1998 Product of the Year Award Winner

Digital-system debug tools combine
logic analysis and emulation

The HP 16700A and HP 16600A logic analysis systems are the first such
systems to combine logic analysis and emulation to provide a complete view–from
hardware to software–of a CPU-based prototype. This approach eliminates
the need for separate test instruments and invasive in-circuit emulators,
and allows the entire design team to use one debug tool. The result is
lower testing costs and decreased time to market.

The HP 16700A and 16600A combine logic analysis and emulation to
substantially decrease digital-design test costs and time to market.

Both systems support all current processors and provide multiple time-correlated
displays of hardware operation, source code, and cross-domain activity
simultaneously. In addition to support for all current CPUs, they are offered
as the first logic analyzers to incorporate processor emulation with validated
connections to debuggers from third-party vendors.

The HP 16700A is a modular platform for designs using microprocessors
in multiprocessor systems, core-based ASICs, or systems on silicon. It
provides five analysis and two emulation slots and is expandable to twice
that amount by using the HP 16701A expansion frame.

The HP 16600A are preconfigured systems with built-in analysis capabilities
and the ability to record events leading up to each trigger condition that
occurs. Each system provides one analysis and one emulation slot, and is
available with 204, 136, 102, or 68 channels.

Analysis modules include two DSOs, a 40-channel pattern generator, and
a state/timing module. A specialized software analyzer will correlate a
logic analyzer trace to the source code that produced it.

An emulation control interface provides processor controls and the ability
to download code to the target. Integrated debugger support is provided
via a LAN10Base-2 port.

For microprocessors with on-chip emulation, a processor emulation module
can be added to connect the on-board debugging resources of the processor
to the logic analyzer. Analysis and bus probes for standard processors
are available for over 200 microprocessors and microcontrollers, and for
all common and other bus architectures.

All models in the series are upgradable and the company will provide
support for future innovations as they become available. (HP 16700A, from
$9,900; HP 16600A, from $24,240; emulation solution, from $4,495; emulation
probes and modules, from $2,995–4 weeks ARO.)

Hewlett-Packard
Palo Alto, CA
Information 800-452-4844, ext. 5645
http://www.hp.com/go/logicanalyzer