176 16800 Series Portable Logic Analyzers Service Guide
8 Theory of Operation
configuration utility and switch the Windows desktop from one
display adapter to the next. At any time, either the LCD panel or
the external monitor will have the Windows desktop displayed
to it. It is also possible, but not typical, for the Windows desktop
to be stretched across both the LCD and external monitor. The
"Touch Off" front panel button can be pressed and held to open
Intel's configuration utility which can force the desktop to use
either the LCD or external monitor exclusively.
By the time Windows has presented the Windows logon screen,
two critical pieces of Agilent- specific software should already
be running:
• Logic analyzer device drivers.
• Logic analyzer service.
The remaining critical piece of Agilent software (the GUI
application itself) does not run until a user has logged onto the
machine and started the application by clicking on the shortcut
on the Windows desktop and/or the Windows start menu. The
GUI application may auto-run when a user logs onto the
machine.
The logic analyzer device drivers communicate directly with all
of the hardware. This includes the frame hardware and all
modules plugged into the frame. All other Agilent software in
the system communicates with the drivers in order to access the
hardware. Therefore, missing drivers look like missing
hardware to the Agilent software. The frame power button LED
will flash when the frame is first powered on and become steady
once the frame drivers have loaded. A flashing power button
LED should indicate:
1 The frame is in the middle of a power up or power down
sequence.
2 The frame hardware was not recognized by the PnP system.
3 The frame drivers are missing.
Once the Windows kernel and the system drivers are loaded, a
variety of Windows services (background processes) are started
automatically by the system. These services are like
UNIX/Linux daemons. They run silently in the background in
order to provide system services. They run before any user has
logged onto the system. If the logic analyzer product is installed
on the system, a logic analyzer service called "Agilent Logic
Analysis" should be running.
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