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3. E FilterO that displays the frame containing the specific data identified in the filter Filter The named Filter tab remains on the Frame Display Sum F Filter Filters mary Pane unless you hide it using the Hide Show Display SCO link Supported Filters dialog Check the small box next to the name of each protocol you want to filter ry Fiole Slave in hide or Named Filter to display Configured BT low energy devic Exclude HULL and PULL E Then click OK 5 3 2 1 Filtering On the Summary Layer Protocol To filter on the protocol in the Summary in the Frame Display window pane 1 Select the tab of the desired protocol or open the Summary combo box 2 Select the desired protocol 3 To filter on a different layer just select another tab or change the layer selection in the combo box 5 3 2 2 Filtering on all Frames with Errors from the Frame Display To filter on all frames with errors 1 Open the Frame Display P window 2 Click the starred Guick Filter icon W or select Quick Filtering from the Filter menu 3 Check the box for All Frames With Errors in the Protocols To Filter In pane and click OK 4 The system creates a tab on the Frame Display labeled Errors that displays the res Errors ults of the All Frames With Errors filter Note When you have multiple Frame Display windows open and you are capturing d
4. Filename so Save arte Web Page rem Cancel Figure 56 Save As Dialog 4 Enter a name for the file you want to save The htm extension is automatically added 5 Select Save 94 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster The file is saved as a htm file in the file location you chose 6 3 2 Printing from the Event Display The Event Display Print feature provides the user with the option to print either the entire capture buffer or the current selection When Print Preview is selected the output displays in a browser print preview window where the user can select from the standard print options The output file format is in html and uses the Microsoft Web Browser Control print options for background colors and images see below Print Background Colors Using Internet Explorer l 2 3 4 5 Open the Tools menu on the browser menu bar Select Internet Options menu entry Click Advanced tab Check Print background colors and images under the Printing section Click the Apply button then click OK The Event Display Print feature uses the current format of the Event Display as specified by the user See About Event Display for an explanation on formatting the Event Display prior to initiating the print feature Configure the Print File Range in the Event Display Print dialog Selecting more than one event in the Event Display window defaults the radio button in the Event
5. 3 Click on the Find icon aa or choose Find from the Edit menu 4 Click on the Time tab of the Find dialog sy Note The tabs displayed on the Find dialog depend on the product you are running and the con tent of the capture file you are viewing Decode Patten Tim GoTo Specia Event Bookmark Search for E Absolute C Relative ma L Heb Day Second 1000000 Seconds a en i iz 51 931000 A Bigun Go to the limaitamp CG On o baoe the specified lima C Ona after the specified ima Figure 36 Find by Time tab The analyzer can search by time in several different ways Search for Absolute Relative timestamp e Absolute An absolute timestamp search means that the analyzer searches for an event at the exact date and time specified If no event is found at that time the analyzer goes to the nearest event either before or after the selected time based on the Go to the timestamp selection e Relative A relative search means that the analyzer begins searching from whatever event you are cur rently on and search for the next event a specific amount of time away 1 Select Absolute or Relative 2 Select the date and time using the drop down lists for Month Year Day Hour Minute Second 1 10000000 E Note Month and Year are not available if you select Relative 61 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 3 When you have specified the time interval you want to use click on t
6. Sync Found Sync Hunt Entered Sync Lost Test Device Stopped Responding The analyzer lost contact with the ComProbe for some reason often because there is no power to the ComProbe Test Device Began Responding The analyzer regained contact with the ComProbe Timestamping Disabled Timestamping was turned off Events following this event are not timestamped Timestamping Enabled Timestamping was turned on Events following this event have timestamps Truncated Frame A frame that is not the same size as indicated within its protocol Underrun Error Unknown Event 4 3 7 6 Font Size The font size can be changed on several Event Display windows Changing the font size on one window does not affect the font size on any other window To change the font size 33 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 1 Click on Event Display menu Options and select Change the Font Size Window Help Set Timestamp Format Change the Font Size Choose CRC Method Fi Figure 18 Event Display Options menu 2 Choose a font size from the list Change Font Size ae Size fF g 11 la 14 16 47 Figure 19 Event Display Font Size Selection 3 Click OK 4 4 Analyzing Protocol Decodes 4 4 1 Frame Display Window To open this window Fa Click the Frame Display icon on the Control window toolbar or select Frame Display from the View menu 34 fte com c
7. 0 CO LS ER PE HALO DEL dn WI LEE CHI SOL SL ix OLE OCI DC2 TM RES NL B5 IL CAN EM CC CU1 IFS IGS IRS IUS Karlos Sos es evel ie terelese fewlowl Tena se 7 2 4 4 Communication Control Characters Listed below in alphabetical order are the expanded text meanings for common ANSI communication control characters and two character system abbreviation for each one Some abbreviations have forward slash char acters between the two letters This is to differentiate the abbreviations for a control character from a hex num ber For example the abbreviation for Form Feed is listed as F F to differentiate it from the hex number FF Communications Control Characters a fa fa a la Tora CC Cr 112 Communications Control Characters continued 7 2 5 The Frontline Serial Driver fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster ComProbe software uses custom versions of the standard Windows serial drivers in order to capture data These drivers are usually installed during the routine product installation However if you need to install the serial driver after ComProbe software has already been installed please refer to the instructions available in the Setup folder installed under Start Programs Product Name and version Setup How to Install the FTS Serial Driver 7 3 Contacting Technical Support Technical support is available in several ways The online help system provides ans
8. 187 to 234 Enter decimal numbers by typing in the number directly and hexadecimal numbers by starting the number with Ox Advanced Cancel Help Figure 46 Example Set Conditions Self Configuring Based on Frame Range 2 Select Include or Exclude to add filtered data or keep out filtered data respectively 3 Select the initial condition for the filter from the drop down list 4 Set the parameters for the selected condition in the fields provided The fields that appear in the dialog box are dependent upon the previous selection Continue to enter the requested parameters in the fields provided until the condition statement 1s complete 5 Click OK The system displays the Save Named Condition dialog Provide a name for the filter condition or accept the default name provided by the system and click OK Prohibited characters are left bracket right bracket and equal sign The Set Condition dialog box closes creates a tab on the Frame Display with the filter name and applies the filter The filter also appears in the Quick Filtering and Hiding Protocols dialog When a display filter is applied a description of the filter appears to the right of the toolbar in the Frame Dis play windows 77 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Notes e The system requires naming and saving of all filters created by the user e The OK button on the Set Condition dialog box is unavai
9. Choosing to Selection Da save Events saves the entire contents of the capture CiEvert Frames file Choosing to save Frames does not save all 1 to 1 events in the capture file a 7 Type a file name in the As box at the bottom of the As Type tile name herd screen Click the Browse icon to browse to a spe f Note No captunng wil be done whale the cific directory Otherwise your file 1s saved in the file is being saved 88 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster default capture file directory 8 When you are finished click OK 6 1 3 Saving a Portion of a Capture File FE l If you are capturing data click on the Stop icon J to pause data capture You cannot save data to a file while it is being captured Fay 2 Open the Event Display P or Frame Display window depending on whether you want to specify a range in bytes or in frames 3 Select the portion of the data that you want to save Click and drag to select data or click on the first item move to the last item and Shift Click to select the entire range or use the Shift key with the keyboard arrows or the navigation icons in the Frame Display toolbar If the range you want to save is too large to select note the numbers of the first and last item in the range 4 Right click in the data 5 Select Save Selection or Save As from the right click menu 6 Click on the radio button labeled Selection If you Save sel
10. e 132911 displays the total frames decoded 10 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster e 100 displays the percentage of buffer space used 2 3 5 Drop Down Menus The menus that you see on the Control Window and dialogs like Frame Display and Event Display vary depending on whether the data is being captured live or whether you are looking at a cfa file You will see File Edit View Filter Bookmarks Live Options Window and Help Most of the options are self explan atory e Many of the File Edit menu items are standard Windows type commands Open Close Save Recent Files etc There are however several of these menu items that have unique functionality e Recreate Companion File This option is available when you are working with decoders If you change a decoder while working with data you can use Recreate Companion File to recreate the frm file the companion file to the cfa file Recreating the frm file helps ensure that the decoders will work properly e Reload Decoders When clicked the plug ins are reset and received frames are decoded again e Under the View menu you can choose which Frontline windows are available to open e Live contains commands that are used in capturing data e Under Options you have opportunities to set modify various system settings These include o Hardware Settings o T O Settings o System Settings o Check for New Releases at Startup When this is enab
11. sage Sequence Chart 4 3 2 The Event Display Toolbar A Home Brings the Control window to the front Ka Home Brings the Control window to the front 25 km ll o fp B 9 4 B BE BG fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Start Capture Begins data capture to disk Stop Capture Closes a capture file and stops data capture to disk Save Prompts user for a file name If the user supplies a name a cfa file is saved Clear Discards the temporary file and clears the display Lock In the Lock state the window is locked so you can review a portion of data Data cap ture continues in the background Clicking on the Lock icon unlocks the window Unlock In the Unlock state the screen fills in the data captured since the screen lock and moves down to display incoming data again Clicking on the Unlock icon locks the window Duplicate View Creates a second Event Display window identical to the first Frame Display framed data only Brings up a Frame Display with the frame of the cur rently selected bytes highlighted Display Capture Notes Brings up the Capture Notes window where you can view or add notes to the capture file Add Modify Bookmark Add a new or modify an existing bookmark Display All Bookmarks Shows all bookmarks and lets you move between bookmarks Find Search for errors string patterns special events and more Go To Opens the Go To dialog whe
12. Columns 49 Custom Stack 20 Filters 81 Framing Markers 23 Renaming 84 Reset Panes 44 Resolution 107 Resumed 32 Revealing Display Filters 81 Revealing Protocol Layers 40 RS 112 Save 77 87 89 Save As 87 Saving 88 89 100 Display Filter 76 Imported Capture Files 100 Saving the Capture File using File amp gt Save or the Save icon 87 Search 56 59 60 62 64 69 73 75 binary value 59 bookmarks 75 character string 59 errors 69 event number 63 frame number 63 hex pattern 59 pattern 59 special event 64 timestamp 60 wildcards 59 Seed Value 27 Serial Driver 113 Short Break 32 Side Names 106 Sides 106 Sorting Frames 41 119 fte com ontline Debug Communications Faster Special Events 64 Start 31 Start Up Options 103 Summary 46 Summary Layer Protocol 55 86 Summary Pane 46 48 49 Sync Dropped 33 Sync Found 33 Sync Hunt Entered 33 Sync Lost 33 Synchronization 43 System Settings 100 103 T Technical Support 113 Test Device Began Responding 33 Test Device Stopped Responding 33 Timestamp 73 107 108 Timestamping 73 107 108 Timestamping Disabled 33 Timestamping Enabled 33 Timestamping Options 100 107 Timestamping Resolution 107 Timestamps 107 108 Transferring Packets 17 Truncated Frame 33 Underrun Error 33 Unframe 23 Unframe Function 23 Unframing 23 Unknown Event 33 V Viewing Data Events 29 W Wrap Buffer File 100 Wrap Files 101 120 fte com o
13. In addition to choosing to Unframe you can also be prompted to Unframe by the Protocol Stack Wizard 1 Load your capture file by choosing Open from the File menu on the Control window 2 Select the file to load 3 Choose Protocol Stack from the Options menu on the Control window 4 Select None from the list 5 Click Finish The Protocol Stack Wizard asks you if you want to unframe your data and put it into a new file 6 Choose Yes The system removes the frame markers from your data puts the unframed data into a new file and opens the new file The original capture file is not altered See Reframing on page 22 for instructions on framing unframed data 4 2 5 How the Analyzer Auto traverses the Protocol Stack In the course of doing service discovery devices ask for and receive a Protocol Descriptor List defining which protocol stacks the device supports It also includes information on which PSM to use in L2CAP or the channel number for RFCOMM or the port number for TCP or UDP The description below talks about how the analyzer auto traverses from L2CAP using a dynamically assigned PSM but the principle is the same for RFCOMM chan nel numbers and TCP UDP port numbers The analyzer looks for SDP Service Attribute Responses or Service Search Attribute Responses carrying protocol descriptor lists If the analyzer sees L2CAP listed with a PSM it stores the PSM and the UUID for the next pro tocol in the list After the SDP session
14. _ 2 22 aoaaa oaaao daaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aoaaa naana 96 Figure 58 Event Display Export Example csvfile 97 Figure 59 Example csv Event Display Export Excel spreadsheet 99 Figure 60 System Settings for defining how to capture data 100 Figure 61 Advanced System Options dialog __ _ 2 222 2 ieee eee eee eee eee eee 103 vili fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Figure 62 Start Up Options dialog _ _ 0 220 ic cee cece eee anaana 104 Figure 63 File Locations dialog mmmm cece eceeeeeeeeeeees 105 Figure 64 File Locations Browse dialog mmmmmememm meme 105 Figure 65 Example Side Names Where Slave and Master are current 106 Figure 66 Timestamping Options dialog _ _ 22 2 eee ec aaa aaa aaa aaa anaana anaana 107 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Chapter 1 ComProbe Hardware amp Software Frontline Test Equipment ComProbe family of protocol analyzers work with the following technologies e Classic Bluetooth e Bluetooth low energy e Dual Mode Bluetooth simultaneous Classic and low energy e Bluetooth Coexistence with 802 11 e Bluetooth HCI USB SD High Speed UART e NFC
15. a device will only be able to read NFC tags in the area immediately surrounding the device s internal antenna Often times you ll need to experiment with the reading device in order to locate its antenna and determine the best location for the antenna and the tag In the following image the antenna of the device on the left is in the lower portion of its enclosure but the device is incorrectly positioned so the upper portion of the enclosure is near the analyzer s antenna This reduces the quality of the capture Figure 7 Antenna Positioning Adjust for Internal Device Antenna 2 2 Data Capture Methods This section describes how to load Frontline Test Equipment Inc ComProbe Protocol Analysis System software and how to select the data capture method for your specific application fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 2 2 1 Opening ComProbe Data Capture Method On product installation the installer creates a folder on the windows desktop labeled Frontline ComProbe Pro tocol Analysis System lt version gt 1 Double click the Frontline ComProbe Protocol Analysis System desktop folder This opens a standard Windows file folder window a Frontline ComProbe Protocol Analysis System 12 11 662 0 Burn New folder Ea w Include in library Share with pa i Name sktop E di Development Tools wnloads di Documentation cent Places Maintenance Tools ogle Drive fa Capture File Viewer Er Co
16. in the Frame Display anaana 2 eee cee ee eee eee eee eee eee 73 Figure 44 Find Window Bookmark tab Used to Move Around With Bookmarks 75 Figure 45 Example Set Conditions Self Configuring Based on Protocol Selection 77 Figure 46 Example Set Conditions Self Configuring Based on Frame Range 77 Figure 47 Two Filter Conditions Added with an AND Operator 79 Figure 48 Save Named Filter Condition Dialog 80 Figure 49 Using Named Filters Section of Quick Filters to Show Hide Filters 82 Figure 50 Set Condition Dialog in Advanced View 22 222 e eee ee eee ee eee eee eee ee eee 84 Figure 51 Rename Filters Dialog _ _ 22 2 eee eee ee cece cece eee eee anaa 84 Figure 52 Frame Display Quick Filtering and Hiding Protocols Dialog 85 Figure 53 Windows Save dialog mmmemmmmm eee eeeeeeeeeeeees 88 Figure 54 Frame Display Print Dialog _ 2 0 22 22 e eee ce eee eee c cece cece eceeceeeees 93 Figure 55 Frame Display HTML Export Dialog 0 220 2 oe eee ee cece cee eee eee 94 Figure 56 Save As Dialog 2 22 2 cece cece eee cece cece cece eee cece eeeceeeeeeeceees 94 Figure 57 Event Display Print Dialog
17. 21 23 Baudot 31 99 Baudot Codes 111 Begin Sync Character Strip 33 Binary 29 60 Binary Pane 51 BL 112 Bookmarks 73 75 115 fte com ontline Debug Communications Faster Boolean 78 83 84 Broken Frame 32 BS 112 Buffer 88 100 Buffer Overflow 100 Buffer File Options 100 Byte 28 29 51 110 Searching 62 byte export 45 C Calculating Data Rates and Delta Times 28 Capture Buffer 88 100 102 Capture Buffer Size 100 Capture File 17 88 91 100 102 auto save imported files 100 capture to a series of files 100 capture to one file 100 changing default location of 104 changing max size of 100 102 framing captured data 22 importing 91 loading 90 reframing 22 removing framing markers 23 saving 88 89 starting capture to file 17 Capturing 17 Data to Disk 17 CFA file 89 90 Changing Default File Locations 104 Character 60 112 Character Pane 51 Character Set 31 110 111 Choosing a Data Capture Method 6 Clear Capture Buffer 100 CN 112 Color of Data Bytes 52 Colors 52 Comma Separated File 96 Compound Display Filters 78 ComProbe NFC Hardware Settings 3 13 ComProbe NFC I O Settings 13 Confirm CFA Changes 89 Context For Decoding 24 Control Characters 112 Control Signals 32 106 Control Window 12 100 Configuration Information 10 Conversation Filters 80 CPAS Control Window Toolbar 9 CR 112 CRC 27 CSV Files 96 Custom Protocol Stack 19 21 Custom Stack 20 21 Customizing Fields
18. But the Last Layer FilterO All Frames With Information All Frames With Information Filtert AYDTP AYDTP Filter2 AVDTP Signaling AVDTP Signaling FISCO link Supported Baseband Baseband Filter3 Bluetooth FHS Bluetooth FHS Role Slave Headset Headset Configured BT low energy devic L2CAP L2CAP Exclude NULLs and POLLs LMP LMP Non Captured Info Non Captured Info PreConnection FHS PreConnection FHS RFCOMM RFCOMM SDP SDP IGG HOO j BHOOOEOO000000 Filtering shows only frames that contain the protocol desired but it shows the entire frame Hiding removes any protocol layers from displaying in any frame Figure 30 Frame Display Quick Filtering and Hiding Protocols Dialog The box on the left is Protocols To Filter In When you select the checkbox for a protocol in the Protocols to Filter In the Summary pane will only display those frames that contain data from that protocol 53 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster If you filter on more than one protocol the result are all frames that contain at least one of Quick Filter those protocols For example if you filter on IP and IPX NetBIOS you receive all frames that contain either IP or IPX NetBIOS or both A Quick Filter tab then appears on the Frame Display Changing the filter definition on the Quick Filter dialog changes the filter applied on the Quick Filter tab Quick filters ar
19. Display Print dialog to Selection and allows the user to choose the All radio button When only one event is selected the All radio button in the Event Display Print dialog is selected How to Print Event Display Data to a Browser l Select Print or Print Preview from the File menu on the Event Display window to display the Event Display Print dialog Select Print if you just want to print your data to your default printer Select Print Preview if you want access to printer options Select the range of events to include from either All or Selection in the Event Range section of the Event Display Print dialog Choosing All prints all of the events in the capture file or buffer Choosing Selection prints only the selected events in the Event Display window Note In order to prevent a Print crash you cannot select All if there are more than 100 000 events in the capture buffer Note Note See Configure the Print File Range in the Event Display Print Dialog above for an explanation of these selections 95 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Event Display Print Everi range O Al Selection Note Brosas pani opbons may alfect whether ang gray background e parted Ses Help los mic Figure 57 Event Display Print Dialog 3 Click the OK button If you chose Print Preview the system displays your data in a browser print preview display with options for printing such as page orientation
20. LaaLa aaa aaan anaa 69 L3 INA DOOKU AN AA 72 5 1 9 Changing Where the Search Lands _ _ 2 22 22 oe ieee ee eee cece oaaao oaaao oaao 73 5 1 10 Subtleties of Timestamp Searching 2 oie eee eee cece eee naana 73 32 BOOKMAKS AI ete is en e ea eee eens 73 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 5 2 1 Adding Modifying or Deleting a Bookmark 2 22 2 eee eee eee eee eee eee ee 74 5 2 2 Displaying All and Moving Between Bookmarks eee eee cee cece eee eee eeeeeeeees 75 5 3 Filtering _ 2 02 oe ccc cee ec eee cee eee eee ee LDLo Laaa anaana aa 76 5 3 1 About Display Filters le ccc cece ee cece aaa aaa aaau 76 5 3 1 1 Creating a Display Filter 76 5 3 1 2 Including and Excluding Radio Buttons 2 22 eee cece eee eee cece eee eee 78 5 3 1 3 Named Display Filters lee ec cee eee namuna 78 5 3 1 4 Using Compound Display Filters _ 2 2 2 0 eee eee ee eee eee eee eee 78 5 3 1 5 Defining Node and Conversation Filters 80 5 3 1 6 The Difference Between Deleting and Hiding Display Filters 81 5 3 1 7 Editing Filters _ 2 0 22 ee ec cece cece ence ee aana 83 5 3 2 Protocol Filtering From the Frame Display __ 22 2 2c e ee eee eee cece cece eee eeeee 85 5 3 2 1 Filtering On the Summary Layer Protocol 86 5 3 2 2 Filtering on all Frames with Error
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22. Recognizer Change 32 Frame Symbols 49 Frame Display Right Click Filtering 54 Frame Information on the Control Window 10 Freeze 28 FS 113 FTS Serial Driver 113 Go To 62 Green Dots in Summary Pane 49 GS 112 Hex 29 Hexadecimal 50 Hiding Display Filters 81 Hiding Protocol Layers 40 High Resolution Timestamping 108 HT 113 I O Settings Change 32 Icons in Data on Event Display 31 Importable File Types 91 Importing Capture Files 90 INCLUDE 78 Include Exclude 78 Layer Colors 52 LF 113 Live Update 29 Logical Byte Display 41 Logical Bytes 41 Long Break 32 Low Power 32 Main Window 8 Menus 11 Minimizing 11 Mixed Channel Sides 31 Mixed Sides Mode 31 Modem Lead Names 106 Modify Display Filters 83 84 Multiple Event Displays 27 Multiple Frame Displays 44 N NFC 3 13 NFC IO Settings 13 NK 112 Node Filters 80 Nonprintables 99 Notes 90 NU 112 Number Set 29 Numbers 110 Octal 29 118 fte com ontline Debug Communications Faster Open 27 Open Capture File 90 Options 100 103 104 107 Overriding Frame Information 24 Overrun Errors 70 Panes 44 Pattern 59 Pause 17 Performance Notes 109 Printing 95 Printing from the Frame Display 91 Progress Bars 110 Protocol Protocol Layer Colors 52 Protocol Layer Filtering 53 85 Protocol Stack 20 21 23 Q Quick Filtering 53 55 85 86 R Radix 29 50 Reframe 22 Reframing 22 Relative Time 61 108 Remove Bookmarks 74 75
23. The system displays the Hide Show Filters dialog with a list of all user defined filters 2 Select the filter to be revealed from the combo box 3 Click the Show button 4 Click OK The Hide Show Filters dialog box closes and the system reveals the filter in the Frame Display You can also open the Quick Filter dialog and check the box next to the hidden filter to show or hide a display fil ter Mamed Filters Filter PASC 3 E Filter Filber2 E Filter Role Slave FSCO link Supported E Filter Figure 49 Using Named Filters Section of Quick Filters to Show Hide Filters ss Note When you have multiple Frame Display windows with a display filter or filters those fil ter do not automatically appear in other Frame Display windows You must use the Hide Show dialog to display a filter created in one Frame Display in different Frame Display window 82 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 5 3 1 7 Editing Filters 5 3 1 7 1 Modifying a Condition in a Filter 1 Click the Display Filters icon Y on the Frame Set Condition Display window or select Apply Modify Dis 7 play Filters from the Filter menu to open the Set EE Lurentu Actwe Londition Filteri Condition dialog box The Set Condition dialog Filters box displays the current filter definition at the top ASCIE 2 of the dialog To display another filter click the Open icon and select the filte
24. To restore columns to their default locations their default widths and show any hidden columns 1 Right click on any column header and choose Restore Default Column Widths or select Restore Default Column Widths from the Format menu 4 4 1 11 3 Frame Symbols in the Summary Pane A green dot means the frame was decoded successfully and the protocol listed in the Summary Layer drop down box exists in the frame No dot means the frame was decoded successfully but the protocol listed in the Summary Layer drop down box does not exist in the frame pa A green circle means the frame was not fully decoded There are several reasons why this might happen e One reason is that the frame compiler hasn t caught up to that frame yet It takes some time for the analyzer to compile and decode frames Frame compilation also has a lower priority than other tasks such as capturing data If the analyzer is busy capturing data frame compilation may fall behind When the analyzer catches up the green circle changes to either a green dot or no dot 49 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster e Another reason is if some data in the frame is context dependent and we don t have the context An example is a compressed header where the first frame gives the complete header and subsequent frames just give information on what has changed If the ana lyzer does not capture the first frame with the complete header it cannot decode sub s
25. a Second 1 Choose System Settings from the Options menu on the Control A window and click the w from the Timestamping Options button or click the click the Timestamping Options icon Event Display P window 2 Go to the Display Options section at the bottom of the window and find the Number of Digits to Display box 3 Click on the arrows to change the number You can display between 0 and 6 digits to the right of the decimal point 7 2 Technical Information 7 2 1 Performance Notes As a software based product the speed of your computer s processor affects the analyzer s performance Buffer overflow errors are an indicator that the analyzer is unable to keep up with the data The information below describes what happens to the data as it arrives what the error means and how various aspects of the analyzer affect performance Also included are suggestions on how to improve performance The analyzer s driver takes data from the driver and counts each byte as they are put into the driver s buffer The analyzer s driver tells the user interface that data is ready to be processed The analyzer takes the data from the driver s buffer and puts the data into the capture buffer Driver Buffer Overflows occur when the user interface does not retrieve frames from the driver quickly enough Buffer overflows are indicated in the Event Display window by a plus sign within a circle Clicking on the buffer overflow symbol displays how m
26. addi tional stack layers button 3 Ifyou select this option the analyzer uses the stack you defined for every frame Frames that do use this stack are decoded incorrectly Save the Stack 1 Click the Add To Predefined List button 2 Give the stack a name and click Add In the future the stack appears in the Protocol Stack List on the first screen of the Protocol Stack wizard Remove a Stack 1 Select it in the first screen and click Remove Selected Item From List 2 Ifyou remove the stack you must to recreate it if you need to use it again i Note If you do not save your custom stack it does appear in the predefined list but applies to the frames in the current session However it is discarded at the end of the session 4 2 3 Reframing If you need to change the protocol stack used to interpret a capture file and the framing is different in the new stack you need to reframe in order for the protocol decode to be correct You can also use Reframe to frame unframed data The original capture file is not altered during this process a Note You cannot reframe from the Capture File Viewer accessed by selecting Capture File Viewer or Load Capture File to start the software and used only for viewing capture files To reframe your data load your capture file select a protocol stack and then select Reframe from the File menu on the Control window Reframe is only available if the frame recognizer used to capture the data
27. and Data Capture Paused and Resumed The base of a number system Binary 1s base 2 octal is base 8 decimal is base 10 and hexa decimal is base 16 29 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Format Bookmarks wo Hexadecimal Decimal Octal Binary ASCI 7 bit ASCI EBCDIC Baudot Figure 15 Format Menu 1 Right click on the data display header labels and choose a different radix CE Display numbers in Binary SE Display numbers in Octal Oda Display numbers in Decimal Display numbers in Hexadecimal Figure 16 Header labels right click 2 Or right click anywhere in the data display and select a different radix xw wa UL wa YA LV WA l Oa 9a amp 30 Copy the selection and put it on the i 24 Save As Go to an Event Number 5e 2f Find 197 Tod Display Only Numbers 44 Display Only Characters o Display Sides Together meee v Display all Event Information numbers in Binary Display numbers in Octal Display numbers in Decimal v Display numbers in Hexadecimal Figure 17 Data display right click menu If you want to see only the numerical values click on the Numbers Only icon 1 on the Event Display tool bar 30 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 4 3 7 3 Switching Between ASCII EBCDIC and Baudot On the Event Display window the analyzer displays data in ASCII by d
28. and paper size You can also use your Printer Preferences dialog to make some of these selections When printing your data the analyzer creates an html file and prints the path to the file at the bottom of the page This file can be opened in your browser however it may appear different than the printed version 6 4 Exporting 6 4 1 Frame Display Export You can dump the contents of the Summary pane on the Frame Display into a Comma Separated File csv To access this feature 1 Right click on the Summary pane or open the Frame Display File menu 2 Select the Export menu item 3 Select a storage location and enter a File name 4 Select Save 6 4 2 Exporting a File with Event Display Export With the Event Display Export dialog you can export the contents of the Event Display dialog as a test txt CSV csv HTML htm or Binary File bin You also have the option of exporting the entire capture buffer or just the current selection of the Event Display dialog 96 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster Event Display Export File name CJ sers4Frontline4D eskbop 3 FC Wit Save as lupe CS File csv g Event range D Al ID Selection DTE DCE 1 to 2000 Events Per Row CSW Headers CO Multiple Events Per Row No Timestamps ID Show Preamble One Event Per Row Show Timestamp3 YU Show Column Headings Help Save Figure 58 Event Display Export
29. click the Find Next button To find an error that occurred earlier in the buffer to where you are click the Find Previous button 71 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 5 1 8 Find Bookmarks Searching with Bookmarks allows you search on specific bookmarks on the data in Frame Display and Event Display window Bookmarks are notes reminders of interest that you attach to the data so they can be accessed later To access the search for bookmarks 1 Open a capture file to search D KO 2 Open the Event Display or Frame Display window 3 Click on the Find icon aa or choose Find from the Edit menu 4 Click on the Bookmarks tab of the Find dialog Note The tabs displayed on the Find dialog depend on the product you are running and the content of the cap ture file you are viewing Find Ethernet Sniffer Decode Patten Time GoTo Special Events Bookmark Frama d Book 44 First enor 12 6 2010 11 25 48 18062 Frame 105 Source incomect 12 6 2010 11 25 56 72502 F E 103 The imej I Fan this TZ rene 109 The bmeg seme to be off on thes frome 12 Move Back Cis Figure 42 Find Bookmark tab There are several ways to locate bookmarks e Select the bookmark you want to move to and click the Go To button e Simply double click on the bookmark e Click the Move Forward and Move Back buttons to move through the frames to the bookmarks shown in the window When the bookmark is found it is highlighte
30. clicked pausing data capture No data is recorded while capture is paused Data Capture Resumed The Pause icon was clicked again resuming data capture Dropped Frames Some number of frames were lost Click on the symbol and the analyzer dis plays many frames were lost at the bottom of the Event Display window End of Frame Marks the end of a frame Flow Control Active An event occurred which caused flow control to become active i e caused the analyzer to stop transmitting data Events which activate flow control are signal changes or the receipt of an XON character Flow Control Inactive An event occurred which caused flow control to become inactive i e caused the analyzer to transmit data Events which deactivate flow control are signal changes or the receipt of an XOFF character Frame Recognizer Change A lowest layer protocol was selected or removed here causing the frame recognizer to be turned off or on I O Settings Change A change was made in the I O Settings window which altered the baud parity or other circuit setting Long Break Low Power The battery in the ComProbe is low Short Break SPY Event SPY Mode only SPY events are commands sent by the application being spied on to the UART 32 al P fte com contline Debug Communications Faster Start of Frame Marks the start of a frame Begin Sync Character Strip End Sync Character Strip Sync Dropped
31. data fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 2 3 Control Window The analyzer displays information in multiple windows with each window presenting a different type of inform ation The Control window opens when the Run button is clicked in the Capture Method window The Control window provides access to each ComProbe analyzer functions and settings as well as a brief overview of the data in the capture file Each icon on the toolbar represents a different data analysis function ka ComProbe Protocol Analysis System ComProbe NFC File View Live Options Window Help uu in Configuration ComProbe NFC SN Capture file C Users Public Documen ts Frontline Test Equipment My Capture Files Capture 2013 05 23 122911 cfa Capture Status Paused Capture to Single File 196 used Packetsonhjw 0 Utilization 0 NFC Events 1 For Help Press F1 Packet Decoder 0 pps Because the Control window can get lost behind other windows every window has a Home icon that brings the Control window back to the front Just click on the Home icon to restore the Control window 2 3 1 Control Window Toolbar Toolbar icon displays vary according to operating mode and or data displayed Available icons appear in color while unavailable icon are not visible Grayed out icons are available for the ComProbe hardware and software configuration in use but are not active until certain operating con
32. for an event where one or more error conditions were off and choose to search only for framing The analyzer searches the file and finds the point at which framing errors stopped occurring Searching for an event where the error conditions changed means that the analyzer searches the data and stop at every point where the error condition changed from on to off or off to on For example if you have data where sometimes the framing is wrong and sometimes right you would choose to search framing errors where the error condition changed This first takes you to the point where the framing errors stopped occurring When you click Find Next the analyzer stops at the point when the errors began occurring again Clicking Find Previous will search backwards from the current postion The analyzer takes the current selected byte as its initial condition when running searches that rely on finding events where error conditions changed The analyzer searches until it finds an event where error conditions changed or it reaches the end of the buffer at which point the analyzer tells you that there are no more events found in the buffer If you are searching for an exact match the analyzer asks you if you want to continue searching from the beginning of the buffer Searching for Exact Error Conditions T rch for an ex means that th O searc or an exact state means that the C3 Find BPA500 cfa analyzer finds events that exactly match ba the e
33. in all packets containing that protocol regardless of each packet s technology e Clicking on a protocol filter tab in a technology specific group filters in all packets containing that pro tocol on that technology e A protocol filter tab appears in the General group only if the protocol occurs in more than one of the technology specific tab groups For example if L2CAP occurs in both Classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth low energy there will be L2CAP tabs in the General group the Classic Bluetooth group and the Bluetooth low energy group Select the Unfiltered tab to display all packets There are several special tabs that appear in the Summary pane when certain conditions are met These tabs appear only in the General group and apply to all technologies The tabs are e Bookmarks appear when a bookmark is first seen e Errors appear when an error is first seen An error is a physical error in a data byte or an error in the pro tocol decode e Info appears when a frame containing an Information field is first seen 47 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster The tabs disappear when the capture buffer is cleared during live capture or when decoders are reloaded even if one of the tabs is currently selected They subsequently reappear as the corresponding events are detected The tabs disappear when the capture buffer is cleared during live capture or when decoders are reloaded even if one of the tabs is c
34. in parentheses e Total Frames The total number of frames in the capture buffer or capture file in real time e Frames Filtered In The total number of frames displayed in the filtered results from user applied filters in real time 4 4 1 3 Hiding and Revealing Protocol Layers in the Frame Display Hiding protocol layers refers to the ability to prevent a layer from being displayed on the Decode pane Hidden layers remain hidden for every frame where the layer is present and can be revealed again at any time You can hide as many layers as you wish Note Hiding from the Frame Display affects only the data shown in the Frame Display and not any inform ation in any other window There are two ways to hide a layer 1 Right click on the layer in the Decode pane and choose Hide protocol name Layer In All Frames 2 Click the Set Protocol Filtering button on the Summary pane toolbar In the Protocols to Hide box on the right check the protocol layer s you want hidden Click OK when finished 40 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster To reveal a hidden protocol layer 1 Right click anywhere in the Decode pane 2 Choose Show protocol name Layer from the right click menu or click the Set Protocol Filtering button and un check the layer or layers you want revealed 4 4 1 4 Physical vs Logical Byte Display The Event Display window and Event Pane in the Frame Display window show the physical bytes In ot
35. in the Summary Pane 48 D D 1 112 D 2 112 D 3 112 D 4 112 116 fte com ontline Debug Communications Faster D E 112 Data 28 87 88 Capturing 17 Data Byte Color Denotation 52 Data Errors 69 Data Rates 28 Decimal 29 Decode Pane 50 Decodes 19 24 34 40 50 56 Default File Locations 104 Deleting Display Filters 81 Delta Times 28 Direction 80 Directories 104 Disabling 100 Display Filters 76 81 84 Display Options 109 DL 112 Dots 49 Driver 113 Duplicate View 25 27 43 44 E E B 112 E C 112 EBCDIC 31 EBCDIC Codes 111 EIR 18 EM 112 EQ 112 Errors 55 69 86 106 ET 112 Event Display 24 43 96 Event Display Export 96 Event Display Toolbar 25 Event Numbering 110 Event Pane 51 Event Symbols 31 EX 112 Exclude 78 Exclude Radio Buttons 78 Expand All Collapse All 50 Expand Decode Pane 44 Export Export Baudot 99 Export Events 97 Export Filter Out 99 Extended Inquiry Response 18 F F F 112 FCSs 27 Field Width 48 File 87 90 100 File Locations 104 File Series 100 File Types Supported 90 Filtering 53 55 85 86 Filters 54 55 76 78 80 86 Find 57 59 61 63 64 69 Find Bookmarks 72 Find Introduction 56 Font Size 33 117 fte com ontline Debug Communications Faster Frame Display 34 37 40 41 43 44 48 53 Frame Display Change Text Highlight Color 52 Frame Display Find 41 Frame Display Status Bar 40 Frame Display Toolbar 37 Frame Display Window 35 Frame
36. is applied a description of the fil Filter Include each Frame where the protocol Data exists ter appears to the right of the toolbar in the Frame Display windows us Note The OK button on the Set Condition dialog box is unavailable grayed out until the con dition selections are complete 5 3 1 5 Defining Node and Conversation Filters There are two steps to using Node and Conversation display filter Define the filter conditions and then apply the filter to the data set The analyzer combines both filter definition and application in one dialog 1 Click the Display Filters icon Y on the Frame Display window or select Apply Modify Dis play Filters from the filter menu to open the Set Condition dialog box 2 From the Select each frame combo box choose frames with the conversation as the initial con dition 3 Select an address type IP MAC TCP UDB from the Typecombo box The address type selec tion populates both Address combo boxes with node address in the data set that match the type selection 4 Select a node address from the first Address combo box 5 Choose a direction arrow from the direction box The left arrow filters on all frames where the top node address is the destination the right arrow filters on all frames where the top node address is the source and the double arrow filters on all frames where the top node address is either the source or the destination gu 6 Ifyou want to filter
37. is dif ferent from the current frame recognizer In addition to choosing to Reframe you can also be prompted to Reframe by the Protocol Stack Wizard 1 Load your capture file by choosing Open from the File menu on the Control window and select the file to load 2 Select the protocol stack by choosing Protocol Stack from the Options menu on the Control win dow select the desired stack and click Finish 3 Ifyou selected a protocol stack that includes a frame recognizer different from the one used to cap ture your data the Protocol Stack Wizard asks you if you want to reframe your data Choose Yes 4 The analyzer adds frame markers to your data puts the framed data into a new file and opens the new file The original capture file is not altered See Unframing on page 23 for instructions on removing framing from data 22 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 4 2 4 Unframing This function removes start of frame and end of frame markers from your data The original capture file is not altered during this process You cannot unframe from the Capture File Viewer accessed by selecting Capture File Viewer or Load Capture File to start the software and used only for viewing capture files To manually unframe your data 1 Select Unframe from the File menu on the Control window Unframe is only available if a pro tocol stack was used to capture the data and there is currently no protocol stack selected
38. is over the analyzer looks at the PSM in the L2CAP Connect frames that follow If the PSM matches one the analyzer has stored the analyzer stores the source channel ID and destination channel ID and associates those channel IDs with the PSM and UUID for the next protocol Thereafter when the analyzer sees L2CAP frames using those channel IDs it can look them up in its table and know what the next protocol is In order for the analyzer to be able to auto traverse using a dynamically assigned PSM it has to have seen the SDP session giving the Protocol Descriptor Lists and the subsequent L2CAP connection using the PSM and identi fying the source and channel IDs If the analyzer misses any of this process it is not able to auto traverse It stops decoding at the L2CAP layer 23 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster For L2CAP frames carrying a known PSM 0x0001 for SDP for example or 0x0003 for RFCOMM the analyzer looks for Connect frames and stores the PSM along with the associated source and destination channel IDs In this case the analyzer does not need to see the SDP process but does need to see the L2CAP connection pro cess giving the source and destination channel IDs 4 2 6 Providing Context For Decoding When Frame Information Is Missing There may be times when you need to provide information to the analyzer because the context for decoding a frame is missing For example if the analyzer captured a resp
39. more than one file based on file size or time e Restart Capturing After Saving or Clearing Capture File the analyzer restarts capture to the file imme diately after the file 1s closed e Wrap Series of Files When enabled the analyzer wraps the file when it becomes full The oldest events are moved out of the file to make room for new events Any events moved out of the file are lost When disabled the analyzer stops capture when the file becomes full Either reset the file or close your capture file to continue e File Size 1 Click the Min button to see set the minimum acceptable value for the file size 2 Click the Max button to see set the maximum acceptable value for the file size 100 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster You can accept these values or you can enter a unique file size But if you try to close the dialog after entering a value greater than the maximum or less than the minimum you will see thls dialog FT54BT e Default A Enter an integer between 1096 and 100560 Enter a name for the capture file in the Default text box Each saved file will begin with this name The name of each file is the name you give it in the Name box followed by the date time and anumber The date and time are when the series was opened The number increments with each file This guar antees unique file names are created e Append Series Start Date amp File Number Select this radio button to aut
40. or only data bytes Events include control signal changes and framing information Timestamping Options Brings up the timestamping options window which has options for customizing the display and capture of timestamps 4 3 3 Opening Multiple Event Display Windows Click the Duplicate View icon Ng from the Event Display toolbar to open a second Event Display window You can open as many Event Display windows as you like Each Event Display is independent of the others and can show different data use a different radix or character set or be frozen or live The Event Display windows are numbered in the title bar If you have multiple Event Displays open click on the Event Display icon P on the Control window toolbar to show a list of all the Event Displays currently open Select a window from the list to bring it to the front 4 3 4 Calculating CRCs or FCSs The cyclic redundancy check CRC is a function on the Event Display window used to produce a checksum The frame check sequence FCS are the extra checksum characters added to a frame to detect errors 1 Open the Event Display P window 2 Click and drag to select the data for which you want to generate a CRC 27 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster 3 Click on the CRC icon T E 4 In the CRC dialog box click on the down arrow to show the list of choices for CRC algorithms i A Sum 1 s comp 5 Enter a Seed value in hexade
41. raw bytes from the currently selected filter tab All Frames O Selected Frames Figure 24 Byte Export dialog 45 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Click the OK button to save the export Clicking the Cancel button will exit Byte Export 3 The Save As dialog will open Select a directory location and enter a file name for the exported frames file 3 Save As X OU z Desktop gt v 4 Search Desktop p Organize v New folder Sr Favorites Name Size Item type gt BE Desktop J Gi libraries ip Downloads JA John W Trinkle Recent Places JW Computer Ga Network 3 Libraries Ji Frontline ComProb File folder e Documents Ji Frontline ComProb File folder a Music Ji Frontline ComProb File folder gt Pictures Ji Frontline ComProb File folder Subversion ne imi 3 Filename ByteLevelExport 1 bt v Save as type Text Files txt z amp Hide Folders Save Cancel Figure 25 Save As dialog Click on the Save button The exported frames are in a text file that can be opened in any standard text editing application The header shows the export type the capture filename the selected filter tab and the number of frames The body shows the frame number the timestamp in the same format shown in the Frame Display Summary pane and the frame contents as raw bytes ByteLevelExport_1 txt Notepad o e X File Edit Fo
42. the Ei a from the Timestamping Options button or click the click the Timestamping Options icon Event Display P window 2 Go to the Display Options section at the bottom of the window and find the Display Relative Timestamps checkbox 3 Check the box to switch the display to relative timestamps Remove the check to return to abso lute timestamps Note The options in this section affect only how the timestamps are displayed on the screen not how the timestamps are recorded in the capture file e Display Raw Timestamp Value shows the timestamp as the total time in hundred nanoseconds from a specific point in time 108 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster e Display Relative Timestamps shows the timestamp as the amount of time that has passed since the first byte was captured It works just like a stop watch in that the timestamp for the first byte 1s 0 00 00 0000 and all subsequent timestamps increment from there The timestamp is recorded as the actual time so you can flip back and forth between relative and actual time as needed e Selecting both values displays the total time in nanoseconds from the start of the capture as opposed to a specific point in time e Selecting neither value displays the actual chronological time When you select Display Relative Timestamp you can set the number of digits to display using the up or down arrows on the numeric list 1 4 1 4_ Displaying Fractions of
43. the Modify button Click Remove All to delete all the bookmarks 75 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 5 3 Filtering 5 3 1 About Display Filters A display filter looks at frames that have already been captured It looks at every frame in the capture buffer and displays those that match the filter criteria Frames that do not match the filter criteria are not displayed Display filters allow a user to look at a subset of captured data without affecting the capture content There are three general classes of display filters e Protocol Filters e Named Filters e Quick Filter Protocol Filters Protocol filters test for the existence of a specific single layer The system creates a protocol filter for each decoder that is loaded if that layer is encountered in a capture session There are also three special purpose filters that are treated as protocol filters e All Frames with Errors e All Frames with Bookmarks e All Special Information Nodes Named Filters e Named filters test for anything other than simple single layer existence Named filters can be constructed that test for the existence of multiple layers field values in layers frame sizes etc as well as com binations of those things Named filters are persistent across sessions e Named filters are user defined User defined filters persist in a template file User defined filters can be deleted Quick Filters e Quick Filters are combination
44. the search from the current event When you select Absolute as Search for Go To is available When you select Relative as Search for Move Forward or Move Backwardis available There are a couple of other concepts to understand in respect to searching with timestamps e The analyzer skips some special events that do not have timestamps such as frame markers Data events that do not have timestamps because timestamping was turned off either before or during capture are also skipped e Timestamping can be turned on and off while data is being captured As a result the capture buffer may have some data with a timestamp and some data without When doing a search by timestamp the ana lyzer ignores all data without a timestamp e The raw timestamp value is the number of 100 nanosecond intervals since the beginning of January 1 1601 This is standard Windows time 5 1 4 Using Go To Searching with Go To allows you to go to a particular frame or event or to move through the data X number of events or frames at a time You can move either forward or backwards through the data To access the Go To function 62 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster 1 Open a capture file to search 2 Open the Event Display or Frame Display window 3 Click on the Find icon aa or choose Find from the Edit menu 4 Click on the Go To tab of the Find dialog 5 The system displays the Find dialog with the Go T
45. to capture reliably NFC operates over a range of a few inches at most and it is often difficult to know where to place the antenna to get the best result The location of the antenna in NFC devices varies from device to device making it even more difficult to find the proper location In this section we present a few tips to help you more reliably capture NFC data The following image illustrates good antenna positioning Figure 3 Antenna Positioning Good fte com contline Debug Communications Faster The device analyzer antenna and tag are within an inch or two of each other and all are oriented parallel to each other This ensures all devices are within NFC s read range and that the maximum signal is available to all devices In the following image the devices are too far apart for reliable operation Figure 4 Antenna Positioning Too Far Apart In the following image the analyzer antenna is not parallel to the device and tag This reduces its ability to reli ably capture data Figure 5 Antenna Position Not Parallel In most cases placing the antenna between the device and the tag gives the best results However for some combinations of device and tag performance may be improved by placing the antenna directly behind or next to the tag as in the image below fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Figure 6 Antenna Positioning Behind or Next To Tag Often
46. 1 7 Synchronizing the Event and Frame Displays The Frame Display is synchronized with the Event Display Click on a frame in the Frame Display and the corresponding bytes is highlighted in the Event Display Each Frame Display has its own Event Display As an example here s what happens if the following sequence of events occurs 1 Click on the Frame Display icon e in Control window toolbar to open the Frame Display 2 Click on the Duplicate View icon Ng to create Frame Display 2 3 Click on Event Display icon P in Frame Display 2 Event Display 2 opens This Event Display is labeled 2 even though there is no original Event Display to indicate that it is syn chronized with Frame Display 2 43 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 4 Click on a frame in Frame Display 2 The corresponding bytes are highlighted in Event Display 2 5 Click on a frame in the original Frame Display Event Display 2 does not change 4 4 1 8 Working with Multiple Frame Displays Multiple Frame Displays are useful for comparing two frames side by side They are also useful for comparing all frames against a filtered subset or two filtered subsets against each other e To create a second Frame Display click the Duplicate View icon E on the Frame Display toolbar This creates another Frame Display window You can have as many Frame Displays open as you wish Each Frame Display is given a number in the title bar to distingu
47. 2 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 636 631 3 Data 94 148 224 10010100 638 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 637 632 3 Data 22 34 42 100010 639 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 638 633 3 Data 211 33 41 100001 640 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 639 634 3 Data ic i 28 34 11100 641 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 640 635 3 Data 80 128 200 10000000 642 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 641 636 3 Data 80 128 200 10000000 643 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166PM 0 00 00 00 642 637 3 Data 80 128 200 10000000 644 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 643 638 3 Data 80 128 200 10000000 Figure 59 Example csv Event Display Export Excel spreadsheet 6 4 2 1 Export Filter Out You can filter out data you don t want or need in your text file This option is available only for serial data In the Filter Out box choose which side to filter out the DTE data the DCE data or neither side don t filter any data For example if you choose the radio button for DTE data the DTE data would be filtered out of your export file and the file would contain only the DCE data You can also filter out Special Events which is everything that is not a data byte such as control signal changes and Set I O events Non printable characters or both If you choose to filter out Special Events your export file would contain only the data bytes Filtering out the non printable characters means that your export file would conta
48. 8 604388 PM Source ASCII Hex Dec Oct Binary Errors Master 2F 39 47 00100111 For Help Press Fl Captured Byte Information Figure 13 Event Display Click on an event to find out more about it The three status lines at the bottom of the window are updated with information such as the time the event occurred for data bytes the time the byte was captured the value of the byte in hex decimal octal and binary any errors associated with the byte and more Events with errors are shown in red to make them easy to spot When capturing data live the analyzer continually updates the Event Display as data is captured Make sure the Lock icon 6 is displayed on the toolbar to prevent the display from updating Clicking on the icon again will unlock the display While locked you can review your data run searches determine delta time intervals between bytes and check CRCs To resume updating the display click the Lock icon again You can have more than one Event Display open at a time Click the Duplicate View icon NG tocreate a second independent Event Display window You can lock one copy of the Event Display and analyze your data while the second Event Display updates as new data is captured Event Display is synchronized with the Frame Display and Mesage Sequence Chart dialogs Selecting a byte in Event Display will also select the related frame in the Frame Display and the related message in the Mes
49. 8 Event Pane The Event pane shows the physical bytes in the frame You can choose T a ta 345 3r If Ab a k2 between displaying only the data events E 0 This is the Event Pane or displaying all events by clicking the All Tl l 5 Copy Selection to Clipboard Events icon Select Entire Frame E Displaying all events means that special Change Text Highlight Color events such as Start of Frame End of J Display All Ev Frame and any signal change events are a _ displayed as special symbols within the data The status lines at the bottom of the pane give the same information as the status lines in the Event Display window This includes physical data errors control signal changes if appropriate and timestamps 51 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster Because the Event pane displays the physical bytes rather than the logical bytes the data in the Event pane may be different from that in the Radix Binary and Character panes See Physical vs Logical Byte Display for more information Colors are used to show which protocol layer each byte belongs to The colors correspond to the layers listed in the Decode pane The Event Radix Binary Character and Decode panes are all synchronized with one another Clicking on an element in any one of the panes highlights the corresponding element in all the other panes 4 4 1 11 9 Change Text Highlight Color Whenever you select text in the Bina
50. An added field can be removed from the Summary pane by selecting Remove New Column from the right click menu The default column layout both membership and order can be restored by selecting Restore Default Columns from the Format or right click menus Changing Column Widths 48 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster To change the width of a column 1 Place the cursor over the right column divider until the cursor changes to a solid double arrow 2 Click and drag the divider to the desired width 3 To auto size the columns double click on the column dividers Hiding Columns To hide a column 1 Drag the right divider of the column all the way to the left 2 The cursor changes to a split double arrow when a hidden column is present 3 To show the hidden column place the cursor over the divider until it changes to a split double arrow then click and drag the cursor to the right 4 The Frame Size Timestamp and Delta columns can be hidden by right clicking on the header and selecting Show Frame Size Column Show Timestamp Column or Show Delta Column Follow the same procedure to display the columns again Moving Columns Changing Column Order To move acolumn 1 Click and hold on the column header 2 Drag the mouse over the header row 3 A small white triangle indicates where the column is moved to 4 When the triangle is in the desired location release the mouse Restoring Default Column Settings
51. Example csv file How to Export Event Display Data to a File 1 Select Export Events from the File menu on the Event Display window to display the Event Dis play Export dialog 2 Enter a file path and name or click the browser button to display the Windows Save As dialog and navigate to the desired storage location 3 Selecta file type from the Save as type drop down List Menu on the Event Display Export dialog Select from among the following file formats Text File txt CSV File csv HTML File html Binary File bin 4 Select the range of events to include in the file from either All or Selection in the Event Range sec tion of the Event Display Export dialog e Selecting more than one event in the Event Display window defaults the radio button in the Event Display Export dialog to Selection and allows the user to choose the All radio button e When only one event is selected Something must be selected the All radio button in the Event Display Export dialog is selected by default 5 Next you need to select the Side variable for serial communications e is used to determine whether you want to export data from or both e Choose Host Function Control or Both to determine how you want to export the data 5 Choose Host Function Control or Both to determine how you want to export the data 6 Choose whether you want to display multiple events or single events per row 97 fte com contline Debu
52. Maximum delay allowed between bytes 150 microseconds Mifare Classic Figure 10 I O Settings Dialog 3 1 2 1 Filter Settings This setting allows adjustment of the frequency range used by the ComProbe when capturing NFC signals The available options are e Automatic e 110 KHz to 570 KHz e 200 KHz to 900 KHz e 210 KHz to 1400 KHz e 450 KHz to 1500 KHz e 100 KHz to 1500 KHz The default value for this setting is Automatic which automatically adjusts the filter settings according to the pro tocols selected for capture In most cases this value provides the best performance Selecting a specific fre quency range may improve capture performance when attempting to capture a specific protocol in difficult situations The following guidelines apply when adjusting the filter settings e For systems such as NFC F which use a 212 kHz subcarrier 110 kHz to 570 kHz may be used e For systems such as NFC A and NFC B which use an 848 kHz subcarrier 450 kHz to 1500 kHz may be used Other filter values may be tried to improve performance 14 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 3 1 2 2 Hardware Trigger This setting enables or disables the use of the ComProbe NFC s hardware trigger input The following values for this setting are e Not Used e Rising Edge e Falling Edge When enabled ComProbe NFC will not begin capturing until the selected event occurs on the hardware trigger input A timestam
53. OS a a eget GA aa dee AN AA AB EE 112 7 2 4 4 Communication Control Characters 112 7 2 5 The Frontline Serial Driver ace tciee een pence ct ace eetaccunmden due bdsemndaniesaceteneacbauedeanes 113 7 3 Contacting Technical Support oi eee ce cee cee eee eee eee eeeeeee 113 7 3 1 Instructional Videos lec cee ec eeeeeeeeeeee eee eee cece eee mm 114 DOON os ct ses see eee ee cen WA acute ANNA ABA TON WA NANANA 115 Vi fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster List of Figures Figure 1 NFC Hardware Installation 2 0 2 20 2 e cece cece aaora 3 Figure 2 NFC Hardware Settings Dialog 22 2 2 ieee cece cee eee cee eee cece cece eeceeceeeeeeeeee 4 Figure 3 Antenna Positioning Good mmmemememe mum ceeeeeeeees 4 Figure 4 Antenna Positioning Too Far Apart 5 Figure 5 Antenna Position Not Parallel 0 20022 cece cece cece eee e eee eeeeeeees 5 Figure 6 Antenna Positioning Behind or Next To Tag a 6 Figure 7 Antenna Positioning Adjust for Internal Device Antenna 6 Figure 8 Desktop Folder Link wmmmmmmumwmumanuman unani mann 7 Figure 9 NFC Hardware Settings Dialog _ 2 222 2 ieee eee ce cee c
54. Or 67 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster e RS232 Request to Send RTS e RS232 Clear to Send CTS e RS232 Data Set Ready DSR e RS232 Data Terminal Ready DTR e RS232 Carrier Detect CD e RS232 Ring Indicator RI Click here to learn more about the Breakout Box and Pins 1 4 Searching for event where e The first three options are all fairly similar and are described together These options are searching for an event where o One or more control signals changed o One or more control signals changed from off to on o One or more control signals changed from on to off e Searching for an event where one or more signals changed means that the analyzer looks at every control signal that you checked and see if any one of those signals changed state at any time o If you want to look at just one control signal m Check the box for the signal m Uncheck all the other boxes m Choose to search for an event where one or more signals changed m The analyzer notes the state of the selected signal at the point in the buffer where the cursor is search the buffer and stop when it finds an event where RTS changed state m Ifthe end of the buffer is reached before an event is found the analyzer tells you that no matches were found e Searching for events where control signals changed state from off to on or vice versa is most useful if the signals are usually in one state and you want to sea
55. W or select Quick Filtering from the Filter menu 3 Check the box for All Frames With Errors in the Protocols To Filter In pane and click OK 4 The system creates a tab on the Frame Display labeled Errors that displays the res Errors ults of the All Frames With Errors filter s1 Note When you have multiple Frame Display windows open and you are capturing data you may receive an error message declaring that Filtering cannot be done while receiving data this fast If this occurs you may have to stop filtering until the data is captured 55 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Chapter 5 Navigating and Searching the Data The following sections describe how to navigate through the data and how to find specific data or packet con ditions of interest to the user 5 1 Find Capturing and decoding data within the Com Probe analyzer produces a wealth of information for analysis This mass of information by itself however is just that a mass of information There has to be ways to manage the information ComProbe software provides a number of different methods for making the data more access ible One of these methods is Find Decode Potten Tive GoTo Special Events Bookmark Seach fee mestami Yeu Day Hou Go lo the bmesi5mp On ot before the pecihed ima On of alter the pecihed Ime Figure 31 Find Diaglog Find as the name suggests is a comprehensive search function that allows use
56. an installation path multiple instances of a personality entry may be detected which causes a failure when trying to launch Frontline For example if an Frontline product is installed at C Users Public Public Documents Frontline Test Equipment My Decoders then My Decoders cannot be set to any of the following e C My Decoders e C Users My Decoders e C Users Public My Decoders e C Users Public Public Documents My Decoders e or to any directory that already exists in the path C Users Public Public Documents Frontline Test Equip ment My Decoders Default Capture File Folder Checkbox 105 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster If the Use Last Opened Folder for Capture Files checkbox is checked then the system automatically changes the default location for saving capture files each time you open a file from or save a file to a new location For example let s say the default location for saving capture files is Drive A5 Folder A Now you select the Use Last Opened Folder for Capture Files checkbox The next time however you open a capture file from a dif ferent location Folder B 5 Removable Flash Drive for example Now when you save the capture file it will be saved to Folder B gt Removable Flash Drive Also all subsequent files will be saved to that location This remains true until you open a file from or save a file to a different location There is one caveat to this scenario however Let s
57. ane choose All Events Number If the Show All Events button is up choose Data Event Number 5 1 5 Searching for Special Events Frontline inserts or marks events other than data bytes in the data stream For example the analyzer inserts start of frame and end of frame markers into framed data marking where each frame begins and ends If a hardware error occurs the analyzer shows this using a special event marker You can use Find to locate single or multiple special events To access the search for special events function 1 Open a capture file to search tb 2 Open the Event Display P or Frame Display window 3 Click on the Find icon da or choose Find from the Edit menu 4 Click on the Special Events tab of the Find dialog Note The tabs displayed on the Find dialog depend on the product you are running and the content of the capture file you are viewing 64 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Decode Palen Time GoTo Speca Everti Bookmark Aboe Begin Char Sinp C Broken Frans C Butar Overilow C Capture Paused C Capture Resumed C Dropped Frames C Dropping Sync C End Char Sinp J End of Frame C Flow Control Active Flow Control Inactive Frame Recognze Changed UA Settings Changed Figure 38 Find Special Events tab 5 Check the event or events you want to look for in the list of special events Use Check All or Uncheck All buttons to make your selections mor
58. another developer or for use in interoperability testing This chapter will explain how to do this for various data file formats e Chapter 7 General Information This chapter provides advanced system set up and configuration inform ation timestamping information and general reference information such as ASCII baudot and EBCDIC codes This chapter also provides information on how to contact Frontline s Technical Support team should you need assistance 1 2 Minimum System Requirements e PC with Windows XP 32 bit Service Pack 2 or higher Windows 7 32 or 64 bit e Pentium 2 GHz processor e RAM Requirements 2 GB minimum 4 GB recommended e 100 MB free Hard Disk Space e USB 2 0 High Speed enabled port 1 3 Software Installation 1 3 1 From CD Insert the ComProbe installer disc into your DVD drive Click on the Install CPAS shortcut and follow the dir ections 1 3 2 From Download Download the latest CPAS installer from FTE com Once downloaded double click the installer and follow the directions fte com contline Debug Communications Faster Chapter 2 Getting Started In this chapter we introduce you to the ComProbe hardware and show how to start the ComProbe analyzer soft ware and explain the basic software controls and features for conducting the protocol analysis 2 1 NFC Hardware The following sections describe the NFC hardware connectors and hardware setup 21 1 Hardware Installation To assembl
59. any frames have been lost There are several things that you can do to try and solve this problem e Use capture filters to filter out data you don t need to see Capture filters reduce the amount of data pro cessed by the analyzer Ethernet Only e Close all other programs that are doing work while the analyzer is running Refrain from doing searches in the Event Display window or other processor intensive activities while the analyzer is capturing data 109 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster e Timestamping takes up processor time primarily not in timestamping the data but in writing the timestamp to the file Try turning off timestamping from the Timestamping Options window e For Driver Buffer Overflows change the size of the driver buffer This value is changed from the Advanced System Settings Go to the Control window and choose System Settings from the Options menu Click on the Advanced button Find the value Driver Receive Buffer Size in Operating System Pages Take the number listed there and double it e The analyzer s number one priority is capturing data updating windows is secondary However updat ing windows still takes a certain amount of processor time and may cause the analyzer to lose data while the window is being updated Some windows require more processing time than others because the information being displayed in them is constantly changing Refrain from displaying data live in the Ev
60. ark dialog a Select Add or Modify Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu on the Frame Display and Event Display b Select the Add or Modify Bookmark LJ icon on one of the toolbars or c Right click on the frame event and choosing Add Bookmark 3 In the dialog box add a comment up to 84 characters in the text box to identify the bookmark 4 Click OK Once you create a bookmark it will be saved with the rest of the data in the cfa file When you open a cfa file the bookmarks are available to you Modify 1 Select the frame or event with the bookmark to be edited 2 There are three ways to access the Add Modfy Bookmark dialog a Select Add or Modify Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu on the Frame Display and Event Display b Select the Add or Modify Bookmark LJ icon on one of the toolbars or c Right click on the frame event and choosing Modify Bookmark on the selection 3 Change the comment in the dialog box 4 Click OK The edited bookmark will be saved as a part of the cfa file 5 You can also select Display All Bookmarks LI from the Frame Display and Event Display tool bar or the Bookmarks menu the Find window will open on the Bookmark tab Select the book mark you want to modify and click the Modify button Change the comment in the dialog box and click OK Delete 1 Select the frame or event with the bookmark to be deleted 2 There are three ways to access the Add Modfy Bookmark dialog 74 fte com
61. ata you may receive an error message declaring that Filtering cannot be done while receiving data this fast If this occurs you may have to stop filtering until the data is captured 86 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Chapter 6 Saving and Importing Data 6 1 Saving Your Data You can save all or part of the data that you have captured You can also load a previously saved capture file and save a portion of that file to another file This feature is useful if someone else needs to see only a portion of the data in your capture file On the Control toolbar you can set up to capture a single file or series of files Click here to see those settings There are two ways to save portions or all of the data collected during a data capture Click here to see how to capture data 6 1 1 Saving the Entire Capture File using File Save or the Save icon This option is only available when you select Single File from the Capture Mode on System Settings Click here to learn more about selecting Save options from System Settings 1 Ifyou are capturing data click on the Stop icon to stop data capture You cannot save data to file while it is being captured p 2 Open the Event Display or Frame Display window 3 Click the Save FH icon or select Save from the File menu 87 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster TT Ct AZ Save in i Desktop ALE MA itty Documents
62. ata will be added to the capture file until capture is resumed but the previously captured date remains in the file if 4 To clear captured data click the Clear icon 7 5 e If you select Clear after selecting Stop a dialog appears asking whether you want to save the data o You can click Save File and enter a file name when prompted o Ifyou choose Do Not Save all data will be cleared o If you choose Cancel the dialog closes with no changes e If you select the Clear icon while a capture is occurring o The capture stops o A dialog appears asking if you want to save the capture 17 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster o You can select Yes and save the capture or select No and close the dialog In either case the existing capture file 1s cleared and a new capture file is started o If you choose Cancel the dialog closes with no changes To see how to capture to a series of files or single file choose System Settings from the Options menu on the Control window To see how to capture to a single file choose System Settings from the Options menu on the Control window When live capture stops no new packets are sniffed but there can still be packets that were previously sniffed but not yet read by the ComProbe analyzer This happens when packets are being sniffed faster than the ComProbe analyzer can process them These packets are stored either on the ComProbe hardware itself or ina file on the PC I
63. button Advanced 5ystem Options warmy Be catebul when changing hese parameters Please read the online heip first o contact Technical Support Selechons do not take effect until FTS and ary dalasources are reed ated Diver Receree Butler Sine in bytes Dire Achor Queue See in Operating System Pages Fiame Complebon Tmeo m Seconds Figure 61 Advanced System Options dialog e Driver Receive Buffer Size in Kbytes This is the size of the buffer used by the driver to store incoming data This value is expressed in Kbytes e Driver Action Queue Size In Operating System Pages This is the size of the buffer used by the driver to store data to be transmitted This value is expressed in operating system pages e Frame Completion Timeout in Seconds This is the number of seconds that the analyzer waits to receive data on a side while in the midst of receiving a frame on that side If no data comesin on that side for longer than the specified number of seconds an aborted frame event is added to the Event Display and the analyzer resumes decoding incoming data This can occur when cap turing interwoven data DTE and DCE and one side stops transmitting in the middle of a frame The range for this value is from O to 999 999 seconds Setting it to zero disables the timeout feature P Note This option is currently disabled 7 1 1 6 Selecting Start Up Options To open this window 103 fte com contline Debug Communicati
64. cceeceees 14 3 1 2 2 Hardware Trigger aa 15 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 3123 ak AA IA 15 3 1 2 4 Protocols Enabled cep coe Sache oe een AA 15 3 1 2 5 Automatic Gain Control e cee cece ence eee eeeeees 15 3 1 2 6 Type 1 Tag Platform ieee cc cece eee eee cece anaana 16 JL Mitre IA PC a ea AD DA GNG 16 Chapter 4 Capturing and Analyzing Data HA 17 4A 1 Capture Data waahh ee en NAAN AGA ee nn ee 17 41 1 Capturing Data to DISK apamagang gn std NI ULSS hagdanan ana na LULU LILLL enna a masala LAILA naa LasG 17 4 1 2 Extended Inquiry Response U 2 cece cee ce ee eee eee cece eee Laaa aaan aaan 18 BZ VPOROCO SACKS a3 a ete ps et ee ee eos 19 4 2 1 Protocol Stack Wizard lilt eee eee eee eee eee eeeeeeees 20 4 2 2 Creating and Removing a Custom Stack _ 2222 2 eee eee oaaao aaan 21 4 2 3 RE NAMING WI 22 424 IME Wa 23 4 2 5 How the Analyzer Auto traverses the Protocol Stack 23 4 2 6 Providing Context For Decoding When Frame Information Is Missing _ 24 4 3 Analyzing Byte Level Data i e cen ec cee eee eee eee ee eens 24 4 3 1 Event Display 2 22 ll eee cc cc ee eee cee ee aLaaa aandaa aa a 24 4 3 2 The Event Display Toolbar _ 2 222 lee ee cece aaa aaa aaa Laaa aaan anaa 25 4 3 3 Opening Multiple Event Display Windows 0 2 cece eee
65. cimal if desired Sum 2 s comp RG Go 6 Click OK to generate the CRC It appears in the byte Hi Ik paha information lines at the bottom of the Event Display win dow Whenever you select a range of data a CRC is cal ni gia culated automatically CAL CLIT Trev CRE HDLE 4 3 5 Calculating Delta Times and Data Rates 1 Click on the Event Display icon P on the Control window to open the Event Display win dow 2 Use the mouse to select the data you want to calculate a delta time and rate for 3 The Event Display window displays the delta time and the data rate in the status lines at the bot tom of the window Event Display Homer cfa File Edit View Format Bookmarks Options Window Bi 00 Ob ef 14 Od Da b 43 49 45 56 3 T 28 52 OO 24 0b i 18 00 24 Ob Bd 5f 00 0 24 6c 00 74 Ob Sd 5c 00 01 5a 05 T 43 ce it Pa Figure 14 Delta fields 4 3 6 Switching Between Live Update and Review Mode The Event Display and Frame Display windows can update to display new data during live capture or be frozen to allow data analysis By default the Event Display continually updates with new data and the Frame Display is locked 28 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 1 Make sure the Lock icon H is active so the display is locked and unable to scroll 2 Click the Unlock G icon again to resume live update The analyzer continues to capture data in the background while the display is lock
66. contline Debug Communications Faster a Select Add or Modify Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu on the Frame Display and Event Display b Select the Add or Modify Bookmark LJ icon on one of the toolbars or c Right click on the frame event and choosing Modify Bookmark on the selection 3 Click on the Delete button The bookmark will be deleted 4 You can also select Display All Bookmarks LI from the Frame Display and Event Display tool bar or the Bookmarks menu the Find window will open on the Bookmark tab Select the book mark you want to delete and click the Delete button 5 2 2 Displaying All and Moving Between Bookmarks There are three ways to move between bookmarks 1 Press the F2 key to move to the nezt frame or event with a bookmark 2 Select Go to Nezt Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu 3 Click the Display All Bookmarks icon LI Select the bookmark you want to move to and click the Go To button or simply double click on the bookmark Click the Move Forward and Move Back buttons to cycle through the bookmarks Find dual mode capture 01 cfa EBK Decode Paitem Time GoTo Speci Events Emor Bookmark Frame 3 Bockmack 3 7 23 2010 72057 526310 PM ARA rama 7 Bookmark 7 7724201072057 526310 PM KN ka Mova Back GoTo Figure 44 Find Window Bookmark tab Used to Move Around With Bookmarks To delete a bookmark select it and click the Delete button To modify a bookmark select it and click
67. correctly Click Next to continue Select a Protocol Stack Choose one at a time by Protocol Decode Stack Select Protocols RA tsa All additional stack layers Baseband GB can be determined AMP Manager automatically RP There are no additional 1 Select a protocol from the list on the left 5 stack layers AVDTP arn 2 Click the right arrow button to A AVDTP Report move it to the Protocol AVDTP Sawang Decode Stack box on the AVRCP Move Up F AVRCP Browsing right or double click the pro Baseband Move Down tocol to move it to the right BP 3 ma BlueCore Serial Protocol 7 3 To remove a protocol from the iling stack double click it or select it and click the left arrow but ton 4 If you need to change the order of the protocols in the stack select the protocol you want to move and click on the Move Up and Move Down buttons until the protocol is in the correct position 5 The lowest layer protocol is at the top of the list with higher layer protocols listed underneath Auto traversal Have the analyzer Determine Higher Layers If you need to define just a few layers of the protocol stack and the remaining layers can be determined based on the lower layers 21 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 1 Click the All additional stack layers can be determined automatically button 2 If your protocol stack is complete and there are no additional layers click the There are no
68. d in the window There are three ways to modify bookmarks 1 Click on Delete to remove the selected bookmark 2 Click on Modify to change the selected Bookmark name 3 Remove All will delete all bookmarks in the window 72 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster The Find window Bookmark tab will also appear when using functions other than Find such as when clicking on the Display All Bookmarks icon 5 1 9 Changing Where the Search Lands When doing a search in the analyzer the byte or bytes matching the search criteria are highlighted in the Event Display The first selected byte appears on the third line of the display CVEventDisplay To change the line on which the first selected byte appears Selectlion0ffset 2 l Open fts ini located in the C User Public Public Documents Frontline Test Equipment 2 Go to the CV EventDisplay section 3 Change the value for SelectionOffset 4 Ifyou want the selection to land on the top line of the display change the SelectionOffset to 0 zero 5 1 10 Subtleties of Timestamp Searching Timestamping can be turned on and off while data is being captured As a result the capture buffer may have some data with a timestamp and some data without When doing a search by timestamp the analyzer ignores all data without a timestamp s1 Note The raw timestamp value is the number of 100 nanosecond intervals since the beginning of January 1 1601 This i
69. display whether you are capturing to a series of files or capturing to a single file o Not Active means that the analyzer is not currently capturing data o Paused means that data capture has been suspended o Running means that the analyzer is actively capturing data e Yo Used The next item shows how much of the buffer or capture file has been filled For example if you are cap turing to disk and have specified a 200 Kb capture file the bar graph tells you how much of the capture file has been used When the graph reaches 100 capture either stops or the file begins to overwrite the old est data depending on the choices you made in the System Settings e Utilization Events The second half of the status bar gives the current utilization and total number of events seen on the net work This is the total number of events monitored not the total number of events captured The analyzer is always monitoring the circuit even when data is not actively being captured These graphs allow you to keep an eye on what is happening on the circuit without requiring you to capture data 2 3 4 Frame Information on the Control Window Frame Decoder information is located just below the Status bar on the Control window It displays two pieces of information For Help Press F1 e Frame Decoder 233 fps displays the number of frames per second being decoded You can toggle this display on off with Ctrl D but it is available only during a live capture
70. ditions occur All toolbar icons have cor responding menu bar items or options Open File Opens a capture file O Settings Opens settings Start Capture Begins data capture to disk Stop Capture Available after data capture has started Click to stop data capture Data can be reviewed and saved but no new data can be captured Clear Clears or saves the capture file Event Display framed data only Opens a Event Display with the currently selected bytes highlighted ee Save Saves the file the capture file yA eg Frame Display framed data only Opens a Frame Display with the frame of the currently selected bytes highlighted Cascade Arranges windows in a cascaded display fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 2 3 2 Configuration Information on the Control Window The Configuration bar just below the toolbar displays the hardware configuration and may include I O set tings It also provides such things as name of the network card address information ports in use etc 2 3 3 Status Information on the Control Window The Status bar located just below the Configuration bar on the Control window provides a quick look at cur rent activity in the analyzer Capture Status Y Not Active Capture ko Single File M A used Utilization 0 Host O Control Events 0 e Capture Status displays Not Active Paused or Running and refers to the state of data capture It will also
71. e 802 11 Wi Fi e SD e USB e HSU High Speed UART The ComProbe hardware interfaces with your computer that is running our robust software engine called the ComProbe Protocol Analysis System or ComProbe software Whether you are sniffing the air or connecting dir ectly to the chip Frontline analyzers use the same powerful ComProbe software to help you test troubleshoot and debug communications faster ComProbe software is an easy to use and powerful protocol analysis platform Simply use the appropriate ComProbe hardware or write your own proprietary code to pump communication streams directly into the ComProbe software where they are decoded decrypted and analyzed Within the ComProbe software you see packets frames events coexistence binary hex radix statistics errors and much more This manual is a user guide that takes you from connecting and setting up the hardware through all of the ComProbe software functions for your ComProbe hardware Should you have any questions contact the Front line Technical Support Team 1 1 What is in this manual The ComProbe User Manual comprises the following seven chapters The chapters are organized in the sequence you would normally follow to capture and analyze data set up configure capture analyze save You can read them from beginning to end to gain a complete understanding of how to use the ComProbe hardware and software or you can skip around if you only need a refresher on a pa
72. e ComProbe NFC perform the following steps 1 Attach the antenna to the SMA connector at the top of the unit 2 Insert the smaller end of the USB cable into the ComProbe NFC USB port at the end of the enclosure opposite the antenna 3 Plug larger end of the USB cable into an available USB port of your PC When completed your configuration should resemble the following figure Figure 1 NFC Hardware Installation 2 1 2 ComProbe NFC Hardware Settings Dialog Use the Hardware Settings dialog to select which Com Probe NFC you wish to configure If only one ComProbe NFC is connected it is automatically selected fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster ComProbe NFC Hardware Settings Available ComProbes ComProbe NFC 5N 0107120013 w Figure 2 NFC Hardware Settings Dialog Hardware Settings Dialog Connecting and using the ComProbe NFC Analyzer l WA Connect the ComProbe NFC to an available USB port Start the analyzer software Select Hardware Settings from Options menu on the Control window Choose the ComProbe device to use from the drop down list The drop down list shows the serial numbers of the ComProbe devices If you have only one ComProbe device connected to your PC it is selected automatically Select OK to save the settings Cancel to close the dialog without saving the settings or Help to access the ComProbe help file 2 1 3 Capture Tips NFC can be atricky protocol
73. e eee e cece cee ccc eeeeeceeeeeeeceees 47 Figure 28 Summay pane right with Decoder pane left 48 Figure 29 Frame Display Protocol Layer Color Selector 53 Figure 30 Frame Display Quick Filtering and Hiding Protocols Dialog 53 vil fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Figure 31 Find Diaglog ieee ec cc cece ce cece eee eee cece cence aana aana 56 Figure 32 Find Decode Tab Search for String e eee eee eee eee eee ee 57 Figure 33 Find Decode Tab Side Restriction _ 2 22 eee eee eee eee eee cece eee eeeeeeees 57 Figure 34 Find Pattern Tab eases ee creer ge ae tec outer ane Go aadereccieaas de umma mmama mmama mume mu muu 59 Figure 35 Find Pattern Tab Side Restrictions __ 222 2 le eee eee eee cece ee eee cece eeeeeeees 60 Faure 36 FING DY WMG TaD IIIA 61 Figure 37 Find Go To tab cece ec eee ee cece eee eee e anaana 63 Figure 38 Find Special Events III 65 Figure 39 Find Signal tab aoaaa ananda aoaaa aaa aaa aaa ec cece eee cece Laaa anaana aana 66 Figure 40 Find Signal Tab 00000000000000 aooo a20 oaao 0o22 oaao oana 67 Figure 41 Find Error tab III 70 Figure 42 Find Bookmark tab eee cece cece ec cece cece oaaao aaoo aaroo aon 72 Figure 43 Bookmarked Frame 3
74. e efficient 6 Click Find Next and Find Previous to move to the next instance of the event Not all special events are relevant to all types of data For example control signal changes are relevant only to serial data and not to Ethernet data For a list of all special events and their meanings see List of All Event Symbols on page 31 5 1 6 Searching by Signal Searching with Signal allows you to search for changes in control signal states for one or more control signals You can also search for a specific state involving one or more control signals with the option to ignore those control signals whose states you don t care about The analyzer takes the current selected byte as its initial condition when running searches that rely on finding events where control signals changed To access the search by time function 1 Open a capture file to search 2 Open the Event Display or Frame Display e window 3 Click on the Find icon aa or choose Find from the Edit menu 4 Click on the Signal tab of the Find dialog 65 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster Note The tabs displayed on the Find dialog depend on the product you are running and the con tent of the capture file you are viewing Decode Pattem Time GoTo Special Events Search for event where CG Ore o more of these rx One ca more of these changed changed irom on to off One o moe of these This exactly O c
75. e of these was aff pari Side Restriction a search without regard to data origin Search only these sides Figure 41 Find Error tab Searching for event where The first three options are all fairly similar and are described together These options are searching for an event where e one or more error conditions changed e one or more error conditions occurred e one or more error conditions were off i e no errors occurred Selecting Which Errors to Search The section with the check boxes allows you to choose which errors the analyzer should look for Click ona box to check or un check it If you want to search only for overrun errors e check the box if shown e un check the other boxes To search for all types of errors e check all boxes The most common search is looking for a few scattered errors in otherwise clean data To do this type of search e choose to Search for an event where one or more error conditions occurred e choose which errors to look for e By default the analyzer looks for all types of errors 70 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster In contrast searching for an event where one or more error conditions were off means that the analyzer looks for an event where the errors were not present For example if you have data that is full of framing errors and you know that somewhere in your 20 megabyte capture file the framing got straightened out you could choose to search
76. e persistent during the session but are discarded when the session is closed The box in the center is the Protocols To Hide When you select the checkbox for a protocol in the Protocols To Hide data for that protocol will not appear in the Decode Binary Radix and Character panes The frames containing that type data will still appear in the Summary pane but not in the Decode Binary Radix and Character panes The box on the right is the Named Filters It contains filters that you cre ate using the Named Filter and Set Condition dialogs When you select Named Filters the checkbox for the Name Filters a tab appears on the Summary Pane Filler that displays the frame containing the specific data identified in the filter F Filler The named Filter tab remains on the Frame Display Sum F Filter Filter3 mary Pane unless you hide it using the Hide Show Display SCO link Supported Filters dialog Check the small box next to the name of each protocol you want to filter m Hole Slave in hide or Named Filter to display Configured BT low energy devic Exclude NULLs and POLL Then click OK 4 4 1 13 1 Frame Display Right Click Filterin In Frame Display protocols are displayed as tabs in the Summary pane When you select a tab the protocol layers are displayed The layers vary depending on the protocol You can create additional protocol tabs that highlight specific layers in the Summary pane using the F
77. e well known encryption key published by NXP Semi conductor are currently supported 16 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Chapter 4 Capturing and Analyzing Data The following sections describe the various ComProbe software functions that capture and display data packets 4 1 Capture Data 4 1 1 Capturing Data to Disk P Note Capture is not available in Viewer mode 1 Click the Start Capture icon a to begin capturing to a file This icon is located on the Control Event Display and Frame Display windows Files are placed in My Capture Files by default and have a cfa extension Choose Directories from the Options menu on the Control window to change the default file location Note For the Dashboard when you capture to series of files the window displays the data from the beginning of the first capture even when a new file in the series is created This is because the Dash board is a Session Monitor which means that even if you capture to a series of files the data from the first file is always displayed The display does not refresh when a new capture file in a series is created 2 Watch the status bar on the Control window to monitor how full the file is When the file is full it begins to wrap which means the oldest data will be overwritten by new data F 3 Click the Stop icon to temporarily stop data capture Click the Start Capture icon again to resume capture Stopping capture means no d
78. ected a range make sure the starting and ending C Entire File numbers are correct To specify a range type the 2 Selection numbers of the first and last items in the range in Ci Event Frames the boxes BC 7 Select either Events or Frames to indicate whether the numbers are event or frame numbers As Type file name here Note No capbunng val be done while the 8 Type a file name in the As box at the bottom of the fide is banig seve screen Click the Browse icon to browse to a spe cific directory Otherwise your file is saved in the default capture file directory 9 Click OK when you are finished 6 1 4 Confirm Capture File CFA Changes This dialog appears when you close a capture file after changing the Notes the protocol stack or bookmarks The dialog lists information that was added or changed and allows you to select which information to save and whether to save it to the current file or to a new one Changes made to the file appear in a list in the left pane You can click on each item to see details in the right pane about what was changed for each item You simply check the boxes next to the changes you want to keep Once you decide what changes to keep select one of the following e Save To This File Saves the changes you have made to the current capture file e Save As Saves the changes to a new file 89 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster e Cancel the Close Opera
79. ed Upon resuming live update the display updates with the latest data You can have more than one Event Display or Frame Display window open ata time Click the Duplicate View icon ig to open additional Event or Frame Display windows The lock resume function is independent on each window This means that you can have two Event Display windows open simultaneously and one win dow can be locked while the other continues to update 4 3 7 Data Formats and Symbols 4 3 7 1 Switching Between Viewing All Events and Viewing Data Events By default the analyzer on the Event Display dialog shows all events that include e Data bytes e Start of frame e End of frame characters e Data Captured Was Paused Click on the Display All Events icon to remove the non data events Click again to display all events See List of all Event Symbols on page 31 for a list of all the special events shown in the analyzer and what they mean 4 3 7 2 Switching Between Hex Decimal Octal or Binary On the Event Display window the analyzer displays data in Hex by default There are several ways to change the radix used to display data Go to the Format menu and select the radix you want A check mark next to the radix indicates which set is cur rently being used 1 An event is anything that happens on the circuit or which affects data capture Data bytes con trol signal changes and long and short breaks are all events as are I O Settings changes
80. ee cece cece ee eeeeeeeeeee 13 Figure 10 I O Settings Dialog ww wwwmmmmemenenenenene 14 Figure 11 Packet Transfer Dialog 2 2222 le cee ec cece cece cece cece cece cee ceeeeceeeeeeees 18 Figure 12 Frame Display Extended Inquire Response 19 Figure 13 Event Display a 25 Figure 14 Delta fields 20 0 a 28 Figure 15 Format MENU ia 30 Figure 16 Header labels right click 0 2 a 30 Figure 17 Data display right click menu a 30 Figure 18 Event Display Options menu aa 34 Figure 19 Event Display Font Size Selection o eee ence cece c ee cee cece e cee eeeeees 34 Figure 20 Frame Display with all panes active 35 Figure 21 Frame Display Find text entry field 41 Figure 22 Searh Find Dial g AA AA 42 Figure 23 Frame Display File menu Byte Export ee eee cee cee cece cece eeeeees 45 Figure 24 Byte Export dialog 22 22 a 45 Figure 25 Save As dialog cece ccc cece cece ccc eee n ccc ceececceceecuececcecescuceece 46 Figure 26 Sample Exported Frames Text File 46 Figure 27 Example Protocol Tags 2 22 cece cece cee cece cec
81. eee ee cee cece mumu 27 4 3 4 Calculating CRCs or FCSs _ 0 0 22 i cee cece eee e ences ee eeeeeees 27 4 3 5 Calculating Delta Times and Data Rates _ 0 20 lee ccc eee eeee 28 4 3 6 Switching Between Live Update and Review Mode 28 4 3 7 Data Formats and Symbols 2 22 2 eee cece cece cee eee cece eee e ee eeeees 29 4 3 7 1 Switching Between Viewing All Events and Viewing Data Events 29 4 3 7 2 Switching Between Hex Decimal Octal or Binary 29 4 3 7 3 Switching Between ASCII EBCDIC and Baudot 31 4 3 7 4 Selecting Mixed Channel Sides 31 4 3 7 5 List of all Event Symbols 20 2 ieee ec aoaaa aaa aaa ence eeeees 31 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster BO FONE SIZ ariana a O a E an GP GAP 33 4 4 Analyzing Protocol Decodes ieee ee ee cee eee cece cece aaa aoaaa 34 4 4 1 Frame Display Window 22mmmmmmmmmma mumu namu LALLA eee eee eee cece eeeeeees 34 4 4 1 1 Frame Display Toolbar oi eee cece eee eee eee eee anaana 37 4 4 1 2 Frame Display Status Bar U eee cee eee cee cece eee anaana 40 4 4 1 3 Hiding and Revealing Protocol Layers in the Frame Display 40 4 4 1 4 Physical vs Logical Byte Dis
82. efault when you click on the Characters Only icon A There are several ways to change the character set used to display data 1 Go to the Format menu and select the character set you want A check mark next to the character set indicates which set is currently being used 2 With the data displayed in characters right click on the data panel header label to choose a dif ferent character set If you want to see only characters click on the Characters Only icon A on the Event Display toolbar 4 3 7 4 Selecting Mixed Channel Sides If you want to get more data on the Event Display window you can switch to mixed sides mode This mode puts all the data together on the same line Data from one side Slave is shown on a white background and data from the other side Master is shown on a gray background 1 Click once on the Mixed Sides icon to put the display in mixed sides mode 2 Click again to return to side over side mode 3 You can right click in the center of the data display window to change between mixed and side over side modes by selecting Display Sides Together A check mark is displayed Click on Dis play Sides Together to remove the check mark and return to side by side display 4 Right click in the sides panel on the right of the data display and select Display Sides Together A check mark is displayed Click on Display Sides Together to remove the check mark and return to side by side display 4 3 7 5 List of all E
83. ent Display and Frame Display windows The analyzer can capture data with no windows other than the Control window open e If you are still experiencing buffer overflows after trying all of the above options then you need to use a faster PC 7 2 2 Progress Bars The analyzer uses progress bars to indicate the progress of anumber of different processes Some progress bars such as the filtering progress bar remain visible while others are hidden The title on the progress bar indicates the process underway 7 2 3 Event Numbering This section provides information about how events are numbered when they are first captured and how this affects the display windows in the analyzer The information in this section applies to frame numbering as well When the analyzer captures an event it gives the event a number If the event is a data byte event it receives a byte number in addition to an event number There are usually more events than bytes with the result is that a byte might be listed as Event 10 of 16 when viewing all events and Byte 8 of 11 when viewing only the data bytes The numbers assigned to events that are wrapped out of the buffer are not reassigned In other words when event number 1 is wrapped out of the buffer event number 2 is not renumbered to event 1 This means that the first event in the buffer may be listed as event 11520 of 16334 because events 1 11519 have been wrapped out of the buffer Since row numbers refer to
84. ents Signal Enoc Bor Patten w Find Ned Erte Hex vah os ha L Ignore case Binary valuas a kbbbbbibbb Control chareclers at ec matches any bets or haa on banag digi To enter Hi or peix wath character 4 Side Resinchon G Search without regard bo dala ongan Search only these sidez F DTE DCE Figure 35 Find Pattern Tab Side Restrictions Pattern allows you to enter a string in the text box You can use characters hex or binary digits control char acters wildcards or a combination of any of the formats when entering your string Every time you type ina search string the ComProbe analyzer saves the search The next time you open Find the drop down list will contain your search parameters 1 Enter the search pattern 2 Check Ignore Case to do a case insensitive search 3 When you have specified the pattern you want to use click on the Find Next or Find Previous buttons to start the search from the current event The result of the search is displayed in the in Frame Display and Event Display Refer to Searching by Decode on page 56 for information on Side Restrictions 5 1 3 Searching by Time Searching with Time allows you search on timestamps on the data in Frame Display and Event Display win dow To access the search by time function 1 Open a capture file to search 2 Open the Event Display P or Frame Display e window 60 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster
85. equent frames with partial header information A magenta triangle indicates that a bookmark is associated with this frame Any comments asso ciated with the bookmark appear in the column next to the bookmark symbol 4 4 1 11 4 Decode Pane The Decode pane aka detail pane im is a post process display that provides a detailed decode of each frame transaction sometimes referred to as a frame The decode is presented in a layered format that can be expanded and collapsed depending on which layer or layers you are most interested in Click on the plus sign to expand a layer The plus sign changes to a minus sign Click on the minus sign to collapse a layer Select Show All or Show Layers from the Format menu to expand or collapse all the layers Layers retain their expanded or collapsed state between frames Expand All Nodes Protocol layers can be hidden preventing them from being ji displayed on the Decode pane Right click on any protocol Hide L2CAP Layer In All Frames layer and choose Hide protocol name from the right click menu Provide AVDTP Rules Each protocol layer is represented by a color which is used to highlight the bytes that belong to that protocol layer in the Event Radix Binary and Character panes The colors are not assigned to a protocol but are assigned to the layer The Event Radix Binary Character and Decode panes are all synchronized with one another Clicking on an element in any one of the
86. er to decode the data in the file If you open a file without using any decodes and decide later that you want to apply a decode choose Reframe from the File menu on the Control window At present the analyzer supports the following file types e Frontline Serialtest Async and Serialtest ComProbe for DOS requires the byt for data and the tim for timestamps see note on importing DOS timestamps e Greenleaf ViewComm 3 0 for DOS requires the byt for data and the tim for timestamps see note on importing DOS timestamps e Frontline Ethertest for DOS requires 3 files filename cap filename ca0 and filename cal e Sniffer Type 1 supports files with the enc extension Does not support Sniffer files with a cap exten sion e Snoop or Sun Snoop files with a cap extension based on RFC 1761 For file format see http www faqs org rics ric1761 html e Shomiti Surveyor files in Snoop format files with a cap extension For file format contact Technical Support e CATC Merlin files with a csv extension Files must be exported with a specific format See File Format for Merlin Files for information e CATC Chief files with a txt extension 6 3 Printing 6 3 1 Printing from the Frame Display HTML Export The Frame Display Print dialog and the Frame Display HTML Export are very similar This topic discusses both dialogs Frame Display Print The Frame Display Print feature provides the user with
87. f there are remaining packets to be processed when live capture stops the Transferring Pack ets dialog below is displayed showing the packets yet to be read by the ComProbe analyzer The dialog shows the name of each ComProbe hardware device its process id in square brackets and the number of packets remaining These stored packets are read until they re exhausted or the user clicks the Discard button on the dialog Unlike 802 11 Bluetooth packets never come in faster than the datasource can process them However Bluetooth packets must still be stored so that they can be read in chronological order with the 802 11 packets Transferring Packets Current Packet Transfer Statistics Hardware Packets on hardware ComProbe 802 11 6120 21 084 BPA 500 2720 3 Total 21 057 Live capture has stopped but there are packets buffered on the ComProbe Hardware that have not been decoded These packets will continue bo be transferred and decoded until complete Press the Discard button to stop packet transfer and discard all untransferred packets malansa is 26 complete O seconds remaining Figure 11 Packet Transfer Dialog 4 1 2 Extended Inquiry Response Extended Inquiry Response EIR is a tab that appears automatically on the Frame Display window when you capture data 18 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster Fr amo D ipla iry Ti it AP ai BI pina a mwana IA PO ka pArA YAWE
88. fte com contline Debug Communications Faster NFC A NFC B NFC F PROTOCOL ANALYZER ComProbe User Manual Revision Date 4 2 2014 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Copyright 2000 2014 Frontline Test Equipment Inc All rights reserved FTS Frontline Frontline Test System ComProbe Protocol Analysis System and ComProbe are registered trade marks of Frontline Test Equipment Inc FTS4BT BPA 500 and BPA 600 is a trademark of Frontline Test Equipment Inc The Bluetooth SIG Inc owns the Bluetooth word mark and logos and any use of such marks by Frontline is under license All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Contents Chapter 1 ComProbe Hardware amp Software 1 1 1 What maa NTN NAAN NA ensue scsi Goes AA AGANG LAAN 1 1 2 Minimum System Requirements mmmmemeeu 2 1 3 Software Installation 2 3s22sdccecndGends Sons coanedanncecicchicecSocesdhardeanereceseeedeecedeceesccenie 2 IKA BG APAPAP EE 2 132 From Download IAA 2 Chapter 2 Getting Started 220 kawala dl ewe NG PNG EL UNANG Da ING bavksendcebcdeacusdunhdbesencekadessoureasaues 3 Paa a NA 3 21 1 Hardware Inaon aaa dana ten aaah MAGKALABANG NIN SLA katanda 3 2 1 2 ComProbe NFC Hardware Set
89. g Capture Closes a capture file and stops data capture to Save Save the currently selected bytes or the entire buffer to file km dl Clear Discards the temporary file and clears the display Event Display Brings the Event Display window to the front Duplicate View Creates a second Frame Display window identical to the first Apply Modify Display Filters Opens the Display Filter dialog Quick Protocol Filter brings up a dialog box where you can fil ter or hide one or more protocol layers dq lt q amp DO 37 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster E3 Protocol Stack brings up the Protocol Stack Wizard where you can change the stack used to decode framed data Reload Decoders When Reload Decoders is clicked the plug ins are reset and received frames are re decoded For example If the first frame occurs more than 10 minutes in the past the 10 minute utilization graph stays blank until a frame from 10 minutes ago or less is decoded C2 Find Search for errors string patterns special events and more Display Capture Notes Brings up the Capture Notes window where you can view or add notes to the capture file Add Modify Bookmark Add a new or modify an existing book mark Display All Bookmarks Shows all bookmarks and lets you move between bookmarks Extract Data Opens the Extract Data dialog Network View Opens the Network View Window D gt A E BUB Das
90. g Communications Faster Events Per Row You can choose to display Multiple Events Per Row but this method contains no timestamps If you select One Event Per Row you can display timestamps multiple events or single events per row Note The raw timestamp value is the number of 100 nanosecond intervals since the beginning of January 1 1601 This is standard Windows time The timestamp data types displayed in columns for One Event Per Row Timestamp Delta Event Number Byte Number Frame Number Type Hex Dec Oct Bin Side ASCII 7 bit ASCII EBCDIC Baudot RTS CTS DSR DTR CD RI UART Overrun Parity Error Framing Error 7 If you select csv as the file type choose whether you want to hide display Preambles or Column Headings in the ezported file 8 Click Save The Event Display Export file is saved to the locations you specified in File name 98 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster A B C D E F G H J K 1 Timestamp Delta Event Number Byte Number Frame Number Type Hex iDec Oct Bin ASCII 632 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 631 626 3 Data 0 0 0 0 633 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 632 627 3 Data 0 0 0 0 634 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 633 628 3 Data oi 0 0 0 635 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 634 629 3 Data 98 152 230 10011000 636 11 30 2012 12 20 02 895166 PM 0 00 00 00 635 630 3 Data 70 112 160 1110000 p 637 11 30 2012 1
91. hanged kan dll lo on O dererbes the state ipa apn Pin3 fv Pind Figure 39 Find Signal tab 66 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Find STA 161 cfa Decode Pattern Time GoTo SpecalEvents Sigra Ena Teach for even where TE za One c mae of thara 4 One ce more of Free Find Next changed changed fom on to off Find Pt ix One of mara of there This exactly NG LO ae ale Hom off bo on danced ha Hae Pies ATS ICTs OSA DTA Pico IAI Figure 40 Find Signal Tab You will choose one qualifier Searching for event where then choose one or more control signals Control Signals The section with the check boxes allows you to specify which control signals the analyzer should pay attention to when doing the search The analyzer pays attention to any control signal with a check mark e Click on a box to place a check mark next to a control signal e Click again to uncheck the box e By default the analyzer searches all control signals which means all boxes start out checked For example if you are only interested in finding changes in RTS and CTS you would check those two boxes and uncheck all the other boxes This tells the analyzer to look only at the RTS and CTS lines when running the search The other signals are ignored The control signals types include e USB Pin 1 e USB Pin 2 USB Pin 3 USB Pin 4
92. hboard Opens the Dashboard Dialog Reload Decoders When Reload Decoders is clicked the plug ins are reset and received frames are re decoded For example If the first frame occurs more than 10 minutes in the past the 10 minute utilization graph stays blank until a frame from 10 minutes ago or less is decoded Filter Text giving the filter currently in use If no filter is being used the text reads All Frames which means that nothing is Filter filtered out To see the text of the entire filter place the cursor over the text and a ToolTip pops up with the full text of the fil ter The following icons all change how the panes are arranged on the Frame Display Additional layouts are listed in the View menu 38 ES 0 BP HI Find fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Show Default Panes Returns the panes to their default settings Show Only Summary Pane Displays only the Summary pane Shall All Panes Except Event Pane Makes the Decode pane taller and the Summary pane narrower Toggle Display Lock Prevents the display from updating Go To Frame First Frame Moves to the first frame in the buffer Previous Frame Moves to the previous frame in the buffer Next Frame Moves to the next frame in the buffer Last Frame Moves to the last frame in the buffer Find on Frame Display only searches the Decode Pane for a value you enter in the text box Find Previ
93. he Go To Move Forward or Move Backward buttons to start the search from the current event Note When you select Absolute as Search for Go To is available When you select Relative as Search for Move Forward or Move Backwardis available Go to the timestamp On or before On or after The analyzer searches for an event that matches the time specified If no event is found at the time specified the analyzer goes to the nearest event either before or after the specified time Choose whether to have the analyzer go to the nearest event before the specified time or after the specified time by clicking the appro priate radio button in the Go to the timestamp box If you are searching forward in the buffer you usually want to choose the On or After option If you choose the On or Before option it may be that the analyzer finishes the search and not move from the current byte if that byte happens to be the closest match When you select Absolute as Search for the radio buttons are On or before the specified time or On or after the specified time When you select Relative as Search for the radio buttons are On or before the specified time relative to the first selected item or On or after the specified time relative to the last selected item 1 Select On or before the specified time or On or after the specified time 2 When you have specified the time interval you want to use click on the Go To Move Forward or Move Backward buttons to start
94. her words they show the actual data as it appeared on the circuit The Radix Binary and Character panes in the Frame Display window show the logical data or the resulting byte values after escape codes or other character altering codes have been applied a process called transformation As an example bytes with a value of less than 0x20 the Ox indicates a hexadecimal value cannot be trans mitted in Async PPP To get around this a Ox7d is transmitted before the byte The 0x7d says to take the next byte and subtract 0x20 to obtain the true value In this situation the Event pane displays Ox7d 0x23 while the Radix pane displays 0x03 4 4 1 5 Sorting Frames By default frames are sorted in ascending numerical sequence by frame number Click on a column header in the Summary pane to sort the frames by that column For example to sort the frames by size click on the Frame Size column header An embossed triangle next to the header name indicates which column the frames are sorted by The direction of the triangle indicates whether the frames are in ascending or descending order with up being ascending Note that it may take some time to sort large numbers of frames 4 4 1 6 Frame Display Find Frame Display has a simple Find function that you can use to search the Decode Pane for any alpha numeric value This functionality is in addition to the more robust Search Find dialog Frame Display Find is located below the toolbar on the Fra
95. icking on the pane and choosing the appropriate character set CR OI ULY ICE 5 5 FAW 5 NE 4 l This ts the Character Pane Copy Selection to Clipboard Select Entire Frame Change Text Highlight Color Because the Character pane displays the logical bytes rather than the physical bytes the data in the Character pane may be different from that in the Event pane See MAP MAT oe Physical vs Logical Byte Display for more information v ASCH 7 bit ASCI Colors are used to show which protocol layer each byte belongs to The colors correspond to the layers listed in the EBCDIC Decode pane Baudot The Event Radix Binary Character and Decode panes are all synchronized with one another Clicking on an ele ment in any one of the panes highlights the corresponding element in all the other panes 4 4 1 11 7 Binary Pane The Binary pane displays the logical bytes in the frame in binary Because the Binary pane displays the logical bytes rather than the physical bytes the data in the Binary pane may be different from that in the Event pane See Physical vs Logical Byte Display for more information Colors are used to show which protocol layer each byte belongs to The colors correspond to the layers listed in the Decode pane The Event Radix Binary Character and Decode panes are all synchronized with one another Clicking on an element in any one of the panes highlights the corresponding element in all the other panes 4 4 1 11
96. idden Panes from the pop up menu and select the pane from the fly out menu or select Show Pane Name from the View menu 44 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster To re size a pane place the cursor over the pane border until a double arrow cursor appears Click and drag on the pane border to re size the pane 4 41 10 Frame Display Byte Export The captured frames can be exported as raw bytes to a text file 1 From the Frame Display File menu select Byte Export 9 Frame Display le modified channel maps HID kbd cant decrypt Edit View Format Filter Bookmarks Options Window Go Live Open Capture File Close Save Save Selection Reframe 1 le modified channel maps HID_kbd cant_decrypt_GATT cfa 2 example_btsnoop_hcilog cfa 3 C Users BPA500 cfa 4 C Users SDIO_20121005 cfa Print Print Preview Export Byte Export HTML Export Reload Decoders Recreate Companion File Figure 23 Frame Display File menu Byte Export 2 From the Byte Export window specify the frames to export e All Frames exports all filtered in frames including those scrolled off the Summary pane Filtered in frames are dependent on the selected Filter tab above the Summary pane Filtered out frames are not exported e Selected Frames export is the same as All Frames export except that only frames selected in the Summary pane will be exported Byte Export L pg Export
97. ide first followed by the DCE side P Note Side Restriction is available for pattern and error searching 58 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 1 Select one of the two options 2 Select DTE DCE or both 3 When you made your selections click on the Find Next or Find Previous buttons to start the search from the current event The result of the search is displayed in the Decode pane in Frame Display 5 1 2 Searching by Pattern Search by Pattern lets you perform a traditional string search You can combine any of the formats when enter ing your string and your search can include wildcards To access the search by pattern function 1 Open a capture file to search 2 Open the Event Display P or Frame Display p window 3 Click on the Find icon an or choose Find from the Edit menu 4 Click on the Pattern tab of the Find dialog Note The tabs displayed on the Find dialog depend on the product you are running and the con tent of the capture file you are viewing Ek Find Decode Patten Time GoTo Special Events Bookmark Pattern v Enter Hex values as x lgnore case Find AE AYA Binary values as kbbbbbbbb Control characters as Cc matches any byte or hex or binary digit To enter 8677 of prefix with character Figure 34 Find Pattern Tab 59 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster aL Decode Peter Time GoTo SpecisEv
98. iew the system displays your data in a browser print preview display with options for printing such as page orientation and paper size You can also use your Printer Preferences dialog to make some of these selections When printing your data the analyzer creates an html file and prints the path to the file at the bottom of the page This file can be opened in your browser however it may appear different than the printed version Frame Display HTML Export The Frame Display HTML Export feature provides the user with the option to export the capture buffer to an html file The maximum file size however that can be exported is 1000 frames How to export display data to an html file 1 Select HTML Export from the File menu on the Frame Display window to display the Frame Dis play HTML Export 93 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster Frame Display HTML Export Prowde infomation to export dala trom the currently selected fiber tab include Datal Sechon Data Byte CA layers Ce Selected lupen only i IFZ SFX Bl ISAKMP Ce Selectii LDAP LLC ae 2 LHF CE Ti 3 Note Browse pent options map affect whether ary gray background is parked See Help las info Figure 55 Frame Display HTML Export Dialog 2 From this point the procedure is the same as steps 2 through 5 in How to Print Frame Display Data above 3 Click the OK button The Save As dialog appears boa AA San O Wo leah orom
99. ile 6 2 1 Loading a Capture File From the Control Window 1 Go to the File menu 2 Choose a file from the recently used file list 3 If the file is not in the File menu list select Open Capture File from the File menu or simply click 2 on the Open icon on the toolbar 4 Capture files have a cfa extension Browse if necessary to find your capture file 5 Click on your file and then click Open 90 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 6 2 2 Importing Capture Files 1 From the Control window A go to the File menu and select Open Capture File or click on the Open icon on the toolbar 2 Left of the File name text box select from the drop down list Supported File Types box to All Importable File Types or All Supported File Types cfa log txt csv cap Select the file and click Open The analyzer automatically converts the file to the analyzer s format while keeping the original file in its original format You can save the file in the analyzer s format close the file without saving it in the analyzer s format or have the analyzer automatically save the file in the analyzer s format see the System Settings to set this option All of these options keep your original file untouched When you first open the file the analyzer brings up the Protocol Stack window and ask you what protocol decodes if any you want to use You must choose a protocol decode at this point for the analyz
100. iltering Results dialog Note The Filtering Results dialog is not available for all layers because the information within those layers is not sortable like time To use the Filtering Results dialog l Export 1 Right click on a value in the Summary pane For example the S for Slave under Role Filter in Role Slave Filter Dialog field equals 2 On the drop down list select Filter in name l value where name is the column name Provide AVDTP Rules and value is the column value to filter For our example Filter in Role Slave appears in the menu The Filtering Results dialog appears 3 Enter a name for the Filter or use the default name 4 Click OK Role Slave A new protocol tab with the Filter Name you just created appears in the Summary pane The new tab displays data specific to the layer you selected 54 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 4 4 1 13 1 1 Filtering On the Summary Layer Protocol To filter on the protocol in the Summary in the Frame Display window pane 1 Select the tab of the desired protocol or open the Summary combo box 2 Select the desired protocol 3 To filter on a different layer just select another tab or change the layer selection in the combo box 4 4 1 13 1 2 Filtering on all Frames with Errors trom the Frame Display To filter on all frames with errors 1 Open the Frame Display Bo ow 2 Click the starred Quick Filter icon
101. in only special events and data bytes classified as printable In ASCII printable characters are those with hex values between 20 and S7e 6 4 2 2 Exporting Baudot When exporting Baudot you need to be able to determine the state of the shift character In a text export the state of the shift bit can be determined by the data in the Character field When letters is active the character field shows letters and vice versa 99 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Chapter 7 General Information 7 1 System Settings and Progam Options 7 1 1 System Settings Open the System Settings window by choosing System Settings from the Options menu on the Control win dow To enable a setting click in the box next to the setting to place a checkmark in the box To disable a set ting click in the box to remove the checkmark When viewing a capture file settings related to data capture are grayed out There are two ways you can capture data Series of files or Single File 7 1 1 1 Series of files System Settings Capbae Mode Atom es e or Restart Captunng Alte Saving oi Clesang Capdure Fie Wrap Sents of Fies File Size fink 81373 Min Mad Default Capuae 4yeeferedd_hammess_O01 cts Append Senes Stat Date Time 5 Fie Mumbai C Append Fie Stat Date Time Masamaim mumba ol Hex 10 C Start new iie after Figure 60 System Settings for defining how to capture data This option lets you capture to
102. ish it from the others e To navigate between multiple Frame Displays click on the Frame Display icon in the Control window toolbar A drop down list appears listing all the currently open Frame Displays e Select the one you want from the list and it comes to the front Note When you create a filter in one Frame Display that filter does not automatically appear in other Frame Display windows You must use the Hide Reveal feature to display a filter cre ated in one Frame Display in different Frame Display window Note When you have multiple Frame Display windows open and you are capturing data you may receive an error message declaring that Filtering cannot be done while receiving data this fast If this occurs you may have to stop filtering until the data is captured 4 4 1 9 Working with Panes on Frame Display When the Frame Display first opens all panes are displayed except the Event pane To view all the panes select Show All Panes from the View menu e The Toggle Expand Decode Pane icon in makes the decode pane longer to view lengthy decodes better i e The Show Default Panes icon returns the Frame Display to its default settings e The Show only Summary Pane icon La displays on the Summary Pane To close a pane right click on the pane and select Hide This Pane from the pop up menu or de select Show Pane Name from the View menu To open a pane right click on the any pane and select Show H
103. ist of all the saved filters 83 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster Set Condition Currently Active Condition Filters Include C Exclude Condition AND OR where the protocol Baseband held LT ADDR Is Egu AND Figure 50 Set Condition Dialog in Advanced View 2 Select the desired condition from the filter definition 3 Click the Delete Selected Line icon 4 Edit the Boolean operators and parentheses as needed 5 Click OK The system displays the Save Named Condition dialog Ensure that the filter name is displayed in the text box at the top of the dialog and click OK If you choose to create an addi tional filter then provide a new name for the filter condition or accept the default name provided by the system and click OK The Set Condition dialog box closes and the system applies the modified filter 5 3 1 7 3 Renaming a Display Filter 1 Select Rename Display Filters from the Filter menu in the Frame Display e window to open the Rename Filter dialog The system displays the Rename Filter dialog with a list of all user defined filters in the Filters combo box Rename Filters Filter0 Description fIndude each frame where the protocol Baseband field LT ADDR Is Equal To 6 New Name ri Ka Figure 51 Rename Filters Dialog 2 Select the filter to be renamed from the combo box 84 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 3 Enter a new na
104. ket Suc cess Ethertype Source Address etc 3 Select Filter in data type The Filtering Results dialog appears Filtering Results 4 Enter a name for the filter 5 Select OK Filter Name The filter you just created appears in the Named Filters section ASCII 3 of the Quick Filtering dialog OK iisi 5 3 1 4 Using Compound Display Filters Compound filters use boolean logic to create complex and precise filters There are three primary Boolean logic operators AND OR and NOT The AND operator narrows the filter the OR operator broadens the filter and the NOT operator excludes conditions from the filtered results Include parentheses in a compound filter to nest condition sets within lar ger condition sets and force the filter processing order 78 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster There are two steps to using a compound filter Define the filter conditions and then apply the filter to the data set The analyzer combines both filter definition and application in one dialog 10 Click the Display Filters icon Y on the Frame Display window or select Apply Modify Dis play Filters from the filter menu to open the Set Condition dialog box Click the Advanced button on the Set Condition dialog box Select Include or Exclude radio button Now you can set the conditions for the filter Select the initial condition for the filter from the combo box at the b
105. lable grayed out until the condition selec tions are complete e When you have multiple Frame Display windows with a display filter or filters those filter do not auto matically appear in other Frame Display windows You must use the Hide Reveal feature to display a filter created in one Frame Display in different Frame Display window 5 3 1 2 Including and Excluding Radio Buttons All filter dialog boxes contain an Include and an Exclude radio button These buttons are mutually exclusive The Include Exclude selection becomes part of the filter definition and appears as part of the filter descrip tion displayed to the right of the Toolbar Include A filter constructed with the Include button selected returns a data set that includes frames that meet the conditions defined by the filter and omits frames that do not Exclude A filter constructed with the Exclude button selected returns a data set that excludes frames that meet the conditions defined by the filter and consists of frames that do not 5 3 1 3 Named Display Filters You can create a unique display filter by selecting a data type on the Frame Display and using a right click menu When you create a Name Filter it appears in the Quick Filtering dialog where you can use it do cus tomize the data you see in the Frame Display panes 1 Select a frame in the Frame Display Summary Pane 2 Right click in the one of the data columns in the Summary Pane CRC NESN DS Pac
106. led the application automatically checks for the latest Frontline releases If a new version is detected a dialog appears similar to the sample below The system and version will vary dependent upon the ComProbe hardware being used e The Window menu displays the open Frontline dialogs and standard options like Cascade Minimize Tile etc e Within the Help menu you can open the electronic Help file About lt hardware where hardware if the specific ComProbe capture method e g About BPA 600 2 3 6 Minimizing Windows Windows can be minimized individually or as a group when the Control window is minimized To minimize win dows as a group 11 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Go to the Window menu on the Control A window Select Minimize Control Minimizes All The analyzer puts a check next to the menu item indic ating that when the Control window is minimized all windows are minimized Select the menu item again to deactivate this feature The windows minimize to the top of the operating system Task Bar 12 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Chapter 3 Configuration Settings In this section we show how to configure each of the Frontline ComProbe analyzer using the ComProbe soft ware for capturing data 3 1 NFC Configuration 3 1 1 ComProbe NFC Hardware Settings Dialog Use the Hardware Settings dialog to select which Com Probe NFC you wish to c
107. m rontline Debug Communications Faster e Search For String in Decoder allows you to enter a string in the text box You can use characters hex or binary digits wildcards or a combination of any of the formats when entering your string Every time you type in a search string the analyzer saves the search The next time you open Find the drop down list will contain your search parameters e Search for All Errors finds frame errors as well as frames with byte level errors such as parity or CRC errors e Search for Frame Errors Only finds frame specific errors such as frame check errors e Search for Information Frame only searches information frames 1 Enter the search string 2 Check Ignore Case to do a case insensitive search 3 When you have specified the time interval you want to use click on the Find Next or Find Pre vious buttons to start the search from the current event The result of the search is displayed in the Decode pane in Frame Display Side Restrictions Side Restriction means that the analyzer looks for a pattern coming wholly from the DTE or DCE side If 24 Event Display KIBR you choose to search without regard for data origin the analyzer mie Edt View Format Options window Help looks for a pattern coming from one or both sides For example if you choose to search for the pattern ABC and you choose to search without regard for data origin the analyzer finds all three instances of ABC shown he
108. m creates a shortcut for the selected method and places it in the Frontline ComProbe Protocol Analysis System lt version gt desktop folder and in the start menu when you click the Run button This function allows you the option to create a shortcut icon that can be placed on the desktop In the future simply double click the shortcut to start the analyzer in the associated protocol Supporting Documentation The Frontline ComProbe Protocol Analysis System directory contains supporting doucmentation for devel opment Automation DecoderScript application notes documentation Quick Start Guides and User Manual and maintenance tools 2 2 2 ComProbe NFC Data Capture Method Select Data Capture Method lt 9 902 11 AMP NFC Sniffing 49 802 11 AMP Interlaced Page Scan 3 802 11 Interlaced Page Scan 49 802 11 Bluetooth Coexistence 49 Classic low energy Air Sniffing 43 Combined Connection Classic low energy JI Classic low energy 802 11 Air Sniffing 4 KI 802 11 Classic low energy Coexistence 49 Two 802 11 and One BPA 500 23 43 High Speed Serial Sniffing 5 MAG HCI BCSP 43 HCI H4 49 HCI HADS 49 HCI H5 43 HSU HCI 49 MWS WCI 2 3 NFC 5 AG NFC 3 43 SDIO Sniffing 00043 Bluetooth SDIO 43 5D 20 3 USB Sniffing iq KI Bluetooth HCI 43 USB 2 3 Virtual Sniffing 43 FTS Side 49 IEEE11073 Ww Cancel Help e Requires one ComProbe NFC hardware e Captures and Decodes NFC
109. mProbe 802 11 with Wireshark Iles cuments yh Dorumertr Select to open Capture Methods Figure 8 Desktop Folder Link 2 Double click on Frontline ComProbe Protocol Analysis System and the system displays the Select Data Capture Method dialog N us Note You can also access this dialog by selecting Start gt All Programs gt Frontline ComProbe Protocol Analysis System Version 5 Frontline ComProbe Protocol Analysis System This dialog lists all the methods ComProbe supports in a tree control See Protocol List Three buttons appear at the bottom of the dialog Run Cancel and Help When the dialog first opens Cancel and Help are active and the Run button is inactive grayed out Cancel Help f i starts the selected protocol stack closes the dialog and exits the user back to the desktop takes the user to this help file as does pressing the F1 key fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 3 Expand the folder and select the data capture method that matches your configuration 4 Click on the Run button and the ComProbe Control Window will openconfigured to the selected capture method P Note If you don t need to identify a capture method then click the Run button to start the ana lyzer Creating a Shortcut A checkbox labeled Create Shortcut When Run is located near the bottom of the dialog This box is un checked by default Select this checkbox and the syste
110. mber with Find 42 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster e When you enter a search string and select Enter the search moves forward e If you select Find Previous Occurrence when the search reaches the first frame it will then cycle to the last frame and continue until it reaches the frame where the search began e Shift F3 is a shortcut for Find Previous Occurrence e Ifyou select Find Next Occurrence when the search reaches the last frame it will then cycle to the first frame and continue until it reaches the frame where the search began e F3 is a shortcut for Find Next Occurrence e You cannot search while data is being captured e After a capture is completed you cannot search until Frame Display has finished decoding the frames e Find is not case sensitive e The status of the search is dis played at the bottom of the dialog Total Frames 259 Frames Filtered In 259 Frame 5 Selected 201 1 e The search occurs only on the pro Search for Antenna True results found tocol layer selected e To search across all the protocols on the Frame Display select the Unfiltered tab e A drop down list displays the search values entered during the current session of Frame Display Antenna True e The search is cancelled when you select a different protocol tab during gee a search e You can cancel the search at any time by selecting the Cancel Current Search ke button 4 4
111. me Display dialog Frame Display bpa bt le cfa 2 Pe YE ST m8 DAO MAS i SOnDBCOOO RRR Figure 21 Frame Display Find text entry field Where the more powerful Search Find functionality searches the Decode Binary Radix and Character panes on Frame Display using TImestamps Special Events Bookmarks Patterns etc 41 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Sele Golo Special Everts Bookmark berth serge Month Pugu 2007 Hep Day Hou Hite Second 1 1 000000 Secondi a Sn IB st Sa1000 a Go to the timestamp CG On or belore the specified ima O On ov after the specified lime Figure 22 Searh Find Dialog Find on Frame Display only searches the Decode Pane for a value you enter in the text box To use Find 1 Select the frame where you want to begin the search 2 Enter a value in the Find text box End Antenne Tut E Note Note The text box is disabled during a live capture to begin the search on frames prior to the frame you selec ted or Find Next Occurrence to begin the search on frames following the frame you selec ted db Arterna Signal Trs The next occurrence of the value if it is found will be high Antenna True lighted in the Decode Pane dem T panama Alberwabor Faka db Trani Sterian Fake 4 Select Find Previous Occurrence or Find Next Occurrence to continue the search There are several important concepts to reme
112. me for the filter in the New Name box Optionally click the Apply button and the new name will appear in the Filters combo box and the New Name box will empty This option allows you to rename several filters without closing the Rename Filter dialog each time 4 Click OK The Rename Filter dialog box closes and the system renames the filter 5 3 2 Protocol Filtering From the Frame Display On the Frame Display click the Quick Filtering icon W or select Quick Filtering from the Filter menu This opens a dialog that lists all the protocols discovered so far The protocols displayed change depending on the data received Quick Filtering and Hiding Protocols Protocols To Filter In Protocols To Hide Named Filters All Frames With Errors All But the Last Layer FilterO G All Frames With Information All Frames With Information Filter1 ano AYDTP JAYDTP Filter2 A VDTP Signaling AVDTP Signaling 17 SCO link Supported hep Baseband Baseband Filter3 Bluetooth FHS Bluetooth FHS Role Slave Headset Headset Configured BT low energy devic L2CAP F L2CAP Exclude NULLs and POLLs LMP LMP Non Captured Info Non Captured Info e K E PreConnection FHS ID PreConnection FHS IRFCOMM C RFCOMM FISDP ESDP Filtering shows only frames that contain the protocol desired but it shows the entire frame Hiding removes any protocol layers f
113. name of each file is the name you give it in the Name box followed by the date and time The date and time are when the series was opened 101 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 7 1 1 3 Common Options e Restart Capturing After Saving or Clearing Capture File If the Automatically Restart feature is enabled the analyzer restarts capture to the file immediately after the file is closed e Wrap File When enabled the analyzer wraps the file when it becomes full The oldest events are moved out of the file to make room for new events Any events moved out of the file are lost When disabled the analyzer stops capture when the file becomes full Either reset the file or close your capture file to continue e File Size The size of the file will depend of the available hard disk space 1 Click the Min button to see set the minimum acceptable value for the file size 2 Click the Max button to see set the maximum acceptable value for the file size You can accept these values or you can enter a unique file size But if you try to close the dialog after entering a value greater than the maximum or less than the minimum you will A Entaran niega babaen Msani AMR see the following dialog Start up Opens the Program Start up Options window Start up options let you choose whether to start data capture immediately on opening the analyzer e Advanced Opens the Advanced System Options window The Adva
114. nced Settings should only be changed on advice of technical support 7 1 1 4 System Settings Disabled Enabled Options Some of the System Settings options are disabled depending upon the status of the data capture session e As the default all the options on the System Settings dialog are enabled e Once the user begins to capture data by selecting the Start Capture button some of the options on the System Settings dialog are disabled until the user stops data capture and either saves or erases the cap tured data e The user can go into the Startup options and Advanced system options on the System Settings dialog and make changes to the settings at any time 102 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 7 1 1 5 Advanced System Options These parameters affect fundamental aspects of the software and it is unlikely that you ever have to change them If you do change them and need to return them to their original values the default value is listed in par entheses to the right of the value box Most technical support problems are not related to these parameters and as changing them could have serious consequences for the performance of the analyzer we strongly recommend contacting technical support before changing any of these parameters To access the Advanced System Options 1 Go to the Control Na window 2 Choose System Settings from the Options menu 3 On the System Settings window click the Advanced
115. ndition dialog Fiter with a list ofall user defined filters Filter Filter Role Slave 2 Select the filter to be deleted from the SCO link Supported list 3 Click the Delete button 4 Click OK The Delete Named Condition dialog box closes and the system deletes the filter 5 3 1 6 2 Hiding Showing a Display Filter Hiding a Display Filter If a display filter is showing the following steps will hide that filter but will not delete it 81 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster 1 Select Hide Show Display Fil ters from the Filter menu on Hide Show Filters the Frame Display Ba ow Filters to open the Hide Show Filters dialog The system displays the Description Hide Show Filters dialog with a list of all user defined filters 2 Select the filter to be hidden Cancel from the combo box F ndude each frame where the protocol Data field ASCII Contains the Substring 3 Click the Hide button The Hide button is only showing if the selected filter is currently showing in the Frame Display 4 Click OK The Hide Show Filters dialog box closes and the system hides the filter and removes the filter tab from the Frame Display Showing a Hidden Display Filter If a display filter is hidden the following steps will reveal that filter in the Frame Display ra 1 Select Hide Show Display Filters from the Filter menu in the Frame Display window to open the Hide Show Filters dialog
116. nsive than EIR data 4 2 Protocol Stacks 19 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster 4 2 1 Protocol Stack Wizard The Protocol Stack wizard is where you define the protocol stack you want the analyzer to use when Select a Protocol Stack decoding frames Select a protocol stack j Build Your Own To start the wizard BUZI o T 802 11 Radio Air Sniffer BlueCore Serial Protocol BCSP from Cambridge Silicon Radio with autotraverse 1 Choose Protocol Stack from the WA a AA H 7 Bluetooth HCI USB with autotraverse Options menu on the Control window or Fictitious Protocol with autotraverse ji 3 H4DS with autotraverse click the Protocol Stack icon 77 on pt Sea the Frame D IS pl ay MWS Wireless Coexistence Interface 2 Current Protocol Stack 2 Select a protocol stack from the list and click Finish Bluetooth Virtual Transport with Auto traverse Most stacks are pre defined here If you have special requirements and need to set up a custom stack see Creating and Removing a Custom Stack on page 21 1 Ifyou select a custom stack i e one that was defined by a user and not included with the ana lyzer the Remove Selected Item From List button becomes active 2 Click the Remove Selected Item From Listbutton to remove the stack from the list You cannot remove stacks provided with the analyzer If you remove a custom stack you need to define it again in order to get i
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118. o tab selected content of the capture file you are viewing P Note The tabs displayed on the Find dialog depend on the product you are running and the Find Decode Pattern Tre GoTo Special Everts Booknerd HF rame Numbwt 3 1 Mere Formard C Data Event Number Al Everts Humber F Te Figure 37 Find Go To tab To go to a particular frame 1 Select the Frame Number radio button 2 Type the frame number in the box 3 Click the Go To button 4 To move forward or backward a set number of frames type in the number of frames you want to move 5 Then click the Move Forward or Move Back button To go to a particular event 1 Select the Data Event Number or All Events Number radio button 2 Type the number of the event in the box 3 Click the Go To button 63 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 4 To move forward or backwards through the data type in the number of events that you want to move each time 5 Then click on the Move Forward or Move Backward button 6 For example to move forward 10 events type the number 10 in the box and then click on Move Forward Each time you click on Move Forward Frontline moves forward 10 events See Event Numbering for why the Data Event Number and All Events Number may be different As a general rule if you have the Show All Events icon depressed on the Event Display window or Frame Display Event p
119. omatically append a start date yyyy mm dd_hhmmss and file number 001 when capturing a series of files e Append File Start Date Time Select this radio button to automatically append a start date yyyy mm dd_hhmmss when capturing a single file e Maximum number of files Set the maximum number of files in the series in the Maximum number of files box The next file starts when the currently open file is full e Start new file after If you want to start a new file on a periodic basis check the box for Start new file after and put in the num ber of hours after which a new file is started Note that if the currently open file becomes full before the time limit has been reached a new file is opened immediately rather than lose data Capturing stops if the maximum number of files has been used unless Wrap Files has been checked If Wrap Files has been checked the analyzer erases the oldest file in the series and makes a new file e Start up Opens the Program Start up Options window Start up options let you choose whether to start data capture immediately on opening the analyzer e Advanced Opens the Advanced System Options window The Advanced Settings should only be changed on advice of technical support 7 1 1 2 Single File This option allows the analyzer to capture data to a file Each time you capture the file you must provide a file name The size of each file cannot larger than the number given in File Size in K The
120. omparing Frames If you need to compare frames you can open additional Frame Display windows by clicking on the Duplicate View icon ig You can have as many Frame Display windows open at a time as you wish Frame Wrapping and Display In order to assure that the data you are seeing in Frame Display are current the following messages appear describing the state of the data as it is being captured e All Frame Display panes except the Summary pane display No frame selected when the selected frame is in the buffer i e not wrapped out but not accessible in the Summary pane This can happen when a tab is selected that doesn t filter in the selected frame e When the selected frame wraps out regardless of whether it was accessible in the Summary pane all Frame Display panes except the Summary pane display Frame wrapped out of buffer 36 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster e When the selected frame is still being captured all Frame Display panes except the Summary pane dis play Frame incomplete 4 4 1 1 Frame Display Toolbar The buttons that appear in the Frame Display window vary according to the particular configuration of the ana lyzer For controls not available the icons will be grayed out P Control Brings the Control window to the front Ky Open File Opens a capture file ya I O Settings Opens the I O Settings dialog Start Capture Begins data capture to a user designated file p
121. on just one node address skip step 7 and continue with step 8 7 Ifyou want to filter on traffic going between two address nodes i e a conversation select a 80 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster node address from the second Address combo box 8 Click OK The Set Condition dialog box closes and the analyzer applies the filter When a display filter is applied a description of the filter appears to the right of the toolbar in the Frame Dis play windows P Note The OK button is unavailable grayed out until the condition selections are complete 5 3 1 6 The Difference Between Deleting and Hiding Display Filters If you wish to remove a filter from the system permanently then use the Delete procedure However if all you want to do is remove a filter as a means to un clutter the display then use the Hide procedure Deleting a saved filter removes the filter from the current session and all subsequent sessions In order to retrieve a deleted filter the user must recreate it using the Set Conditions dialog Hiding a filter merely removes the filter from the display A hidden filter can be reapplied using the Show Hide procedure 5 3 1 6 1 Deleting Saved Display Filters 1 Select Delete Display Filters from the Delete Named Conditions Fa Filter menu in the Frame Display User Detined Conditions window to open the Delete Named Aa Condition dialog The system displays ited 5 the Delete Named Co
122. on t want to see dialogs asking for it un check Automatically Request Missing Decoding Information 5 When unchecked the analyzer doesn t bother you with dialogs asking for frame information that you don t have In this situation the analyzer decodes each frame until it cannot go further and then simply stop decoding 4 3 Analyzing Byte Level Data 4 3 1 Event Display To open this window click the Event Display icon P on the Control window toolbar The Event Display window provides detailed information about every captured event Events include data bytes data related information such as start of frame and end of frame flags and the analyzer information 24 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster such as when the data capture was paused Data bytes are displayed in hex on the left side of the window with the corresponding ASCII character on the right 9 Event Display Homer cfa File Edit View Format Bookmarks B Window Help AKIT Ely Ad Ue Event Number 2 at gj 9 40 11 12 13 14 15 437 Slave 00 01 5a 03 f 4a 04 a5 23 6b be DO 01 MM Master 4237 k 46 56 20 23 Slave A PALES a6 23 6b be 00 00 01 amp Master 4353 0b Sd Se i8 00 08 00 Slave Captured Byte Master 4369 Slave E 1b b4 c0 23 Ob 9d Se 00 01 07 17 20 Master 4396 Slave d0 23 0b Sd 5c 00 01 5a 01 amp PA 34 0 23 Ob Master 4401 37 6a 0 23 Ob 9d Slave Event 4 338 of 4 831 Frame 188 5 3 2011 1 48 5
123. onfigure If only one ComProbe NFC is connected it is automatically selected ComProbe NFC Hardware Settings Available ComProbes ComProbe NFC 5W 0107120013 Figure 9 NFC Hardware Settings Dialog Hardware Settings Dialog Connecting and using the ComProbe NFC Analyzer L 2 Connect the ComProbe NFC to an available USB port Start the analyzer software Select Hardware Settings from Options menu on the Control window Choose the ComProbe device to use from the drop down list The drop down list shows the serial numbers of the ComProbe devices If you have only one ComProbe device connected to your PC it is selected automatically Select OK to save the settings Cancel to close the dialog without saving the settings or Help to access the ComProbe help file 3 1 2 IO Settings The I O Settings is used to configure the data capture settings of the ComProbe NFC analyzer To access the I O Settings dialog go to Options menu I O Settings on the Control window 13 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster I ComProbe NFC I O Settings Protocols Enabled Jinec 4 WINFC F Hardware Trigger Y NFC B Filter Range Automatic Gain Control v Enable Automatic Gain Control Gain Reduction 16 v Gain Control Time Gain Control Level 9 Start of Message 9 5 Times Sx Continuous 3 Times 3x Type 1 Tag Platform Enable aggregation of Type 1 Tag initiator bytes into a single frame
124. ons Faster 1 Choose System Settings from the Options menu on the Control window 2 On the System Settings window click the Start Up button 3 Choose one of the options to determine if the analyzer starts data capture immediately on starting up or not Program Start Up Options On piogia sar up Don t start captunng immediately Cancel O Start capturing to file immediately C Slan capturing immediately to the folowing iix Help Figure 62 Start Up Options dialog e Don t start capturing immediately This is the default setting The analyzer begins monitoring data but does not begin capturing data until clicking the Start Capture 3 icon on the Control Event Display or Frame Display windows e Start capturing to a file immediately When the analyzer starts up it immediately opens a capture file and begins data capture to it This is the equivalent of clicking the Start Capture d icon The file is given a name based on the settings for capturing to a file or series of files in the System Settings win dow e Start capturing immediately to the following file Enter a file name in the box below this option When the analyzer starts up it immediately begins data capture to that file If the file already exists the data in it is overwritten 7 1 2 Changing Default File Locations The analyzer saves user files in specific locations by default Capture files are placed in the My Capture Files dir ecto
125. onse frame but did not capture the command frame indicating the command The analyzer provides a way for you to supply the context for any frame provided the decoder supports it The decoder writer has to include support for this feature in the decoder so not all decoders support it Note that not all decoders require this feature If the decoder supports user provided context three items are active on the Options menu of the Control win dow and the Frame Display window These items are Set Initial Decoder Parameters Automatically Request Missing Decoding Information and Set Subsequent Decoder Parameters These items are not present if no decoder is loaded that supports this feature Set Initial Decoder Parameters is used to provide required information to decoders that is not context dependent but instead tends to be system options for the protocol Choose Set Initial Decoder Parameters in order to provide initial context to the analyzer for a decoder A dia log appears that shows the data for which you can provide information If you need to change this information for a particular frame 1 Right click on the frame in the Frame Display window 2 Choose Provide lt context name gt Alternatively you can choose Set Subsequent Decoder Parameter from the Options menu 3 This option brings up a dialog showing all the places where context data was overridden 4 If you know that information is missing you can t provide it and you d
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127. ottom of the dialog for Select each frame Condition Select each frame where the protocol bd where the protocol Set the parameters for the selected con with the conversation dition in the fields provided The fields Ha NG tanga that appear in the dialog box are depend ent upon the previous selection Continue to enter the requested parameters in the fields provided until the conditions statement is complete with the size NOT Condition where the protocol 7777 exists Figure 47 Two Filter Conditions Added with an AND Operator Click the plus icon on the left side of the dialog box and repeat steps 4 and 5 for the next condition Use the up t and down arrow icons on the left side of the dialog box to order your conditions and the delete button x to delete conditions from your filter Continue adding conditions until your filter is complete Include parentheses as needed and set the boolean operators Click OK The system displays the Save Named Condition dialog Provide a name for the filter condition or accept the default name provided by the system and click OK 79 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster Save Named Condition paaa CC ka MU User Defined Conditions FilterQ Figure 48 Save Named Filter Condition Dialog The Set Condition dialog box closes creates a tab on the Frame Display with the filter name and applies the filter When a display filter
128. ous Occurrence Moves to the previous occurrence of the value in the Frame Display Find Find Next Occurrence Moves to the next occurrence of the value in the Frame Display Find Cancel Current Search Stops the current Frame Display Find 39 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Summary Drop Down Box Lists all the protocols found in the data in the file This box does not list all the protocol decoders available to the analyzer merely the protocols found in the data Selecting a protocol from the list changes the Summary pane to display summary information for that protocol Whena low energy predefined Named Filter like Nulls and Polls is selected the Summary drop down is disabled Summary Summary Non Captured Info Text with Protocol Stack To the right of the Summary Layer box is some text giving the protocol stack Baseband with Auto traverse Summary Non Captured Info currently in use 1 Note If the frames are sorted in other than ascending frame number order the order of the frames in the buffer is the sorted order Therefore the last frame in the buffer may not have the last frame number 4 4 1 2 Frame Display Status Bar The Frame Display Status bar appears at the bottom of the Frame Display It contains the following inform ation e Frame s Selected Displays the frame number or numbers of selected highlighted frames and the total number of selected frames
129. p value of O corresponds to the triggering event By default the hardware trigger input is not used and capture is started immediately upon clicking the Start Capture icon 3 1 2 3 Start Triggers The available options in the drop down list are e Start Capture Immediately e Start Capture at Rising Edge e Start Capture at Falling Edge The default option is to Start Capture Immediately 3 1 2 4 Protocols Enabled The ComProbe NFC can capture data from the following protocols e NFC A e NFC B e NFC F To enable or disable a particular protocol check or uncheck its associated checkbox By default ComProbe NFC captures all protocols 3 1 2 5 Automatic Gain Control Automatic Gain Control allows ComProbe NFC to reduce its capture sensitivity if the signal it s receiving is too strong It is enabled by checking the Enable Automatic Gain Control check box By default Automatic Gain Con trol is enabled 3 1 2 5 1 Automatic Gain Control Time When Automatic Gain Control is enabled this option determines when Automatic Gain Control is applied By default Automatic Gain Control is active only at the start of a message and once the gain has been adjusted Automatic Gain Control is disabled until anew message is received If the Continuous option is selected Auto matic Gain Control is active during reception of the entire message 3 1 2 5 2 Automatic Gain Control Level When Automatic Gain Control is enabled this setting determines ho
130. panes highlights the corresponding element in all the other panes Click the Toggle Expand Decode Pane icon im to make the Decode pane taller This allows for more of a lengthy decode to be viewed without needing to scroll 4 4 1 11 5 Radix or Hexadecimal Pane The Radix pane displays the logical bytes in the frame in Ria E 3T JE Ab GA either hexadecimal decimal or octal The radix can be a aed This is the Padi Pane changed from the Format menu or by right clicking on the E pane and choosing Hexadecimal Decimal or Octal a Copy Selection to Clipboard A eee Enin Because the Radix pane displays the logical bytes rather than N Select Entire Frame the physical bytes the data in the Radix pane may be dif E Change ee ee ferent from that in the Event pane See Physical vs Logical 5 i Byte Display for more information z Hexadecimal A Decimal Colors are used to show which protocol layer each byte E belongs to The colors correspond to the layers listed in the E Octal Decode pane 50 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster The Event Radix Binary Character and Decode panes are all synchronized with one another Clicking on an ele ment in any one of the panes highlights the corresponding element in all the other panes 4 4 1 11 6 Character Pane The Character pane represents the logical bytes in the frame in ASCII EBCDIC or Baudot The character set can be changed from the Format menu or by right cl
131. play _ 0 22 22 oie eee eee cece cece anana 41 ra sy TU as a 41 4 4 1 6 Frame Display Find ei cee ce ccc eee eee eee eee eeeeeees 41 4 4 1 7 Synchronizing the Event and Frame Displays 43 4 4 1 8 Working with Multiple Frame Displays 22 2 c eee eee eee eee cece eee 44 4 4 1 9 Working with Panes on Frame Display 2 eee cece cece eee eee eee e eee eeees 44 4 4 1 10 Frame Display Byte Export eee ec cece cece cece eee 45 4 4 1 11 Panes in the Frame Display 20 22 oi eee ccc ee eee eee e eee 46 4 4 1 12 Protocol Layer Colors 2 lll cee ec aLaaa aoaaa aaan anaana 52 4 4 1 13 Protocol Filtering From the Frame Display 53 Chapter 5 Navigating and Searching the Data AH 56 Sak BING cep cee deca oo Ae ee re ee ge ae ee ee BAN Naa ees esse eases 56 5 1 1 Searching within Decodes o aoaaa aoaaa ieee cee eee cece cece eee cece ee eeeeeeeeees 56 5 1 2 Searching by Pattern __ 0 2022 ole nec ee cece eee eee eee e ence eeeees 59 5 1 3 Searching by Time ee ccc ce cee cece cence cece mumin 60 214 Using GO TO II 62 5 1 5 Searching for Special Events eee eee eee cece cece eee cece cece eeeeeeeeees 64 5 1 6 Searching by Signal 0 220 eee eee cee cee cece c eee eee nu 65 5 1 7 Searching for Data Errors eee eee ec aLaaa
132. r from the pop up list of all the saved filters 2 Edit the desired parameter of the condition Because the required fields for a condition statement depend upon previously selected parameters the Set Condition dialog box may display additional fields that were not present in the original filter In the event this occurs continue to enter the requested parameters in the fields provided until the condition statement is complete 3 Click OK The system displays the Save Named Condition dialog Ensure that the filter name is displayed in the text box at the top of the dialog and click OK If you choose to create an addi tional filter then provide a new name for the filter condition or accept the default name provided by the system and click OK The Set Condition dialog box closes and the system applies the modified filter 5 3 1 2 Deleting a Condition in a Filter If a display filter has two or more conditions you can delete conditions If there is only one condition set in the filter you must delete the filter using Delete Display Filters from the Filters menu 1 Click the Display Filters icon Y on the Frame Display window or select Apply Modify Display Filters from the Filter menu to open the Set Condition dialog box Click on the Advanced button to show the condition in Boolean format The dialog box displays the current filter definition To dis play another filter click the Open icon and select the filter from the pop up l
133. rch for occasions where they changed state For example o If DTR is supposed to be on all the time but you suspect that DTR is being dropped o Tell the analyzer to look only at DTR by checking the DTR box and unchecking the others o Doa search for where one or more control signals changed from on to off o The analyzer would search the DTR signal and stop at the first event where DTR dropped from on to off e Searching for an Exact State 68 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster To search for an exact state means that the analyzer finds events that match exactly the state of the control signals that you specify o First choose to search for an event where your choices exactly describe the state o This changes the normal check boxes to a series of radio buttons labeled On Off and Don t Care for each control signal o Choose which state you want each control signal to be in o Choose Don t Care to have the analyzer ignore the state of a control signal o When you click Find Next the analyzer searches for an event that exactly matches the conditions selected beginning from the currently selected event o Ifthe end of the buffer is reached before a match is found the analyzer asks you if you want to con tinue searching from the beginning o Ifyou want to be sure to search the entire buffer place your cursor on the first event in the buffer o Select one of the four radio buttons to choose the condition tha
134. re The first pattern with the A and the C coming from the DTE Event 16 to 4a of 405 27 awin device and the B coming from the DCE is a good example of how Rate Deka CRC DTE CRC ICE using a side restriction differs from searching without regard to NG Timestamp No Timestamp 9c 35 data origin While searching without regard for data origin finds For Help Press F1 all three patterns searching using a side restriction never finds the first pattern because it does not come wholly from one side or the other If you choose to search for the pattern ABC and you restrict the Event Display search to just the DTE side the analyzer finds the following pat Fie Edt Yew Format Options Window tern SEE A In this example the analyzer finds only the second pattern high lighted above because we restricted the search to just the DTE side The first pattern doesn t qualify because it is split between the DTE and DCE sides and the third pattern though whole Evert 16 to 42 of 6 425 27 events comes from just the DCE side Rate o Da ORCDTE ORC DCE NG Timestamp No Timestamp 9c 35 For Help Press Fl If we choose both the DTE and the DCE sides in the above example then the analyzer finds the second pattern followed by the third pattern but not the first pattern This is because each side has one instance in which the whole pattern can be found The analyzer completely searches the DTE s
135. re you can specify which event number to go to CRC Change the algorithm and seed value used to calculate CRCs To calculate a CRC select a byte range and the CRC appears in the status lines at the bottom of the Event Display Mixed Sides Serial data only By default the analyzer shows data with the DTE side above the DCE side This is called DTE over DCE format DTE data has a white background and DCE data has a gray background The analyzer can also display data in mixed side format In this format the analyzer does not separate DTE data from DCE data but shows all data on the same line as it comes in DTE data is still shown with a white background and DCE data with a gray background so that you can distinguish between the two The benefit of using this 26 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster format is that more data fits onto one screen A Character Only The analyzer shows both the number hex binary etc data and the char acter ASCII EBCDIC or BAUDOT data on the same screen If you do not wish to see the hex characters click on the Character Only button Click again to go back to both number and character mode Number Only Controls whether the analyzer displays data in both character and number 1 format or just number format Click once to show only numeric values and again to show both character and numeric values All Events Controls whether the analyzer shows all events in the window
136. rformance Display Options 4 Display Raw Timestamp Value Display Relative Timestamps Number of digits to display to the right of the decimal point Figure 66 Timestamping Options dialog 7 1 4 1 1 Enabling Disabling Timestam To enable timestamping click to make a check appear in the checkbox Store Timestamps This time takes effect immediately Removing the check will disable timestamping 1 4 1 2 Changing the Timestamp Resolution This option affects the resolution of the timestamp stored in the capture file The default timestamp is 10 mil liseconds This value is determined by the operating system and is the smallest normal resolutions possible Ss Note The raw timestamp value is the number of 100 nanosecond intervals since the beginning of January 1 1601 This is standard Windows time 107 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster It is also possible to use high resolution o l l timestamping High resolution timestamp Store Timestamps This item takes effect immediately values are marked by an asterisk as high Capture Options resolution in the drop down list To Storage Resolutions 0 50 Microseconds high resolution change timestamping resolutions l Note 1 To apply resolution changes you must restart the program 1 Go to the Capture Options sec tion of the window Note 2 Finer resolutions increase the capture file size 2 Change the resolu
137. rmat View Help Byte export of all filtered in frames Capture file le modified channel maps HID kbd cant decrypt GAIT cfa Filter tab Unfiltered 1 299 frames exported Frame Number Timestamp Frame Contents 1 7 5 2012 6 05 23 966944 PM 00 ff b2 00 15 aa d6 be 89 8e 00 13 7b 96 bi eb d7 90 2 7 5 2012 6 05 23 967570 PM 18 ff ae 00 15 aa d6 be 89 Be 00 13 7b 96 bi eb d7 90 3 7 5 2012 6 05 23 968195 PM 4e ff b3 00 15 aa d6 be 89 8e 00 13 7b 96 bi eb d7 90 4 7 5 2012 6 05 23 994441 PM 00 ff b2 00 15 aa d6 be 89 8e 00 13 7b 96 bi eb d7 90 5 7 5 2012 6 05 23 995066 PM 18 ff ae 00 15 aa d be 89 Be 00 13 7b 96 bi eb d7 90 6 7 5 2012 6 05 23 995691 PM 4e ff b7 00 15 aa d be 89 8e 00 13 7b 96 bi eb d7 90 DD O OO QO rj Pm mm s Figure 26 Sample Exported Frames Text File 4 4 1 11 Panes in the Frame Display 4 4 1 11 1 Summary Pane The Summary pane La displays a one line summary of every frame in a capture buffer or file including frame number timestamp length and basic protocol information The protocol information included for each 46 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster frame depends on the protocol selected in the summary layer box located directly below the main toolbar On a two channel circuit the background color of the one line summary indicates whether the frame came from the DTE or the DCE device Frames with a white background come from the DTE device frames with a gray backg
138. rom displaying in any frame Figure 52 Frame Display Quick Filtering and Hiding Protocols Dialog The box on the left is Protocols To Filter In When you select the checkbox for a protocol in the Protocols to Filter In the Summary pane will only display those frames that contain data from that protocol If you filter on more than one protocol the result are all frames that contain at least one of those protocols For example if you filter on IP and IPX NetBIOS you receive all frames that contain either IP or IPX NetBIOS or both A Quick Filter tab then appears on the Frame Display Changing the filter definition on the Quick Filter dialog changes the filter applied on the Quick Filter tab Quick filters are persistent during the session but are discarded when the session is closed Quick Filter The box in the center is the Protocols To Hide When you select the checkbox for a protocol in the Protocols To Hide data for that protocol will not appear in the Decode Binary Radix and Character panes The frames containing that type data will still appear in the Summary pane but not in the Decode Binary Radix and Character panes 85 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster The box on the right is the Named Filters It contains filters that you cre ate using the Named Filter and Set Condition dialogs When you select Named Filters the checkbox for the Name Filters a tab appears on the Summary Pane
139. round come from the DCE device Frame numbers in red indicate errors either physical byte level or frame errors If the error is a frame error in the displayed protocol layer the bytes where the error occurred is displayed in red The Decode Pane gives precise information as to the type of error and where it occurred The Summary pane is synchronized with the other panes in this window Click on a frame in the Summary pane and the bytes for that frame is highlighted in the Event pane while the Decode pane displays the full decode for that frame Any other panes which are being viewed are updated accordingly If you use one pane to select a subset of the frame then only that subset of the frame is highlighted in the other panes Protocol Tabs Protocol filter tabs are displayed in the Frame Display above the Summary pane e These tabs are arranged in separate color coded groups These groups and their colors are General white Classic Bluetooth blue Bluetooth low energy green 802 11 orange USB purple and SD brown The General group applies to all technologies The other groups are technology specific Classic Bluetooth blue N Bookmarks info La Baseband LZCAP TES LE BB LE PET LE ADY B021 adi B0211 MAC Data ee Bluetooth low energy green 15 60 i a nes 302 11 orange Figure 27 Example Protocol Tags e Clicking on a protocol filter tab in the General group filters
140. roup iha _ applies to all technologies The other fa papa ANG 802 11 orange groups are technology specific sagar e Clicking on a protocol filter tab in the Gen eral group filters in all packets containing that protocol regardless of each packet s technology e Clicking on a protocol filter tab in a technology specific group filters in all packets containing that protocol on that technology e A protocol filter tab appears in the General group only if the protocol occurs in more than one of the tech nology specific tab groups For example if L2CAP occurs in both Classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth low energy there will be L2CAP tabs in the General group the Classic Bluetooth group and the Bluetooth low energy group Select the Unfiltered tab to display all packets There are several special tabs that appear in the Summary Pane when certain conditions are met These tabs appear only in the General group and apply to all technologies The tabs are e Bookmarks appear when a bookmark is first seen e Errors appear when an error is first seen An error is a physical error in a data byte or an error in the pro tocol decode e Info appears when a frame containing an Information field is first seen The tabs disappear when the capture buffer is cleared during live capture or when decoders are reloaded even if one of the tabs is currently selected They subsequently reappear as the corresponding events are detected C
141. rror conditions that you specify Decode Pattern Time Go To Special Events Error Bookmark e Select the This exactly describes the Search for event where ere g One or more of these changed l state radio button Okie or more ofthese occid Ya This exactly KI One or more of these was off BBSGULEES ihe siala bind Previous e This changes the normal check boxes eee to a series of radio buttons labeled On Off Don t Care On Off and Don t Care for each error Reserved ere side Restriction gt Search without regard to daka origin o On means that the error occurred Search only these sides Slave Master o Off means that the error did not occur o Don t Care means that the ana lyzer ignores that error condition e Select the appropriate state for each type of error Example If you need to find an event where just an overrun error occurred but not any other type of error you would choose overrun error to be On and set all other errors to Off This causes the analyzer to look for an event where only an overrun error occurred If you want to look for events where overrun errors occurred and other errors may have also occurred but it really doesn t matter if they did or not choose overrun to be On and set the others to Don t Care The analyzer ignores any other type of error and find events where overrun errors occurred To find the next error
142. rs to search for strings or pat terns in the data or in the frame decode You can search for errors control signal changes bookmarks special events time and more Once the information is located you can easily move to every instance of the Find res ults 5 1 1 Searching within Decodes Searching within decodes lets you to do a string search on the data in the Decode Pane of the Frame Display window To access the search within decodes function 56 fte com contline Debug Communications Faster 1 Open a capture file to search 2 Open the Event Display P or Frame Display e window 3 Click on the Find icon aa or choose Find from the Edit menu 4 Click on the Decode tab of the Find dialog Note The tabs displayed on the Find dialog depend on the product you are running and the con tent of the capture file you are viewing C Search Fa Sting In Decode C ignore case C Search For All Eiros Search Foe Francs are O Search Foe Infcematiqn Frames Figure 32 Find Decode Tab Search for String Decode Patter Time GoTo SpecalEvents Seal Ero 2 Search For Sting In Decode O Search For All Errore O Search For Frame Enor Only O Search For Information Frames Side Rievinchon 2 Search without regand to data origin O Search only these sides MOTE Joce Figure 33 Find Decode Tab Side Restriction There are several options for error searching on the Decoder tab 57 fte co
143. rticular topic Use the Contents Index and Glossary to find the location of particular topics e Chapter 1 ComProbe Hardware and Software This chapter will describe the minimum computer requirements and how to install the software e Chapter 2 Getting Started Here we describe how to set up and connect the hardware and how to apply power This chapter also describes how to start the ComProbe software in Data Capture Methods You will be introduced to the Control window that is the primary operating dialog in the ComProbe software fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster e Chapter 3 Configuration Settings The software and hardware is configured to capture data Con figuration settings may vary for a particular ComProbe analyzer depending on the technology and net work being sniffed There are topics on configuring protocol decoders used to disassemble packets into frames and events e Chapter 4 Capturing and Analyzing Data This Chapter describes how to start a capture session and how to observe the captured packets frames layers and events e Chapter 5 Navigating and Searching the Data Here you will find how to move through the data and how to isolate the data to specific events often used for troubleshooting device design problems e Chapter 6 Saving and Importing Data When a live capture is completed you may want to save the cap tured data for future analysis or you may want to import a captured data set from
144. ry Radix or Char acter panes in Frame Display the text is displayed with Text Highhgnt 0 Eo dl color You can change the color of the high ee H ane BONE 1 Select Change Text Highlight Color from the Na Options menu You can also access the option UB by right clicking in any of the panes Im 2 Select a color from the drop down menu ml Bl Other 3 Click OK The highlight color for the text is changed Select Cancel to discard any selection Select Defaults to return the highlight color to blue 4 4 1 12 Protocol Layer Colors 4 4 1 12 1 Data Byte Color Notation The color of the data in the panes specifies which layer of the protocol stack the data is from All data from the first layer is bright blue the data from the second layer is green the third layer is pink etc The protocol name for each layer in the Decode pane is in the same color Note that the colors refer to the layer not to a specific protocol In some situations a protocol may be in two different colors in two different frames depending on where itis in the stack You can change the default colors for each layer Red is reserved for bytes or frames with errors In the Summary pane frame numbers in red mean there is an error in the frame Also the Errors tab is displayed in red This could be a physical error in a data byte or an error in the protocol decode Bytes in red in the Radix Character Binary and Event panes mean there is a ph
145. ry and configurations are put in My Configurations These locations are set at installation Follow the steps below to change the default locations 1 Choose Directories from the Options menu on the Control window to open the File Locations win dow 104 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster File Locations File Types Location My Capture Files C Users Public Documents Frontline Test Equipment4My Capture Files My Configurations C Users Public Documents Frontline Test Equipment My Configurations My Decoders C Users Public D ocuments Frontline Test Equipment My Decoders My Log Files C Users Public Documents Frontline Test Equipment My Log Files My Methods C Users Public D ocuments4Frontline Test Equipments My Methods1 4 NT OK Cancel Help mas Use Last Opened Folder for Capture Files Figure 63 File Locations dialog 2 Select the default location you wish to change 3 Click Modify 4 Browse to a new location Browse for Folder Specify My Decoders directory a Ji Public Ji Desktop a Ji Public Documents 4 di Frontline Test Equipment JK My Capture Files di My Configurations m My Decoders di My Log Files JJ My Methods a My Node Databases Bw ox cane Figure 64 File Locations Browse dialog 5 Click OK 6 Click OK when finished If a user sets the My Decoders directory such that it is up directory from
146. s from the Frame Display 86 Chapter 6 Saving and Importing Data __ _ _ _ 2 2 2 eee cece eee aan 87 6L Savine rour Dala ci ee ete a a GA a a aka Ka naaa once 87 6 1 1 Saving the Entire Capture File using File Save or the Save icon 87 6 1 2 Saving the Entire Capture File with Save Selection 88 6 1 3 Saving a Portion of a Capture File __ _ 0 22 oe eee eee eee ees 89 6 1 4 Confirm Capture File CFA Changes mmmmmmnmamemu men 89 6 1 5 Adding Comments to a Capture File oe ee ee cee cee aana 90 6 2 Loading and Importing a Capture File 90 6 2 1 Loading a Capture File LL 90 6 2 2 Importing Capture Files _ 2 2 22 ee cee cece LaaLa aLaaa aaau 91 PU sah re ee et eee ee ee oe ee a aa 91 6 3 1 Printing from the Frame Display HTML Export mmmmmmmmmmn 91 6 3 2 Printing from the Event Display _ 2 22 22 ii eee eee eee cece anaana 95 6 4 Exporting 222 eee eee eee ee cee ee ee eee ee eee eee eee A i 96 6 4 1 Frame Display Export oie eee ccc eee eee aLaaa aoaaa aana 96 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 6 4 2 Exporting a File with Event Display Export 2 2 22mmmmmmmummmu ee 96 6 4 2 1 Export Filter Out 99 6 4 2 2 Exporting Baudot
147. s menu on the Control win dow 2 To change a name click on the name given in the Current Names column and then click again to modify the name a slow double click 3 Select OK to initiate the changes The changes that have been made will not fully take effect for any views already open Closing and reopening the views will cause the name change to take effect 4 To restore the default values click the Set Defaults button 106 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 7 1 4 Timestamping Timestamping is the process of precise recording in time of packet arrival Timestamps is an optional parameter in the Frame Display and Event Display that can assist in troubleshooting a network link 7 1 4 1 Timestamping Options The Timestamping Options window allows you to enable or disable timestamping and change the resolution of the timestamps for both capture and display purposes To open this window Choose Set Timestamp Format from the Options menu on the Frame Display and Event Display window or click on the Timestamping Option 7 will open Timestamping Options 4 Store Timestamps This item takes effect immediately Capture Options Storage Resolution 0 50 Microseconds high resolution X Note 1 To apply resolution changes you must restart the program Note 2 Finer resolutions increase the capture file size Click Help for more information on how timestamps affect system pe
148. s of Protocol Filters and or Named Filters that are displayed on the Quick Filter tab e Quick Filters cannot be saved and do not persist across sessions e Quick Filters are created on the Quick Filter Dialog 5 3 1 1 Creating a Display Filter There are two steps to using a display filter Define the filter conditions and then apply the filter to the data set The system combines both filter definition and application in one dialog 76 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 1 Click the Display Filters icon Y on the Frame Display P23 window or select Apply Modify Dis play Filters from the Filter menu to open the Set Condition dialog box The Set Condition dialog is self configuring which means that when you Select each frame under Conditions the following dis played fields depend on your selection With each subsequent selection the dialog fields will change depending on you selection in that field Set Condition Currently Active Condition lt Untitled gt Include Exclude Condition Select each frame where the protocol LA AVCTP field x Command Response v ls Not Present w V All Fields Advanced Cancel Help Figure 45 Example Set Conditions Self Configuring Based on Protocol Selection Set Condition fe Currently Active Condition lt Untitled gt Include Exclude Condition Select each frame in the range
149. s standard Windows time 5 2 Bookmarks Bookmarks are electronic sticky notes that you attach to frames of interest so they can be easily found later In Frame Display bookmarked frames appear with a magenta triangle icon next to them Command Ener Code FID MID Fil Source TID UIC Fia Deka Timestamp Pag B From 1 Bd 122010 11 25 2 168 OOOO 12 67200 11 25 b E3 124 OOO O0 3 T2767 2010 11 25 4 Ed ANNA Taro 11 25 Figure 43 Bookmarked Frame 3 in the Frame Display 00 00 00 00 ag Inthe Event Display bookmarks appear as a dashed line around the start of frame 21 Mima 15 marker 00 1500 O00 47 mm ss Bookmarks are easy to create and maintain and are a very valuable tool for data ana lysis When you create or modify a bookmark you have up to 84 characters to explain a problem leave yourself a reminder leave someone else a reminder etc Once you create a bookmark it will be saved with the rest of the data in the cfa file When you open a cfa file the bookmarks are available to you 73 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Once you have created a bookmark you can use the Find function or other navigation methods to locate and move among them 5 2 1 Adding Modifying or Deleting a Bookmark You can add modify or delete a bookmarks from Frame Display and Event Display Add 1 Select the frame or event you want to bookmark 2 There are three ways to access the Add Bookm
150. say you have selected Use Last Opened Folder for Cap ture Files and opened a file from a location other than the default directory All subsequent capture files will be saved to that location Suppose however the next time you want to save a capture file the new file loc ation is not available because the directory structure has changed a folder has been moved a drive has been reassigned a flash drive has been disconnected etc In the case of a lost directory structure subsequent cap ture files will be saved to the default location ComProbe software will always try to save a file to the folder where the last file was opened from or saved to if Use Last Opened Folder for Capture Files is checked If however the location is not accessible files are saved to the default directory that is set at installation If the checkbox is unchecked then the system always defaults to the directory listed in the File Locations dialog 7 1 3 Side Names The Side Names dialog is used to change the names of objects and events that appear in various displays The Side Names dialog will change depending on the sniffing technology in use at the time the software was loaded Changes to the Names are used throughout the program Side Names Default Hames Current Hames Slave Master OK Cancel Figure 65 Example Side Names Where Slave and Master are current 1 To open the Side Names dialog choose Side Names from the Option
151. t The Summary pane appears at the beginning of the printed output in tabular format If you select All layers in the Detail Section the Data Bytes option becomes available 3 In the Detail Section choose to exclude No decode section the decode from the Detail pane in the Frame Display or include All Layers or Selected Layers Only If you choose to include selected layers then select click on and highlight the layers from the list box 4 Click on selected layers in the list to de select or click the Reset Selected Layers button to de select all selected layers 92 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Frame Display Print Prowde infomaton to export dala from the current selected fiber tab include Detal Section Summary Ho decode nection O Al layers C Selected lyers only 802 11 AMP B02 10 5TP Selection Be 1X A2DP AMP Managei 4 ONE Frame Range F Delete Fle Note Bowne pani opbong map alfect whether ang gray background 8 ponted See Help lot mka Figure 54 Frame Display Print Dialog 5 Select the range of frames to include All or Selection in the Frame Range section of the Frame Display Print dialog Choosing All prints up to 1000 frames from the buffer Choosing Selection prints only the frames you select in the Frame Display window 6 Selecting the Delete File deletes the temporary html file that was used during printing 7 Click the OK button If you chose Print Prev
152. t back If you are changing the protocol stack for a capture file you may need to reframe See Reframing on page 22 for more information You cannot select a stack or change an existing one for a capture file loaded into the Capture File Viewer the Capture File Viewer is used only for viewing capture files and cannot capture data Protocol Stack changes can only be made from a live session 20 fte com frontline Debug Communications Faster 4 2 2 Creating and Removing a Custom Stack To create a custom stack Select a Protocol Stack 1 Choose Protocol Stack from the Options menu on the Con a ere oe trol window or click the Pro Build Your Own 802 11 MAC l 802 11 Radio tocol Stack icon on the Air Sniffer BlueCore Serial Protocol BCSP from Cambridge Silicon Radio with autotraverse Frame Display toolbar Bluetooth HCI UART H4 with autotraverse Bluetooth HC USB with autotraverse Bluetooth virtual transport with autotraverse 2 Select Build Your Own from Fictitious Protocol with autotraverse H4D5 with autotraverse the list and click Next int Protocol LE BB 3 The system displays an inform Wireless toedstence Interface 2 ation screen that may help you Curent Poison Slack Remove Selected Item From List decide if you need to define your own custom stack Defin ing a custom stack means that the analyzer uses the stack for every frame Frames that do not conform to the stack are decoded in
153. t must be met in the search o Select one or more of the checkboxes for Pin 1 2 3 or 4 o Or Select one or more of the checkboxes for Request to Send RTS Clear to Send CTS Data Set Ready DSR Data Terminal Ready DTR Carrier Detect CD and Ring Indicator RI o Click Find Next to locate the next occurrence of the search criteria or Find Previous to locate an earlier occurrence of the search criteria 5 1 7 Searching for Data Errors The analyzer can search for several types of data errors Searching for data error sallows you to choose which errors you want to search for and whether to search the DTE or DCE data or both Bytes with errors are shown in red in the Event Display window making it easy to find errors visually when looking through the data To access the search by time function 1 Open a capture file to search O gS 2 Open the Event Display or Frame Display window 3 Click on the Find icon aa or choose Find from the Edit menu 4 Click on the Errors tab of the Find dialog ss Note The tabs displayed on the Find dialog depend on the product you are running and the con tent of the capture file you are viewing 69 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster J Find BPA500 cfa Decode Pattern Time Search for event where eT 8 One or more of these changed He One or more of these occured hit exactly describes the state Find Previous D One or mor
154. the event numbers they work the same way In the above example the first row would be listed as 2d00 which is hex for 11520 The advantage of not renumbering events is that you can save a portion of a capture file send it to a colleague and tell your colleague to look at a particular event Since the events are not renumbered your colleague s file use the same event numbers that your file does 7 2 4 Useful Character Tables 110 7 2 4 1 ASCII Codes hex x0 x1 x2 x3 xd a5 6 7 KIE KA xB x sD xE xF Dx NUL 50H 5TX ETX EOTJENO LCR S0 SI 1x OLE C1 DC2 0C3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SU FEE BA Pe Tt Kaka mjo 162 3 4 s B7 ato E ep eLoTR Ts Tro KANE 6x lalb e ldijelf lalhlili k alplalr s tlulv wixlylzalt 7 2 4 2 Baudot Codes DEC HEX LE FIGURES LANK NUL La J LF i S ae Ls BE m oa V S FUES aan a AA ia LETTERS o oo 2 a aa oa C6 6 s o Co 0A Oa oc 13 Joo Ca Joe Cs OF C6 10 EAEN Ce 12 asfi Cao a Qi 157 C2 16 Ca 18 FEEN ao 0E Ca F LETTERS 111 PA Le O TE Ea E A E MINI Ifa mj n _ DEL fte com contline Debug Communications Faster fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 7 2 4 3 EBCDIC Codes bee xO xt 2 33 xd o5 x x xB 3 KA xB eC xD KE xF
155. the option to print the capture buffer or the current selection The maximum file size however that can be exported is 1000 frames 91 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster When Print Preview is selected the output displays in a browser print preview window where the user can select from the standard print options The output file format is in html and uses the Microsoft Web Browser Control print options for background colors and images Print Background Colors Using Internet Explorer 1 Open the Tools menu on the browser menu bar 2 Select Internet Options menu entry 3 Click Advanced tab 4 Check Print background colors and images under the Printing section 5 Click the Apply button then click OK Configure the Print File Range in the Frame Display Print Dialog Selecting more than one frame in the Frame Display window defaults the radio button in the Frame Display Print dialog to Selection and allows the user to choose the All radio button When only one frame is selected the All radio button in the Frame Display Print dialog is selected How to Print Frame Display Data 1 Select Print or Print Preview from the File menu on the Frame Display window to display the Frame Display Print dialog Select Print if you just want to print your data to your default printer Select Print Preview if you want access to printer options 2 Choose to include the Summary pane check the box in the print outpu
156. the sym bols next to the frame numbers e Decode Pane The Decode Pane displays a detailed decode of the highlighted frame Fields selected in the Decode Pane have the appropriate bit s or byte s selected in the Radix Binary Character and Event panes e Radix Pane The Radix Pane displays the logical data bytes in the selected frame in either hexadecimal decimal or octal e Binary Pane The Binary Pane displays a binary representation of the logical data bytes e Character Pane The Character Pane displays the character representation of the logical data bytes in either ASCII EBCDIC or Baudot e Event Pane The Event Pane displays the physical data bytes in the frame as received on the network By default all panes except the Event Pane are displayed when the Frame Display is first opened Protocol Tabs Protocol filter tabs are displayed in the Frame Display above the Summary pane 35 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster e These tabs are arranged in separate color coded groups These groups and their col a Mm fa Classic Bluetooth blue ors are General white Classic Bluetooth ke al Og a Classic Bluetooth blue Bookmarks info blue Bluetooth low energy green Baseband L2CAP TCS LE BB LE PEKT LE ADV 0 AA GANG waji 802 11 orange USB purple NFC 90211 Rada B021 MAC Data 7 Bluetooth low energy green brown and SD teal The General g
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158. tion Closes the file and returns you back to the display No changes are saved e Discard Changes Closes the file without saving any of the changes made to the notes bookmarks or protocol stack 6 1 5 Adding Comments to a Capture File The Notes feature allows you to add comments to a CFA file These comments can be used for many purposes For example you can list the setup used to create the capture file record why the file is useful to keep or include notes to another person detailing which frames to look at and why Bookmarks are another useful way to record information about individual frames To open the Notes window 1 Click the Show Notes icon La This icon is present on the toolbars of the Frame Display e as well as the Event Display P Notes can be selected from the Edit menu on one of these windows 2 Type your comments in the large edit box on the Notes window The Cut Copy Paste features K Ba BR features are all supported from Edit menu and the toolbar KA at the current cursor location are supported from Edit menu and the toolbar when text is selected Undo and Redo 3 Click the thumbtack icon Ba to keep the Notes window on top of any other windows 4 When you re done adding comments close the window 5 When you close the capture file you are asked to confirm the changes to the capture file See Confirming Capture File CFA Changes for more information 6 2 Loading and Importing a Capture F
159. tion listed in the Storage Resolution box Note If you change the res olution you need to exit the analyzer and restart in order for the change to take effect 1 4 1 2 1_ Performance Issues with High Resolution Timestamp There are two things to be aware of when using high resolution timestamps The first is that high resolution timestamps take up more space in the capture file because more bits are required to store the timestamp Also more timestamps need to be stored than at normal resolutions The second issue is that using high res olution timestamping may affect performance on slower machines For example if 10 bytes of data are captured in 10 milliseconds at a rate of 1 byte per millisecond and the timestamp resolution is 10 milliseconds then only one timestamp needs to be stored for the 10 bytes of data If the resolution is 1 millisecond then 10 timestamps need to be stored one for each byte of data If you have two capture files both of the same size but one was captured using normal resolution timestamping and the other using high resolution the normal resolution file has more data events in it because less room is used to store timestamps You can increase the size of your capture file in the System Settings 1 4 1 3 Switching Between Relative and Absolute Time With Timestamping you can choose to employ Relative Time or Absolute time 1 Choose System Settings from the Options menu on the Control window and click
160. urrently selected They subsequently reappear as the corresponding events are detected Use the navigation icons keyboard or mouse to move through the frames The icons and D move you to the first and last frames in the buffer respectively Use the Go To icon Be to move to a specific frame num ber Placing the mouse pointer on a summary pane header with truncated text displays a tooltip showing the full header text Yow Format Fer Boolmarhs Options Window Help ea wo 15 lt Barobar LE BB LE PKT LE ADV 802 11 Redo 802 11 MAC Data B Fret aK lt Total Frames 101 Frames Filtered in 101 Frame s Selected 15 400 1 total For Help Press F1 Figure 28 Summay pane right with Decoder pane left 4 4 1 11 2 Customizing Fields in the Summary Pane You can modify the Summary Pane in Frame Display Summary pane columns can be reordered by dragging any column to a different position Fields from the Decode pane can be added to the summary pane by dragging any Decodepane field to the desired location in the Summary pane header If the new field is from a different layer than the summary pane a plus sign is prepended to the field name and the layer name is added in parentheses The same field can be added more than once if desired thus making it possible to put the same field at the front and back for example of a long header line so that the field is visible regardless of where the header is scrolled to
161. vent Symbols By default the Event Display shows all events1 which includes control signal changes start and end of frame characters and flow control changes If you want to see only the data bytes click on the All Events button Click again to display all events Click on a symbol and the analyzer displays the symbol name and sometimes additional information in the status lines at the bottom of the Event Display window For example clicking on a control signal change sym bol displays which signal s changed In addition to data bytes the events shown are in alphabetical order An event is anything that happens on the circuit or which affects data capture Data bytes con trol signal changes and long and short breaks are all events as are I O Settings changes and Data Capture Paused and Resumed 31 de fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster Abort Broken Frame The frame did not end when the analyzer expected it to This occurs most often with protocols where the framing is indicated by a specific character control signal change or other data related event Buffer Overflow Indicates a buffer overflow error A buffer overflow always causes a broken frame Control Signal Change One or more control signals changed state Click on the symbol and the analyzer displays which signal s changed at the bottom of the Event Display window Data Capture Paused The Pause icon was
162. w strong the signal must be before auto matic gain adjustment is applied By default gain reduction is not enabled until the received signal is more than 15 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster five 5 times an internal reference value If the 3 Times 3x option is selected gain reduction is applied when the received signal is three 3 times the internal reference value 3 1 2 5 3 Automatic Gain Control Reduction When Automatic Gain Control is enabled this setting controls the amount by which the gain is reduced when the received signal exceeds the Automatic Gain Control Level The available values for this setting are e OdB e 5AB e 10dB e 15dB The default option is 15 dB 3 1 2 6 Type 1 Tag Platform When reading a Type 1 tag the reading device inserts a delay between each byte sent to the tag This delay time varies from reader to reader Enabling the frame aggregation option causes these bytes to be collected into a single frame as long as they are separated by less than the maximum allowed delay time If frame aggreg ation is enabled and the reader s frames continue to appear as a series of single byte frames the maximum delay time should be increased until the bytes begin to appear together in a single frame 3 1 2 7 Mifare Classic When Mifare Classic support is enabled the software will attempt to recognize and decrypt the contents of Mifare Classic tags Only Mifare Classic tags that use th
163. wers to many user related questions Frontline s website has documentation on common problems as well as software upgrades and util ities to use with our products On the Web http fte com support supportrequest aspx Email tech support fte com 113 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster If you need to talk to a technical support representative about your ComProbe NFC product support is available between 9 am and 5 pm U S Eastern Time zone Monday through Friday Technical support is not available on U S national holidays Phone 1 434 984 4500 Fax 1 434 984 4505 7 3 1 Instructional Videos Frontline provides a series of videos to assist the user and may answer your questions These videos can be accessed at fte com support videos aspx On this web page use the Video Filters sidebar to select instructional videos for your product 114 Index Aborted Frame 103 Absolute Time 108 Adding a New Predefined Stack 21 Adding Comments To A Capture File 90 Advanced Settings 101 Advanced System Options 103 Apply Capture Filters 78 Apply Display Filters 76 78 80 81 83 84 ASCII 31 character set 110 viewing datain 31 ASCII Codes 110 ASCII Pane 51 Auto Sizing Column Widths 48 Automatically Request Missing Decoding Inform ation 24 Automatically Restart 100 Automatically Restart Capturing After Clear Cap ture Buffer 100 Automatically Save Imported Capture Files 100 Autotraversal
164. ysical error associated with the byte 4 4 1 12 2 Changing Protocol Layer Colors You can differentiate different protocol layers in the Decode Event Radix Binary and Character panes 1 Choose Select Protocol Layer Colors from the Options menu to change the colors used The colors for the different layers is displayed 52 fte com rontline Debug Communications Faster 2 To change a color click on the arrow next to each layer and select a new color 3 Select OK to accept the color change and return to Frame Display Select Cancel to discard any selection Select Defaults to return the highlight colors to the default settings Protocol Layer Color Selector Layer 1 Layer 3 Sb OF Layer 2 Abed Miles ba Layer T0 Mm al Cancel Layer 3 Abcd Mi Layer 11 Tiili Layer 4 Abcd State Layer 12 Layer 5 Abed State 7 Layer 13 Layer 6 Abcd BURR Layer 14 Layer Abed ff Layer 15 Abcd O Layer 9 Abed Si Layer 16 Abed MY ba Figure 29 Frame Display Protocol Layer Color Selector 4 4 1 13 Protocol Filtering From the Frame Display On the Frame Display click the Quick Filtering icon Y or select Quick Filtering from the Filter menu This opens a dialog that lists all the protocols discovered so far The protocols displayed change depending on the data received Quick Filtering and Hiding Protocols Protocols To Filter In Protocols To Hide Named Filters All Frames With Errors All

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