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Find the Curtiss-Wright / VMETRO VBT-325C at our website: Click HERE User's Manual VBT-325 - VME Bus Analyzer Including XMEM325-PB Version 2.0 Valid for Firmware Version 5.5x / BusView 2.5x VBT-325B VMEbus Analyzer VBT-325C VMEbus & VSB/SCSI/P2 Analyzer XMEM325-PB Extended Trace memory for the VBT-325 ã Copyright VMETRO 1997. No part of this document may be furnished or disclosed to any third party, and it may not be copied or reproduced in any form, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without written permission from VMETRO Inc. (Houston, TX, USA) or VMETRO asa (Oslo, Norway). The Bus Analyzer Specialist Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com Warranty VMETRO products are warranted against defective materials and workmanship within the warranty period of 1 (one) year from date of invoice. Within the warranty period, VMETRO will, free of charge, repair or replace any defective unit covered by this warranty, shipping prepaid. A Return Authorization Code should be obtained from VMETRO prior to return of any defective product. With any returned product, a written description of the nature of malfunction should be enclosed. The product must be shipped in its original shipping container, or similar packaging, with sufficient mechanical and electrostatic protection, in order to maintain warranty. This warranty assumes normal use. Products subjected to unreasonably rough handling, negligence, abnormal voltages, abrasion, unauthorized parts replacement and repairs, or theft are not covered by this warranty and will be repaired for time and material charges in effect at the time of repair. VMETRO’s warranty is limited to the repair or replacement policy described above and neither VMETRO nor its agent shall be responsible for consequential or special damages related to the use of their products. USA: VMETRO, Inc. 1880 Dairy Ashford, #535 HOUSTON, TX 77077, USA Tel: (281) 584-0728 Fax: (281) 584-9034 Europe, Asia: VMETRO asa Brynsveien 5 0667 OSLO, Norway Tel: +47 22 10 60 90 Fax: +47 22 10 62 02 ii User's Manual VBT-325 VMETRO Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com Preface This Manual This manual covers the VBT-325 and the XMEM325-PB piggyback module, and corresponds to firmware versions 5.5x / BusView 2.5x. The XMEM325-PB is described separately only under the “XMEM325-PB Piggyback Module”, “Product overview” and “Installation”. All other instructions governing the operation of the piggyback module are identical to those for the VBT-325, and is found in the general text. VMETRO User's Manual VBT-325 iii Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com The Bus Analyzer concept A Bus Analyzer is a pre-configured logic analyzer designed as a plug-in card for a specific bus, conforming to the logical, electrical and mechanical specification of the target bus. The primary use of a Bus Analyzer is to monitor the activity on a back plane bus and provide a trace of bus cycles between modules on the bus, presenting this as alphanumeric trace lists or as waveforms on a standard ASCII terminal. This is done without the need for connecting and configuring large numbers of probes to the back plane, a time-consuming and error-prone process necessary with general-purpose logic analyzers. Statistics analysis in bus systems is also an important application for bus analyzers. A basic idea behind bus analyzers is that the analyzer is "hard-wired" to capture the protocol of the target bus, thereby reducing the need for the user to understand all the details of the bus protocol in order to perform meaningful analysis of activity in the target system. This offers the user maximum productivity and convenience during development, debugging, testing and verification of bus based computer systems. VMETRO is a company totally committed to building the finest Bus Analyzers, and is recognized in development labs around the world as providing superior tools for developers and manufacturers of bus based computer equipment. With the VBT-325, VMETRO offers the fourth generation, state-of-the art product based on 10 years of experience in building bus analyzers. The Bus Analyzer Specialist iv User's Manual VBT-325 VMETRO Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com CONTENTS CONTENTS 1. GETTING STARTED ......................................................................................... 1 1.1 Getting Started with BusView.........................................................................................................1 1.2 Getting Started Using a Terminal User Interface ........................................................................3 2. INSTALLATION................................................................................................. 7 2.1 Static Electricity - Precautions........................................................................................................7 2.2 Preparations......................................................................................................................................7 2.2.1 Inspection ................................................................................................................................7 2.2.2 Jumper Settings .......................................................................................................................8 2.2.3 P2 rows A and C......................................................................................................................8 2.2.4 TTL/CMOS Input only (0-5V)................................................................................................8 2.3 Slot Selection .....................................................................................................................................9 2.3.1 VMEbus...................................................................................................................................9 2.3.2 VSB .........................................................................................................................................9 2.3.3 Daisy-Chains ...........................................................................................................................9 2.3.4 Slot 1........................................................................................................................................9 2.3.5 User-defined P2.......................................................................................................................9 2.4 Power Consumption.......................................................................................................................10 2.4.1 Air Cooling............................................................................................................................10 2.4.2 5V Readout............................................................................................................................11 2.4.3 +/-12V Supplies.....................................................................................................................11 2.4.4 FLASH 12V Jumper..............................................................................................................11 2.4.5 External Power ......................................................................................................................11 2.5 BusView for Windows - Graphical User Interface.....................................................................13 2.5.1 System Requirements ............................................................................................................13 2.5.2 Installing BusView on the PC ...............................................................................................13 2.5.3 Connecting the VBT-325 to the PC ......................................................................................13 2.5.4 Troubleshooting: Connection Problems ................................................................................14 2.6 Terminal User Interface ................................................................................................................15 2.6.1 Establish a Connection ..........................................................................................................15 2.6.2 Start-up Menu........................................................................................................................16 2.7 RS-232 Communication.................................................................................................................17 2.7.1 Terminal cable.......................................................................................................................18 VMETRO