Teledyne LeCroy Summit Z5166 Protocol Exerciser PCIe 5.0 With Compute Express Link

Teledyne LeCroy, Inc. announced the Summit Z5166, a PCIe 5.0 with Compute Express Link (CXL) protocol exerciser for testing high-speed device and system designs.

Summit Z516 PCIe 5.0 and Compute Express Link Protocol Exerciser

Teledyne Lecroy, Inc. Announced The Summit Z5166

The Summit Z516 exerciser provides performance 32GT/s traffic gen on devices with link widths up to 16 lanes.

Emulation using the company’s exerciser is critical for validation of devices and systems used in HPC. The Summit Z516 enables PCIe 5.0 device testing by generating flits on the flex bus within the link and transaction layers and supporting traffic gen and device/host emulation at all layers. It also helps validate the coming wave of CXL-based systems, a new high-speed CPU-to-Device and CPU-to-Memory interconnect designed to accelerate next-gen data center performance. CXL technology maintains memory coherency between the CPU memory space and memory on attached devices, which allows resource sharing for higher performance, lower latency, and reduced software stack complexity, driving to lower overall system cost. The Summit Z516 joins the Z58, M5x, and T54 in the line of Summit analyzers and exercisers for PCIe 5.0, supporting validation of product designs and interoperability stress testing for both PCIe and CXL technologies.

“Our commitment to providing high-quality development tools and our long engagement in the PCIe protocol tool market has allowed us to develop and provide the most useful decodes, analysis and reports that expedite testing and make testing strategies successful,” said Joe Mendolia, VP, marketing, protocol solutions group. “Users who are moving to CXL on Teledyne LeCroy get the benefit of all the previous investment made in our PCIe test equipment and do not have to wait for important features to mature on alternative solutions.“

“Industry excitement continues to grow for the CXL protocol for high-performance accelerator interconnect,” said Michael Hall, director, technology and ecosystem enabling, Intel Corp. “The hardware and software ecosystem surrounding CXL, such as Teledyne LeCroy’s latest test and validation tools, is quickly maturing to enable a smooth transition and rapid ramp of the technology.“

PCIe protocol test solutions
The company’s protocol analyzers and exercisers have been at the forefront of PCIe development since its inception, working with the computer industry over the last decade to provide the analysis features companies have needed for PCIe-based systems, storage and IoT technology development. Users of the firm’s systems appreciate the library of decodes and analysis capabilities that are available on all of the firm’s test tools, such as hierarchical view, real-time statistics, protocol traffic summaries, detailed error reports, scripting, and the ability to create user-defined test reports, which allow developers to troubleshoot intricate problems.

The Summit Z516 PCIe 5.0 Protocol Exerciser with support for CXL is available to order.