Cypress CY4500 EZ-PD, Manual

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CY4500 EZ-
PD™ Protocol Analyzer Guide, Doc. No. 002-12170 Rev. **
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4. Analyzer Operation
This chapter describes how to run the CY4500 EZ-
PD™ Protocol Analyzer with the EZ-PD Analyzer Utility and also how to
update the firmware of the PSoC 5LP device of the analyzer. You must complete the installation procedure explained in the
Analyzer Installation chapter before proceeding.
4.1 Capturing PD Packets Using CY4500 EZ-
PD™ Protocol Analyzer
The steps to run the CY4500 EZ-
PD™ Protocol Analyzer in order to capture the Power Delivery Packets on the CC bus are
as follows:
1. Using a USB Micro-B cable, connect the USB Micro-B receptacle (Connector J7) of the CY4500 EZ-
PD™ Protocol
Analyzer board to the host PC. LED1 of the CY4500 EZ-
PD™ Protocol Analyzer board starts blinking in white
color.
2. Connect the USB Type-C plug (Connector J3) of the CY4500 EZ-
PD™ Protocol Analyzer board to the Type-C host
device. In this user guide, the CY4531 EZ-
PD™ CCG3 Evaluation Kit (EVK)
(not provided with this analyzer) is
used as a Type-C host device as an example.
3. Verify that your setup looks similar to the image shown in Figure 4-1 .
Figure 4-1: Setup for Operating CY4500 EZ-
PD™ Protocol Analyzer
4. On the host PC, launch the EZ-PD Analyzer Utility from Start > All Programs > Cypress EZ-PD Analyzer
Utility
.
The EZ-PD Analyzer Utility
’s start-up page will look similar to the image shown in
Figure 4-2 .