterization tests.
Microsoft Visual Basic or • Powerful-yet-efficient command set focuses on your programming tasks, resulting in a shorter
Visual C++ learning curve while maintaining necessary functionality.

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Network Security • Protect your networked assets and comply with your company’s security requirements with

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• Resize waveforms and data or quickly change colors to highlight areas of interest.

• Remotely check the instrument’s measurement status without disturbing the acquisition.

• Remotely access, monitor and control your logic analysis system.

• Use Microsoft Excel’s powerful functions to post-process captured trace data to get the insight
you need.

conditions and review waveform and state listings in easily recognized terms that relate
directly to the names used for signals on your target and the functions and variables in
your code.

• Easily find problems by comparing captured waveforms with simulated waveforms.

• Stay synchronized with your source code by mapping shared directories and file systems
from your Windows 95/98/NT-based PC directly onto the logic analyzer and vice versa.

• Move data files to and from the logic analyzer for archive or use elsewhere.

• Print screen shots and trace listings to a local or networked printer.

• Save your lab notes and trace data in the same file by entering relevant information in the
Comments tab of the display.

(See pg. 14 for more information)

individual user logins that provide system integrity.

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Module Choices

State/Timing

HP offers a wide variety of state/timing modules
to help you match your debug tools to your
specific measurement needs. These modules
include high-speed acquisition to capture
glitches, wide channel counts to monitor all of
the signals from a high-end processor system,
and deep memory to capture elusive system
crashes. See page 9.

Oscilloscope

Identify signal integrity issues and characterize
signals quickly with automatic measurements of
rise time, voltage, pulse width, and frequency.

High-Speed Timing

Precisely characterize setup/hold times over a
wide channel count. Capture data over many
clock cycles while retaining the highest multi­channel accuracy.

Pattern Generation

Use stimulus to substitute for missing system
components or provide a stimulus-response test
environment.

Key Features

Modularity is the key to the HP 16600A and 16700A Series logic analysis
systems’ long term value. You purchase only the capability you need now,
then expand as your needs evolve. All modules are tightly integrated to
provide time-correlated, cross-domain measurements.

Figure 4. The
power-up screen
lets you identify
and access the
measurement capa­bility available in
your logic analysis
system.

Emulation

The emulation module connects to the debug
port (BDM or JTAG) on your target. You have full
access to processor execution control features
of the module through the built-in emulation
control interface or a third-party debugger.

Table 1. HP 16600A and 16700A Series Supported Measurement Modules

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Use the target control
port to activate your
target’s reset or inter­rupt lines, making it
convenient to control
the target remotely.

Port-in/Port-out BNC
connectors allow you
to trigger or arm exter­nal devices or receive
signals that can be
used to arm acquisition
modules within the
logic analysis system.

Measurement HP Model Number Description
Module Category

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State and Timing 16717A

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Oscilloscopes 16534A 2 channel, 500 MHz bandwidth

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HIgh-Speed Timing 16517A/16518A 4 GHz timing, 1 GHz synchronous state, 64K memory depth (master/expander)

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Pattern Generator 16522A 200 M vector/second pattern generator

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Emulation E5901A Processor-specific device provides code download, register/memory modification,

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Currently only supported in the HP 16700A Series.

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16716A

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16715A

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16710A/16711A/16712A 100 MHz state, 500 MHz timing, 8K/32K/128K deep memory depth

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16557D 140 MHz state, 500 MHz timing, 2/4 M memory depth

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16556A/D 100 MHz state, 400 MHz timing, 2/4 M memory depth

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16555A/D 110 MHz state, 500 MHz timing, 2/4 M memory depth

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16554A 100 MHz state, 250 MHz timing, 512 K/1M memory depth

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16550A 100 MHz state, 500 MHz timing, 4/8K memory depth

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16533A 2 channel, 250 MHz bandwidth

333 MHz state, 667 MHz timing, 2 GHz Timing Zoom, 2/4 M memory depth
167 MHz state, 667 MHz timing, 2 GHz Timing Zoom, 512K/1M memory depth
167 MHz state, 667 MHz timing, 2/4 M memory depth

and processor control (including break, run, reset, single step)

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See the Big Picture of
Your Prototype System’s
Behavior

The large display with multiple,
resizable windows on the HP 16600A
and 16700A allows you to see at a
glance more of your target system’s
operation. A built-in, flat-panel
display in the HP 16702A fits in envi­ronments with limited space. Color
lets you highlight critical information
so you can find it quickly.

Use one tool to examine target oper­ation from different perspectives.
Multiple time-correlated views of
data let you confirm both signal
integrity and software execution
flow. This is invaluable in solving
cross-domain problems.

Figure 7. You can quickly isolate the root cause of system problems by examin­ing target operation across a wide analysis domain, from signals to source code.

Demo Center provides
simple demos of the
most commonly-used
features.

Help enables you to
access the online User’s
Guide and measurement
examples. The Help system
includes full search and
hypertext link capabilities.

Setup Assistant is a
guided menu system
that helps you config­ure the logic analysis
system for your target
microprocessor or
bus. Online informa­tion guides you
through the setup.
(See Figure 5)

System Setup Is As Easy
As a Mouse Click

Figure 5. Setup
Assistant gets
you up and run­ning quickly.

Figure 6. Icons in
the power-up
screen give you
quick access to
common tasks

System Admin allows
you to set up the
instrument on your
network, establish
printers, set up user
accounts for security,
or update software
quickly.

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When your logic analysis system is
connected to your company’s
Intranet, you can directly access its
web page from your web browser,
whether you're in the office, at
home, or at another site. Working
from multiple locations has never
been this convenient.

Expanding Possibilities
with Network Connectivity

View and analyze the data any­where, anyplace, anytime

Web-enabled instrumentation gives
you the freedom to access the sys­tem—anywhere, anytime. Have you
ever needed to check on a measure­ment's status while you were in a
remote location? Now you can!

With a Web Enabled Logic
Analysis System You Can...

...access the logic analysis system’s web page
from your browser by typing in the logic analy­sis system’s URL (hostname or IP address).

...access HP's web site for the latest online
manuals and technical information.

...quickly check instrument status to determine
if the analyzer is available for use.

...remotely check current measurement status
to find out if the system has triggered.

...access the analyzer's user interface directly
from within your browser, giving you full con­trol of all analyzer functions.

...install HP Benchlink XL 16700 to seamlessly
transfer data from the analyzer to the PC.

Figure 8.
Your logic analyzer
is its own web site.
From the Home
Page you can per­form multiple
remote functions.