• supports SPI modes
  • 0 (Clock Polarity (CPOL) = 0, Clock Phase (CPHA) = 0)
  • 1 (Clock Polarity (CPOL) = 0, Clock Phase (CPHA) = 1)
  • 2 (Clock Polarity (CPOL) = 1, Clock Phase (CPHA) = 0)
  • 3 (Clock Polarity (CPOL) = 1, Clock Phase (CPHA) = 1)
• Automatic bus speed detection
• Bit order setting: MSB first or LSB first
• Word size setting: 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 bits or user defined

The output of the SPI decoder contains the decoded values, in hexadecimal notation, decimal notation, binary notation and in ASCII. The output can be shown in a table.

Additionally, many SPI Quick Setups for all modes have been added.


Handyscope HS6 DIFF

• The Handyscope HS6 DIFF trigger system is expanded with a Trigger delay feature, which allows to measure a user defined amount of time after the trigger occurred.
• The measurement (re)start functions in the hardware are improved, resulting in a higher maximum update rate.

Data collector logging improved

The feature to log data using the Data Collector I/O, by setting its When full property to Save to disk and clear has been expanded. Besides saving the measured data, the Data collector also saves an index file keeping track of all saved data files of that measurement.

When the measurement is ready, the index file can be opened in the Multi Channel oscilloscope software. This will load a block of two, three or four of the saved Data collector .TPO files, depending on the data length of the saved Data collectors. The loaded Data collectors are shown together in a graph. When the original setup contained multiple Data collector I/Os, the .TPO files with matching times will be loaded and displayed together. Additionally, a special toolbar is shown that allows to navigate through the available .TPO files that belong to the specific measurement. 



Additionally, data logging Quick Setups have been adapted to use the new feature.


Other changes

Several other minor changes and corrections have been made in the software, to improve controlling instruments and performing measurements.

• Command line parameters for exporting objects added.
• Added notification for user if the instrument start fails.
• Time/div controls are now disabled when instrument is in streaming mode.
• BugFix: Handyscope HS6 DIFF Enter/Exit window trigger didn't work properly.
• BugFix: When measuring with multiple combined Handyscope HS6 DIFFs at lower sample
• frequencies, measurements could not be started due to a failed synchronization.
• BugFix: Streaming with combined instruments didn't work for low sample rates if no channels of a sub instrument were used.
• Other minor improvements and fixes.

Differential Attenuator TP-DA25

To increase the input range of your Handyscope HS6 DIFF when performing differential measurements, the new Differential Attenuator TP-DA25 is introduced.

The Differential Attenuator TP-DA25 is a differential 1:25 attenuator, combined with a low noise differential measure lead. It is specially designed to be used with the Handyscope HS6 DIFF, to measure high voltages up to 1000 V CAT II.



Due to the differential inputs of the instrument, a standard attenuator or attenuating oscilloscope probe cannot be used without introducing measuring errors. Instead a differential attenuator is required.

The Differential attenuator TP-DA25 can simply be placed directly on the input of the Handyscope HS6 DIFF and the test probes directly on the 4 mm banana jacks at the end of the measure lead. The Differential attenuator TP-DA25 has a passive design and does not require a battery. 

Low noise sensitivity

The specially designed Differential attenuator TP-DA25 has a high Common Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR), it is very insensitive to external interfering signals. The two ends with the banana jacks can be placed up to more than two meters apart, while picking up very little interference. With a conventional oscilloscope with a standard oscilloscope probe this is not possible. The maximum distance between the positive side and ground is then usually limited to approximately 20 cm. And this 20 cm is very susceptible to interference. The Differential attenuator TP-DA25 for the Handyscope HS6 DIFF does not have this disadvantage. External interference is very well suppressed by the special construction of the Differential attenuator TP-DA25. Measuring between two distant points is now possible. 

More information, including detailed specifications, can be found at www.tiepie.com/TP-DA25.

When trying to Install Total Phase drivers, the driver installer program sometimes does not complete the installation process. There are reports that the installer program seems to hang and displays the status as "Removing phantom devices".

Figure 1: Installer Stuck at 'Removing phantom devices'

Workaround:

We recommend that users perform the following steps to Manually re-install the USB Driver on their Windows machine. If user faces any error/warning messages during the process, it is suggested that user should ignore them and move on to the next step. If you still experience a failure, open a support ticket. Remember to provide details about which steps failed and include a screenshot for the failing condition.

1. Download the latest version of the Total Phase USB driver-Windows installer from our website
2. Plug in the Total Phase device.
3. Run the installation executable file (Example TotalPhaseUSB-vX.XX.exe)
4. Make sure that the folder “C:\Users[USERNAME&91;\AppData\Local\Temp” includes winusbtp.inf, winusbtp.cat, tpdibus.inf, and tpdibus.cat files, and amd64 and i386 directories. Make sure that the i386 and amd64 directories include the following files: tpdibus.sys, tpd2xx.dll, winusbcoinstaller2.dll, wdfcoinstaller01009.dll,
5. Open Device Manager
6. Find the entry for the Total Phase Device in Other Devices or in USB Controllers.
7. Right-click on the Total Phase Device and select "Uninstall".
8. Unplug and plug in the Total Phase device.
9. Right-click on the Total Phase Device and select "Update Driver Software".
10. Click Browse My Computer For Driver Software.
11. Click Browse
12. Select the folder “C:\Users[USERNAME&91;\AppData\Local\Temp”.
13. Click OK.
14. Click Next
15. After installation completes, you should see the device show up in the USB Controllers section of the Device Manager.

Applies to:

The issue may be seen when trying to install drivers for:

• Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter
• Beagle Analyzers
• Cheetah Host Adapters
• USB Power Delivery Analyzer
• Komodo Interfaces

This issue is seen on following Windows OS:

• Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
• Windows 8/8.1 (32 and 64 bit)
• Windows 10 (32 and 64 bit)

• Handyscope HS5
• Combined Handyscope HS5s
• Handyprobe HP3
• Handyscope HS4
• Handyscope HS4 DIFF
• Automotive scope ATS5004D
• Combined Handyscope HS4s, Handyscope HS4 DIFFs and/or Automotive scope ATS5004Ds

LibTiePie gives full access to all features of all connected oscilloscopes, all settings can be made, both block mode and streaming mode measurements can be performed and all measured data can be collected. Arbitrary Waveform Generators can be fully setup and waveform patterns can be uploaded.

Combining instruments is fully controlled by LibTiePie, no complicated settings have to be performed. A combined instrument can be accessed in the same way as a single instrument, making working with combined instruments as simple as working with single instruments.

Supported platforms

LibTiePie support is available for both Windows platforms and Linux platforms.

For Windows, both a 32 bit version and a 64 bit version is available.

For Linux, versions for Intel, AMD 32/64 and ARM are available, allowing to use your TiePie engineering instrument via LibTiePie on desktop systems as well as embedded Linux boards like Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, RIotboard, Wandboard Dual, Hardkernel Odroid boards etc.

Bindings and examples

LibTiePie can be used by any programming/scripting environment that supports controlling instruments via libraries. Language bindings and programming examples are available for:

• .NET framework
• C
• C++
• C#
• Matlab
• Python
• Visual Basic .NET

Full API documentation can be found on the LibTiePie API documentation website.

The LibTiePie SDK, the programming language bindings and example applications can all be downloaded from the LibTiePie pages on our website.

Here's a view of the Frequency Response Analyser Control panel - an all-in-one place for you to plot frequency responses. No need to adjust multiple settings in multiple places. And it's all live - make a change - and the displays and sig gen change immediately.  Check out a tutorial video on our FRA page.

The CS1070 Power Amplifier is used to amplify the output of the CS700A or CS701 signal generators to simulate high voltages. The 52 MHz bandwidth amplifier can swing 36Vpp with an output current up to 1A continuous.

And now we are about to release an update for the Cleverscope 4 software. This allows the simultaneous connection of up to four Cleverscope units with a maximum of 16 analogue and 32 digital channels.

Here is it operating with four analogue channels

If you would like to evaluate the beta please send us an email.

The world's most versatile measuring software package keeps getting better.



Horizontal cursors



Graphs now have both vertical and horizontal cursors, which can be switched on individually, using the corresponding buttons on the graph toolbar:

Button	Description
	Enable/disable vertical cursors
	Enable/disable horizontal cursors

The cursors can be used as ruler to mark specific areas in the graph. Additionally, they can be used to perform measurements on the displayed signals. Measurement results are shown in a special value window which is opened using the special value window button  on the graph toolbar. When the value windows is opened and the listed measurements require cursors which are not switched on, these cursors will be switched on automatically.

The horizontal cursors add the following measurements: 

Measurement	Description
Top	Show the value of the signal(s) at the position of the top cursor
Bottom	Show the value of the signal(s) at the position of the bottom cursor
Top-Bottom	Show the difference of the signal(s) between the top and bottom cursor

New automatic measurements

Two new automatic measurements are added, which can be used in combination with the cursors and the Meter sink:

Measurement	Description
Pulse count	Show the number of rising pulses in the measured signal
Pulse count negative	Show the number of falling pulses in the measured signal

Intelligent unit handling

When performing (complex) mathematical operations on measured signals using I/Os, the units of the outputs of the used I/Os will now be handled more intelligently, e.g.: 

Improved property control

The popup menus of instruments, channels, sources, I/Os and sinks are rearranged to give a more convenient overview of the available properties and actions. Current property values have been added to the menu items to give a better overview of the settings of the object. Opening a popup menu of an object can now also be done by selecting the object in the object tree and then pressing the Windows menu key .

Properties and actions of multiple selected channels, sources, I/Os and sinks can now be set and executed together. When multiple objects are selected in the object tree, the popup menu shown for the combination of objects, when the selection is right clicked, will only show the properties and actions that all the selected objects have in common. When changing a property, it will be changed for all selected objects, when activating an action, it will act on all selected objects.

When you have e.g. an Average I/O and a MinMax detector I/O and you want to stop both after 8 measurements, click the Average I/O and then click the MinMax detector I/O with the Ctrl key pressed. Then right-click the selection or press the the Windows menu key  and select Stop after Count from the popup menu. This property will now be set for both I/Os. 





New options for loading set files

A new option is added to the setting Start after loading settings for oscilloscopes and generators: As loaded. When this option is set in the oscilloscope settings orgenerator settings, the scope and generator are started according to the settings that are stored in the set file that is loaded.



Further changes

Several other minor changes and corrections have been made in the software, to improve controlling instruments and performing measurements.

Version 1.33 of the Multi Channel oscilloscope software can be downloaded from the Multi Channel oscilloscope software download page.

• Graphs nows resize proportionally when their containing window is resized.
• Positions and sizes of graphs are now saved and restored when loading a set file.
• When a graph is zoomed in deep, digits are added to the labels along the horizontal axis, to show their difference in value.
• When a graph is zoomed in deep, it no longer zooms out when the record slider is moved.

For in-depth information on the versatile Multi Channel oscilloscope software and our USB oscilloscopes, visit the Multi Channel oscilloscope software feature description and the classroom on our website.


New driver

Multi Channel oscilloscope software 1.32 requires a new driver (version 7.2.1) for the Handyscope HS5, Handyprobe HP3, Handyscope HS4 DIFF and Handyscope HS4. The new drivers can be downloaded from the download pages of the instruments.

This new driver solves an issue on USB 3 ports where the instrument freezes and needs to be disconnected and reconnected to be able to perform measurements again. It also solves an issue when using VirtualBox, USB 2.0 (EHCI) support no longer needs to be disabled in VirtualBox to use the instrument. 

Total Phase Newsletter

ISSUE 4

Volume 15

Featured Videos Learn about thePromira Serial Platform and it's robust features. The Promira platform is a versatile I2C and SPI host adapter with field upgradable capabilities for high performance programming and emulation. This video shows the new real-time, USB class-level decoding feature in the Data Center Software for theBeagle USB 480 Protocol Analyzer. Users can see decoded HID, Mass Storage, Hub, and Audio Class transactions as the data is captured on the bus. Upcoming Events ESC Silicon Valley Santa Clara, CA July 20-22, 2015 Flash Memory Summit   Santa Clara, CA August 11-13-, 2015 Forward to a Friend Send Feedback

Buy one Komodo USB-to-CAN Interface, Get the 2nd one 50% Off Things are heating up as the summer months approach and the Komodo CAN Interfaces are primed to help you get your project done on time so you can enjoy the warm summer sun. The Komodo™ CAN Interface is a powerful USB-to-CAN adapter and analyzer; it's an all-in-one tool capable of active CAN data transmission as well as non-intrusive CAN bus monitoring. With the option of two models you can select the right Komodo interface for your needs. Both offer a royalty-free API, and cross-platform support for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Enter coupon code "Summer2015" during checkout to receive your discount. This coupon expires June 30, 2015, is valid for Komodo interface purchases only and cannot be combined with other coupons.       Communicate with Your I2C System at The Highest Throughput Speeds Ever! Take Advantage of the Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter Trade-Up Program. Did you know the Promira™ Serial Platform offers improved throughput over USB compared to theAardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter? The Promira platform has a high-speed USB port, compared to the Aardvark adapter's full-speed connection. In addition the Promira platform features a pipelined architecture that allows for queuing of commands. The Aardvark adapter sends one command at a time and incurs delays waiting for a response from the host PC. Now with the Promira platform you can issue multiple I2C commands back-to-back without delays waiting for a system response. This means faster throughput and better emulation with your system. Total Phase is offering customers a unique opportunity to trade-up eligible Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapters and receive a coupon to be used towards the purchase of any combination of applications with a Promira Serial Platform. Get more information.     Monitor USB Power in Production Testing with the Beagle USB 480 Power Protocol Analyzer. Members of the Total Phase team had the opportunity to spend much of April visiting with our customers both in their places of work and at industry events. Interestingly, there seemed to be a common challenge engineers are facing again and again - power consumption over USB. Multiple customers discussed problems at the manufacturing test stage where the USB ports on their device were shutting down and devices were resetting during iterations of various QA tests. This common issue was met with inability to determine the cause of the current overdraw on the USB bus – until we introduced the Beagle USB 480 Power Protocol Analyzer. The Beagle USB 480 Power Protocol Analyzer is ideally suited to address this type of challenge. The Beagle USB 480 Power analyzer combines the ability to monitor USB traffic in real-time with the capability to track current and voltage readings on the VBUS. Using the Data Center Software, users can correlate anomalies, such as current overdraw, on the VBUS with data being sent across the USB bus. The analyzer provides insight into what caused the system to malfunction and how to fix the production test or improve product design. For more information visit theBeagle USB 480 Power Protocol Analyzer product page.  Spotlight: The Beagle I2C/SPI Protocol Analyzer I have used the Beagle Series of USB protocol analyzers for both professional and recreational purposes for about a year. I have found them to be quite easy to get up and running and at the same time powerful enough for in-depth debugging of USB systems.     Contact sales@amazingtech.com.cn for more details. © 2015 Total Phase, Inc. All rights reserved.