Toolbar | Protocol Solutions User Documentation

The Toolbar provides access to the most popular program functions. Tooltips briefly describe the functionality of each icon and menu item when the mouse hovers over the icon/item.

Files, Searches & Options

Button	Description	Button	Description
	Open Files		Set up Recording Options. See Recording Options.
	Find. See Find Functionality.		Find Next

Zoom In/Zoom Out

Button	Description		Button	Description
	Zoom In			Zoom Out

Miscellaneous

Button	Description	Button	Description
	Display Realtime Statistics. See Real-Time Monitoring.		Decoding Settings See Decode Requests.
	Display Stacking View. See Stacking.		Export Tunneled USB3.0 or Export Tunneled PCIe traffic to new trace.

Analysis (Reports)

Button	Description	Button	Description
	Link Tracker. See Link Tracker.		Bus Utilization. See Bus Utilization.
	Opens the Navigator Bar. See Using the Navigator.		Spec View. See Spec View.
	Decoded Fields View. See Decoded Fields View.		Detail View. See Detail View.
	Show USB 3.2 Link State Timing View See USB4 Configuration Space View.		Show USB 3.2 LTSSM View. See LTSSM View.
	Show Power Tracker. (Power captures are supported only on Voyager M3i, M3x, M310, and M310C.) See Power Tracker—VBUS & Configuration Channel (CC).

Recording

Button	Description	Button	Description
	Start Recording		Manual Trigger
	Stop Recording

Generator (Traffic Generation for USB 3.2)

See Traffic Generation USB 3.2, USB4, & PD Exerciser.

Button	Description		Button	Description
	Go to USB 3.2 Exerciser window			Manual Trigger

Generator (Traffic Generation for USB 2)

See Traffic Generation 2.0.

Button

Description

Button

Description

Start or Stop Traffic Generation (available if you have the Traffic Generation module).

Bitstream and Intelliframe modes

Repeat Mode. Becomes active when a traffic generation file (*.utg) is open. It only applies during Host Emulation.

Device Emulation does not support looping

View Level

See “Switch to Transactions View” and the following:

Button	Description	Button	Description
	Display Packets. See Trace View Features.		Display PTP Objects. See Switch to PTP Object Transfers.
	Display Transactions. See Switch to Transactions View.		Display PTP Sessions. See Switch to PTP Sessions.
	Display Split Transactions. See Switch to Transactions View.		Display SCSI Operations. See Switch to SCSI Operations.
	Display Transfers. See Switch to Transfer View.		Display USB4 Operation Level. See Switch to USB4 Operations.
	Display PTP Transactions. See Switch to PTP Transactions.		PTP Group. Click the down arrow to display the PTP Levels.

Trace Views

See Compressed CATC Trace View and Spreadsheet View.

Button	Description	Button	Description
	Normal CATC Trace View		Compressed CATC Trace View
	Spreadsheet View (Color)		Spreadsheet View (B/W)

Export Tunneled PCIe Traffic, Tunneled USB3 or Tunneled DP Traffic

Use the icon and select from the menu to quickly export USB3.0 or PCIe tunneled traffic from a USB4 trace:

PCIe Tunneling

If you load a USB4 trace with PCIe tunneled traffic and select Tunneled PCIe from the dro- down menu, you can quickly export the PCIe tunneled traffic to a new PCIe trace.

When you perform a Quick Export, an information message about using the CrossSync Control Panel appears. Click OK if you want to see both the USB4 trace and the PCIe trace simultaneously.

After exporting the tunneled PCIe traffic, the new exported trace will be named as [original_trace_name]_PCIe_Export. This trace is located in same folder as original trace and opened automatically by the PCIe Protocol Analysis software after the export completes. See image below.

Exported Tunneled PCIe Traffic from USB4

Tunneled USB3 traffic

If you load a USB4 trace with USB3 tunneled traffic as shown in the figure below, you can quickly export the tunneled USB3 traffic by selecting the Tunneled USB3 drop-down tab.

After exporting the tunneled USB3 traffic, the new exported trace will be named as [original_trace_name]_USB3_Exported. This trace is located in same folder as original trace and opened automatically after the export completes.

DP Tunneling

If you load a USB4 trace with Tunneled DP traffic and you select “Tunneled DP” from the drop-down tab, you can quickly export the DP tunneled traffic to a new trace.

To open the trace after exporting tunneled DP traffic, see Export USB4 Tunneled DP Traffic to DP Native Trace.

The Hide toolbar allows you to selectively hide data traffic you do not wish to see. The highlighted buttons indicate the loaded trace contains that type of data traffic.

Hide All USB 2.0 Traffic

Click the button to hide all the USB 2.0 Traffic (Low Speed, Full Speed, and Hi Speed).

Hide All USB 3.2 Traffic

Click the button to hide all the SuperSpeed and SuperSpeed+ Traffic.

Hide All USB4 (or TBT3) Traffic

Click the button to hide all USB4 (or TBT3) traffic.

Hide All Power Delivery Traffic

Click the button to hide all Power Delivery Traffic.

Hide Configuration Channel Traffic

Click the button to hide all the Configuration Channel (CC) Traffic.

Hide All DisplayPort Traffic

Click the button to hide all Display Port Traffic.

Hide Traffic from Left DUT/DUT (Exerciser)

Click the button to hide Traffic from Left DUT/DUT (Exerciser).

Hide Traffic from Right DUT/Voyager (Exerciser)

Click the button to Hide Traffic from Right DUT/Voyager (Exerciser).

Hide Devices

Click the button to open a menu for select any address/endpoint combination to be hidden. Click the Control (CTRL) key to select multiple values. This menu can be moved from its default location and floated in the trace window for later use.

Hide All Packets Except Transfers Packets

Click the button show/hide All Packets Except Transfers Packets.

Hide NAKs

Click the Hide NAKs button on the toolbar to hide NAKs from a Trace View that may be uninteresting in a given context.
Click to hide all NAK packets. This also hides 3.2 NRDY transactions, if they are virtual equivalents of a 2.0 NAK situation.

Hide Non Data Transactions

Click to hide all Non Data Transactions.

Hide SOF Packets (2.0)

You can hide Start-of-Frame (SOF) packets that may be uninteresting in a given context from a Trace View by clicking the Hide SOF Packets button on the toolbar:

Click to show/hide all SOF packets.

NOTE: This also hides low-speed EOPs.

Hide Chirps (2.0)

Click the icon to hide any Chirped-J or Chirped-K packets recorded in a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed trace.

Hide Link Training Sequences (3.2)

Expand the Hide Link Training Sequences and select from the options to show/hide TSeq TS1A/TS1B/TS1/TS2. For 3.2 SS+ traces, you can hide the SYNC packets.

Hide Link Commands (Flow Control) (3.2)

Expand the Hide Link icon and select from the options to show/hide Link Commands (LUP/LDN, Flow Control, Power Management, GenT NOP, GenT Link Keep-Alive).

Hide Bus Events (3.2)

Click the icon and select from the options to show/hide Bus Events (LFPS, Electrical Idle, Termination or V_BUS On/Off).

Hide Miscellaneous Packets (3.2)

Click the icon and select from the options to show/hide.

Hide USB4 SB Packets

Click the icon to hide USB4 SB Packets.

Hide USB4 HS Packets

Click the icon to hide USB4 HS Packets.

Hide USB4 HS Ordered Sets

Click the icon to hide USB4 HS Ordered Sets.

Hide USB4 HS Training Sequences

Click the icon to hide different types of USB4 HS Training Sequences.

Hide USB4 HS Transport Layer Packets

Click the icon to hide different types of USB4 HS TLPs.

Hide USB4 HS Miscellaneous Packets

Click the icon to hide USB4 HS Miscellaneous Packet types.

Hide Other USB4 Packets

Click the icon to open the Display Options > USB4 Packet Hiding window. See USB4 Packet Hiding for more information.

Hide HopID/PDF Packets

Click the icon to hide HopID/PDF types. Then select the HopID/PDF packets you want to hide.

Hide Power Delivery Packets

Click to hide:

Unknown
PING
GoodCRC

Hide All Transactions Except Stream ID Numbers

This is found when the Stream Id field of a USB 3.2 Data Packet is selected. It allows you to select a small range of Stream IDs to display without showing other transactions that do not use this Stream ID.

Right-clicking on the Stream Id field of a USB 3.2 Data Packet

To display the Hide Packets dialog box, below, right-click on the Stream ID field of a USB 3.2 Data Packet and select Hide all Trans except StreamID Numbers.

This allows you to select the stream IDs you want to display.

Click Add to List to for items you want to show, and Remove from List to hide items. Selecting the ones you want to see is done because the range of Stream IDs is too large to specify the ones you want to hide explicitly.

Show/Hide Packets: SuperSpeed+ PHY Transaction

With SuperSpeed+, PHY Transactions are made up of pulse width modulated LFSR signals. By selecting the PHY Transaction level, these are displayed as SCDx, PHY Capability and PHY Ready LBPM Messages. This eliminates showing large numbers of LFSRs and electrical Idle periods which would need to be interpreted as portions of these messages.