PCIe® Compliance Test and Debugging Solutions for Electrical (PHY) Layer

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Teledyne LeCroy PCIe compliance test equipment including WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope with Anritsu MP1900 and PCIe Gen5 base test fixture.

Complete PCI Express® (PCIe) Electrical Test for Compliance and Cross-layer Debugging

Teledyne LeCroy is the only company that provides PCIe testing across the layers – protocol to physical – while also providing superior instruments with sophisticated jitter, eye diagram, debug and compliance software.

  • Simplified PCIe link testing with cross-layer analysis
  • Provides the most confidence for PCIe compliance and interoperability testing
  • Includes built-in PCIe expertise for measuring and characterizing signals

PCIe Testing That Crosses The Layers

Teledyne LeCroy's PCI Express electrical test solutions combine superior instruments with sophisticated analysis software

PCIe test equipment including WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope and Summit T516 analyzer connected to CrossSync PHY interposer for PCIe debugging.

Simplified PCIe Link Testing

Seamlessly merge the functions of your protocol analyzer and oscilloscope.

  • Validate and debug active link operation
  • Quickly resolve interoperability issues by capturing the entire protocol stack
  • Analyze PCIe link training with integrated physical and protocol views
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Generic PCIe compliance test and PCIe receiver calibration connection diagram

Most Confidence for PCIe Testing

Perform compliance testing with high accuracy.

  • Approved solutions for all PCIe compliance tests and CXL compliance tests
  • Fully automated Transmitter, Receiver and Link Equalization testing
  • Easily transition from PCIe compliance testing to debug with SDA Expert
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PCI express transmitter measurement to analyze PCIe transmitter equalizer often referred to as a PCIe preset measurement

Built-in PCIe Expertise Using SDA Expert

Contains specialized features for PCIe testing.

  • Comprehensive eye diagrams, jitter and other PCIe measurements
  • Simple, powerful transmitter equalization analysis
  • Most complete Signal-to-Noise-and-Distortion Ratio
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Simplified PCIe Link Testing With Cross-layer Analysis

CrossSync™ PHY enables PCIe waveforms from Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscopes to be viewed alongside protocol analyzer traces, with complete time-correlation of electrical and protocol information for easy and powerful validation and root-cause analysis.

WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope and Summit T516 analyzer connected to CrossSync PHY interposer for PCIe debugging
WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope and Summit T516 analyzer connected to CrossSync PHY interposer for PCIe debugging
WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope and Summit T516 analyzer connected to CrossSync PHY interposer for PCIe debugging

Validate/Debug Active Links

Resolve PCIe Interoperability

Analyze PCIe Link Training

CrossSync PHY for PCIe uses a single interposer that connects to a protocol analyzer and provides probe inputs to the oscilloscope. A single software interface unifies oscilloscope and protocol analyzer views.

  • CrossSync PHY PCIe capable interposers enable observation of both electrical and protocol behavior without disturbing the link
  • Sideband signals, reference clock and power rails are all easily accessible to oscilloscope probes
  • High-bandwidth oscilloscope probing points for data lanes to debug during PCIe link training failure
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CrossSync PHY for PCIe provides cross triggering between the protocol analyzer and the oscilloscope. All protocol and oscilloscope captures are time correlated, making it easy to resolve interoperability problems.

  • Trigger protocol analyzer and oscilloscope captures on the same high-level event
  • Easily measure timing relationships between protocol and electrical domains
  • Faster root-cause analysis means fewer costly finger-pointing exercises
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CrossSync PHY for PCIe provides one time-correlated view of all protocol traces and oscilloscope waveforms making it easy to gain deep insight into link training.

  • Observe electrical-level results of protocol-level commands
  • Combined navigation means always knowing which protocol and electrical behaviors happen at the same time
  • No single instrument can deliver this level of cross-layer insight into link training
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More Visibility of Complex PCIe Link Behaviors

CrossSync PHY gives deeper insight and more visibility into the most complex behaviors in a PCI Express link. Link training, power-on operations, and power management transitions all involve interactions between protocol and electrical layers.

CrossSync PHY software showing PCIe link training specifically link behavior during speed changes
CrossSync PHY software showing PCIe link training protocol transitions and electrical system behaviors during speed changes
CrossSync PHY software showing PCIe link training with power rails for power integrity debug.

Dynamic Link Behavior

Power Management Transitions

Dynamic Power Characterization

Gain further insight into the link behavior while the device negotiates through the various training sequences.

  • Characterize entire boot sequence with visibility into sideband signals, reference clock, data lanes and power rails
  • Observe speed changes in both electrical and protocol domains
  • Trigger on problematic link training behaviors and analyze their consequences through the entire protocol stack
  • Save, recall, and re-analyze linked oscilloscope and protocol analyzer traces
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Understand the impact of a PCIe power management transition on the PCIe system’s electrical behaviors as measured by the oscilloscope.

  • Quick and easy triggering and capture of both protocol and electrical behavior as a device enters or exits low-power states
  • Precise timing measurements between protocol commands and electrical behaviors of reference clock and high-speed data lines
  • Dynamic power analysis through Power Management transitions including L1 substates
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Capture PCIe system’s low voltage power rails in conjunction with link training, power management and other protocol events to find power integrity problems.

  • CrossSync PHY interposers have built-in rail voltage and current measurement points
  • Voltage and current waveforms are synchronized and time-correlated to protocol analyzer trace
  • Oscilloscope tools enable measurement of dynamic power consumption and power integrity metrics
  • Compatible with RP4030 Active Voltage Rail probe for low-noise measurement of voltage rails with high bandwidth and low loading
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The Most Confidence for PCIe, CXL and NVMe Compliance and Interoperability Test

One set of test equipment covers PCIe, CXL and NVMe electrical transmitter and receiver testing, including PCIe 6.0 with PAM4 signaling. The combination of a Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscope and an Anritsu bit error rate tester provides versatility.

PCIe compliance test equipment including WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope with Anritsu MP1900A, WavePulser 40iX and PCIe Gen5 base test fixture.

Approved Solutions For All PCIe Compliance Tests And CXL Compliance Tests

Teledyne LeCroy supports the full PCI Express ecosystem using the same equipment configuration and QualiPHY automation software. Approved solutions for all PCI-SIG electrical compliance tests.

  • PCIe 6.0 transmitter and receiver calibration and tests
  • PCIe 5.0 transmitter, receiver, and PLL tests
  • PCIe 4.0 transmitter, receiver, and PLL tests
  • PCIe 3.0 transmitter, receiver, and PLL tests
  • CXL 2.0 transmitter tests
  • CXL 1.1 transmitter tests
PCIe Gen5, PCIe Gen4, and PCIe Gen3 compliance test and PCIe receiver calibration connection diagram

Fully Automated Transmitter, Receiver, And Link Equalization Testing

QualiPHY automation software provides high accuracy and repeatability for PCIe compliance testing and CXL compliance testing.

  • Transmitter testing
  • Receiver test calibration and execution
  • Link equalization testing
  • PLL bandwidth testing
  • Report generation

Comprehensive PCIe 6.0 Characterization Tools

The combination of Teledyne LeCroy’s 12-bit resolution WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope and Anritsu’s SQA-R MP1900A BERT provides versatility in the lab to test all generations of PCIe.

WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope and Anrtisu MP1900 bit error rate test BERT test equipment for PCIe compliance testing and PCIe debugging
PAM4 eye diagram and pulse response plot .PCI express 6.0 transmitter preset measurement with preset preshoot and preset de-emphasis results

Unique Transmitter Equalization Tools

  • Carefully aligned with Sigtest AC fit method
  • Completely customizable setup for measuring preset cursors and waveforms
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PAM4 eye diagram and jitter histogram including the jitter measurement results of the PCIe 6.0 jitter pattern

Highest Confidence Jitter Measurements

  • Teledyne LeCroy actively participates in the PCI-SIG correlation studies
  • Confidence our solution will evolve with the PCI-SIG compliance requirements
  • Break down and analyzer jitter on all transitions, including eye diagrams
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PAM4 eye diagram

Most Complete SNDR Analysis

  • Best scope noise compensation
  • Powerful signal analysis waveform view
  • Precise, accurate, repeatable SNDR measurement
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PCI Express, Compute Express Link® (CXL®), and Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe™)

Teledyne LeCroy actively participates in the PCI-SIG® and CXL standard bodies to ensure the standards meet the needs of our customers and the industry as a whole.

Specialized Testing Tools for PCI Express, CXL, NVMe

Teledyne LeCroy offers high-performance oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers with full PCIe and NVMe ecosystem support.

  • Approved solutions for all PCI-SIG electrical and protocol compliance tests.
  • Intuitive software along with CrossSync PHY interposers and ProtoSync software merges an oscilloscope with a protocol analyzer.
  • One set of test equipment covers all generations of PCIe electrical transmitter and receiver testing.
PCIe test engineer and PCIe validation engineer using a WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope to perform PCIe M.2 compliance testing.

From PCIe Compliance Test to Debug

Characterization and compliance testing are vital to bringing a product to market, but when failures occur, it falls to the rest of the instruments’ toolbox to help locate and debug problems.

  • Automate PCIe 5.0, PCIe 4.0, and PCIe 3.0 compliance testing with QualiPHY
  • Merge the functions of your Teledyne LeCroy protocol analyzer and oscilloscope
  • Debug electrical compliance issues faster with SDA Expert eye diagrams, jitter and noise analysis
QualiPHY automation software for PCIe 6.0, PCIe 5.0, PCIe 4.0, and PCIe 3.0 compliance testing and PCIe debugging

Compute Express Link (CXL) Electrical Test

CXL protocol layer is built on the PCIe physical and electrical interface to address the need for higher performance memory coherency between CPUs and memory devices.

  • Easily transition from PCIe testing to CXL testing
  • Teledyne LeCroy has the first and only approved CXL 1.1 compliance solutions for electrical and protocol testing
  • One set of test equipment covers both PCIe and CXL electrical transmitter and receiver testing
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Visibility from Electrical Through Transaction Layer

Time-correlation of electrical and protocol information for easy and powerful validation and root-cause analysis.

  • PCIEBus Decode and ProtoSync protocol analysis software provide views of the complete protocol stack, from physical layer to transaction layer.
  • CrossSync PHY software and interposers seamlessly merge the functions of your Teledyne LeCroy protocol analyzer and oscilloscope
PCIe decoder for PCIe Gen6, PCIe Gen5, PCIe Gen4, PCIe Gen3 PCIe Gen2, PCIe Gen1.

Simplifies PCIe 5.0 Link Testing With Cross-layer Analysis

Enable precise, intuitive navigation between time-correlated protocol analyzer and oscilloscope traces.

  • Validate and debug active link operation
  • Quickly resolve PCIe interoperability issues
  • Analyze PCIe link training with integrated views
PCIe Gen5 test equipment including WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope and Summit T516 analyzer connected to CrossSync PHY interposer PCIe debugging.

Built-in PCIe expertise for measuring and characterizing signals

Transmitter characterization is a crucial process to validate the integrity of the transmitter. The best debug toolset requires specialized features found in SDA Expert Serial Data Analysis and the SDAX-PCIE6 option.

PCIe transmitter equalization measurement also often call the PCIe preset measurement measures the preshoot, de-emphasis, and boost.
Test point configurator makes testing easier by automatically configuring the software dependent upon selected test point. Test point selections for PCIe compliance transmitter testing, PCIe base transmitter testing, PCIe CEM transmitter testing.
PCIe 6.0 transition histogram including jitter measurement breakdown such as Rj, udjdd, utj, dj, and tj using the 52 UI jitter measurement pattern

Tx Equalization

Test Point/Pattern Configurator

Jitter Measurements

Ensuring the transmitter is providing the correct amount of de-emphasis and preshoot to the signal is a critical step when characterizing and debugging transmitter behavior.

  • Reference and measured pulse response
  • Reference and measured step response
  • Display preset measurement units in dB or coefficient values
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Test Point configurator lets you test the link at either the transmitter or receiver and multiple pattern detection methodologies increases the accuracy of PCIe specific measurements.

  • Predefined test points automatically configures SDA Expert to specific PCIe data rates
  • Multiple pattern detection methodologies improve accuracy of PCIe specific measurements
  • Apply user defined patterns to make nonstandard PCIe measurements
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PCI Express 6.0 introduces PAM4-specific jitter measurement methodologies thus making SDA Expert the ideal toolkit for characterizing PCIe transmitters.

  • Breakdown the jitter measurement composition into the 48 transitions in the 52-UI jitter measurement pattern, 12 voltage level transitions, or a single aggregated set of jitter measurements
  • Transition histogram for each of the 48 transitions in the 52-UI jitter measurement pattern
  • Each of the 52 measurement table results are locked to its respective transition histogram
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Compliance Experience, Leadership, Support

Combining the Teledyne LeCroy WaveMaster 8000HD Oscilloscope and QualiPHY™ automated compliance test software with the Anritsu SQA-R MP1900A BERT results in the most powerful characterization, compliance and debug solution available. First-line support for the solution available from the industry’s most experienced PCI Express field support team at Teledyne LeCroy.

WaveMaster 8000HD oscilloscope displaying PCIe eye diagram

WaveMaster 8000HD

WaveMaster 8000HD supports all generations of PCIe Tx/Rx testing, at all required bandwidths:

  • 50 GHz for PCIe 6.0 (64 GT/s) and PCIe 5.0 (32 GT/s)
  • 25 GHz for PCIe 4.0 (16 GT/s)
  • 13 GHz for PCIe 3.0 (8 GT/s)

Use the WavePulser 40iX for Rx Channel calibration and characterization

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QualiPHY™ automation software for PCIe 6.0, PCIe 5.0, PCIe 4.0, and PCIe 3.0 compliance testing and PCIe debugging

QualiPHY™ Software

QualiPHY software options QPHY-PCIE6-TX-RX, QPHY-PCIE5-TX-RX, QPHY-PCIE4-TX-RX, QPHY-PCIE3-TX-RX fully automate all aspects of PCIe PHY electrical Compliance testing.

  • Transmitter Link Equalization Testing
  • Receiver Link Equalization Testing
  • Receiver Calibration
  • Report generation
Anritsu SQA-R MP1900A Signal Quality Analyzer-R / BERT commonly used for PCIe and PCI Express testing with a Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscope.

Anritsu SQA-R MP1900A

The Anritsu SQA-R MP1900A is a high-speed BERT solution in one box it combines.

  • Jitter and noise generation for Rx calibration and BER testing
  • High quality waveform PPG with integrated 10-tap emphasis
  • LTSSM loopback and Error detector with variable CTLE for PCIe Rx testing

Resources

Technical Docs
Videos
Webinars
Document Name
PCIe 6.0 Electrical Datasheet

SDAX-PCIE6 software supports PCIe 6.0 Base Specification transmitter measurements.

Datasheet
QPHY-PCIE6-TX-RX Datasheet

Teledyne LeCroy’s QPHY-PCIE6-TX-RX PCI Express 6.0 electrical transmitter and receiver software is a fully automated test solution for PCIe 6.0 Base Specification testing for both transmitter and receiver.

 Datasheet
QPHY-PCIE5-TX-RX Datasheet

Teledyne LeCroy’s QPHY-PCIE5-TX-RX PCI Express 5.0 electrical transmitter and receiver software is a fully automated test solution that meets all the PCIe 5.0 CEM PHY Specification requirements for both transmitter and receiver compliance testing.

 Datasheet
Application Note - How PAM4 Signaling is Changing PCIe 6.0 Jitter Measurements

PCI Express 6.0 adds multilevel PAM4 signal measurements and tighter tolerances to PCIe electrical test requirements. Here is a summary of what will be necessary to get your PCIe 6.0 designs up to speed.

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Application Note - Making New PCIe 6.0 Compliance Pattern Measurements with Your Oscilloscope

PCI Express 6.0 requires measurements of SNDR, RLM and package insertion loss using a new Compliance Pattern signal. Here’s how to use Teledyne LeCroy’s SDAIII software to quickly make these measurements.

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Application Note - Making Tx EQ Measurements with Your Oscilloscope

PCI Express 6.0 has 11 new presets and requires a method for measuring best-fit Tx EQ. SDAIII software can be used to easily make pulse measurements of Tx EQ for PCIe 6.0 testing.

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PCI Express 6.0 Electrical Compliance Test Overview

PCIe® 6.0 FYI compliance and interoperability testing is expected to begin sometime around October 2023. Get ready with Teledyne LeCroy.

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Introduction to PCI Express® 6.0 PAM4 Physical Layer Testing

Join Teledyne LeCroy PCIe 6.0 physical-layer test experts explain the challenges that early adopters will face when moving from PCIe 5.0 to PCIe 6.0 and how to overcome these challenges.

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How to Debug PCI Express Link Training and Other Dynamic Link Behaviors

Do you struggle to debug PCIe® interactions between protocol and electrical behaviors during link training and data rate changes? Join us to learn advanced debugging techniques that can drastically improve time-to-market.

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How to Perform PCI Express 5.0 PHY Compliance Testing

Join Teledyne LeCroy for this live demonstration of PCI Express 5.0 Electrical Compliance Testing. In this webinar we will demonstrate everything a Test or Validation Engineer will need to do to perform PCIe® 5.0 CEM physical layer/electrical compliance testing.

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Get ready for PCI Express Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE) Protocol Test

View our webinar for an overview of Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE) capabilities, hardware test requirements, and decoding and debugging PCIe® IDE situations.

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How to Perform PCI Express 4.0 Compliance Testing

In this webinar we demonstrate everything a Test or Validation Engineer will need to do to perform PCIe 4.0 CEM compliance testing.

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Overview of PCIe Protocol Analysis in Embedded Systems

Join our webinar where we walk through “PCIe protocol analysis in embedded systems”. You’ll come away with an understanding of PCIe protocol analysis for server and embedded systems, and essential tools required for debugging.

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Identifying and Debugging PCIe Link Equalization Problems

In this webinar we demonstrate how to identify and debug potential signal integrity issues that may lead to poor link performance.

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PCI Express 5.0 and CXL Protocol Testing

Join Teledyne LeCroy for an in-depth webinar on PCI Express 5.0 and CXL protocol testing using the Teledyne LeCroy Summit series Protocol Analyzers and Exercisers.

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PCIe 6.0 Transmitter Equalization (Tx EQ) Testing
 
PCI Express Receiver Link Equalization Calibration and Test
 
PCI Express Transmitter Link Equalization Testing
 
PCI Express 5.0 Transmitter Electrical Test
 
CrossSync PHY Introduction
 
Dynamic Power Analysis of PCIe Power Management Transitions
 
Measuring L1 Substate and Entry and Exit Timings using CrossSync PHY
 
Capturing PCIe Speed Changes on your Oscilloscope using Crossync PHY

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