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Protocol Exerciser for PCI Express 4.0 Technology

TLEC Summit Z41628 October 2015 – Teledyne LeCroy announced its new PCI Express (PCIe) protocol exerciser/analyzer for testing PCI Express 4.0 designs and products. The Summit Z416 exerciser/analyzer addresses the needs of PCI Express developers by providing high performance 16 GT/s traffic generation on devices with link widths up to 16 lanes. In addition to traffic generation, protocol analysis featuring Teledyne LeCroy’s industry-standard CATC Trace and other traffic displays and data reports are available.

The Summit Z416 supports exerciser functions that can be used for traffic generation and device/host emulation, as well as providing the industry a platform for development of standardized compliance test suites. Additionally, the Summit Z416 support error injection functions to enable developers to test error recovery routines important to reliable interoperability of PCIe 4.0 products. Along with the Summit Z416 Exerciser/analyzer, a new PCIe 4.0 test platform, PCIe 4.0 verification load board (VLB) and PCIe 4.0 verification base board (VBB) will be released to form a complete suite of protocol test tools for all developers working on or interested in PCI Express 4.0 products.

“Designers implementing the PCIe 4.0 specification’s fast 16 GT/s data rates in high-performance enterprise systems require a full-featured protocol test system,” said Scott Knowlton, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Synopsys. “The combination of Synopsys’ DesignWare® IP for PCIe 4.0 and test systems like Teledyne LeCroy’s Summit Z416 enable our mutual customers to design their SoCs more efficiently, analyze and test their silicon thoroughly and bring their solutions to the market quickly.”

Protocol analyzers and exercisers are key tools to help driver and firmware developers understand serial data communication between their devices and systems. The Summit Z416 features a unified single application that incorporates traffic generation and protocol analysis. A protocol exerciser is an important part of protocol development and specification corner case testing. It provides realistic traffic to devices under test and can also emulate complex host- or device-side traffic while the protocol analyzer acquires, records, decodes, analyzes and displays complex high-speed PCI Express I/O streams. Users will have access to analysis and reporting capabilities that are highly utilized in the PCIe industry. When analyzers and exercisers are used together developers can create powerful script level traffic and monitor the results of all tests.

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