CN213844122U

CN213844122U - Debugging platform

Info

Publication number: CN213844122U
Application number: CN202023089071.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张东闯; 颜然
Original assignee: Comba Network Systems Co Ltd
Current assignee: Comba Network Systems Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-18
Filing date: 2020-12-18
Publication date: 2021-07-30
Anticipated expiration: 2030-12-18

Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of communication equipment debugging, and discloses a debugging platform, which comprises a USB HUB module, wherein the USB HUB module is expanded with a plurality of external interfaces; the storage module is solidified with a plurality of driving programs and is electrically connected with the USB HUB module; the CPU control module is electrically connected with the USB HUB module, the storage module and each pair of external interfaces and loads a driving program from the storage module; and the power supply module is electrically connected with the USB HUB module, the storage module and the CPU control module to provide a power supply. Through storage module and CPU control module's cooperation, the utility model provides a debugging platform not only can support cascading the extension between the same platform, can compatible other extensions that do not have drive platform moreover, promptly: the cross-platform flexible expansion can be realized, so that one PC or debugging host can be adopted to debug more equipment to be debugged, and the working efficiency and the resource utilization rate are further improved.

Description

Debugging platform

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a communication equipment debugging technical field, more specifically relates to a debugging platform.

Background

The existing electronic products, especially the complex electronic products such as communication electronic products and devices, all need serial ports, network ports and even optical ports as debugging interfaces in the development and debugging process, and the number of external interfaces such as external serial ports, USB interfaces and network ports of a general PC (computer) or debugging host is limited, such as only one serial port, one network port and the like. When a plurality of debugged devices need to be debugged, a plurality of PCs or debugging hosts are often needed to meet the debugging requirement, and at the moment, the plurality of PCs or the debugging hosts need to be coordinated, so that time and labor except for debugging work are needed to be spent, and a debugging platform occupies the plurality of PCs or the debugging hosts, which can also cause poor resource utilization rate. Meanwhile, the technical personnel debug a plurality of debugged devices at a plurality of PCs or debugging hosts, which increases the complexity and directly influences the testing efficiency and precision. Most debugging tools in the market are single, and a debugging platform tool which simultaneously has multiple interfaces, multiple types of interfaces and high integration level is lacked.

Even if the debugging tool is provided with a plurality of interfaces or even a plurality of interfaces of different types, the number of the interfaces cannot be expanded without limit, and the larger the number of the interfaces is, the larger the size of the debugging tool is, the more the debugging tool is inconvenient to carry, and the more the interfaces are not needed every time of debugging, so that resource waste is caused. However, if the number of interfaces meets the debugging requirement in most cases, when a larger number of interfaces are required, a plurality of PCs or debugging hosts need to be used, and the aforementioned problems of coordination and the like are encountered again.

In addition, when a computer is connected with a debugging tool, a host end driver corresponding to the debugging tool needs to be installed, and due to the problems of compatibility and matching of the drivers, the drivers need to be installed for many times to be successful, so that manpower and time resources are greatly wasted. Sometimes, different computers are different from one another, so that drive files of the same debugging tool are generated, some computers are usable, some computers are not usable, technicians are required to continuously search other drive files to match the debugging tool used in the current time, and if other types of debugging tools are required to be used, the steps are repeated, so that time and labor are wasted, and the working cost is increased.

Most of debugging tools in the market, especially when the debugging tools of a plurality of interfaces are involved, no energy-saving function exists, namely, the unused interface link consumes electric energy, the energy-saving requirement of the current social development is not met, and a multi-type multifunctional debugging platform which can meet the energy-saving requirement and can be realized is urgently needed.

Finally, in the debugging process, a photoelectric conversion module is usually used, the similar photoelectric conversion module is not easy to find, and due to the small size, the photoelectric conversion module is easy to lose in the using process, and a debugging platform integrated with the photoelectric conversion function is also urgently needed.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses aim at overcoming above-mentioned prior art's at least one defect (not enough), provide a debugging platform, solve the technical problem that current debugging tool interface quantity is limited, be difficult to nimble extension.

The utility model adopts the technical proposal that a debugging platform, comprises

The USB HUB module is expanded with a plurality of external interfaces;

the storage module is solidified with a plurality of driving programs and is electrically connected with the USB HUB module;

the CPU control module is electrically connected with the USB HUB module, the storage module and each pair of external interfaces and loads a driving program from the storage module; and

and the power supply module is electrically connected with the USB HUB module, the storage module and the CPU control module to provide a power supply.

The utility model provides a debugging platform with a plurality of external interfaces, make originally many PCs of needs or debugging host computer develop the platform of debugging work, the reduction just can satisfy the debugging requirement for only needing a PC or debugging host computer, need not coordinate many PCs or debugging host computer, not only save time greatly and improved work efficiency, and released other PCs or debugging host computer and to the occuping of debugging platform, thereby the utilization ratio of resource has been improved, the complexity of debugging many debugged equipment at PC or many debugging host computer has still been avoided, be favorable to improving efficiency of software testing and precision.

Meanwhile, the utility model discloses the required drive file of platform has been solidified to the debugging platform inside mentioned, and this does not need additionally to install the drive when making technical staff service platform, plug-and-play has realized the hot plug of debugging platform input port promptly, has exempted from the function of drive installation, and then has improved the efficiency of work, has practiced thrift operating time, has reduced working cost. In addition, the storage module also solidifies various driving programs of other platforms, and is used for communicating and interconnecting with interface tools of other platforms, so that technicians do not need to search driving files available for other platforms, and drivers do not need to be installed for many times due to the problems of compatibility and matching of the drivers, and the working efficiency is greatly improved. The CPU control module loads the platform driver from the storage module after being electrified, and selectively loads the driver of other platforms in the storage module when detecting that the other platforms need to be installed with the driver.

More importantly, through storage module and CPU control module's cooperation, the utility model provides a debugging platform not only can support cascading the extension between the same platform, can compatible other extensions that do not have drive platform moreover, promptly: the cross-platform flexible expansion can be realized, so that one PC or debugging host can be adopted to debug more equipment to be debugged, and the working efficiency and the resource utilization rate are further improved.

In order to meet the debugging requirements of one PC or debugging host computer on a plurality of debugged devices with different types of interfaces, the debugging platform of the utility model provides a plurality of types and a plurality of external interfaces, effectively solves the requirement of simultaneously debugging a plurality of interface types and a plurality of interfaces of the same type, the debugging platform which originally needs a plurality of PCs or debugging hosts to carry out debugging work is reduced to the debugging requirement that a plurality of debugged equipment with different interface types can be met only by one PC or debugging host, and a plurality of PCs or debugging hosts do not need to be coordinated, thereby not only greatly saving time and improving working efficiency, but also releasing other PCs or debugging hosts and the occupation of the other PCs or debugging hosts on the debugging platform, therefore, the utilization rate of resources is improved, the complexity of debugging a plurality of debugged devices in a PC or a plurality of debugging hosts is avoided, and the improvement of the testing efficiency and the testing precision is facilitated. Specifically, the method comprises the following steps:

the external interface comprises a USB3.0 interface, the USB HUB module comprises an USB3.0HUB module, and the USB3.0HUB module is expanded with a plurality of USB3.0 interfaces. The USB3.0HUB module provides an electrical interface between the USB3.0 device and a PC or a debug host, expands a certain number of host USB3.0 ports, and other platforms or devices can connect to the host through their downstream ports of the USB3.0 device (including USB3.0 interface, USB2.0HUB module, USB gigabit network interface module). The USB3.0 interface can be used to ordinary USB3.0 interface function, and more importantly can continue to cascade the utility model provides a debugging platform comes to carry out the dilatation to this debugging platform function.

The external interface still includes the UART interface, the USB HUB module still include with the USB2.0HUB module of USB3.0HUB module electricity connection, USB3.0HUB module and USB2.0HUB module respectively with storage module, CPU control module and power module electricity are connected, USB2.0HUB module electricity be connected with the USB that CPU control module, power module electricity are connected changes the UART module, the extension of USB commentaries on classics UART module has a plurality of the UART interface. The USB2.0HUB module provides an electrical interface between the USB2.0 device and the USB3.0HUB module, and extends a certain number of host USB2.0 ports, and other platforms or devices can be connected to the USB3.0HUB module through the USB2.0 device (including the USB-to-UART module) downstream port. The USB to UART module converts the USB2.0 downlink data signal into a UART data type signal, and converts the UART interface uplink data signal into a USB2.0 data signal, and transmits the signal to the USB2.0HUB module.

The external interface further comprises a network interface and/or an optical interface, the USB HUB module is electrically connected with a USB gigabit network interface module electrically connected with the CPU control module and the power module, and the USB gigabit network interface module is expanded with a plurality of network interfaces and/or optical interfaces. The USB gigabit network port module converts USB data into gigabit Ethernet signals, converts uplink data signals of the network port and/or the optical port into USB data and transmits the USB data to the USBHUB module. When the USB HUB module comprises USB3.0HUB module, the USB gigabit port module is electrically connected to the USB3.0HUB module.

Under the condition that the external interface comprises a network port and an optical port, the USB gigabit network port module is electrically connected with a SW switching module which is electrically connected with the CPU control module and the power module, and the SW switching module is expanded with a plurality of network ports and optical ports. At this moment, the USB gigabit network port module converts the USB data into gigabit Ethernet signals and transmits the gigabit Ethernet signals to the SW switching module in a gigabit Ethernet interface mode; and meanwhile, the uplink data signals transmitted by the SW exchange module are converted into USB data and transmitted to the USBHUB module. The SW switching module converts the gigabit Ethernet data from the USB gigabit network port module into multiple paths of same Ethernet data, and packages the data into a plurality of paths of network signals corresponding to the network ports and a plurality of optical port signals corresponding to the optical ports.

And the CPU control module controls the SW switching module according to an external input instruction so that the network port expanded from the SW switching module is communicated and interacted with the optical port. The CPU control module realizes the photoelectric conversion function of the platform according to an external input instruction, controls the SW exchange module and realizes the communication interaction between the data of the optical port and the data of other specified network ports. The optical port data and the network port data can be set by default, communication interaction is carried out on the data of the upper-level USB gigabit network port module, and meanwhile, the SW exchange module can be controlled by the CPU control module according to user requirements to realize a photoelectric conversion function.

The CPU control module is solidified with an energy-saving program for controlling the power supply output of the power supply module. The power supply module provides power supplies with different voltage values for each module and device, and each path of power supply outputs and can be controlled to be switched on and off by the CPU control module. The CPU control module is internally programmed with an energy-saving program, and can close a corresponding power supply channel according to an energy-saving strategy, so that power failure processing can be performed on an unused debugging platform interface and a related link, for example, whether the interface is used or not can be detected by using impedance properties, and further, a differentiated energy-saving function is realized.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:

1. the debugging platform is provided with a plurality of interfaces or even a plurality of interfaces of different types, the requirement of simultaneously debugging a plurality of interfaces of the same type or even a plurality of interfaces of different types is effectively met, the debugging of debugged equipment by using a plurality of PCs or debugging hosts in a coordinated manner is avoided, the complexity of debugging work is reduced, and the work efficiency is greatly improved.

2. Through storage module and CPU control module's cooperation, the utility model provides a debugging platform not only can support cascading the extension between the same platform, can compatible other extension that do not have drive platform moreover, can be in order to realize striding the nimble extension of platform to can adopt a PC or debug the host computer and debug more equipment of treating debugging, further improve work efficiency and resource utilization. The storage module solidifies various driving programs, not only comprises the driving program required by the debugging platform, but also comprises other platforms such as a PC (personal computer) or a debugging host and the like, the driving program solves the problem that the installation driving is fussy or the PC/debugging host can not install the driving of the debugging tool due to the compatibility problem, reduces the preparation work and time of the early stage of debugging, and further improves the working efficiency.

3. An energy-saving program is written in the CPU control module, and the corresponding power supply channel can be closed according to an energy-saving strategy, so that the differentiated energy-saving function is realized.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a debugging platform according to embodiment 1 of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a debugging platform according to embodiment 2 of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a debugging platform according to embodiment 3 of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a debugging platform according to embodiment 4 of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The drawings of the present invention are for illustration purposes only and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. For a better understanding of the following embodiments, certain features of the drawings may be omitted, enlarged or reduced, and do not represent the size of an actual product; it will be understood by those skilled in the art that certain well-known structures in the drawings and descriptions thereof may be omitted.

Example 1

As shown in fig. 1, the present embodiment provides a debugging platform for use in the development and debugging process of electronic products such as communication products, so as to reduce the difficulty of debugging work and improve the work efficiency. The debugging platform is including the USB HUB module that the extension has a plurality of external interfaces, the solidification have a plurality of driver and with the storage module that USB HUB module electricity is connected, with USB HUB module, storage module and each external interface electricity of pair are connected and load the CPU control module of driver from the storage module, and with USB HUB module, storage module, CPU control module electricity are connected in order to provide the power module of power.

USB HUB module extension has a plurality of external interfaces for originally, need many PCs or debugging host computer to develop the platform of debugging work, the reduction just can satisfy the debugging requirement for only needing a PC or debugging host computer, do not need many PCs or debugging host computer of coordination, not only the time of having practiced thrift greatly and improved work efficiency, and released other PCs or debugging host computer and to the occupation of debugging platform, thereby the utilization ratio of resource has been improved, the complexity of debugging many debugged equipment at PC or many debugging host computer has still been avoided, be favorable to improving efficiency of software testing and precision.

The storage module is a FLASH storage chip, all the drivers required by all the chips in the debugging platform can be solidified in FLASH according to a certain rule, so that the requirement that other drivers are not required to be installed at a PC (personal computer) end or other debugging host ends can be met, the debugging platform of the embodiment is connected, and the drivers are directly and quickly loaded in the multifunctional debugging platform, so that the plug-and-play and hot plug effect is achieved. On one hand, the time and the energy for repeatedly installing different drivers are saved, on the other hand, the method can support operating systems of updated versions such as Windows 10/8/7/Vista, Mac OS 10.X/X, Linux Kernel 2.4 and the like, no additional driver is needed to be installed, and the problem of driver installation caused by poor compatibility between different PCs or debugging hosts is solved.

Through the cooperation of storage module and CPU control module, the debugging platform that this embodiment provided not only can support cascading expansion between the same platform, can compatible other extensions that do not have drive platform moreover, promptly: the cross-platform flexible expansion can be realized, so that one PC or debugging host can be adopted to debug more equipment to be debugged, and the working efficiency and the resource utilization rate are further improved.

Example 2

As shown in fig. 2, the specific structure of a debugging platform provided in this embodiment is substantially the same as that of embodiment 1, except that:

in this embodiment, the external interface includes a USB3.0 interface, the USB HUB module includes an USB3.0HUB module, and the USB3.0HUB module is extended with I USB3.0 interfaces. The USB3.0HUB module provides an electrical interface between a USB3.0 device and a PC or debug host, extends a number of host USB3.0 ports, and other platforms or devices can connect to the host through their downstream ports of the USB3.0 device (including the USB3.0 interface). The USB3.0 interface can be used for the function of the ordinary USB3.0 interface, and more importantly, the debugging platform provided in this embodiment can be continuously cascaded to expand the capacity of the debugging platform.

Optionally, the external interface still includes the UART interface, the USB HUB module still include with the USB2.0HUB module that the USB3.0HUB module electricity is connected, USB3.0HUB module and USB2.0HUB module respectively with storage module, CPU control module and power module electricity are connected, USB2.0HUB module electricity be connected with a plurality of USB that CPU control module, power module electricity are connected changes the UART module, the extension of USB commentaries on classics UART module has M the UART interface. The USB2.0HUB module provides an electrical interface between the USB2.0 device and the USB3.0HUB module, and extends a certain number of host USB2.0 ports, and other platforms or devices can be connected to the USB3.0HUB module through the USB2.0 device (including the USB-to-UART module) downstream port. The USB to UART module converts the USB2.0 downlink data signal into a UART data type signal, and converts the UART interface uplink data signal into a USB2.0 data signal, and transmits the signal to the USB2.0HUB module.

Example 3

As shown in fig. 3, the specific structure of a debugging platform provided in this embodiment is substantially the same as that of embodiment 2, except that:

in this embodiment, the external interface further includes an RJ45 network port and/or an SFP optical port, the USB3.0HUB module is electrically connected to a USB gigabit network port module electrically connected to the CPU control module and the power module, and the USB gigabit network port module is extended with a plurality of X RJ45 network ports and/or Z SFP optical ports. The USB gigabit network port module converts USB3.0 data into gigabit Ethernet signals, and converts uplink data signals of the RJ45 network port and/or the SFP optical port into USB3.0 data and transmits the data to the USB3.0HUB module.

And when the external interface comprises an RJ45 network interface and an SFP optical interface, the USB gigabit network interface module is electrically connected with Y SW exchange modules which are electrically connected with the CPU control module and the power module, and the SW exchange modules are expanded with X RJ45 network interfaces and Z SFP optical interfaces. At this moment, the USB gigabit network port module converts USB3.0 data into gigabit Ethernet signals and transmits the gigabit Ethernet signals to the SW switching module in a gigabit Ethernet interface mode; meanwhile, the uplink data signals transmitted by the SW switching module are converted into USB3.0 data and transmitted to the USB3.0HUB module. The SW switching module converts the gigabit Ethernet data from the USB gigabit network port module into multiple paths of same Ethernet data, and packages the data into a plurality of paths of network signals corresponding to RJ45 network ports and a plurality of optical port signals corresponding to SFP optical ports.

And the CPU control module controls the SW switching module according to an external input instruction to enable the RJ45 network port expanded from the SW switching module to be communicated and interacted with the SFP optical port. The CPU control module realizes the photoelectric conversion function of the platform according to an external input instruction, controls the SW exchange module and realizes the communication interaction between the data of the SFP optical port and the data of other appointed RJ45 network ports. SFP optical port data and RJ45 network port data can be set by default, communication interaction is carried out on the data of the upper USB gigabit network port module, and meanwhile, the SW exchange module can be controlled by the CPU control module to realize the photoelectric conversion function according to the needs of a user.

Example 4

As shown in fig. 4, the specific structure of a debugging platform provided in this embodiment is substantially the same as that of embodiment 1, except that:

in this embodiment, the external interface further includes an RJ45 network interface and/or an SFP optical interface, the USB HUB module is electrically connected to a USB gigabit network interface module electrically connected to the CPU control module and the power module, and the USB gigabit network interface module is extended with X RJ45 network interfaces and/or Z SFP optical interfaces. The USB gigabit network port module converts USB data into gigabit Ethernet signals, converts uplink data signals of the RJ45 network port and/or the SFP optical port into USB data and transmits the USB data to the USBHUB module.

And when the external interface comprises an RJ45 network interface and an SFP optical interface, the USB gigabit network interface module is electrically connected with Y SW exchange modules which are electrically connected with the CPU control module and the power module, and the SW exchange modules are expanded with X RJ45 network interfaces and Z SFP optical interfaces. At this moment, the USB gigabit network port module converts the USB data into gigabit Ethernet signals and transmits the gigabit Ethernet signals to the SW switching module in a gigabit Ethernet interface mode; and meanwhile, the uplink data signals transmitted by the SW exchange module are converted into USB data and transmitted to the USBHUB module. The SW switching module converts the gigabit Ethernet data from the USB gigabit network port module into multiple paths of same Ethernet data, and packages the data into a plurality of paths of network signals corresponding to RJ45 network ports and a plurality of optical port signals corresponding to SFP optical ports.

As an improvement of the debugging platform provided in the above embodiments 1 to 4, the CPU control module is solidified with an energy saving program for controlling the power supply output of the power supply module. The power supply module provides power supplies with different voltage values for each module and device, and each path of power supply outputs and can be controlled to be switched on and off by the CPU control module. The CPU control module is internally programmed with an energy-saving program, and can close a corresponding power supply channel according to an energy-saving strategy, so that power failure processing can be performed on an unused debugging platform interface and a related link, for example, whether the interface is used or not can be detected by using impedance properties, and further, a differentiated energy-saving function is realized.

In the above embodiments, N, M, X, Y, I, Z is a natural number indicating the number of modules for which it is desired to design. USB3.0HUB the main chip of the module can select 5.0G; 4-port USB3.1 hub, model TUSB 8042. USB2.0HUB the main chip of the module can select 12 Mbps; 7 port USB2.0 concentrator, the model is: TUSB 2077A. The main chip of the USB gigabit Ethernet port module can be 10/100/1000M gigabit Ethernet conversion chip with the model number AX88179 or RTL 8153. The USB-to-UART module main chip can select the chip with model number CP2102 or CP 2108. The storage module may select USB3.1NAND controller, model IS 918M. The key chip of the SW switching module can select a full gigabit 7-port network switch with the model of VSC 7423. The module comprises a key chip and peripheral circuits of the key chip besides the key chip. The UART interface, the RJ45 network interface, the USB3.0 interface and the SFP optical interface are standard interfaces.

It is obvious that the above embodiments of the present invention are only examples for clearly illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention, and are not limitations to the specific embodiments of the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention shall be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A debugging platform is characterized by comprising

The USB HUB module is expanded with a plurality of external interfaces;

2. The debugging platform of claim 1, wherein said external interface comprises a USB3.0 interface, said USB HUB module comprises USB3.0HUB module, and said USB3.0HUB module is extended with a plurality of said USB3.0 interfaces.

3. The debugging platform of claim 2, wherein the external interface further comprises a UART interface, the USB HUB module further comprises a USB2.0HUB module electrically connected to the USB3.0HUB module, the USB3.0HUB module and the USB2.0HUB module are electrically connected to the storage module, the CPU control module and the power module, respectively, the USB2.0HUB module is electrically connected to a USB-to-UART module electrically connected to the CPU control module and the power module, and the USB-to-UART module is extended with a plurality of UART interfaces.

4. The debugging platform of claim 1, wherein the external interface comprises a network port and/or an optical port, the USB HUB module is electrically connected to a USB gigabit network port module electrically connected to the CPU control module and the power supply module, and the USB gigabit network port module is extended with a plurality of the network ports and/or optical ports.

5. The debugging platform of claim 4, wherein the external interface comprises a network port and an optical port, the USB gigabit network port module is electrically connected with a SW switching module electrically connected with the CPU control module and the power supply module, and the SW switching module is extended with a plurality of the network ports and the optical port.

6. The debugging platform of claim 5, wherein the CPU control module controls the SW switching module according to an external input instruction to enable the network port extended from the SW switching module to interact with an optical port in a communication manner.

7. The debugging platform of claim 4, wherein said USB HUB module comprises an USB3.0HUB module, and said USB gigabit Ethernet port module is electrically connected to said USB3.0HUB module.

8. The debugging platform according to claim 7, wherein said external interface further comprises a USB3.0 interface, and said USB3.0HUB module is extended with a plurality of said USB3.0 interfaces.

9. The debugging platform of claim 8, wherein the external interface further comprises a UART interface, the USB HUB module further comprises a USB2.0HUB module electrically connected to the USB3.0HUB module, the USB3.0HUB module and the USB2.0HUB module are electrically connected to the storage module, the CPU control module and the power module, respectively, the USB2.0HUB module is electrically connected to a USB-to-UART module electrically connected to the CPU control module and the power module, and the USB-to-UART module is extended with a plurality of UART interfaces.

10. The debugging platform according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the CPU control module is solidified with an energy saving program for controlling the power supply output of the power supply module.