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CATC MERLIN MOBILE 1.00 CHAPTER 8

User’s Manual Reports

DRAFT

By default, the Traffic Summary window is docked along the bottom half of the Merlin

Mobile display area. If desired, it may be moved out of the application window to another

area of the screen.

8.4.1 Traffic Summary Tree

The left pane of the Traffic Summary Report window

(Figure 8-5) displays, in the form of a tree diagram, a

summary of the packets and protocols in a Trace file. The

top level of the tree contains branches for Entire Trace and

Packets in Range (x to y). Both branches can be expanded

to show additional levels of the Trace data, including

packets and protocols. Most levels can be expanded

further, providing more and more specific summaries of

the transactions.

Note: Higher-level protocol types won't appear in the tree diagram

unless they have been decoded in the Trace file.

Selecting a level in the tree will cause a detailed summary

of the packets in the selected level to be displayed in the

right pane of the Traffic Summary Report window.

Entire Trace

The Entire Trace branch can be expanded to display these

levels:

• Frequency distribution — Summarizes the traffic

by frequency range.

• Baseband Packets — Summarizes the traffic at the packet level. This level can be

further expanded to show the packets categorized by AM_ADDR (member address)

and role (master and slave).

• Higher-level transaction types — If higher-level transactions have been decoded in

the Trace file, they will be summarized in the Traffic Summary Tree. This level can

Figure 8-4: Traffic Summary report

Figure 8-5: Traffic Summary Tree