Datatrac 400 Operations Manual - Aeroflex

Aeroflex Operation Manual1.2 REFERENCE DOCUMENTSThe following is a list of references referred to in this manual:1. ARINC 429-16 SPECIFICATION2. SPECIAL BOEING LABEL DEFINITIONS FOR ARINC 4293. DATATRAC 400 WILLIAMSBURG PROTOCOL ANALYZER USER’S MANUAL -VERSION B1.3 PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION1.3.1 GENERALThe DATATRAC 400 is packaged in an aluminum enclosure complete with handle, front panel, rearpanel, and an internal card cage configuration consisting of mother board and plug-in applicationboards. Units may be configured with optional front acrylic cover and rear plastic cover.1.3.2 FRONT PANEL DESCRIPTIONThe front panel configuration shown in Figure 1 contains a LCD, a keyboard area, display contrastcontrol, and the receiver/transmitter connectors.LCDThe liquid crystal display (LCD) provides 16 lines x 40 characters in the character mode. It can alsobe operated in a graphics mode to display time plots of data, with a resolution of 240 dots by 128dots.The contrast control for the display is located to the lower right of the display. This may be adjustedat any time to optimize the viewing of the display.KeyboardThree key areas are located to the right of the display. The first is a vertical column of four functionkeys (RCV, XMT, RCD, and BRK). The next key area consists of a 4 x 4 hexadecimal keypad forgeneral data entry. The third key area consists of the six keys to the far right. Four buttons containup, down, left, and right arrows and are used for various utility functions dependent on mode.Generally, the up/down keys are used to increment vertically through data lists. The left and rightbuttons are used to move the cursor laterally, sequence through setup options, or call help menusappropriate to the existing mode of screen. Located below the arrow keys are the clear (CLR) andenter (ENT) buttons.DATATRAC 400 – REV 0 – PAGE 1-2