HP 16500C, 16501A LOGIC manual Contents

Contents

1 Triggering

To store and time the execution of a subroutine 1–3 To trigger on the nth iteration of a loop 1–5

To trigger on the nth recursive call of a recursive function 1–6 To trigger on entry to a function 1–8

To capture a write of known bad data to a particular variable 1–10 To trigger on a loop that occasionally runs too long 1–11

To verify that all stacks and registers are restored correctly before exiting a subroutine 1–12

To trigger after all status bus lines finish transitioning 1–13 To find the nth assertion of a chip select line 1–14

To verify that the chip select line of a memory chip is strobed after the address is stable 1–15

To trigger when expected data does not appear on the data bus from a remote device when requested 1–16

To test minimum and maximum pulse limits 1–18 To detect a handshake violation 1–20

To detect bus contention 1–21

Cross-Arming Trigger Examples 1–22

To examine software execution when a timing violation occurs 1–23 To look at control and status signals during execution of a routine 1–24

2 Intermodule Measurements

Intermodule Measurement Examples 2–4

To set up a group run of modules within the HP 16500C 2–4

To start a group run of modules from an external trigger source 2–6 To start an external instrument on command from a module within

the HP 16500 and 16501 mainframe 2–8

To see the status of a module within an intermodule measurement 2–10 To see time correlation of each module within an

intermodule measurement 2–12

To use a timing analyzer to detect a glitch 2–14 To capture the waveform of a glitch 2–15

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