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TICSPRO-SW: General questions on GUI capabilities

Kevin Lai
Intellectual 2916 points
Part Number: TICSPRO-SW
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: LMK04610, LMK04832

Hi team,

what exactly is the TICSPRO capable of? in addition to register programming, can it assist with parameter calculations and simulations?

Thanks,

Kevin

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    TI__Mastermind 33760 points

    Hello Kevin,

    TICS Pro simplifies the design process for TI clock and timing products by abstracting away the specifics of register programming. Every TICS Pro device profile can take system parameters (such as input frequency, phase detector frequency, etc) and calculate the appropriate register settings for dividers and other related registers, or take the divider settings and calculate the resultant system frequencies. Many device profiles also display recommendations and highlight conflicting settings. For devices with more complex features such as input validation, holdover, configurable GPIO, etc, TICS Pro typically dedicates a page to clearly illustrating the uses and settings for these features, and implements the formulas to convert from system-level parameters to register values.

    Some newer devices include loop filter simulation capabilities (example: LMK04610), current calculators for different system configurations (example: LMK04832), frequency planners to automatically assign PLL and output settings (example: LMK04832), and other useful tools.

    TICS Pro can export or import the raw register values, and can save and load both the registers and the system parameters for individual configurations in a .tcs file. The .tcs files for some supported devices can also be directly imported into PLLatinum Sim to analyze more involved performance simulations. Likewise, PLLatinum Sim can export certain settings back to TICS Pro once they have been optimized.

    TICS Pro also supports COM automation of certain functions such as reading and writing registers or setting fields in the GUI. In the near future, a version of TICS Pro will be released which supports automation through a socket server (for use with 64-bit applications). These automation features enable users to quickly iterate through test cases that could involve many complex register operations.

    Regards,