The Catalyst Conquest™ USB Protocol Analyzer System provides comprehensive USB analysis features at an economical price point. Designed for easy setup with time saving features like predefined trigger settings, the Conquest is equally suited for both first-time and advanced users.
Featuring the Catalyst Trace display, the Conquest makes it easy to understand what occurred at the USB device level. This intuitive hierarchical display uses expandable headers allowing easy drill-down to lower layer events.
Built on the Catalyst USB analyzer platform, the Conquest offers hardware-based filtering and event triggering. The ability to accurately trigger on specific events of interest is essential to efficiently debug and test USB semiconductors, devices, and software.
Completely non-intrusive, the Conquest analyzer platform offers timing resolution to 16.67 ns. With configurations for All-speed and Low/Full speed applications, the Conquest series puts affordable USB analysis tools within everyone's reach, matching customer requirements with available budgets.
| FEATURE COMPARISON | Conquest Standard | Conquest Advanced |
| Low Speed (1.5 Mb/s) and Full Speed (12 Mb/s) |  |
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| High Speed (480 Mb/s) | |
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| Trace Memory Size | 128 MB | 128 MB |
| Upload to Host via USB 2.0 or LAN | |
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| Global & Raw Bit View | |
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| View Hex, Decimal or Binary | |
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| Search on Errors | |
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| Search within Data Payload | |
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| Export Text / ASCII / Binary | |
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| Snapshot Capture | |
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| Data Report | |
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| Upper-level USB Device Class Decodes | |
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| User-defined Decodes | |
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| Single-level Event Triggering (Easy mode) | |
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| Trigger on Protocol Errors | |
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| Trigger on Setup / In / Out / Data + Address & Endpoint | |
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| Trigger on Setup / In / Out / Data + pattern / data length | |
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| Statistical Reports | |
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| Multi-level Event Triggering (Advanced mode) | |
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| Trigger on Split Setup Transaction | |
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| Trigger on Split Bulk In/Out Transaction | |
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| Trigger on Split Interrupt In/Out Transaction | |
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| Trigger on Split Isoch In/Out Transaction | |
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| Filter In / Out specific Address / Endpoints | |
Affordable—The Catalyst Conquest family leads the industry in affordable tools for USB analysis. Starting with the $1195 Standard model, the Conquest platform provides loss-less USB event capture with precision that cannot be matched by software-based test tools. The entry-level Standard system can also be field-upgraded to the full Advanced version to add advanced triggering and statistical reporting.
Easy to Use—The Conquest systems include the Catalyst Trace display which provides both sequential packet views and a logical display of USB Transfers. Using collapsible headers, the Catalyst software groups all packets and transactions that are part of a single transfer.
Hardware Based Triggering—Isolating specific protocol events with real time triggering is essential to resolving intermittent problems. Triggering on a specific sequence of events makes it possible to repeatedly capture unique traffic conditions. Alternate approaches—such as spooling large amounts of traffic to disk—result in huge files that are difficult to analyze and debug.
Intelligent Error Detection—The Conquest Standard and Advanced models provide 15 protocol error triggers with auto-detection of an additional 22 (post-capture) protocol errors. Unlike software analysis tools, the ability to identify error conditions in real time saves debug time. The Conquest system can also be set to ignore specific errors to optimize workflow.
Timing Measurements—The Catalyst Trace includes a persistent timing calculator that provides one-click measurements between packets. By default, every trace also displays idle time or delta between packets.
Customize the Display—Tedious analysis tasks can be simplified by optimizing the display. Post-capture filtering makes it easy to show just the relevant transactions. Other display options include:
- Smart On-Screen filtering to hide redundant events
- Compact View to increase viewing area
- Display data in Hexadecimal, Binary or ASCII
- Hide or unhide columns
- Change colors, fonts and bit order
USB Device Decoding—Comprehensive USB Device class decoding is included in the Standard and Advanced Conquest models. This allows users to see upper-level mapped protocol events within the trace eliminating the tedious process of manually decoding device specific commands.
Link to complete list of decodes
User Defined Decoding—Script based decoding of USB packets allows users to create their own decodes for device-specific or vendor-unique protocols.
Low-level Data Report—For detailed analysis, the Data Report shows transactions in raw binary or hex for a specific range of packets or for a specific USB endpoint device. Payloads can also be displayed in ASCII along with the offsets. This alternate view can be cut, pasted, saved and provides a simple display of raw packet data.
Statistical Reports—The Advanced model includes statistical reports are generated for every trace and summarize protocol events at a glance. These traffic summaries allow users to instantly navigate to individual events including Control Transfers, Errors or NAKs.
Comprehensive Solution—The Conquest provides all the critical analysis features needed to debug complex protocol issues. Search, reports, timing calculations, upper level decodes make Conquest a complete solution for USB analysis and debug. If exerciser capability is required, the Conquest series allows users to add an integrated exerciser option to the analyzer platform.
