Palm Pilot 1553 User Manual, UM11009
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3. 8 8 Power supply 8 eae che deeded A A E 9 Bus Controller 13 View Message 13 Edit Fraime 13 View RE T 13 Queus 13 R n EAEE EEE EEE ETEEN TEET 13 Halt BC DUON E EE EEEE E E AE EEE A 13 Quit BC button EE EOAR ET EAE ES OnE Eiai 13 View Messa mesinna a ee EE 14 Message 14 B s Fieldin a a n R E dette old siesscedeuasceies 14 Gap Field 14 PIG 15 D stRt 15 15 Error 15
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5. 39 BC and RT Setup chanced 40 TEAS 40 40 Save Data 40 Get Dutton a 40 Delete Dutt Ons 40 40 Q it DUO ME 40 41 Monitor Setups 42 List BOR 42 Saye DUO 42 42 Delete i 42 42 Oui BUON aarti pee ere ere ee eee eet 42 Monitor Stacks cccccccccssscesscccsseceescecseecesececsseceseeecsuecseesecsaeceeeeecsaeceeeecsaecseeecauecseeecsaeeseeeecaeceeeecsaeeeeeees 43 8 43 E
6. 43 Save Dutton 2 21 kerin EREET EREE EEEE EEE OREO EE E ERE EEE EE EEREN ORRE EES 43 Get DUON 43 Delete 43 43 43 UM11009 Rev Page 3 of 43 FIGURE 1 FIGURE 2 FIGURE 3 FIGURE 4 FIGURE 5 FIGURE 6 FIGURE 7 FIGURE 8 FIGURE 9 FIGURE 10 FIGURE 11 FIGURE 12 FIGURE 13 FIGURE 14 FIGURE 15 FIGURE 16 FIGURE 17 FIGURE 18 FIGURE 19 FIGURE 20 FIGURE 21 FIGURE 22 FIGURE 23 FIGURE 24 FIGURE 25 FIGURE 26 FIGURE 27 FIGURE 28 FIGURE 29 UM11009 Rev A List of Figures ASSEMBLED PIU OE a Ea EEEREN EAN 6 2 7 7 1553 9 PALMI553 INTRODUCTION 10 1553 INITIALIZATION 11 1553 MAIN MENU 12 1553 MENU hisses
7. Field 15 15 TxErtor 15 16 Datta Dutton 16 Update 16 DUMON 16 Edit Frame 17 Append DUON 17 Insert 17 Delete E 17 17 18 18 18 East Cmnd 18 Bit Word onenen 18 18 Update button 18 Read 18 Quit button 18 Quete 19 UM11009 Rev Pa
8. This field defines the word within the phase for the error injection This field can be edited and must be in the range 0 to 63 A value of 0 will result in the error being injected in the 15 word of the phase For example if the phase is 1 and the WdNo is 0 then the error will be injected the command word TxError Field This field defines the error type to be injected Tapping this field scrolls through the possible options No Err No error injected Parity Inject a parity error into the word force parity to even Synch Transmit an illegal SYNC pattern for the word Inject Manchester encoding error into the word BitCnt Transmit an illegal number of bits for the word WngBus Transmit the phase the wrong bus WdNo care BthBus Transmit the phase on both buses WdNo care WdCnt Transmit too few words WdNo don t care WdCnt Transmit too many words WdNo don t care RespTm RT to respond with a unique time overrides global response time UM11009 Rev Page 15 of 43 Einfo Field This field can be edited and is used to define information about the error as follows Error Einfo usage No Err No used Parity Not used Synch 6 x 0 5uS pattern for sync Eg 111000 Good command sync Bit number for error 8 Manchester bit 8 for word BitCnt Number of bits in word Eg 15 1
9. Western Avionics MIL STD 1553 Palm Pilot Hardware Software User Manual UM 11009 RevA Western Avionics Ltd 13 14 Shannon Free Zone Co Clare Ireland 1 August 2003 Table of Contents NEV 00 10 5 or nn er re ee 5 1 layout 5 HARDWARE ee Pores es e E E a a 6 s I pen Oe 6 6 6 6 6 Palm Pilot Interface me 6 6 Physical Characteristics uinen 6 6 Preparation for Useren nad 7 Connections PIU to PDA ee edad 7 Connections PIU to 1553 system 7
10. this should be set to OFF Sound Tapping the text field to the right of the Sound label will toggle this option ON and OFF This option enables disables the Palm PDA warning sounds Update button Tapping this button will read the contents of the Global Settings page and update the hardware with the new values It will also save these values to the Palm1553Init database Hence the settings on this page non volatile and will be used every time the Palm1553 software is launched Quit button Tapping this button will return the software back to the Palm1553 main menu Mode Setups When in the main menu of one on the three modes selecting Setup from the drop menu will display the setup page for that particular mode In all cases these setup pages allow the user to save particular setups for that mode database This setup can then be restored for use at a later date The BC and RT Setup page is identical The Mon Setup page has further options to allow saving of setup data and stack recordings UM11009 Rev Page 39 of 43 and RT Setup The BC and RT Setup pages are shown in Figure 26 Figure 26 Palm1553 BC and RT Setup pages The BC and RT Setup pages are identical and consist of the following List Box The list box will contain the names of all the setup databases for the particular mode When these databases are created they are assigned a unique identifier for the particular mode Figure 26 shows the B
11. EE AREEN 30 SA AU N A N 30 30 30 9 30 30 Update 30 O DUON 30 32 HUON ee 32 UM11009 Rev Page 2 of 43 RESEr SYSTE 33 2 EA 33 SSC CUPS 33 E 33 33 eT A E 33 R 34 Me bus 10 35 32 Word data 35 Ve and buttons 35 Goto isEE 35 Update 35 Quit DUMON 35 lt 25 EERDE 36 Goto BC Run Halt BC 22 2 2 40 020004400000000010000000000000000000000000 36 Goto Halt RT buttons 20 0
12. MON mode When these databases are created they are assigned a unique identifier for the particular mode This mechanism ensures that a user does not attempt to recover a saved setup for the wrong operating mode MsgNo The Stack file can save up to 100 messages from the Bus Monitor stack This field can be edited to define the start of the data within the stack This value must be in the range 0 49 The value 49 defines the start of data at message 49 49 messages before the trigger occurred A value of will result in saving 100 messages starting at the trigger message Save button The Save button allows the user to save current stack data to a database The database will be saved with the name as defined in the File Name text field This field can be edited to allow the user to choose a unique name that describes the setup Once the stack data has been successfully saved the new file name will appear in the list box Get button The Get button allows the user to restore previously saved stack data The database name as defined in the File Name text field will be used to restore a stack file This field can be edited to allow the user to choose one of the databases available in the list box Alternatively if the user double taps the desired file name in the list box this name will be written to the File Name text field Delete button To delete an existing stack file first highlight the file to be dele
13. Transformer stub coupling Direct Direct coupling TX Amplitude The text field to the right of the TX Amplitude can be edited to the desired 1553 TX amplitude This decimal value must be the range 0 255 This value is directly written to an 8 DAC for controlling the amplitude Response Time The text field to the right of the Response Time can be edited to define the global RT response time in microseconds to be used for all modes Response Timeout The text field to the right of the Response Timeout can be edited to define the global RT response timeout in microseconds to be used for all modes BC Frame Duration The text field to the right of the BC Frame Duration can be edited to define the Bus Controller frame duration in microseconds UM11009 Rev Page 38 of 43 Comms Warning Tapping the text field to the right of the Comms Warning label will toggle this option ON and OFF If set to ON an alert box will appear if there is a communications error between the IIB 1553 PIU hardware and the Palm PDA Comms Delay Tapping the text field to the right of the Comms Delay label will toggle this option ON and OFF If set to ON the serial comms will slow down the data transfer by inserting time gaps between each byte transferred This is for communication between a Palm PDA and a Western Avionics 1553 PCI card resident in a PC For normal operation with the IIB 1553 PIU hardware unit
14. in microseconds to follow the message This field can be edited and must be in the range 4 to 6000 microseconds UM11009 Rev A Page 14 of 43 SrcRt Field This field defines the source RT number when data is to be from an RT to the BC or another RT This field can be edited and must be in the range 0 to 31 The subaddress of this RT is defined in the Sa field to the right hand side of the SrcRt field DestRt Field This field defines the destination RT number when data is to be from the BC or another RT This field can be edited and must be in the range 0 to 31 The subaddress of this RT is defined in the Sa field to the right hand side of the DesiRt field Wc Md Field For non mode code type messages this field defines the word count for the messages For mode code type messages this defines the mode code number to be used Error Injection Each message can have an error injected into it The fields below the Error Injection line define the error as follows Ephase Field This field defines which phase of the message is to have the injected error Tapping this field scrolls through the possible options Text field Description OFF Error injection disabled 1 Inject error into the first transmission containing the command word 2 Reserved 3 Inject error in 1 status response only applicable if simulating RT 4 Inject error in 277 RT RT status response only applicable if simulating RT WdNo Field
15. of this word when it receives a TX BIT word mode code from the Bus Controller This can be edited and set to any value Vector Word This field is a 4 digit hexadecimal number representing the RT VECTOR word The RT will send the value of this word when it receives a TX VECTOR word mode code from the Bus Controller This can be edited and set to any value Update button Tapping this button will update the IIB 1553 PIU hardware with the values set on the page Read button Tapping this button will read and display the current values in the IIB 1553 PIU hardware Quit button This button will quit the RT page and return the software back to the BC or MRT main menu UM11009 Rev Page 18 of 43 Msg Queue The Message Queue page is shown in Figure 12 Figure 12 Palm 1553 Message Queue page The Message Queue page is the same for both Bus Controller and Multi Remote Terminal mode The list box is read only and will contain any errors detected when the BC or MRT is active When in BC mode the ID for the error will be the message number in hexadecimal When in MRT mode the ID for the error will be the absolute address in memory of the look up table position used by the message The remainder of the list box entry will describe the error and can be one or more of the following BsErr Wrong or Both bus transmission error NrErr RT failed to respond RT no response error TaErr Terminal address error RT r
16. output type as PSU s with supply voltages in excess of this value will cause undue heat dissipation within the PIU Excessive temperature rise within the PIU will cause the battery charge cycle to be inhibited This condition will be indicated by both the Charging and Charged LED s being on Charging will remain inhibited until the temperature falls within pre set threshold limits UM11009 Rev Page 8 of 43 SOFTWARE The Palm1553 user interface software resides on a Palm PDA and is used to fully control the operation of the IIB 1553 interface box The software can operate in one of three modes e Bus Controller Mode e Remote Terminal Mode e Bus Monitor Mode Changing of Global settings saving setups and debugging can be achieved using a drop down menu see Drop Down Menu Options To invoke the Palm1553 software first ensure that the 9 pin D type connector of the Palm HotSync cable is fitted to the IIB 1553 PIU box and that the box is turned on Once this is done select the Palm1553 LOGO on the Palm PDA screen The LOGO will appear as outlined in Figure 4 Figure 4 Palm1553 LOGO Once the ICON is selected the Palm1553 will be launched and the introduction page as shown in Figure 5 will appear UM11009 Rev Page 9 of 43 Figure 5 Palm1553 Introduction To proceed tap the screen with the stilo pen Alternatively wait 10 seconds and the software will automatically proceed At this point the Palm1553 so
17. range 0 to 63 A value of 0 will result in the error being injected in the 15 word Status word TxError Field This field defines the error type to be injected Tapping this field scrolls through the possible options No Err No error injected Parity Inject a parity error into the word force parity to even Synch Transmit an illegal SYNC pattern for the word Inject a Manchester encoding error into the word BitCnt Transmit an illegal number of bits for the word WngBus Transmit on the wrong bus WdNo care BthBus Transmit on both buses WdNo care WdCnt Transmit too few words WdNo don t care WdCnt Transmit too many words WdNo don t care RespTm RT to respond with a unique time overrides global response time Einfo Field This field can be edited and is used to define information about the error as follows UM11009 RevA Page 22 of 43 Einfo usage No Err No used Parity Not used Synch 6 x 0 5uS pattern for sync Eg 111000 Good Status sync Bit number for error Eg 8 Manchester in bit 8 for word BitCnt Number of bits in word Eg 15 1 too few 17 1 too many WngBus Not used BthBus Not used WdCnt Number of words to subtract from the message WdCnt Number of words to add to the message RespTm Unique RT response time in microseconds Data button This displays the message dat
18. 553 GLOBAL 0 20 101412 0 1 0 38 PALM1553 AND RT SETUP PAGES soiien eiris 40 PALM1553 MON SETUP 8 41 PAEMI553 MON SETUP PAGE 42 1553 MON STACK FILES PAGE 43 Page 4 of 43 Introduction The Western Avionics IIB 1553 PIU provides full MIL STD 1553 test simulation and bus analysis capability in a small portable hand held unit designed to utilize Palm Pilot technology as the operator interface The unit provides support for 1553A 1553B McAir and STANAG 3838 variants in a self contained battery operated unit supplied with matching battery charger and power supply for desktop use The main 1553 hardware is supplied within a small lightweight enclosure and connected to a Palm PDA by means of the supplied HotSync cable These two units operate together to provide a full MIL STD 1553 test simulation and bus analysis capability in a truly hand held and portable manner allowing users to operate in remote locations and hostile environments with 1553 systems Main Features The unit supports concurrent Bus Controller BC and up to 31 Remote Terminals RT s with Bus Monitor BM An additiona
19. 8 NOT USED 9 5V 5V reserved see note below Figure 3 Output Connectors UM11009 Rev Page 7 of 43 Indicators LED indicators are fitted to the front face of the PIU and are positioned as shown below The three Status indicators are PWR green LED showing that the power supply and battery supply is healthy ACTY yellow LED which indicates 1553 activity on the bus and FAIL red LED showing a fault in the PIU The two Power indicators show CHARGING yellow LED indicating that the unit battery is accepting a charge current from the battery charger unit and CHARGED yellow LED indicating that the charging process is completed Power source The PIU power source is a 4 1 volt 5 2Ah Lithium Ion battery Saft Type MP 176065 built into the base of the unit which is charged through a charge management control circuit built into the PIU Power is supplied to the charge management control circuit from the DC in socket shown in Figure 2 which when connected to the matching 6V DC power supply unit furnished will enable the PIU to be run from the power supply directly or enable the battery to be re charged Power supply The 6 volt power supply unit supplied with the PIU has been selected to provide optimum input voltage and supply current for the on card battery charge management circuitry and substitution of this PSU is not recommended Should the user wish to use an alternative PSU then this should be restricted to a 6 volt DC
20. C and RT setup pages with a setup database called TEST1 Although their names are the same they are different databases This mechanism ensures that a user does not attempt to recover a saved setup for the wrong operating mode Save button The Save button allow the user to save the current setup to a database The database will be saved with the name as defined in the File Name text field This field can be edited to allow the user to choose a unique name that describes the setup Once the setup has been successfully saved the new file name will appear in the list box Save Data No Data Tapping on the text field above the Save button will toggle between two options Save Data Palm1553 will save all the contents of the data buffers No Data Palm1553 will only save the actual setup The data buffers will not be saved Note The Save Data option produces a larger database and will take longer to save Get button The Get button allows the user to restore previously saved setups The database name as defined in the File text field will be used to restore a setup This field can be edited to allow the user to choose one of the databases available in the list box Alternatively if the user double taps the desired file name in the list box this name will be written to the File Name text field Delete button To delete an existing setup first highlight the file to be deleted by tapping on
21. Weight 480 grams Environmental Operating Temp 0 50 Storage Temp 20 70 C Humidity 5 95 Non condensing MTBF MIL 217F 156 218 hrs at 25 C GB Page 6 of 43 Preparation for use Connections PIU to PDA The PIU is connected to the Palm PDA using the supplied interface cable which connects to the PIU at the Input side located on the bottom face of the unit as shown on Figure 2 On this same end the Power On Off switch is located to on the right with a Reset switch on the left and the DC in socket to the left of this Figure 2 Input Connectors Connections PIU to 1553 system Connections from the PIU to the 1553 system are made at the top face of the PIU unit as shown in Figure 3 below Two sub miniature tri axial connectors type BJ157 are provided for 1553 bus connections Primary J1 and Secondary J2 with conventional ve 1553 signal wiring to the center pin ve 1553 to the outer ring A 9 pin sub miniature D type socket connector type 5 595 is also provided at J3 for signal I O use This 9 pin connector is wired as follows Pin number Connection Comments 1 WRITEPROT 2 TRIG IN ANODE Trigger input anode connection 3 TRIG OUT COLLECTOR Trigger output collector connection 4 GROUND 5 EXT TRIG EMITTER External trigger emitter 6 TRIG IN CATHODE Trigger input cathode connection 7 TRIG OUT EMITTER Trigger output emitter connection
22. a setup page for the subaddress or mode code Read button Tapping this button will read the current values of the subaddress or mode code from the IIB 1553 PIU hardware and display them Update button Tapping this button will update the message in the 1553 unit with the new settings This be done when the MRT is transmitting allowing dynamic updating of the data and errors Quit button This button will quit the page and return the software back to the MRT main menu UM11009 Rev Page 23 of 43 Chronological Monitor Mode The main menu for the Chronological Monitor Mode is shown in Figure 16 Figure 16 Palm1553 Chronological Monitor Main Menu The main MON menu consists of the following Run button Tapping this button will start the monitor searching for the trigger condition and saving messages to the stack Halt button Tapping this button immediately stop the bus monitor recording data Stack View button This displays the data captured on the bus monitor stack Snap View button This displays a continuously updated display of the activity on the 1553 bus in the same format as the bus monitor stack page Edit Trigger button This displays the setup for one of the 4 triggers Tapping the Trigger field selects which of the 4 triggers is to be edited Sequence button This displays the sequence setup for the trigger condition Activity button This displays a continuously updated display of t
23. age Current start address 2 Ve Start address of page Current start address 2 With the Page checkbox checked tapping these buttons will display the next or previous memory page respectively Ve Start address of page Current start address 0x40 Ve Start address of page Current start address 0x40 Goto button Tapping this button will display the page starting at the address in the edit box to the right hand side of the button This field can be edited In the example in Figure 23 this address has been set to 0x010000 Update button Changing the values of the 32 word fields does not directly change the memory in hardware This button is used to transfer these changes to the hardware Quit button Tapping this button will return the software back to the main software menu UM11009 Rev Page 35 of 43 Debug Command The Edit Data page is shown in Figure 24 Figure 24 Palm1553 Debug Command page The Command page allows the user to make the hardware execute a number of fixed commands The Command page consists of the following Goto BC Run BC Halt BC buttons Force the hardware into BC mode Run the BC and Halt the BC Goto RT Run RT Halt RT buttons Force the hardware into RT mode Run the RT and Halt the RT Goto MN Run MN Halt MN buttons Force the hardware into MON mode Run the MON and Halt the MON Load and Read Clock buttons Tapping the Read Clock button
24. aving 100 messages Example 2 The sequence will start with trigger 1 assume trigger 1 is of type Single Each word will be tested for meeting the condition as defined by Trigger 1 If it is met Pass END then 100 messages will be saved PTC 100 and then the monitor will stop If it is not met Fail T1 T1 will be used for the next word A more complex Window type capture would be as follows Settings Start at Trigger 1 T1 type Single T2 type Window WinCnt 3 PTC 8 Trigger 1 Pass 2 Fail 1 2 Pass END Fail 1 Here the monitor will continually search for a word that meets the T1 condition same as Example 1 Once this condition is met the monitor will test to see if the 3 word WinCnt 3 in the message meets the condition for T2 If this is true then the trigger condition will be met and 8 messages will be stored PTC 8 If this is false then the search for the T1 condition will start again This trigger searches for a particular condition in word number 3 of a particular message UM11009 Rev A Page 31 of 43 Activity The Activity page is shown in Figure 20 Figure 20 Palm1553 Chronological Monitor Activity page The Activity page shows a statistical representation of the activity on the 1553 bus in Histogram form The X axis is the RT Number and the Y axis is the percentage activity In this page the monitor is continually running and updatin
25. cs All set ups programmable in real time Programmable for Direct or TX coupling Programmable TX amplitude Full error injection BC amp RT Full error detection all modes Bus Controller Programmable Tx amplitude Programmable inter message delay Programmable RT response time Programmable Frame frequency Programmable message sequencing Messages and data changeable in real time Acyclic message insertion BC RT RT BC RT RT mode code broadcast Multiple data buffering all transmitted and received messages Full error injection detection Remote Terminal Multiple RT simulation up to 31 RT s All sub addresses selectable Selectable Broadcast mode Programmable Mode Code sub address Programmable Status word Programmable RT response time Message time tagging 32 bit 500 nSec All active RT tables changeable in real time Data and Status words changeable in real time UM11009 Rev A Bus Monitor All data buffers monitored All data time tagged 32 bit 10 uSec resolution All data available for analysis Programmable conditional triggers and masks Message time tagging 32 bit 500 nSec resolution Store all store only store after modes Full error detection capability Palm Pilot Interface RS 232 cable link Power Internal battery pack Li lon 4 1V 5 2 Ah Saft Type MP 176065 Run time on internal batteries 8 hrs min Physical Characteristics Dimensions 200mm x 100mm x 50mm
26. defined in the RtNo edit field View RT button This displays the setup page for the chosen RT as defined in the RtNo edit field This edit field can be changed to select any RT from to RT31 Broadcast Msg Queue button This displays the MRT Message Queue report page The queue will display any errors encountered during transmission Run RT button This button is used to start the MRT Halt RT button This button will immediately halt the MRT Quit RT button This button will quit the MRT mode and return the software back to the main menu UM11009 RevA Page 21 of 43 Subaddress and Mode Code pages The MRT Subaddress and Mode Code pages are very similar See Figure 15 Figure 15 Palm1553 MRT Subaddress and Mode Code Pages The MRT subaddress and mode code pages are used to inject unique errors in RT responses to particular subaddress and Mode codes The Remote Terminal field is read only and is set to the RT number as defined in the MRT main menu For Mode Code pages the Mode Code field can be edited to select the desired mode code number 0 31 For Subaddress pages the Subaddress field can be edited to select the desired RT subaddress number 1 30 Error Injection Each subaddress mode can have an error injected into it The fields below the Error Injection line define the error as follows WdNo Field This field defines the word for the error injection This field can be edited and must be in the
27. eld This field can be edited to allow the user to choose a unique name that describes the setup Once the setup has been successfully saved the new file name will appear in the list box Get button The Get button allows the user to restore previously saved setups The database name as defined in the File Name text field will be used to restore a setup This field can be edited to allow the user to choose one of the databases available in the list box Alternatively if the user double taps the desired file name in the list box this name will be written to the File Name text field Delete button To delete an existing setup first highlight the file to be deleted by tapping on the file name in the list box Now tap on the Delete button and this setup will be deleted Created All the created databases have a creation time and date When a particular database is selected the creation time and date will appear in the read only text field to the right of the Created field Quit button Tapping this button will return the software back to the MON main menu UM11009 Rev A Page 42 of 43 Monitor Stacks Stack database files allow the user to save up to 100 messages from the bus monitor stack The MON Stack files page is shown in Figure 29 Figure 29 Palm1553 MON Stack files page The MON Stack files page consists of the following List Box The list box will contain the names of all the STACK databases for the
28. er condition to be met This page consists of the following Start at Tapping this field will scroll through the four possible triggers that the sequence can start at Pass Fail For each trigger it is possible to define the next trigger to be used when it s own trigger condition passes or fails Tapping on the Pass and Fail fields will scroll through the five options 1 On Pass Fail go to Trigger 1 T2 On Pass Fail go to Trigger 2 T3 On Pass Fail go to Trigger 3 T4 On Pass Fail go to Trigger 4 END On Pass Fail trigger is complete do the post trigger count PTC This field can be edited and is used to define the number of messages to save on the stack after the trigger condition is met If this value is set to 0 the bus monitor will continually capture data until the hardware is commanded to halt WinCnt This field is for Window Selective2 type triggers This field can be edited to define the word number within the message the trigger interrogates If this value is set to 0 the trigger will interrogate all the words within the message Update button Tapping this button will send the present sequence settings to the hardware Quit button Tapping this button will return the software back to the monitor main menu UM11009 Rev Page 30 of 43 Example 1 The example shown in Figure 19 will do the following This will result in the hardware looking for the first occurrence of T1 and then s
29. esponded with incorrect address TxErr Message contained an encoding error Parity Manchester etc SyEr Word transmitted with incorrect SYNC type Clear button Tapping this button will clear the queue of all entries Read button Tapping this button will read the current contents of the queue and display it Snap If this checkbox is checked the software will periodically read the contents of the queue and display it This is the equivalent of tapping the Read button every few seconds Refresh If this checkbox is checked and the snap is enabled the software will clear the queue of all entries after the period read and display of the queue This is the equivalent of tapping the Read button and then the Clear button every few seconds Quit button This button will quit the Message Queue page and return the software back to the BC or MRT main menu UM11009 Rev Page 19 of 43 Data pages The Message data pages for the Bus Controller and Multi Remote terminal modes are very similar See Figure 13 BUS CONTROLLER MULTI REMOTE TERMINAL Figure 13 Palm 1553 BC and MRT Message data pages The only differences in the two pages the Sta1 and Sta2 fields These are only applicable to the Bus Controller mode These read only fields will display the last status word received from the RT due to this message The second status field Sta2 is only applicable if the message was an RT RT transfer The remainder of the page i
30. etc NOTE If this is the first time the software has been launched on the Palm PDA see setups in the Drop Down Menu Options of this document Once the global parameters are setup tapping on the particular main menu button will choose the particular mode of operation e Bus Controller Mode e Remote Terminal Mode e Bus Monitor Mode UM11009 Rev A Page 12 of 43 Bus Controller The main menu for the Bus Controller Mode is shown in Figure 8 Figure 8 Palm1553 Main BC Menu The main BC menu consists of the following View Message button This displays the setup page for the chosen BC message as defined in the MsgNo edit field The user to select 1 of 100 different messages can change this edit field Edit Frame button This displays the setup page to select the messages and order for the frame to be transmitted View RT button This displays the setup page for the chosen RT as defined in the RtNo edit field This edit field can be changed to select any RT from to RT31 Broadcast Msg Queue button This displays the BC Message Queue report page The queue will display any errors encountered during transmission Run BC button This button is used to start the BC transmitting the message frame The Count edit field can be changed to select the desired number of frame transmissions The range of this count is 0 to 60000 A count of 0 will cause the BC to transmit continuously until the Halt BC butt
31. ew 24 Snap View DUON 24 Edit Trigger 24 DUON crrr erorar A eE E E EEE 24 Activity DUO ec nabs 24 Load Dutton eetis EE AE 24 MOm 24 Stack View and Snap 25 Type 28 B s 29 Trigger Word Pattern 146 2 1 4 0 2 1 200 0 01 0 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 29 E E bovis sg casas e sca gesaencaetens E E 29 Error eRe EREE a ERE E A AE 29 Update A EERE A a r 29 Quit E a EE T E EE AEE EEE E TEETER RE a 29 SEGUE INC AE E
32. ftware will start serial communication with the hardware and determine if the system has been initialized If the hardware does not appear to be initialized eg the hardware has just been powered up then the screen as shown in Figure 6 will appear If the hardware has been initialized then the software will display the main operating screen as shown in Figure 7 UM11009 Rev Page 10 of 43 Figure 6 Palm1553 Initialization Should the screen appear as shown in Figure 6 it is strongly recommended that the option Yes be selected Initialization will take approximately 40 seconds This is a once only requirement when the IIB 1553 PIU hardware has previously been powered down Further launching of the Palm1553 software will detect that this operation has been previously executed Once initialization is complete the software will now display the main user menu as shown in Figure 7 UM11009 RevA Page 11 of 43 1 2 NE Rrra tart atl rit Figure 7 Palm1553 Main Menu The Status at the bottom of the screen will indicate mode the hardware is in If the system has just been initialized the status should read SELFTEST PASSED If the status is Error as shown in Figure 4 there is communication link error In this case ensure the HotSync cable is connected correctly The Palm1553 software automatically saves in a database critical global settings such as bus coupling TX amplitude
33. g the histogram The most frequently addresses RT will be set to 100 All other RTs will be represented as a proportion of this activity The example in Figure 20 shows that messages are being addressed to RT 1 and RT 15 only RT 15 is being addressed the most 100 The number of messages addressed to RT 15 is half the number of messages being addressed to RT 1 50 The Command checkbox is used to determine the BC activity If the Status checkbox is checked only RTs that respond with their Status Word will be represented Quit button Tapping this button will return the software back to the monitor main menu UM11009 RevA Page 32 of 43 Drop Down Menu Options When in any of the Main Menu pages a drop down menu is made available by tapping the Options text in the top left hand corner of the page This will reveal a menu as shown in Figure 21 Figure 21 Palm1553 Drop down menu The Drop down menu consists of the following Reset System Tapping on this option allows the user to reset the hardware and initialize it to the default condition Debug Mode Tapping on the Debug Mode option allows the user to interrogate and edit the hardware memory and issue a series of set commands Setups When in the Palm1553 main menu tapping on this option opens the Global Settings page When in the main menu of one of the three operating modes tapping this option opens the Mode Setups page for getting or saving a setup About Tapping
34. ge 1 of 43 EEIE ENEE AnNa 19 Read 19 19 Reie S esesman 19 Quit DUTOT as 19 20 20 32 20 20 Update 20 Read DUON 20 STAD 20 20 Multi Remote Terminal 0 42111 1 0 21 Subaddress Dutton ccscccssssssserssssessscssscesecsescenscnesoussnsssssssnsesssessesssesssessescsseneseeeseessnssesssseseseseessses 21 Mode Code button s r e ccccescesssesseceseceseccecseecaeeeseceaesseeeseeeecaecsaecsaecsaecsaecaeeeaeseseseeeseessesseeseasenaeenseenees 21 View RT button 21 Msg Queue
35. he activity on the 1553 bus in a histogram format Load button Tapping this button will direct the software to load the trigger setup data into the 1553 hardware Quit Mon button This button will quit the MON mode and return the software back to the main menu UM11009 RevA Page 24 of 43 Stack View and Snap View The Stack and Snap pages are very similar See Figure 17 Figure 17 Palm1553 Chronological Monitor Stack and Snap page The Stack and Snap pages are used to display the stack data In both cases the stack data is displayed in a list box in one of two formats If the Long checkbox is checked the format will be a Long form detailed description of the message If the Long checkbox is not checked the format will be a Short form describing each message in two lines of text The Stack View is used to display the stack data after the bus monitor has captured data and has halted This data is displayed in the list box and can be scrolled through using the list box up and down arrows To speed up searching through the stack data a Goto button is provided to direct the list box to a particular message in the stack The edit field to the right of the Goto button can be used to select a particular message number in the stack Tapping the Goto button will direct the software to search for the message number and fill the list box starting at this point in the stack A value of 0 represents the message where the trigger condit
36. ion was met As the trigger may not have been the first message captured negative numbers are allowed to display pre trigger data The Snap View continually loads the trigger condition into the hardware runs the monitor and when capture is complete displays the data starting at the trigger message in the list box There is no Goto function for the Snap View page UM11009 Rev Page 25 of 43 Long form The example given for the Stack View in Figure 17 shows a typical long form display Here each word is displayed on a new line giving the value and any errors associated with that word Each message is given a signed number representing its position on the stack Negative numbers represent pre trigger data and positive numbers represent post trigger data The trigger message 0 message is indicated by the text Trigger Following the message number is the bus ID indicator This indicates the bus the message was received on and can be one of three values PRI Primary bus SEC Secondary bus or BOTH Message received on both buses The first line finishes with the time time tag the message arrived Each word is preceded by a word type field This can be one of four values CMND Command word RTRT 2 Command word of an RT RT transfer STAT Status word DATA Data word The format for COMMAND RT RT COMMAND words is AA Y SS WW AA 5 bit RT address field in HEX format Y Transmit or recei
37. ith it UM11009 RevA Page 27 of 43 Edit Trigger The Trigger page is shown in Figure 18 Figure 18 Palm1553 Chronological Monitor Trigger page The Trigger page allows the user to define one of the four triggers The top left hand corner of the page will display the trigger number as defined in the Monitor main menu This page consists of the following Type field Tapping this button will scroll the different trigger types that can be allocated to this trigger The four types are as follows Single Single Trigger Can be used as an ARM for a WINDOW type trigger Window Window Trigger Used to detect data within a message follows a Single Trigger Selective 1 Same as a Single Trigger but used as an ARM for selective capturing Selective 2 Same as a Window Trigger but used to detect data within a message for selective capturing A Single type trigger will continually look at each word until it finds the particular condition A Window type trigger will look for the trigger condition within the current message If the trigger is met then the condition passes otherwise the condition fails This is intended to be used as a following condition after a Single type trigger has passed it s condition This allows specific events within a given message to be detected The Selective type triggers are very However if a message does not meet the criteria as defined by the triggers the message will not be stored on the s
38. l Chronological Bus Monitor CBM facility is also provided with comprehensive multi level triggering capability Full error injection capability is provided in BC and RT modes with full error detection capability in BC RT BM and CBM modes The unit provides a variable amplitude dual redundant 1553 interface with 2 Mbytes of dual ported RAM Code Warrior software is pre loaded to the Palm Pilot unit giving a user friendly GUI for all 1553 set ups data management and storage Manual layout This document is split into three sections Hardware Preparation for Use and Software The Hardware section deals with the physical characteristics of the 1553 interface box connectors power requirements etc The Preparation for Use section gives information on the interconnection of the PIU and PDA connection of 1553 interface cables and battery charging unit and the Software section describes the Palm1553 user interface driver that resides in the Palm PDA UM11009 Rev Page 5 of 43 HARDWARE 1553 0 This section deals with the PIU unit itself which is contained within small custom built enclosure as shown in Figure 1 below which is connected to a Palm PDA using a standard RS 232 cable link normally used for HotSync of the Palm PDA to a host PC system Figure 1 Assembled PIU General Specifications MIL STD 1553A B STANAG 3838 compatible MCAIR compatible 2 Mbytes Dual Port RAM all modes BIT and diagnosti
39. on is selected Halt BC button This button will immediately halt the BC at the end of the current message Quit BC button This button will quit the BC mode and return the software back to the main menu UM11009 Rev Page 13 of 43 View Message The BC message page is shown in Figure 9 Figure 9 Palm1553 BC Message Page The BC message page will display the message number as selected in the main BC menu page The BC message consists of the following Message Type Field Tapping on this field will scroll the various message types available The possible message types are as follows Text field Description BC to RT transfer Standard BC to RT data transfer RT to BC transfer Standard RT to BC data transfer BCST mode without data Broadcast mode code without associated data word BCST mode without data Broadcast mode code with associated data word BCST RT to RT transfer Broadcast RT to RT data transfer BCST BC to RT transfer Broadcast BC to RT data transfer Mode without data Standard mode code without associated data word Mode with data Standard mode code with associated data word RT to RT transfer Standard RT to RT data transfer Bus Field Tapping on this field will toggle the two options for transmission PRI TX message on Primary bus or SEC TX message on Secondary bus Gap Field This field defined the inter message gap time
40. on this option will show an information box with the Rev level of the Palm1553 software Help Tapping on this option will show a simple help text box explaining the fundamentals of Palm1553 Quit Palm 1553 Tapping on this option will quit the Palm1553 application UM11009 Rev Page 33 of 43 Debug Mode Selecting the Debug Mode will display a further option box as shown in Figure 22 Figure 22 Palm1553 Debug Options The Edit Data button will display a page that allows the user to read and edit the hardware memory The Command button will display a page that allows the user to command the hardware to execute a number of functions UM11009 RevA Page 34 of 43 Debug Data The Edit Data page is shown in Figure 23 Figure 23 Palm1553 Debug Edit Data page The Edit Data page allows the user to display and edit the current values of the memory in the hardware The Edit Data page consists of the following 32 word data page Each page consists of 32 x 16 bit words Each word field is displayed in 4 digit hexadecimal and can be edited The absolute byte address of the memory 2 Mbytes for each line is displayed on the right hand side in hexadecimal In the example shown in Figure 23 the page address begins at 0x010000 Ve and buttons With the Page checkbox not checked tapping these buttons will display the memory page starting at the next or previous 16 bit word respectively Ve Start address of p
41. or Checkboxes The checkboxes at the bottom of the page define the errors to be included in the trigger condition If more than one error is checked then they will be a logical OR if any of the selected errors occur then the trigger condition is met The checkbox errors are Py Parity error in word Mn Manchester encoding error in word Lg Word had too many bits Long Word Sh Word had too few bits Short Word Wc Wordcount error in message incorrect number of data words in message Nr RT failed to respond No Response Ta RT responded with incorrect address field Terminal Address Error Incorrect Sync type Command Status with Data Sync Data with Command Sync Update button Tapping this button will send the present trigger settings to the hardware Quit button Tapping this button will return the software back to the monitor main menu Example The example in Figure 18 defined the Trigger as follows e Single type trigger e Trigger on Command Word received on the Primary Bus The bit pattern of the Command Word must be an RX message to with a word count of The subaddress is don t care 00111 0 XXXXX 00011 e This word must also a Parity error UM11009 Rev Page 29 of 43 Sequence The Sequence page is shown in Figure 19 Figure 19 Palm1553 Chronological Monitor Sequence page The Sequence page defines the sequence of events for the trigg
42. represent post trigger data The trigger message 0 message is indicated by text Trigger Following the message number is the bus ID indicator This indicates the bus the message was received on and can be one of three values PRI Primary bus SEC Secondary bus or BOTH Message received on both buses The first line finishes with the time time tag the message arrived The second line describes the message in a simplified form The possible messages are as follows Rt a Sa b gt Rt c Sa d RT to RT transfer where a b c d are the RT and Subaddress values MC Tx Transmit type mode code MC Rx Receive type mode code BC gt Rts Broadcast BC to all RTs RT a Sa b gt BC Rt to BC transfer where a b are the RT and Subaddress values BC gt Rt a Sa b BC to RT transfer where a b are the RT and Subaddress values The following text will vary depending on the message type If the message type is a mode code then MdNo XX will follow where XX will be the decimal mode code number for the message If the message type is not a mode code then Went XX will follow where XX will be the decimal word count for the message precedes the message number this message has one or more errors associated with it The example in Figure 17 shows a BC to RT transfer where the RT number is 3 and the subaddress is 14 The second message is preceded by a indicating that this message has or more errors associated w
43. s identical and consists of the following Ttag This read only field displays the time tag value of the last message This value is in seconds and has a resolution of 10 microseconds 32 Data words The 32 data words are displayed in hexadecimal When reading the data page these fields will be filled with the current values in the 1553 hardware These fields can be edited and written to the hardware using the Update button RX This read only field displays the number of words that were last received and stored in the buffer If there message fails to send data the text Error will appear in this field Update button Tapping this button will update the 1553 hardware with the values set on the page Read button Tapping this button will read and display the current values in the 1553 hardware Snap If this checkbox is checked the software will periodically read the contents of the data buffer and display it This is the equivalent of tapping the Read button every few seconds Quit button Tapping this button will quit the data page UM11009 Rev Page 20 of 43 Multi Remote Terminal Mode The main menu for the Multi Remote Terminal Mode is shown in Figure 14 Figure 14 Palm1553 MRT Main Menu The main MRT menu consists of the following Subaddress button This displays the subaddress edit page for the RT defined in the RtNo edit field Mode Code button This displays the mode code edit page for the RT
44. s message Delete button Highlight the message in the list box to be deleted Tapping the Delete button will remove the highlighted message from the list Quit button This button will quit the frame page and return the software back to the BC main menu UM11009 Rev Page 17 of 43 View The page is shown in Figure 11 Figure 11 Palm1553 RT page The RT page is the same for both Bus Controller and Multi Remote Terminal mode The RtNo field indicates the RT address as defined in the main BC or MRT pages The various parameters of the RT can be edited as follows Enabled This checkbox is used to enable or disable the RT If the RT is disabled in MRT mode the disabled RT will still store data from the BC and real RT in the subaddress data buffer This allows disabled RTs to continuously monitor the traffic to any real RT active on the bus Status Word This field is a 4 digit hexadecimal number representing the RT status word For enabled RTs this can be edited and set to any value The default value will be the expected RT status word with all bits cleared If the RT is disabled this value will be the last value sent by the real RT active on the bus If the real RT failed to respond this value will be set to OxFFFF Last Cmnd This field is read only and will be the last command received by the RT Bit Word This field is a 4 digit hexadecimal number representing the RT BIT word The RT will send the value
45. tack This allows selective capture of particular messages For further details see Sequence Type field Tapping this button will scroll the different word types that can be allocated to this trigger The five possibilities are as follows CMND Trigger on a Command Word RTRT Trigger on Second Command Word of an RT RT transfer STAT Trigger on a Status Word UM11009 Rev Page 28 of 43 Trigger a Data Word XXXX Don t Care Ignore the word type Bus ID field Tapping this button will scroll the different bus IDs that can be allocated to this trigger The four possibilities are as follows PRI Trigger on message on Primary Bus SEC Trigger on message on Secondary Bus BOTH Trigger on message transmitted on Both Buses XXXX Don t Care Ignore the Bus ID Trigger Word Pattern fields Tapping these 16 fields allow the user to define the bit pattern of the word for the trigger condition Each field will scroll through three possible bit states of 0 1 and X The X is a don t care term Errors Tapping the top field will toggle the state of the error definition section to one of two states Enabled or Disabled If the state is Disabled the errors associated with the word will not take part in the trigger condition If this state is Enabled then the trigger condition will only be met if one or more of the errors defined in the checkboxes occurs Err
46. ted by tapping on the file name in the list box Now tap on the Delete button and this setup will be deleted Created All the created databases have a creation time and date When a particular database is selected the creation time and date will appear in the read only text field to the right of the Created field Quit button Tapping this button will return the software back to the MON main menu UM11009 RevA Page 43 of 43
47. the file name in the list box Now tap on the Delete button and this setup will be deleted Created All the created databases have a creation time and date When a particular database is selected the creation time and date will appear in the read only text field to the right of the Created field Quit button Tapping this button will return the software back to the main menu of the current mode UM11009 RevA Page 40 of 43 Mon Setup When in the Monitor Main Menu selecting the Setup option in the drop down menu will display an option select box as shown in Figure 27 Figure 27 Palm1553 Mon Setup options Two options are available Setups The Setups option allows the user to save the trigger condition parameters Stacks The Stacks option allows the user to save captured stack data UM11009 RevA Page 41 of 43 Monitor Setups The MON Setup page is shown in Figure 28 Figure 28 Palm1553 MON Setup page The MON Setup page consists of the following List Box The list box will contain the names of all the SETUP databases for the MON mode When these databases are created they are assigned a unique identifier for the particular mode This mechanism ensures that a user does not attempt to recover a saved setup for the wrong operating mode Save button The Save button allow the user to save the current setup to a database The database will be saved with the name as defined in the File Name text fi
48. too few 17 1 too many WngBus Not used BthBus Not used WdCnt Number of words to subtract from the message WdCnt Number of words to add to the message RespTm Unique RT response time in microseconds Data button This displays the message data setup page for transmitting Update button Tapping this button will update the message in the IIB 1553 PIU box with the new settings This be done when the BC is transmitting allowing dynamic updating of the message Quit button This button will quit the message page and return the software back to the BC main menu UM11009 Rev Page 16 of 43 Edit Frame The Frame page is shown in Figure 10 Figure 10 Palm1553 BC Frame Page The BC Frame page allows the user to create the message sequence for the frame Inserting appending and deleting messages in the list box achieve this The messages in the list box will indicate the message number 1 100 and the message type as defined in the message setup page The editing of the message frame is done using four buttons Append button The message number 1 100 is first entered in the Msg Number edit field Tapping the Append button will add this message to the end of the list Insert button The message number 1 100 is first entered in the Msg Number edit field Now highlight a message the list box Tapping the Insert button will insert this message between the highlighted message and the previou
49. ve bit and will appear as T or R 55 5 bit Subaddress Mode code field in HEX format Www 5 bit Wordcount Mode Code number in HEX format The format for STATUS words is AA M BB CC AA 5 bit RT address field in HEX format Y Message error bit and will appear as 1 or 0 BB 5 bits representing the instrumentation SRQ and reserved bits in HEX format 5 bits representing the remaining bits of the status word in HEX format The format for a data word is a 4 digit hexadecimal number in Figure 17 the RT responded in 8 0 microseconds Any word can have one or more errors associated with it These will be displayed after the word The possible values are Py Parity error in word Mn Manchester encoding error in word Lg Word had too many bits Long Word Sh Word had too few bits Short Word Wc Wordcount error in message incorrect number of data words in message Nr RT failed to respond No Response Ta RT responded with incorrect address field Terminal Address Error Sy Incorrect Sync type Command Status with Data Sync or Data with Command Sync UM11009 Rev A Page 26 of 43 Short form The example given for the Snap View in Figure 17 shows a typical short form display Here each message is displayed in two lines Each message is given a signed number representing its position on the stack Negative numbers represent pre trigger data and positive numbers
50. will display the current value of the clock in the text field on the right hand side of this button The clock value will be displayed as an 8 digit hexadecimal number Tapping the Load Clock button will load the value defined in the text field on the right hand side of the Read Clock button This field can be edited The user must enter the value to be loaded as an 8 digit hexadecimal number Create button Tapping this button will create a firmware upgrade database Upgrade button Tapping this button will upgrade the firmware of the IIB 1553 PIU hardware unit with the upgrade database UM11009 Rev Page 36 of 43 button This will command hardware to execute a full selftest Reset button Tapping this button will physically reset the hardware and force it into a power up selftest sequence Quit button Tapping this button will return the software back to the main software menu UM11009 RevA Page 37 of 43 Global Settings When in the Palm1553 Main Menu selecting Setups in the drop down menu will display the Global Settings page as shown in Figure 25 Figure 25 Palm1553 Global Settings page The Global Settings page is used to set up common parameters and options used in all modes The Global settings page consists of the following Bus Coupling Tapping the text field to the right of the Bus Coupling label will toggle the 1553 bus coupling to one of two options Transformer
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