Configuration Translation for Analyzer Modules
Configuration files provide an easy way for you to save and restore measurement setups, simplifying repeated measurements. However, sometimes you might change analyzer modules in the HP 16500C Logic Analysis System to gain additional measurement features. Or, you might want to use a configuration file from one HP 16500C system on another HP 16500C with a different analyzer module. But, the analyzer configuration files cannot be transferred directly from one type of analyzer to the next. Each analyzer has internal architectural differences, reflected in the number of pods, clock configurations, trigger sequencer features, analyzer resources, and so on.
To help you move configuration files from one analyzer to another, some analyzer measurement modules for the HP 16500C Logic Analysis System support automatic translation of analyzer configurations. If you save an analyzer configuration from one kind of analyzer module, then load that configuration into a module that supports configuration translation, the translator will adjust the configuration as required to account for differences between the modules.
The configuration translator needs to account for many aspects of the analyzer architecture. Some of the considerations are as follows:
∙For some analyzers, demultiplexing data will require separate analyzer pods, because a master clock and a slave clock can’t be assigned on the same pod to perform the demultiplexing. The translator may display messages on the analyzer screen that ask you to reconnect pod cables in a different configuration.
∙When a range term is split across multiple pods, the term must span adjacent odd/even pairs, starting with 1. Thus, terms could span pods 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, or 7 and 8, but not 2 and 3. Again, the translator may display messages asking you to reconnect cables in a different configuration.
∙When loading a configuration into an analyzer with fewer pods than the one on which the configuration was saved, the translator must
