Teledyne UWBTracer User Manual

PROTOCOL SOLUTIONS GROUP
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SANTA CLARA, CA 95054

LeCroy UWBTracer™/Trainer

Ultra-Wideband Protocol Analyzer

User Manual

Manual Version 3.10

™

For Software Version 3.10

March 2008

UWBTracer/Trainer User Manual

Document Disclaimer

The information in this document has been carefully checked and is believed to be
reliable. However, no responsibility can be assumed for inaccuracies that may not have
been detected.

LeCroy reserves the right to revise the information in this document without notice or
penalty.

Trademarks and Servicemarks

LeCroy, UWBTrainer, UWBTracer, UWBTracer MPI, CATC Trace, and BusEngine are
trademarks of LeCroy.

Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Inc.
Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation.
AMD Duron and AMD Athlon are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
All other trademarks are property of their respective companies.

Copyright

Copyright © 2008, LeCroy Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
This document may be printed and reproduced without additional permission, but all

copies should contain this copyright notice.

FCC Conformance Statement Compliance with
47 CFR 15.519 (a)(1)

This device complied with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following
two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device
must accept any inter ferenc e rece ived, inclu ding interfer ence that may cau se undesired
operation.

FCC Rule 47 CFR 15.519 (a)(1) states that “A UWB device operating under the
provisions of this section shall transmit only when it is sending information to an
associated receiver. The UWB intentional radiator shall cease transmission within
10 seconds unless it receives an acknowledgement from the associated receiver that its
transmission is being received. An acknowledgement of reception must continue to be
received by the UWB intentional radiator at least every 10 seconds or the UWB device
must cease transmitting. “

This equipment may only be operated indoors. Operation outdoors is in violation of
47 U.S.C. 301 and could subject the operator to serious legal penalties.

Note: This device must be installed in a location that is not accessible to the general
public. Install the device so that the antenna is more than 20 cm from unsuspecting
personnel. Failure to install this device as described will result in a failure to comply with
FCC rules for RF exposure and is discouraged. Only antennas approved with the device
may be used. This device may not be co-located with other transmitters without further
approval by the FCC.

Caution: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for
compliance could void the operator’s authority to operate the equipment.

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EU Declaration of Conformity

This equipment including all its options is in conformity with the provisions of the following
EC directives(s), including all the latest amendments:

73/23/EEC Low Voltage Directive
89/336/EEC EMC Directive
Conformity with Council Directive 73/23/EEC is based on:
EN 61010-1: 2001 Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement,

control and laboratory use
Conformity with Council Directive 89/336/EEC is based on:
EN 61326/A3: 2003 EMC requirements for electrical equipment for measurement

control and laboratory use

Emissions EN 55011/A2:2002 (Conducted and Radiated Emissions)

Immunity EN 61000-4-2/A2:2001 (Electrostatic Discharge)

EN 61000-3-2/A2:2005 (Harmonic Current Emissions)
EN 61000-3-3/A2:2005 (Voltage Fluctuations and Flicker)

EN 61000-4-3/A1:2003 (RF Radiated Electromagnetic Field)
EN 61000-4-4:2004 (Electrical Fast Transient/Burst)
EN 61000-4-5/A1:2001 (Surge)
EN 61000-4-6/A1:2001 (RF Conducted Electromagnetic Field)
EN 61000-4-11:2004 (Mains Dips and Interruptions)

Warning: This is a Class A product. In a domestic environment this product may cause
radio interference, in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures.

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WEEE Program

This electronic product is subject to
disposal and recycling regulations that
vary by country and region. Many
countries prohibit the disposal of
waste electronic equipment in
standard waste receptacles.
For more information about proper
disposal and recycling of your LeCroy
product, please visit
www.lecroy.com/recycle.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.1 UWBTracer/Trainer Ultra-Wideband Analyzers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2 Ultra-Wideband Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.3 WiMedia UWB Specification Ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.3.1 Certified Wireless USB Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

1.3.2 WLP Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 2 Hardware Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.1 CATC 5K Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

CATC 5K Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Connection to Host Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.2 UWBTracer/Trainer Analyzer and Exerciser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.3 System Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Basic Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Optional Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

MPI Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.4 UWBTracer/Trainer Front Panel Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

CATC 5K Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

UWB Analyzer Plug-in Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

USB Analyzer Plug-in Module for the USB Cable Association. . . . . . 16

UWB Exerciser Plug-in Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.5 UWBTracer/Trainer Rear Panel Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.6 Interchangeable Radios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Chapter 3 Software Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.1 Installing the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.2 Starting the UWBTracer/Trainer /Trainer Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.3 Opening Sample Traces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3.4 Opening Older Trace Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3.5 Tool Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3.6 Trace Tool-Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3.7 Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.8 Tool Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

General Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Record Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

UWBTrainer Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Hide Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Reports Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Decode Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.9 Floating the Decode Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.10 Pop-Up Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Left Mouse Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Right Mouse Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

3.11 View Settings Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Zoom In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Zoom Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Wrap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

3.12 Adding Comments to the Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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3.13 Set Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

3.14 Edit or Clear Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

3.15 Timing Calculations on Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

3.16 Status Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Recording Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Recording Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Recording Activity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Search Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

3.17 Exporting Trace File Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Exporting Packets to Text (Packet View Format) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Exporting Packets to CSV Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Exporting Packets to Ethereal/WireShark Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Exporting Packets to UWBTrainer Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

3.18 Directory Structure on Windows XP and Vista. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Windows XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter 4 Reading Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

4.1 Trace Display Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

4.2 Changing Trace Level Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

4.3 Trace Level Views for WUSB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Frame Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

WUSB Packet Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

WUSB Transaction Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

WUSB Transfer Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

WUSB Wire Adapter Segment Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

WUSB Wire Adapter Transfer Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

4.4 Trace Level Views for WLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

WiMedia Frame Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

WLP Frame Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

WLP Ethernet Protocol Unit Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

WLP IP Protocol Unit Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Chapter 5 Searching Traces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

5.1 Trace Search Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

5.2 Go to Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

5.3 Go to Frame/Packet/Transaction/Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

5.4 Go to Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

5.5 Go to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

5.6 Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Areas in Find Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Chapter 6 Display Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

6.1 Display Options: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

6.2 Display Options: Color, Format, and Hiding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

6.3 Saving Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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Chapter 7 Decoding USB/WUSB Requests . . . . . . . . . 81

7.1 Class and Vendor Definition Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

7.2 Class/Vendor Decoding Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Mapping Request Recipient to Class/Vendor Decoding. . . . . . . . . . . 85

Mapping Endpoint to Class/Vendor Decoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Mapping Request RPipe to Class/Vendor Decoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

7.3 General Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Decoding Standard Requests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Decoding Class Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Decoding Vendor Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Decoding Undefined USB/WUSB Device Requests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Decoding using Endpoint Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Changing the Layout of Decode Requests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Chapter 8 Decoding WLP Frames and Protocols . . . 101

8.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

8.2 Decoder Script Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Chapter 9 Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

9.1 File Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

9.2 Error Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

9.3 Timing Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

9.4 Traffic Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Traffic Summary Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Using the Traffic Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Selecting Traffic Summary Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Setting Traffic Summary Display Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Setting Traffic Summary Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using the Display to Navigate Within the Trace File . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

9.5 Real-Time Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Changing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Changing Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Tool Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Graph Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

General Statistics Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

9.6 Bus Utilization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Bus Utilization Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

View Settings Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Graph Areas Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

9.7 Device List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Adding a WiMedia Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Adding a WSS Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Editing a WSS Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Delete Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

9.8 Running Verification Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

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9.9 Timing Analysis Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Frame WUSB Detail View in Timing Analysis Window. . . . . . . . . . . 145

Timing Analysis Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Synchronizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Selecting a Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Inserting a Time Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Working with Timing Analysis Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Chapter 10 Connecting to Analyzers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

10.1 Direct USB Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

10.2 Remote Access over an IP LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

10.3 Multiple Analyzer Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

10.4 Network Chat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Chapter 11 Setting Up for Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

11.1 External Triggering Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

11.2 Connecting Cables and Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

11.3 RF Recording Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

11.4 Preparing for Wireless Traffic Generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

11.5 Secured Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Chapter 12 Recording Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

12.1 Recording Options: General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

System Operating Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Recording Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Recording Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Options Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Trace Filename and Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

12.2 Recording Options: RF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

12.3 Recording Options: MPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

12.4 Recording Options: USB Assoc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

12.5 Recording Options: Recording Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Recording Rules Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Recording Rules Page: How It Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Creating Event Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Dragging a Button to the Main Display Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Assigning an Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Recording Rules Pop-Up Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Events and Event Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Actions and Action Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

External Trigger Signal Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Using a Single-State Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Using a Multi-State Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Using Independent Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

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Chapter 13 Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

13.1 Making a Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Before Starting a Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Starting a Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Stopping a Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Interrupting Uploading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Reuploading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

13.2 USB Cable Association for Certified WUSB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Capturing USB Cable Association Traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Chapter 14 Traffic Generation Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . 229

14.1 UWBTrainer Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

14.2 Traffic Generation Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Language Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

14.3 Starting the UWBTrainer Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

14.4 Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

14.5 Tool Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Main Toolbar Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

View Toolbar Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Script Toolbar Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

UWBTrainer Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Graphics Toolbar Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

14.6 Beginning Traffic Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Text Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Graphical Scenario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

14.7 Generating Traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Chapter 15 Creating and Editing Generation Files . . . 241

15.1 Script Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

15.2 Creating a Script using the Script Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

15.3 Graphical Scenario Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Highlighting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Tooltips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

15.4 Creating a Graphical Scenario using the Graphical Scenario

Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

15.5 Exporting a Trace to a Traffic Generation File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Chapter 16 Updates and Licensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

16.1 Updates Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

16.2 Software, Firmware, and BusEngine Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

16.3 Software Updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Update Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Register Online. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

16.4 BusEngine, Firmware, and Plugin Init Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Automatic Update of BusEngine, Firmware, and Plugin Init. . . . . . . 280

Manual Update of BusEngine, Firmware, and Plugin Init. . . . . . . . . 281

16.5 License Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

16.6 Updating the Software License. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

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Appendix A MPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

A.1 Cable Adapter Pin Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

A.2 Input Load of UWBTracer/Trainer MPI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Appendix B Legacy Script Decoding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Appendix C WiMedia Platform Compliance Tests. . . . . 293

C.1 UWBTrainer TX-only Exerciser Scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

C.2 UWBTracer VSE Compliance Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Appendix D Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

D.1 Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

D.2 Power Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

D.3 Environmental Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

D.4 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

How to Contact LeCroy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Limited Hardware Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

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Figure 2.1 Vertical Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Figure 2.2 UWB Analyzer Plug-in Module with Antenna (UW002MA or UW003MA). . . . 8

Figure 2.3 USB cable and RF Coaxial Cable (SMA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Figure 2.4 Synchronization Cable and Trigger Cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Figure 2.5 USB Analyzer Plug-in Module (US007MA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 2.6 UWB Exerciser Plug-in Module with Antenna (UW005MGA) . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Figure 2.7 MPI Kit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 2.8 Cable Adapter for Hirose 68-pin or IDE 40-pin Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 2.9 Probe Cable for IDE 40-pin Connectors and Hirose 68-pin Connectors . . . . 13

Figure 2.10 Adapter Cable (with external SCSI type connectors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Figure 2.11 Board Adapter for IDE 40-pin Connectors,

Board Adapter for Hirose 68-pin Connectors, and

Board Adapter for Hirose 60-pin Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Figure 2.12 CATC 5K Front Panel with the UWB Analyzer Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Figure 2.13 CATC 5K Front Panel with the UWB Analyzer and USB Analyzer Plug-in . 16

Figure 2.14 UWB Exerciser Plug-in Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Figure 2.15 CATC 5K Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Figure 3.1 UWBTracer/Trainer Main Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Figure 3.2 Tool Tip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Figure 3.3 Trace Tool Tip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Figure 3.4 Main Window Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Figure 3.5 Decode Toolbar in Hierarchal Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Figure 3.6 Trace Pop-Up Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Figure 3.7 Expanded Data Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Figure 3.8 Trace Cell Pop-up Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Figure 3.9 Trace With Wrap Turned OFF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 3.10 Trace With Wrap Turned ON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 3.11 Edit Trace File Comment Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Figure 3.12 Setting a Frame Marker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Figure 3.13 Edit Marker for Frame Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Figure 3.14 A Marked Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Figure 3.15 Editing a Frame Marker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 3.16 MPI Field Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figure 3.17 Timing Calculator Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figure 3.18 All Markers Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Figure 3.19 Status Bar Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Figure 3.20 Status Bar Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Figure 3.21 Example: Status Bar at Different Recording States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Figure 3.22 Export Packets to Ethereal/Wireshark format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Figure 3.23 Export to Wireshark/Ethereal format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Figure 3.24 Example Find Dialog for Exporting to a UWBTrainer Script . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Figure 3.25 Export Packets to UWBTrainer Script Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Figure 3.26 Export to UWBTrainer Exerciser Script Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Figure 4.1 Trace Display Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Figure 4.2 Trace Viewing Level Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Figure 4.3 Trace View: Frame Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Figure 4.4 Trace View: WUSB Packet Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Figure 4.5 Trace View: WUSB Transaction Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Figure 4.6 Trace View: WUSB Transfer Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 4.7 Trace View: WUSB Wire Adapter Segment Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 4.8 Trace View: WUSB Wire Adapter Transfer Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 4.9 Trace View: WiMedia Frame Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Figure 4.10 Trace View: WLP Frame Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Figure 4.11 Trace View: WLP Ethernet Protocol Unit Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Figure 4.12 Trace View: WLP IP Protocol Unit Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Figure 5.1 Search Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Figure 5.2 Go To PLCP/Packet/Transaction/Transfer Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Figure 5.3 Selecting Go to Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Figure 5.4 Go to Items List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Figure 5.5 Go to Frame Types List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Figure 5.6 Go to Beacon Info Elements List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Figure 5.7 Go to Errors List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Figure 5.8 Go to Secure Header Items List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Figure 5.9 Go to WUSB Packets List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Figure 5.10 Go to WUSB Transactions List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Figure 5.11 Go to WUSB WA Transfers List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Figure 5.12 Go to WLP Frames List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Figure 5.13 Go to WLP Ethernet Protocols List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Figure 5.14 Go to WLP IP Protocols List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Figure 5.15 Go to WiMedia Payload Data Pattern List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Figure 5.16 Find Window, Frames Checkboxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Figure 5.17 Find Events Window, Search For Drop-down List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Figure 5.18 Find Events Window, WLP Frames Checkboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Figure 5.19 Find Events Window, WUSB Packets Checkboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Figure 5.20 Find Events Window, WUSB Transactions Checkboxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Figure 5.21 Find Events Window, WUSB Transfers Checkboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Figure 5.22 Find Events Window, Wire Adapter Segments Checkboxes . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Figure 5.23 Find Events Window, Wire Adapter Transfers Checkboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Figure 5.24 Find Events Window, WLP Frames Checkboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Figure 5.25 Find Events Window, WLP Ethernet Protocol Units Checkboxes. . . . . . . . 72

Figure 5.26 Find Events Window, WLP Internet Protocol Units Checkboxes. . . . . . . . . 73

Figure 5.27 Find Events Window: PHY Data Rates Active. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Figure 6.1 Display Options Window: General Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Figure 6.2 Hierarchy Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Figure 6.3 Display Options Window: Color, Format, and Hiding Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Figure 6.4 Group and Color Pane: Display Units Selected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Figure 6.5 Formats for Payload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Figure 6.6 Hidden Check Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Figure 7.1 Request Recipient and Endpoints Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure 7.2 Class/Vendor Decoding Groups Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Figure 7.3 Endpoints Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Figure 7.4 Class/Vendor Endpoint Coding Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Figure 7.5 Request RPipes Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Figure 7.6 Endpoint RPipes Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Figure 7.7 UWB Device Request menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Figure 7.8 Standard Request Text Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Figure 7.9 View Fields for Wire Adapter Class Requests Request Text Box. . . . . . . . . 95

Figure 7.10 View Fields for Mass Storage Bulk-only Class Requests Text Box. . . . . . . 96

Figure 7.11 View Fields for Wire Adapter Data Transfer In Endp Text Box . . . . . . . . . . 97

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Figure 7.12 View Fields for Wire Adapter Data Transfer Out Endp Text Box. . . . . . . . . 97

Figure 7.13 View Fields for Wire Adapter Data Transfer Out Endp Text Box. . . . . . . . . 98

Figure 7.14 View Fields for Wire Adapter Notif Endp Text Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Figure 7.15 View Fields for Mass Storage Bulk-only SCSI In Endp Text Box . . . . . . . . 98

Figure 7.16 View Fields for Mass Storage Bulk-only SCSI Out Endp Text Box. . . . . . . 99

Figure 7.17 View WUSB Xfer Fields Dialog Layout Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Figure 8.1 WLP Script Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Figure 8.2 WLP Subfolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Figure 8.3 Ethernet Subfolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Figure 8.4 IP Subfolder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Figure 9.1 Report Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Figure 9.2 File Information Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Figure 9.3 Error Summary Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Figure 9.4 Timing and Bus Usage Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Figure 9.5 Traffic Summary Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Figure 9.6 Traffic Summary Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Figure 9.7 Selecting an Item for the Traffic Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Figure 9.8 Selecting Multiple Items for the Traffic Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Figure 9.9 Traffic Summary Options Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Figure 9.10 Event Navigation Submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Figure 9.11 Selecting Traffic Summary Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Figure 9.12 Select Range Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Figure 9.13 Setting Range to Start on Third Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Figure 9.14 Traffic Summary for Three MPI Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Figure 9.15 Selecting the Row for Data Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Figure 9.16 Set Go Box to Second MPI Data Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Figure 9.17 Real-Time Statistics window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Figure 9.18 Real-Time Statistics Tool Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Figure 9.19 Real-Time Graphs Pop-Up Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Figure 9.20 Graph Area Properties for Data Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Figure 9.21 Graph Area Properties for Device-specific and General Events. . . . . . . . 121

Figure 9.22 Graph Area Properties for Device-specific Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Figure 9.23 Graph Area Properties for General Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Figure 9.24 Real-Time Statistics Window: General Statistics Area for MPI Information124
Figure 9.25 Real-Time Statistics Window: General Statistics Area for RF Information 125

Figure 9.26 Bus Utilization Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Figure 9.27 Bus Utilization Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Figure 9.28 View Options: View Settings Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Figure 9.29 View Options: Fonts and Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Figure 9.30 Graph Areas Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Figure 9.31 Graph Area Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Figure 9.32 Device List Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Figure 9.33 Add New Device Dialog Box General Settings Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Figure 9.34 Temporal Key Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Figure 9.35 Add Temporal Key Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Figure 9.36 Add New Device Dialog Box WUSB Settings Tab for Wireless USB Host 135

Figure 9.37 Add Connection Context Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Figure 9.38 Add New Device Dialog Box WUSB Settings Tab for

Wireless USB Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Figure 9.39 Add New Device Dialog Box WLP Settings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Figure 9.40 Add New WSS Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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Figure 9.41 Edit WSS Device Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Figure 9.42 Run Verification Scripts Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Figure 9.43 Run Verification Scripts Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Figure 9.44 Run Verification Scripts Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Figure 9.45 Run Verification Scripts Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Figure 9.46 Run Verification Scripts Settings Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Figure 9.47 Left-Click Frame Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Figure 9.48 WUSB Detail View in Timing Analysis Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Figure 9.49 Beacon Period View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Figure 9.50 Timing Analysis Display Options for Beacon Period View Menu. . . . . . . . 149

Figure 9.51 Timing Analysis Property Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Figure 9.52 WUSB Detail View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Figure 9.53 Timing Analysis Display Options for WUSB Detail View Menu. . . . . . . . . 152

Figure 9.54 Superframe Grid View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Figure 9.55 Superframe Grid View Zoomed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Figure 9.56 Timing Analysis Display Options for Superframe Grid View Menu . . . . . . 154

Figure 9.57 Left-Click Timing Analysis Fields Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Figure 10.1 Connecting Multiple Analyzers by USB Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Figure 10.2 Analyzer Network’ and All ‘Connected Devices…’ menus . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Figure 10.3 Analyzer Devices Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Figure 10.4 Connecting Multiple Analyzers by USB Cables on a Network. . . . . . . . . . 159

Figure 10.5 Analyzer Network Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Figure 10.6 Add Analyzer Network Node Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Figure 10.7 SYNC IN and SYNC OUT Connector/Cable Color Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Figure 10.8 Connecting Two Analyzers for Synchronized Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Figure 10.9 Connecting Three Analyzers for Synchronized Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Figure 10.10 Analyzer Network Chat Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Figure 11.1 EXT DATA Connector and Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Figure 11.2 Example UWBTracer Device Connections Diagram for Recording MPI Traffic

from Devices using the IDE 40-pin Cable Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Figure 11.3 Wireless RF Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Figure 11.4 Wired RF Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Figure 11.5 Device List Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Figure 11.6 Opening the Add New Device Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Figure 11.7 Manually Adding a New Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Figure 11.8 Add New Device Dialog Box General Settings Tab Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Figure 11.9 Device Type Specific Settings Tab with CHID or CDID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Figure 11.10 Entering CDID or CHID and CK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Figure 11.11 DUT Checkbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Figure 11.12 Program Security Data Toolbar Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Figure 11.13 Temporal Key Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Figure 11.14 Entering TKID and TK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Figure 12.1 Recording Options: General Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Figure 12.2 Recording Options: Buffer Size Slider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Figure 12.3 Recording Options: Trigger Position Slider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Figure 12.4 Recording Options Window: RF Tab Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Figure 12.5 Select Sync Channels Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Figure 12.6 USB Assoc. Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Figure 12.7 Recording Options Window: Recording Rules Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Figure 12.8 Recording Options Window: Popup Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Figure 12.9 Recording Rules Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

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Figure 12.10 Creating a New Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Figure 12.11 Selecting Event Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Figure 12.12 Event Button Appears in Available Events Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Figure 12.13 Drag-and-Drop Event Button to Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Figure 12.14 Event Button in Cell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Figure 12.15 Selecting Action From Event Button Pop-Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Figure 12.16 Action Assigned to Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Figure 12.17 Sequence Pop-Up Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Figure 12.18 Action Pop-Up Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Figure 12.19 Advance the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Figure 12.20 Event Pop-up Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Figure 12.21 Event Properties First Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Figure 12.22 Action Properties (Event Properties Second Tab). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Figure 12.23 External Trigger Signal Dialog for Toggle Action and HIGH Signal Current

Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Figure 12.24 External Trigger Signal Dialog for Pulse LOW Action and LOW Signal

Current Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Figure 12.25 External Trigger Signal When No Analyzer Devices Are Connected to the

Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Figure 12.26 External Trigger Signal Behavior Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Figure 12.27 Example 1: Creating the Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Figure 12.28 Example 1: Assigning the Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Figure 12.29 Example 1: Complete Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Figure 12.30 Example 2: Adding a Counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Figure 12.31 Example 2: Complete Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Figure 12.32 Example 3: Creating a Second Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Figure 12.33 Example 3: Assigning the Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Figure 12.34 Example 3: Complete Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Figure 12.35 Example 4: Assigning the Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Figure 12.36 Example 4: Complete Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Figure 12.37 Example 5: Advancing the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Figure 12.38 Example 5: First State Complete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Figure 12.39 Example 5: Creating an Event, Second State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Figure 12.40 Example 5: Dragging to the Second State Cell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Figure 12.41 Example 5: Bringing Up the Timer Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Figure 12.42 Example 5: Setting the Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Figure 12.43 Example 5: Creating Another Event, Second State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Figure 12.44 Example 5: Complete Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Figure 12.45 Example 6: Two Independent Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Figure 13.1 Abort or Continue Uploading Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Figure 13.2 Upload Again with New Buffer Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Figure 13.3 USB Cable Association Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Figure 14.1 Traffic Generation File Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Figure 14.2 UWBTrainer Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Figure 14.3 Main Window Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Figure 14.4 Main Window Toolbar with Traffic Generation Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Figure 15.5 Traffic Generation Script Text Snippets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Figure 15.1 New Text Scenario for a Traffic Generation File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Figure 15.2 Traffic Generation Script Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Figure 15.3 Flow Element Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Figure 15.4 Send Frame Element Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

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Figure 15.5 Condition Register Element Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Figure 15.6 Wait For Frame/Header Element Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Figure 15.7 New Graphical Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Figure 15.8 Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Figure 15.9 Graphical Scenario Example - Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Figure 15.10 Graphical Scenario Example - Condition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Figure 15.11 Graphical Scenario Example - Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Figure 15.12 Graphical Scenario Example - Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Figure 15.13 Graphical Scenario Example - Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Figure 15.14 Looping Scenario Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Figure 15.15 If-Then-Else Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Figure 16.1 About UWBTracer/Trainer Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Figure 16.2 Update UWBTracer/Trainer Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Figure 16.3 License Information Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Figure 16.4 License Protection Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1.1 UWBTracer/Trainer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Table 3.1 Menu Bar Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Table 9.1 Traffic Summary Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Table 9.2 Real-Time Statistics Toolbar Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Table 12.1 Recording Rules Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Table 12.2 UWBTracer/Trainer Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Table 14.1 Menu Bar Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Table A.1 Adapter Pin Assignments: 68-Pin Probe Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Table A.2 Adapter Pin Assignments: 60-Pin Probe Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Table A.3 Adapter Pin Assignments: 40-Pin Probe Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

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Chapter 1: Overview

This chapter describes the UWBTracer/Trainer™ product and Ultra-Wideba nd
technology in general.

1.1 UWBTracer/Trainer Ultra-Wideband Analyzers

The LeCroy UWBTracer/Trainer is a portab le Ultra-Wideband (UWB) test and debug
platform that combines non-intrusive recording with extensive decoding features. The RF
(wireless) recording functionality is designed to record non-intrusively off-the-air WiMedia
UWB traffic from one or more devices, while the MPI recording functionality is designe d
to connect to the specification-defined MAC-PHY Interface (MPI) bus between the MAC
and the PHY subsystems in WiMedia-compliant devices and to capture the traffic
between them. The WLP protocol uses the MUX sublayer and services of the WiMedia
MAC for data networking.

By leveraging years of experience in protocol analysis tools for emerging markets,
UWBTracer/Trainer blends sophisticated functionality with practical features to allow
designers and validation engineers to easily specify multi-level, conditional trigger
scenarios to pinpoint intermittent problems in the UWB connection.

System-level validation requires non-intrusive monitoring. UWBTracer/Trainer ensures
accurate data collection by providing transparent electrical taps. At the heart of
UWBTracer/Trainer is the CATC BusEngine™ protocol processor that features a
real-time recording engine for UWB MAC-to-PHY tra ffic.

UWBTracer/Trainer also suppor ts remote operation over a LAN and unattended control
of the analyzer with an Automation API. UWBTracer/Trainer includes an advanced
search capability that allows to search for specific fields in the recorded trace and to
navigate faster to places of interest inside the trace.

UWBTracer/Trainer fe atures a real-time st atistics display that co ntinuously monitors and
presents metrics for the recorded MAC-to-PHY traffic, providing a hig h -leve l view of
network performance.

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Table 1.1 summarizes key UWBTracer/Trainer features.

Table 1.1 UWBTracer/Trainer Features

Feature Benefit

Wireless capturing & recording Allows off-the-air (and non-intrusive) recording of UWB

traffic

MPI capturing & recording Probes the WiMedia specification-defined bus between the

MAC and PHY layers, while remaining non intrusive.
Suitable for three different popular connector types.

Simultaneous RF and MPI
recording

Advanced Triggering Robust capability of setting complex triggering and filtering

Trace View Comprehensive viewing of the recorded traffic with

Advanced search Fast and comprehensive trace searches.
Collapsible/expandable header Increased drill-down on exchanges, sequences, or individual

Real-time performance monitoring
and statistics

Dynamically-allocated memory
pool

Interchangeable Radios and room
for future expansion

WLP protocol

Capable of recording one RF and one MPI channel at the
same time and display a combined trace

sequences and act in real-time on those settings on each of
the channels.

convenient customization through the trace display options.

frames.
Allows easy identification of throughput problems and

anomalies.
(2 GB) Captures long time-windows for analysis and

problem-solving.
The modular design of the UWBTracer

CATC 5K platform permits interchanging modules and
radios

/Trainer™ and the

Uses the MUX sublayer and services of the WiMedia
MAC for data networking

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1.2 Ultra-Wideband Technology

UWB technology was available for over 40 years for military and civilian applications and
was originally called either impulse radio or carrier-free communications. Today, the FCC
definition for UWB is any radio technology with a spectrum that occupies greater than 20
percent of the center frequency or a minimum of 500MHz.

In 2002, the FCC allocated unlicensed radio spectrum from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz
expressly for enterprise and consumer applications. The FCC defined a specific
minimum bandwidth of 500 MHz at a -10dB level. As current UWB implementations allow
communication that requires high data rates over short distances, one immediate UWB
application is WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network).

The Multi-band OFDM technology, promoted by the WiMedia Alliance, is one of the
technologies that can utilize the allocated band for UWB. The MB-OFDM transmits data
simultaneously over multiple carriers spaced apart at precise fr equencies. This approach
provides benefits like high spectral flexibility and resiliency to RF interference and
multi-path effects.

The WiMedia UWB specifications are available from the WiMedia Alliance. The URL for
the WiMedia website:

http://www.wimedia.org

1.3 WiMedia UWB Specification Ecosystem

The WiMedia Alliance has developed specifications for ultra-wide-band (UWB) devices.
The main goal of the WiMedia UWB specifications is to create a UWB “ecosystem” that
allows easy and secure operation of UWB devices.

The WiMedia UWB specifications have a first-generation data rate of 480 Mbps, which
enables a multitude of innovative wireless devices. UWB devices that follow the
WiMedia UWB specifications can co-exist in the same physical environment, even if they
have unrelated applications.

Markets for two major application types are emerging:

• Certified Wireless-USB (WUSB)

•WLP

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1.3.1 Certified Wireless USB Overview

The WiMedia UWB specification first-generation data rate of 4 80 Mbp s provides a basis
for delivering WUSB devices that can perform comparably with USB 2.0 devices.

The Certified Wireless-USB protocol maintains the same host-device model as the wir ed
USB protocol, but the Certified Wireless-USB protocol ma ke s ma ny optimizations for
operating efficiently on a wireless medium.

The first Certified Wireless-USB-protocol products are various Wire Adapter devices,
which operate as wired-to-wireless bridges. Host Wire Adapters (HWA) enable any PC
with USB 2.0 to become a WUSB Host. Device Wire Adapters (DWA) are wireless hubs
that can connect wired USB 2.0 devices to a WUSB Host.

For Certified Wireless-USB-protocol devices, UWBTracer/Trainer provides full protocol
decoding from low-level packets to high-level Wire Adapter transfers.

The WUSB specification is available from the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). The
URL for the USB-IF website is:

http://www.usb.org/home

1.3.2 WLP Overview

WLP is a protocol that uses the services of the WiMedia MAC for data networking.
The WLP protocol uses the MUX sublayer and service defined in the WiMedia MAC

specification. The MUX sublayer combined with the W LP prot ocol corresponds to the
logical link control sublayer of the standard ISO/OSI IEEE 802 reference model.

For more information about the WLP protocol, MUX sublayer a nd service , and WiM edia
MAC specification, see the WLP specification at www.WiMedia.org.

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Chapter 2: Hardware Description

This chapter describes the CATC 5K-based UWBTracer/Trainer™ Analyzer and
Exerciser and other components and accessories that accompany it.

2.1 CATC 5K Platform

CATC 5K Platform

The CATC 5K is a lightweight and modular platform, designed to be mobile and flexible.
The two front slots can accommodate up to two plug-in modules with a variety of options.
The CATC 5K platform is powered by a small external power supply. Quiet built-in fans
provide all the necessary cooling.

Connection to Host Machine

The CA TC 5K platform conn ects to a Windows®-based PC (the host machine) through a
single USB cable. Though the system can operat e over USB 1.1 protocol data rates, it is
advisable to use a USB 2.0 connection between the Analyzer and the host machine to
obtain faster upload of traffic.

2.2 UWBTracer/Trainer Analyzer and Exerciser

The basic UWBT racer/Trainer analyzer configuration includes a CA TC 5K plat form and a
UWB Analyzer plug-in module (UW002MA or UW003MA) that is inserted into the
right-side slot.

In addition, the USB Analyzer plug-in module (US007MA) can be inserted into the
left-side slot and be used for capturing USB Association traffic, retrieving the information
required for pairing two WUSB devices. See “USB Cable Association for Certified WUSB”
on page 224 for more information.

The UWB Exerciser plug-in module can be inserted into the lef t-side slot and be used for
traffic generation.

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2.3 System Components

Basic Components

The UWBTracer/Trainer™ basic package includes the following components:

• Installation CD-ROM, with the installation program and all documents

• UWBTracer/Trainer Getting Started manual, to help set up the system quickly

• CATC 5K Platform: See photograph on front cover. Also see “CATC 5K Front Panel
with the UWB Analyzer Plug-in” on page 14 and “CATC 5K Rear Panel” on page 18.

• CATC 5K Power Supply and Power Cord

•Carrying case

• Vertical Stand

Figure 2.1 Vertical Stand

• UWB Analyzer Module and RF Antenna

Figure 2.2 UWB Analyzer Plug-in Module with Antenna (UW002MA or

UW003MA)

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• RF Coaxial Cable (SMA) [in Standard Cable Kit]

• USB cable for connecting the analyzer to a host machin e

Figure 2.3 USB cable and RF Coaxial Cable (SMA)

• Synchronization Cable for synchronizing multiple analyzers. The Synchroniza tion
Cable connects to the SYNC IN and SYNC OUT connectors located on the
UWBTracer/Trainer rear panel (Figure 2.15). (For more information about setting up
multiple analyzers, see Section 10.3, “Multiple Analyzer Synchronization” on page

162.)

Figure 2.4 Synchronization Cable and Trigger Cable

• Trigger Cable (TRIG-IN/TRIG-OUT BNC Y-cable) for conn ecting to external equip­ment (for example, for triggering capturing in a LeCroy oscilloscope).

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Optional Components

In addition to the basic package, optional components ar e available:

• USB Analyzer plug-in module for capturing USB Cable Association traffic
(US007MA)

Figure 2.5 USB Analyzer Plug-in Module (US007MA)

• UWB Analyzer plug-in module with PHY (radio) from a different vendor
(UW002MA or UW003MA)
[see Figure 2.2]

• MPI Kit (please refer to the Data Sheet for detailed information)
[see next page]

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•UWBTrainer Exerciser plug-in module and RF Antenna

Figure 2.6 UWB Exerciser Plug-in Module with Antenna (UW005MGA)

Note: To meet FCC requirements, the UWBTrainer exerciser and some models of

the UWBTracer analyzer have reverse-polarity radio and antenna
connectors. This configuration does not affect RF behavior in any way but
does require that you configure a customer-supplied antenna with
reverse-polarity connectors.

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MPI Kit

The MPI kit is designed for hooking to the MPI bus in two types of setups:

1. PHY subsystem connects to the MAC subsystem through a short (ribbon) cable.

2. PHY subsystem piggybacks directly on the MAC subsystem. The two subsystems
connect through an adapter board without the use of cables.

Three types of connectors are common for current designs:

1. IDE 40-pin connector

2. Hirose 68-pin Connector

3. Hirose 60-pin Connector

The optional MPI Kit includes:

Figure 2.7 MPI Kit

• Cable Adapter

Figure 2.8 Cable Adapter for Hirose 68-pin or IDE 40-pin Connectors

for Hirose 68-pin or IDE 40-pin Connectors

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