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Analyzer Configuration

Analyzer Configuration drop-down menu offers selection and manipulation of Trace Configurations.

Begin New Session

A new live Analyzer session is started. The acquired data is loaded from the hardware on the host PC and analyzed. Refer to tutorial Start an Analyzer Session.

Re-analyze Last session

Previously acquired analyzer data can be analyzed again. This off-line analysis is started automatically when the analyzer document is opened. Manually the analysis can be started to gain more information from an existing session, e.g. add or remove some functions from the profiler. The off-line analysis can be stopped with the Stop button.

Stop

Stops the active session – live or off-line.

In a live session, Stop will on first click stop data acquisition on the debugger. Upload of the trace buffer and analysis of the loaded data will continue. A second click will stop this too.

Trace

Toggles the Trace window display.

Profiler Timeline

Toggles the Profiler Timeline window display. Right-clicking on the document pane opens the context menu from which it is possible to Rename the Profiler Timeline.

Profiler Statistics

Toggles the Profiler Statistics window display.

Coverage Statistics

Toggles the Coverage Statistics window  display. Read more in the Coverage Analysis chapter.

Output Window

Open Output to display possible error, overflows during trace recordings.

Auto Synchronize

If this button is pressed, caret marker position between trace view and timeline view is synchronized. If moved in one view, the other view will scroll to the new position too.

Options

Opens the Options dialog where it is possible to configure:

•Fonts, colors, Trace, Profiler and Coverage display options,

•How you wish to save the Analyzer recording.

Set Information

Every document can have additional user information associated. Read more in Analyzer Recording information chapter.

              WAITING               

In this state, the Analyzer is already recording data in a circular buffer, but none of this data is shown until a trigger event occurs.

             WAITING                

The dark green bar in the status bar WAITING will indicate how much the BlueBox trace buffer has been already filled.

             SAMPLING             

Once the trigger is signaled (e.g. Trigger Immediately/Start On Trigger), Analyzer status bar will show SAMPLING as long as the BlueBox is recording.

The dark yellow bar displays the amount of the trace buffer which is currently filled, the yellow region the free trace buffer.

The number on the right indicates the number of recorded samples.

            LOADING                

Once the Analyzer stops recording, it will continue LOADING the trace data. The dark yellow bar indicates the amount of trace data left to transfer to the PC. In case the file is full, the loading will stop and the recording will be incomplete.

Loading of the trace data can be manually stopped by clicking the Stop button (analysis will still be performed).

           Analyzing 98%          

During the analysis the Analyzer is still running, even though the recording can be stopped (by hitting the stop button or stopping the CPU). To abort the analysis hit the Stop button the second time.

Caret

Marker 1

Marker 2  

Distance from Marker 1 to Marker 2. The frequency is displayed in parentheses as inverted time distance.