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Descriptions

Register Analyzer is the tool for Aptina Engineer to analyze sensor register settings from Aptina customers. The tool can be used to:

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1. Retrieve Register Settings from Customer files

GUI Widgets Explanation in Figure 2:

1. "User Defined Pattern": This is for user to define the text retrieving patterns.
2. "Starting Tag": User type in the text string before the required register information.
3. "Ending Tag": User type in the text string after the required register information.
4. "Inclusive": Mark the Starting/Ending Tag included or not included in the retrieving register text string. For example, in this customer format:

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Figure 2 Retrieve Register Settings Tab.
Typical Operation Steps:
Step 1: As shown in Figure 3, the first step is to open the customer supplied register setting file. It can be a DevWare INI file format or a customer specific text format. The Register Analyzer tool provides several different "Retrieving" function for user to extract customer register settings.
Step 2, 3: User specifies the "Starting" and "Ending" tags for the tool to retrieve the register settings. The example in Figure 3 uses starting tag "Reg=" and ending tag as "(".
Step 4: Click "Retrieve All" to extract all register settings which start from "Reg=" and end with "(". The result shows in the "Retrieved/converted INI file" window on the right.

Figure 3. Register Analyzer Operation Procedure (Retrieve Register Settings).

1. Convert the Customer Register Settings to DevWare INI file format:

GUI Widget Explanation in Figure 4:

1. "String before Register Address": This is for user to define the text before Register Address. Leave it blank if not applicable.
2. "Separator": User type in the separator between Register Address and value.
3. "String before Register value": This is for user to define the text before Register Value. Leave it blank if not applicable.
4. "Hexadecimal/Decimal": User select the input Register Address/Value pair is Hex or Dec value. The output INI file is always use Hex value.
5. "Convert to INI": Activate the conversion procedure. Based on the above widget settings, the tool converts the Text from the Right-size of Text-Box to the Left-side of Text-Box.

Figure 4. Convert to INI Tab.
Typical Operation Steps (Continue from previous section):
Step 5: Move all the Retrieved settings from the right side of windows to the left side window for Converting process. Since the retrieved settings may not be the DevWare recognized INI file format.
Step 6: Specify the characters or string before the Register Address.
Step 7: Specify the characters or string that separate the Register Address and Values.
Step 8: Specify the characters or string before the Register Values.
Click "Convert to INI" button to convert the customer register settings to Aptina DevWare INI file format.
Step 9: User can save the converted settings to a INI file for loading to DevWare later.


Figure 5. Register Analyzer Operation Procedure (Convert to INI file)

1. *Process the Register Settings with Aptina XSDAT file:*

GUI Widget Explanation in Figure 6:

1. "Sdat File": Type in the sensor directory and file name. Or display the current opened sensor data file name if use "Browse" button.
2. "Browse": Search the Aptina sensor data file (.xsdat) from the pop-up File Dialog box.
3. "Probe/Load": If the "Sdat File" box is empty, this button will activate the sensor probing procedure to find the sensor data file (the senor and Aptina Demo system must be connected to PC). If the "Sdat File" box has a file name exist, this button will load the current sensor data file showed in the box.
4. "Use Register Name": Convert the output INI Register List from Hex address to symbolic name based on the current opened xsdat file. Format Example:

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Figure 6. Process Register Data Tab.
Typical Operation Steps (Continue from previous section):
Step 10: User select the xsdat file to load or use "Probe" to detect the sensor if it is connected to the PC. The Register Analyzer will load the Symbolic reference and bit-filed settings in the "Register Panel" for further evaluations. User can right mouse click to get the detailed register/bit-field information.
Step 11: User can open the DevWare System Dump or INI file in the left side window and the xsdat file opened in Step 10 will be loaded with it.

Figure 7. Register Analyzer Operation Procedure (Process Register Data)

1. *Analyze the Customer Settings with Aptina System Dump or INI file:*

GUI Widget Explanation in Figure 8:

1. "Enable Sorting": Activate data sorting function in both Reference and Converted INI File (with Symbolic/Bit-field information) Text-Box.

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Figure 8. Analyze Register Data Tab.
Typical Operation Steps (Continue from previous section):
Step 12; Enable the sorting function if necessary.
Step 13: Click "Comapre =>" button to highlight the different values in the Customer settings (right side). Click "<= Compare" to highlight the different value in the DevWare settings (left side). Note: this is Register Data/Setting Comparison not Text Comparison.
User can enable the "Synchronize Two Windows" to insert/match two Register Panels for more detailed comparison.

Figure 9. Register Analyzer Operation Procedure (Analyze Register Data)
GUI Widget Explanation in Figure 10:

1. "Move Input =>": Move the raw text in the left-side text-box to the right-side text-box without any retrieving or processing.
2. "<= Move Output": Move/Delete the retrieved/processed text in the right-side text-box to the left-side text-box.
3. "Clear Output": Delete all the text in the Converted INI File box.

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