Teledyne LeCroy: Availability of PCIe 5.0 M.2 Interposer for Analysis of Single- and Dual-Port SSDs

Teledyne LeCroy, Inc. announced the PCI Express 5.0 M.2 interposer for analysis of both single-port and dual-port SSDs that support the PCIe 5.0 and NVMe protocols.

The M.2 interposer, used in combination with the company’s PCIe 5.0 Summit Protocol Analyzer, enables the capture and analysis of PCIe 5.0 traffic from M.2 form factor expansion cards or drives. The PCIe 5.0 M.2 interposer improves debug of enhanced power management and link training equalization through the company’s new CrossSync PHY technology, enabling users to see and correlate both the physical and protocol layers in a unified time aligned view. No other solution gives this type of insight into link behavior.

First PCIe 5.0 M.2 crossSync PHY interposer for SSD protocol analysis
The M.2 small form factor is used in the latest generation of high-end, fast, expansion cards and SSDs, and is gaining popularity in mobile, desktop, and enterprise platforms. Based on both PCIe 5.0 and NVMe protocols, the M.2 interface can support up to 32GT/s transfer speeds. With the availability of PCIe 5.0 M.2 interposer, design and test engineers can now test, identify issues, and optimize M.2 SSD performance.

The PCIe 5.0 M.2 interposer can connect with any of the firm’s PCIe 5.0 Summit protocol analyzers to capture and analyze PCIe bus traffic between a host backplane and a single-port or dual-ported SSD. It supports up to 4 lanes in a single-port PCIe 5.0 link configuration or 2 ports each with 2 lanes in a dual-port SSD.

About CrossSync PHY
A CrossSync PHY-capable interposer probes a live PCIe link for simultaneous capture of both oscilloscope and protocol analyzer traces, providing insight into protocol-directed electrical behaviors to design and validation engineers. The CrossSync PHY software option for the company’s LabMaster and WaveMaster oscilloscopes enables the oscilloscope’s MAUI user interface to be viewed directly alongside the industry-standard the firm’s CATC protocol trace. The combination of the interposer and the software option permits the oscilloscope and protocol analyzer traces to be viewed, navigated, and analyzed in a time-correlated way to the company.

Availability:

• Three PCIe 5.0 M.2 interposer models, which include the CrossSync PHY support, have been added to the the company’s PCIe test solutions product line.

• The 4 models (PE 222UIA-X, PE222UIA-1PHY, -2PHY, and -4PHY) add built-in oscilloscope probing corresponding to one, two or four lanes of the PCIe interface, and allow for oscilloscope probing of sideband signals, reference clock and power rails.

• The CrossSync PHY software option is available for the firm’s LabMaster and WaveMaster oscilloscopes.

• All products are available for order.