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News Release from: Vmetro | Subject: Vanguard VMEbus analyser
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 February 2004
Bus analyser pre-empts VME Renaissance
The sixth-generation Vanguard VMEbus analyser is billed as the first VME Renaissance ready analyser, supporting both legacy VME and new protocols such as 2eSST and 2eVME.
The sixth-generation Vanguard VMEbus analyser is billed as the first VME Renaissance ready analyser, supporting both legacy VME and new protocols such as 2eSST and 2eVME The analyser is based on the same highly advanced architecture as the other members of the Vanguard family and offers very high levels of power, versatility and ease of use
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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VME, developed with strong influence by Motorola, is the predominant bus architecture in the aerospace and defence markets.
The VME Renaissance initiative provides a significant upgrade to the architecture, which is now more than 20 years old, by specifying new high-speed capabilities such as the 2eSST and 2eVME signalling protocols.
The analyser aids in debugging the added software and hardware complexity introduced as a result of these new capabilities.
The state analyser, statistics, exerciser, and protocol checker modules of the new analyser can be used concurrently.
This, coupled with the unit's 256bit x 2M sample trace buffer, offers the engineer a very powerful analysis tool.
The Vanguard's modular architecture allows the same hardware to be re-used to test VME, CompactPCI and/or PCI/PCI-X.
The analyser can be connected remotely via Ethernet or directly via USB.
Included BusView software allows the user to view captured data in either a transaction summary mode or a more detailed data transfer by data transfer view.
"Vmetro's Vanguard bus analyser is the only analyser on the market capable of interpreting 2eSST bus cycles and it is very good at its job", said Dr Jeffrey M Harris, Motorola's Director of Research and System Architecture.
"I am convinced that it saved us many hours of debug time".
"The Vanguard VME product brings a new level of productivity to the VMEbus engineer", said Thomas Nygaard, CTO at Vmetro and inventor of the bus analyser.
"The advanced features of the Vanguard VMEbus analyser will make the transition to the 2eSST protocol a much easier task". Request a free brochure from Vmetro ...
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