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2023-08 - Total Phase Newsletter
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Issue 6

Volume 23

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New App Note:
Modifying Insertion Loss Values When Using the Advanced Cable Tester v2
 
Featured Video:​ 
USB Debugging Using a Real-Time USB Bus Monitor
 

Featured Blog: 

How Can I Update My API Script to Work with Multi-Byte Address Registers and Data?

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New App Note: Modifying Insertion Loss Values When Using the Advanced Cable Tester v2


The Advanced Cable Tester v2 is designed to quickly confirm if a given cable sample can transmit data at the advertised rate, carries specified power levels, is correctly wiring, and is safe to use per cable specifications.

In some instances, customers might need to test against criteria that are more or less strict than the specification, allowing them to assess the cable based on their own testing requirements. Particularly, users have shown interest in adjusting insertion loss values to alter the size of the HEO/VEO mask visible on the eye diagram in the signal integrity test. This ultimately affects how the cable's signal is assessed to determine a pass or fail.


Users can adjust the insertion loss values by creating a customized cable testing profile using the Advanced Cable Tester v2 GUI.

Learn how this can be accomplished in our App Note:

Featured Video: USB Debugging Using a Real-Time USB Bus Monitor


Our line of Beagle USB Protocol Analyzers allows engineers to non-intrusively monitor USB traffic between devices in real time.

Depending on the specific analyzer model, users have the ability to monitor either High-Speed and/or SuperSpeed USB data within our Data Center Software. This includes utilizing a variety of features in the software to further analyze the captured data to view specific data patterns, text, and errors, or employing triggers for more advanced debugging.

In this example, we demonstrate how to use the Beagle USB 480 Protocol Analyzer in conjunction with the Data Center Software to easily monitor USB traffic between a USB mouse and USB flash drive while showing different ways to drill down the data for streamlined debugging.

USB Debugging Using a Real-Time USB Bus Monitor


Featured Blog: How Can I Update My API Script to Work with Multi-Byte Address Registers and Data?

Are you interested in performing read and write operations on an I2C slave device featuring registers with multi-byte addresses, along with multi-byte data?

While the Control Center Serial Software allows users to specify how many bytes to read or write, as well as the size of the register address in bytes, this can also be accomplished using our API as well.

In our latest blog, learn how you can expand our example API scripts included in the Aardvark Software API to accomplish this.


How Can I Update My API Script to Work with Multi-Byte Address Registers and Data?

Product Spotlight: I2C Development Kit

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I have been designing with I2C and SPI peripherals for 30 years. Hands down, the Total Phase Beagle I2C/SPI Protocol Analyzer and Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter are the easiest to use, fastest to implement, and least expensive tools on the market.

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- Mike P.

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