Specifications

16850 Series Instrument Characteristics (continued)

16850 Series PC characteristics

Operating system Microsoft Windows

7 Embedded (64-bit)

Processor Core 2 Duo, M890, 3.0 GHz microprocessor

Chipset Intel Q45

System memory 4 GB

Removable Hard disk drive 500 GB

Installed on hard drive Operating system, latest revision of the logic and protocol application software, optional

application software ordered with the logic analyzer

16850 Series instrument controls

LCD touch-screen display Large 38.1-cm (15-in.) touch-screen display makes is easy to view a large number of waveforms

or states

Front-panel hot keys Dedicated hot keys for selecting run mode and disabling touch screen

Front-panel knob General-purpose knob adjusts viewing and measurement parameters

Keyboard and mouse PS/2 keyboard and USB mouse

16850 Series video display modes

Touch-screen display standard Size 38.1 cm (15 in.) diagonal

Resolution 1024 x 768

External display Simultaneous display capability Front panel and external display can be used

simultaneously at 1024 x 768 resolution

Supports up to four external monitors at up to 1600 x 1200 (with PCI video card)

Programmability

You can write programs to control the logic analyzer application from remote computers on the local area network using

COM or ASCII.

The COM automation server is part of the logic analyzer application. This software allows you to write programs to control

the logic analyzer. All measurement functionality is controllable via the COM interface.

The B4608A Remote Programming Interface (RPI) lets you remotely control a 16850 Series logic analyzer by issuing ASCII

commands to the TCP socket on port 6500. This interface is designed to be as similar as possible to the RPI on 16700

Series logic analysis systems, so that you can reuse existing programs.

The remote programming interface works through the COM automation objects, methods, and properties provided for

controlling the logic analyzer application. RPI commands are implemented as Visual Basic modules that execute COM

automation commands, translate their results, and return proper values for the RPI. You can use the B4606A advanced

customization environment to customize and add RPI commands.

Figure 8. 16850 Series programming

overview.

Computer with

Windows XP or

Windows 7

Logic analyzer

(16850/16800/16900)

or PC running Agilent

logic analyzer application

LAN connection

Distributed COM

Instrument COM

automation server