# Spectra DTP4700 Probe Toolbox

# Five Probes to Facilitate Efficient Waveform Development and Debugging

The Spectra DTP4700 Probe Toolbox is designed to reduce turn-around time for developing new waveforms on Spectra DTP4700 by providing a multi-processor debugging capability during integration.

The Probe Toolbox is a real-time debugging tool with the ability to prove and excite waveform elements, thus allowing the piecemeal integration of waveform components one-by-one, and the validation of component temporal, processor, and memory behaviours independently. Probe data is visualized either with the toolbox’s internal visualizer, ProbeViz, or through MATLAB/Simulink, thus eliminating the need for additional 3rdparty tooling licenses for data visualization.

The toolbox’s Data Probe allows monitoring or injection of real-time system flow data. The Resource Probe provides graphical or textual representation of memory and CPU utilization, CPU resources, and allow memory Peeks and Pokes. The Latency Probe provides a graphical display of latency for user-defined probe points based on a uniform system time reference. The Traffic Probe captures and displays network traffic. The SCA Adapter Probe provides latency, traffic and data probes in an SCA-compliant environment. By using the Probe Toolbox, a developer or systems engineer can thus study real-time data in any connected waveform with ease.

# Spectra DTP4700 Probe Toolbox Benefits

• Using the Probe Toolbox through the waveform porting cycle
• Increases engineer productivity
• Reduces porting and integration effort
• Decreases defect-error rates
• Reduces time-to-deploy
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• interaction between the processors.

# Spectra DTP4700 Probe Toolbox Features

• Data Probe
• Inject or capture GPP/DSP stream data
• Synchronize and trigger multiple probe points
• Capture block data
• Interface to MATLAB/Simulink
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o Memory Peeks and Pokes

Capture and display timestamp information with a synchronized time base across the GPP and DSP

• Traffic Probe

Capture and display network traffic

o Integrated with ADLINK’s Spectra Core Framework to show traffic, latency, and data in an SCA environment

![Probe Visualization\ndisplaying real time\nwaveform data](.spectra-probes/1234b0224459f6145618203ac74ec6dbe62e079b021a0fef763dd9baca5e5d80.jpg)

# Applications

• Validate waveform and platform data by applying probes at varying points in the GPP and DSP
• Gather data in heterogeneous multiprocessor environments

Probe Toolbox Configuration
![Based on the provided image, here is the description of the flowchart and block diagram:\n\n**Host Machine Side (Left)**\n*   **Block:** 'Probe Tool Box (Host)' encloses the entire software stack.\n*   **Block:** 'ProbeViz Core Library' is at the top center.\n*   **Connections:** Dotted bidirectional arrows connect 'ProbeViz Core Library' to three identical blocks labeled **'ProbeViz Plugin'** arranged horizontally below it.\n*   **Connections:** Solid bidirectional arrows connect each **'ProbeViz Plugin'** block to a development environment block directly below it.\n*   **Blocks:** The three development environment blocks are labeled:\n    1.  **'Net Beans Commercial OpenSource Development Environment'**\n    2.  **'Eclipse Commercial OpenSource Development Environment'**\n    3.  **'MATLAB/Simulink Commercial Development Environment'**\n\n**Radio Side (Right)**\n*   **Block:** 'Probe Toolbox (Radio)' encloses the radio software stack.\n*   **Block:** 'Target Agent on Radio Processor' is on the left side of this box.\n*   **Connections:** Dotted bidirectional arrows connect 'Target Agent on Radio Processor' to two blocks on the right:\n    1.  **'Processor Library'**\n    2.  **'DSP Library'**\n\n**Physical Connection**\n*   A cable connects the laptop (labeled **'HOST MACHINE'**) to the hardware rack (labeled **'SDR PLATFORM'**).](.spectra-probes/6359e376851aca3916ff852e4c974fc75a99cc77448d0aa3649186f7d62b6081.jpg)

# Probe Visualizer Examples

![| Time Domain | Value |\n|-------------|-------|\n| Top Panel   | 1.0   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.9   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.8   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.7   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.6   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.5   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.4   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.3   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.2   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.1   |\n| Top Panel   | 0.0   |\n| Bottom Panel| 1.0   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.9   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.8   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.7   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.6   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.5   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.4   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.3   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.2   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.1   |\n| Bottom Panel| 0.0   |](.spectra-probes/b110e2e8651b67109f66e6de3497f7e073551d912ac1bf201b22454785178891.jpg)

Real-time l&Q samples gathered with the dataprobeanddisplayedwith ProbeViz (TimeDomain)

![| Frequency (Hz) | Value |\n| -------------- | ----- |\n| 0.0            | -25   |\n| 0.1            | 50    |\n| 0.2            | 45    |\n| 0.3            | 30    |\n| 0.4            | 15    |\n| 0.5            | 5     |\n| 0.6            | -5    |\n| 0.7            | -15   |\n| 0.8            | -25   |\n| 0.9            | -30   |\n| 1.0            | -25   |](.spectra-probes/80a1dd027d217995b6ea7b79e71484ced2f49c7d0bd498420a952215d58c8523.jpg)

Frequencydomain plot with smoothing functionsprovidesreal-timespectrum analysis

# For More Information

For further information regarding Spectra DTP4700 Probe Toolbox please e-mail: ist\_info@adlinktech.com or visit: ist.adlinktech.com
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