• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Test & Measurement Tips

Oscilloscopes, electronics engineering industry news, how-to EE articles and electronics resources

  • Oscilloscopes
    • Analog Oscilloscope
    • Digital Oscilloscope
    • Handheld Oscilloscope
    • Mixed-signal Oscilloscope
    • PC-based Oscilloscopes – PCO
  • Design
  • Calibration
  • Meters & Testers
  • Test Equipment
  • Suppliers
  • Video
  • EE Learning Center
    • Design Guides
      • WiFi & the IOT Design Guide
      • Microcontrollers Design Guide
      • State of the Art Inductors Design Guide
  • FAQs
You are here: Home / Oscilloscope Descriptions / Embedded real-time scopes sport I3C protocol-based hardware triggers

Embedded real-time scopes sport I3C protocol-based hardware triggers

June 13, 2022 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

I3C PurVue Analyzer is a full-fledged, embedded, protocol-triggered real-time oscilloscope for measuring and characterizing sensor and processor interfaces based on the MIPI Alliance I3CSM and I3C Basic Specifications. This ground-breaking product provides exact time correlation between analog and digital, complete protocol-based control on when to capture a real-time oscilloscope waveform, and leverages the Python libraries within the Introspect ESP Software to provide complete control on the types of measurements that are performed.

“I3C is becoming a very important mid-speed sensor and control bus, and its development is complex. It is no longer sufficient to only use an oscilloscope or instrospect technologyonly use a protocol analyzer for validating I3C buses or systems, which is why we created the I3C PurVue Analyzer. By combining the power of an always-on protocol analyzer state machine with a high-performance real-time oscilloscope that is triggered by the protocol analyzer machine, we enable engineers to perform measurements in ways that were not possible in the past,” said Dr. Mohamed Hafed, CEO of Introspect Technology.

The essence of the Introspect Technology I3C PurVue Analyzer is that it combines two standalone instruments into one: It takes the powerful protocol analyzer of the SV4E-I3C I3C Test and Debug Module and adds a complete high-resolution real-time oscilloscope that simultaneously samples the protocol analyzer inputs. By leveraging the protocol analyzer to enable the detection of arbitrary user-defined transmission sequences or erroneous bus states, the I3C PurVue Analyzer can trigger the embedded oscilloscope to capture instantaneous analog waveforms and uncover subtle signal integrity issues. It thus provides exact time-correlated analog and digital measurements in a single instrument. More importantly, it does not require external connections such as those needed by conventional oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers, and it does not require additional high-impedance oscilloscope probes either. Instead, the highly integrated hardware is simply configured using the award-winning Introspect ESP Software.

Some conventional benchtop oscilloscopes offer a feature called “protocol decode”, which samples an analog waveform and then attempts to numerically post-process the waveform and extract protocol information. Protocol decoding depends on the oscilloscope being able to trigger a waveform first. It is intricate to create triggers based on errors or based on complex protocol sequences. Also, protocol decoding depends on storing an analog waveform first and then processing it, and this limits the amount of data that can be analyzed.

The I3C PurVue Analyzer is the opposite: it is a protocol-triggered oscilloscope. That is, it keeps a full-fledged I3C protocol analyzer state machine always running in the background, and it triggers the internal oscilloscope based on protocol events. This means that trigger events can always be found no matter how rare they are. More importantly, it means that the high volume of analyzed protocol data is stored anyway, and there is no limitation due to oscilloscope waveform memory.

The Introspect Technology I3C PurVue Analyzer can be purchased as an upgrade to existing SV4E-I3C devices, or it can be selected as a purchase option on new SV4E-I3C device purchases.

Introspect Technology, 1620 Rue Notre Dame O Suite 501, Montréal, QC H3J 1M1, Canada, +1 514-819-3358, info@introspect.ca, introspect.ca/

You may also like:

  • music on scopes
    Making pictures from sound on an oscilloscope
  • music synthesizer
    Music synthesis and arbitrary waveform generators
  • 5G
    Will 5G be lethal?
  • rental instruments
    The modern economics of renting test instruments
  • leland-teschler-and-oscilloscope-feat
    No nostalgia for old test instruments

Filed Under: Digital Oscilloscope, Oscilloscope Descriptions, Oscilloscopes, PC-based Oscilloscopes - PCO Tagged With: instrospecttechnology

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Primary Sidebar

Current Digital Issue

A frequency you can count on There are few constants in life, but what few there are might include death, taxes, and a U.S. grid frequency that doesn’t vary by more than ±0.5 Hz. However, the certainty of the grid frequency is coming into question, thanks to the rising percentage of renewable energy sources that…

Digital Edition Back Issues

Oscilloscopes Finder

Search Millions of Parts from Thousands of Suppliers.

Search Now!
design fast globle

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Subscribe to test and measurement industry news, new oscilloscope product innovations and more.

Subscribe Today

EE TRAINING CENTER CLASSROOMS

EE Classrooms

RSS Current EDABoard.com discussions

  • simple LSB explanation please
  • Timer MC14541B wrong delay
  • Measure AC current accurateley (100mA to 10A)
  • Avalanche Pulser
  • FPGA Interfacing with ADC AD7606

RSS Current Electro-Tech-Online.com Discussions

  • bluetooth jammer
  • Disabled son needs advice please
  • DIY bluetooth speaker
  • Someone please explain how this BMS board is supposed to work?
  • HV Diodes

Footer

EE World Online Network

  • DesignFast
  • EE World Online
  • EDABoard
  • Electro-Tech Online
  • Analog IC Tips
  • Microcontroller Tips
  • Power Electronic Tips
  • Sensor Tips
  • Connector Tips
  • Wire and Cable Tips
  • 5G Technology World

Test & Measurement Tips

  • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Advertise with us
  • Contact us
  • About us
Follow us on TwitterAdd us on FacebookFollow us on YouTube Follow us on Instagram

Copyright © 2022 · WTWH Media LLC and its licensors. All rights reserved.
The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media.

Privacy Policy