Teledyne LeCroy Summit M616 Analyzer/Exerciser for PCIe 6.0  

Teledyne LeCroy, Inc. announced the Summit M616 PCI Express (PCIe) protocol analyzer/exerciser for testing designs and products that incorporate PCIe 6.0 traffic.

By enabling PCIe 6.0 designs, with 2x the speed and optimal data flow, the Summit M616 is paving the way for technologies such as AI, ML, HPC and ubiquitous computing that require the higher I/O performance that PCIe 6.0 offers.

PCIe is the interconnect technology in the computing and communication industries. The company has been at the forefront of PCIe development for more than a decade working with the computer industry to provide the analysis features companies have needed for PCIe storage and IoT technology development.

The Summit M616 exerciser/analyzer helps developers deliver on the promise of PCIe 6.0 by enabling several key benefits including:

• Reliability at 2x the speed. Its functionality addresses the needs of PCIe developers by providing high-performance 64GT/s traffic generation on devices with link widths up to 16 lanes. Its functionality supports the same line rates with lane widths, and features the firm’s industry standard CATC Trace. Its traffic generation capability also can be used to develop standardized compliance test suites.

• More robust testing abilities. The Summit M616 integrates the analyzer and exerciser into a unified single application that incorporates traffic generation and protocol analysis. It provides realistic traffic to devices under test and also can emulate complex host- or device-side traffic, while the protocol analyzer acquires, records, decodes, analyzes, and displays complex high-speed PCIe I/O streams. When analyzers and exercisers are used together, developers can create powerful script-level traffic and monitor the results of all tests real time to ensure systems have been designed with enough flexibility to withstand a range of potential issues.

• Real-time trouble-shooting and timely completion. All the firm’s protocol analysis and test products feature a hierarchical display, real-time statistics, protocol traffic summaries, detailed error reports, powerful scripting, and the ability to create user-defined test reports, which allow developers to troubleshoot intricate problems and finish their projects on time.

• Optimized flow of data. Like PCIe 6.0 itself, the exerciser packages data with a flit stream, rather than a packetized structure. This approach delivers several benefits, including the optimization of data flow by reducing idle time and using space more efficiently to drive data rates up.

“Teledyne LeCroy has been leading the industry in protocol test support for the PCI Express architecture for a number of years and we are excited to bring to market our next-generation testing solution to help shorten development and testing as the industry transitions to PCIe 6.0,” said Kevin Prusso, GM. “We have designed the Summit M616 to enable new designs to reliably operate at twice the speed of the latest generation of PCIe technology. Additionally, users who are moving to PCIe 6.0 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.”

Summit M616 to be demonstrated at PCI-SIG DevCon on June 13-14 with Synopsys
The company will demonstrate its PCIe 6.0 Protocol Analyzer at PCI-SIG DevCon on June 13-14, 2023. The demonstration will capture and display 64GT/s protocol traffic between the Synopsys Host and Device IP for PCIe 6.0 using the Synopsys HAPS prototyping system.

All products are available for order.