USBee
LX ToolBuilder Feature Summary
The USBee LX Digital Test Pod is customizable using the USBee LX Toolbuilder software source code libraries. You can write your own Visual Basic or Visual C++ code to control the USBee LX Pod to create your own control systems. For complete details on the Toolbuilder, please read the Users Manual here.
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USBee
LX Tool Builder Users Manual version 1.4. |
Complete documentation for the USBee LX Toolbuilder Source Code. Using the USBee Toolbuilder software source code included above, you can build your own USBee Digital Test Tools using our USBee Tool Builder library and Visual Basic or Visual C. Also combine multiple pods to build a single tool with up to 512 signals. |
The USBee pod must be initialized to configure the pod to communicate with the host application before any pod operations can take place. There are a number of routines that can initialize the USBee pod: InitializePod and ConnectToUSBeePod, InitializeSGPod and InitializeLAPod.
Each of the 8 USBee pod signals (0 through 7) can be either an Input or an Output. There are 3 routines that set the USBee signals to the desired I/O state as well as drive the outputs to know values. Each routine has unique features to provide optimized performance. These routines are SetSignalStates, SetSignalStatesMultiple, and GenerateData.
These three routines take a parameter called StateValue. The StateValue parameter sets the Input/Output state of each of the signals. Each bit in the byte represents each individual signal. Bit 0 corresponds to Signal 0 and Bit 7 corresponds to Signal 7 on the USBee Pod. A bit value of 0 means the signal is an Input. A bit value of 1 means the signal is an Output. If a USBee pod signal is set to be an Input, the associated signal is not driven.
Once the signals are set to the desired values, the CLK line will pulse to indicate stable data is present. The polarity of the CLK line defaults to Active High (3.3V), but can be changed by the ClockActiveState in the GenerateData routine. The CLK line toggles from inactive to active to inactive. The timing of the CLK and Signals vary depending on the routine called and are shown in the Toolbuilder document below.
Unique to the USBee LX Toolbuilder is a complete Logic Analyzer and Signal Generator module that lets your embedded application access the same powerful features of the USBee LX Logic Analyzer and Signal Generator modules.
So creating a signal generator is as simple as this in Visual Basic:
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