M1 Oscilloscope Tools™

v6.05 - Create your own Decode types and new user-assistive functionality

M1 now allows users to create and add new Decode types to M1 in several different ways, including via a simple script-like language. This powerful new capability means that users no longer need to wait for ASA to add decode capability for a particular standard or customer-specific messaging format.

M1 provides users with many different ways to speed and improve their measurement workflow, and a user interface specifically designed to make those tasks as simple as possible. The result is not a standard Windows application interface, and first-time users may need a little help learning their way around. To make this process faster and easier, ASA has added several new user-assistive technologies to M1.

• Self-Demos are scripts that will walk the user through particular aspects of how to use M1
• Enhanced ToolTips add a clickable link to a standard ToolTip that will take the user directly to either a Self-Demo or Help file page specific to that control
• The How to Get Help dialog brings together in one place a list of all the different sources of assistance available to the user

In addition, the Support section on ASA's website has been redone to make it easier to get to the information you need.

v6.03 - Compliance Breakout and LAN Connectivity

With M1OT's Compliance Breakout, you can directly view, explore and isolate those failures, as well as compare them with other analysis domains/signals to get to the bottom of why. If a particular user-defined measurement in a compliance test fails, Compliance Breakout would provide you with the option to view any of the following views of the measurement:

• vs time
• histogram
• Multi-acquisition analysis (long time-scale analysis... how tHZ(DQ) varies from capture to capture)
• Isolated Subpopulation view (i.e. only the failures vs time)
• And, synchronize/compare any of the above to other signals or analysis domains

to quickly get to the bottom of your problem.

M1 v6.03 also adds the ability to connect to your scope using a LAN connection, or directly using a crossover cat5 Ethernet cable.

v6.02.0 - Improved communications and functionality

M1 is enhanced to retrieve data from scope Function channels, which is where native scope software will create de-embedded data, and to have M1 treat that data exactly the same as if it had come from a standard channel. This improvement will allow users to employ other de-embedding techniques and tools to produce the de-embedded trace (or any other processed trace) in the scope, and then pull that trace in so that it can be analyzed and tested using the full power of M1 OT.

M1 v6.02 also introduces a compressed saved waveform format (VTC) that will significantly reduce the amount of space required for these files, making emailing or FTPing them that much easier. You can expect to see a minimum compression of 50%, with 70-80% being more typical, versus the standard VvT waveform format.

With this version of M1, the ability to send large waveforms by FTP is introduced. The user can select a threshold of waveform file size where the switch from sending waveforms by email to sending waveforms by FTP is triggered.

v6.01 - PLL Toolkit

Version 6.01 of M1 Oscilloscope Tools introduces a new advanced PLL analysis and debug tool suite: PLL Toolkit designed to quickly bring together in one place all of the most important values that you need to know about, and present them in a highly graphical manner that allows you to easily understand where each value comes from.

v6.00 - Isolated Subpopulation Analysis (ISPA)

"Imagine a forest comprised primarily of oak, pine & maple trees. And assume that scattered about that forest are several small groups of birch trees that you want to study... you want to know things like how many birches are in there, how far apart they are, what size clusters they form, etc. This is literally a case of the forest preventing you from seeing the trees. if you had a tool that allowed you to see through the part of the forest you don't care about and only see, measure, analyze, etc the birches, the job would be a lot easier and therefore faster. Philosophically, Version 6 of M1 OT is a collection of tools that let you just see, explore and analyze just the birches."

- Mike Williams, President and Chief Product Designer - M1OT

Version 6.00 of M1 Oscilloscope Tools introduces that tool:
Isolated Subpopulation Analysis.

v5.02 - Advanced Serial Decode

The decode capabilities in M1 Oscilloscope Tools allow you to view encoded waveforms in terms of what they're doing, and then apply the powerful debug, analysis and embedded intelligence of M1 to get to the bottom of problems you see in decode mode. Currently supported decode types includes 8B10B, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, I2C and SPI. With the current version of M1, you can now view encoded waveform behavior in powerful new ways.

v5.01 - Advanced Waveform Exploration

M1 OT v5.01 implements a variety of Advanced Waveform Exploration shortcuts. Wielding only a mouse, the user can access a variety of methods for zooming, panning, and even THROWING their waveforms (ASA President Mike Williams personally loves this capability) to quickly and precisely navigate through their data. A significant number of keyboard navigation shortcuts have also been added to enable zooming and panning without even needing the mouse. A detailed list of all the new keyboard and mouse commands can be found in the M1 Help file. This is definitely NOT your father's oscilloscope controls!

Also added:

• FlexRay and CAN Decode and Masks
• Improved Compliance Test Functionality within ScriptBuilder
• Deep Memory Support

v5.00 - Hidden Anomaly Location

Hidden Anomaly Location (HAL) does for you what an expensive signal integrity consultant who needs no sleep or rest would do. It employs all of the depth and power of M1 OT's 100's of built in measurements, multiple measurement domains, and the myriad of the product's other unique and innovative methods of analysis to automatically detect waveform anomalies in the background and alert you to them. You don't have to be specifically "looking for" a particular type of problem, as with other 'event scanning' products. You don't even have to have a single measurement turned on. HAL's got your back.