First Protocol Exerciser/Analyzer for PCIe 5.0 From Teledyne LeCroy

Teledyne LeCroy, Inc., business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced the Summit Z58 PCIe protocol exerciser/analyzer for testing designs and products for the new PCIe standard, PCIe 5.0.

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This first protocol exerciser/analyzer for PCIe 5.0 features a unified single application for PCIe 5.0 traffic gen and analysis.

PCIe is an interconnect technology in the computing and communication industries. With twice the speed of the prior version, PCIe 5.0 is for the data center or cloud as the demand for online services have expanded due to work-from-home efforts.

The new standard also can support AI and ML applications.

These protocol analyzers and exercisers have been at the forefront of PCIe development over the past decade to provide the analysis features companies have needed for PCIe storage and IoT technology development.

The Summit Z58 exerciser/analyzer helps developers deliver on the promise of PCIe 5.0 by enabling them to decode and debug serial data communications between devices and systems.

“Teledyne LeCroy continues to lead the industry in protocol test support for the PCIe architecture, and our long engagement in the PCIe protocol tool market has allowed us to develop and provide the most useful solutions that help shorten development and testing,” said Michael Romm, GM, protocol solutions group. “Users who are moving to PCIe 5.0 with Teledyne LeCroy test solutions can appreciate the rich library of decodes and analysis capabilities that are available on all of Teledyne LeCroy’s PCIe test tools.”

“The PCIe 5.0 Protocol Exerciser/Analyzer is the latest development in support of helping the industry make the technology transition to 32.0 GT/s,” said Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Intel fellow, sirector of I/O technologies and standards, Intel Corporation. “Development of new test solutions from companies like Teledyne LeCroy will help fuel the growth of the PCIe 5.0 ecosystem.”

About the Summit Z58
This exerciser/analyzer addresses the needs of PCIe developers by providing high performance 32GT/s traffic gen on devices with link widths up to 8 lanes and protocol analysis featuring company’s standard CATC Trace. It features an unified single application that incorporates traffic gen and protocol analysis.

The protocol exerciser 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 PCIe I/O streams. Users will have access to the same analysis and reporting capabilities on which the PCIe industry has standardized. When using analyzers and exercisers together, developers can create script-level traffic and can monitor the results of all tests. The product uses the new PXP-500A Test platform that feature both CEM and SFF-TA-1002 connectors to allow wider support of different PCIe add-in-cards.

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