All Beagle Analyzers come with the Beagle Data Center software package, a cross-platform data capture and analysis program. The Data Center provides a simple yet powerful centralized interface to all the functionalities of the Beagle family of protocol analyzers.

Features

New features of v2.11

• OTG support
• New bandwidth and data payload measurements between packets
• Instantaneous bandwidth displayed during capture
• Insert comments during a capture
• Improved display of SETUP packets

New features of v2.00

• Added support for the Beagle USB 480 Protocol Analyzer
• Display delta time between selected transactions
• Export Batch XML scripts for I2C and SPI captures to replay events in the Aardvark Control Center software
• Change the size of incoming buffers for better performance
• Expanded USB error reporting
• Extended USB filtering options

Real-Time Monitoring (USB, I2C, MDIO, and SPI)

The Beagle Data Center Software provides the capability of capturing from USB, I2C, MDIO, or SPI depending on the type of Beagle monitor attached to the computer. The Data Center parses and displays all packets in real-time as they appear on the bus. Bus-specific views provide detailed information about the captured data. Additionally, data from all three serial buses can be saved to a file for later analysis or exported to TXT or CSV.

Actual data capture performance is dependent on CPU speed and target bus throughput. Depending on user configuration, the maximum achievable capture throughput for continuous streaming applications may be less than optimal. For high-performance applications, Total Phase recommends the use of the Beagle API in a custom developed application.

Real-Time Filtering

General and bus-specific filters can be applied in real-time to data as it is being captured. These filters are non-destructive and can be applied and reapplied at will without fear of losing data. Each bus-specific view provides a whole host of bus-specific filters to help developers sift through the data quickly and efficiently.

High Resolution Timing

The Data Center software system provides both inter-byte and intra-byte timing down to 20 nanosecond resolution.

Easy Collaboration

Save an entire capture to disk for future analysis. Your colleagues are welcome to download the Beagle Data Center Software and view all the details of the saved data. Since all the data is saved, your colleagues can make full use of all the filters in the Beagle Data Center Software to further analyze the capture session. If you are interested in only a small section of a larger capture, it is also possible to export a subset of the data in the BGL format or in TXT or CSV format.

Linux and Windows Compatible

The Beagle Data Center Software was built from the ground up to be a cross-platform software suite. All the functionality of the Data Center works on Linux and Windows operating systems.

Future-Proof

Total Phase is committed to improving the Beagle Data Center Software and making these improvements available to our customers free of charge. There are no yearly support contracts and no software update fees.

Updates will be available for download in the Current Support Files section of this page and from our website's Downloads section.

System Requirements

• Intel Celeron or AMD Athlon processor operating at 2 GHz or higher.
• 512 MB physical RAM
• 256 MB hard drive space
• Linux (kernel 2.6 and above)†, Windows 2000 (SP4 or later), or Windows XP (SP2 or later)‡
• High-speed USB port
• Beagle USB 12 Protocol Analyzer or Beagle I2C/SPI/MDIO Protocol Analyzer

Notes

† Linux

This software has been tested on Red Hat Linux 9 and Fedora Core 1 through Fedora Core 5. Customers have reported successful operation with SuSE and Ubuntu distributions. Please be aware that there may be significant differences and idiosyncracies in the way that different distributions of Linux operate. As such, Total Phase may not be able to support your particular distribution of Linux. Support will be offered on a case-by-case basis.

Total Phase does not yet offer support for 64-bit versions of Linux.

‡ Windows

This software is fully supported on Windows 2000 (SP2 or later) and Windows XP (SP2 or later). The software may also work, but is not supported, on legacy operating systems such as Windows 98 and Windows ME.

Total Phase does not yet offer support for 64-bit versions of Windows.

Screenshots

	General capture "All" general capture window showing captured data		USB capture window USB capture window showing the parsed device descriptor information for the device under test.
	I2C capture window I2C capture window showing the bit-level timing view of the captured transaction contents.		SPI capture window SPI capture window showing the MOSI and MISO data of the transaction contents side by side.
	MDIO capture window MDIO capture window showing the packet view of the captured data.