Agilent Technologies auroraSonata

Issue 2 - 07/00 7-5
Capturing & Analysing Protocol Information - Section 1
Viewing the real time buffer contents
aurora
Sonata
holds the most recent 8 kilobytes of the real-time
decode in a part of its memory called the ‘real time buffer’. It
continues to do this even while the display is frozen.
You can view the contents of the real time buffer to see recent
protocol events. This is a useful ‘fallback’ if, for example, a
network problem arises when you have not set aurora
Sonata
to
save the information to memory or send it to the serial port.
Note
When you are capturing information for a test call in Simulate
mode, you can save the contents of the real time buffer in
aurora
Sonata
’s memory for future reference. For instructions, see
Saving the contents of the real time buffer in section 2.
Tip
To capture information for a test call, start a session from the
Capture/Review menu (see section 2). You can save up to
200 kilobytes of information.
-1- Display the review menu for a captured
Simulate session (see section 2).
-2- Highlight Real Time and press ENTER to
display the current real time buffer contents.
For example:
Note
If you view the real time buffer when there is no call in
progress, aurora
Sonata
shows the last information for the most
recent call. If you view during a call aurora
Sonata
continues
adding data until the buffer is full, then freezes it until you
stop viewing.