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BitTracer

The BitTracer Logic Display is a software option that runs on the Teledyne LeCroy Summit PCI Express Protocol Analyzers. BitTracer offers developers a physical layer view of PCI Express traffic, similar to what might be displayed on a logic analyzer, but provides this capability on a protocol analyzer. This means that developers can view bit stream traffic before it is decoded to high-level packets, to better understand where signal integrity issues may be causing data corruption.

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Summit M616 Protocol Analyzer / Exerciser  

The Summit M616 is Teledyne LeCroy's latest generation of protocol analyzers targeted at high speed PCI Express 6.0 and CXL I/O-based applications such as server, workstation, desktop, graphics, storage, AI, and network card applications.

Summit T516 Analyzer  The Summit T516 is targeted at high-speed PCI Express 5.0 and CXL I/O-based applications such as workstation, desktop, graphics, storage, and network card applications.
Summit Z516 Exerciser  The Summit Z516 is a PCIe 5.0 and CXL protocol traffic generation test tool used for critical test and verification intended to assist engineers in developing and improving the reliability of their systems. The Summit Z516 can emulate PCI Express 5.0 and CXL root complexes or device endpoints, allowing new designs to be tested against corner case issues.
Summit T54 Analyzer  The Summit T54 Protocol Analyzer captures, decodes and displays PCIe 5.0 protocol traffic data rates for x1, x2, x4 lane widths.
Summit M5x Protocol Analyzer /Jammer  The Summit M5x is Teledyne LeCroy's PCIe/ NVMe Jammer solution and is the latest protocol analyzer targeted at high speed PCI Express 5.0 I/O-based applications such as workstation, desktop, graphics, storage, and network card applications.
Summit Z58 Protocol Exerciser/Analyzer  The Summit Z58 is a PCIe 5.0 protocol traffic generation test tool used for critical test and verification intended to assist engineers in developing and improving the reliability of their systems. The Summit Z58 can emulate PCI Express 5.0 root complexes or device endpoints, allowing new designs to be tested against corner case issues.
Summit T416 Analyzer  The Summit T416 Protocol Analyzer captures, decodes and displays PCIe 4.0 protocol traffic data rates for x1, x2, x4, x8, x16 lane widths
Summit Z416 Protocol Exerciser  The Summit Z416 is a PCIe 4.0 protocol traffic generation test tool used for critical test and verification intended to assist engineers in developing and improving the reliability of their systems. The Summit Z416 can emulate PCI Express 4.0 root complexes or device endpoints, allowing new designs to be tested against corner case issues.
Summit T48 Analyzer  The Summit T48 Protocol Analyzer captures, decodes and displays PCIe 4.0 protocol traffic data rates for x1, x2, x4, x8, lane widths
Summit T3-16 Analyzer  The Summit T3-16 Protocol Analyzer captures, decodes and displays PCIe 3.0 protocol traffic data rates for x1, x2, x4, x8, x16 lane widths
Summit Z3-16 Exerciser with SMBus Support  The Summit Z3-16 with SMBus Support is a critical test and verification tool intended to assist engineers in developing and improving the reliability of their systems. The exerciser can emulate PCI Express root complexes or device endpoints, allowing new designs to be tested against corner case issues.In addition, it can emulate SMBus traffic as a master or slave.
Summit T3-8 Analyzer  The Summit T3-8 Protocol Analyzer captures, decodes and displays PCIe 3.0 protocol traffic data rates for x1, x2, x4, x8 lane widths
Summit T34 Analyzer  The Summit T34 Protocol Analyzer captures, decodes and displays PCIe 3.0 protocol traffic data rates for x1, x2, x4 lane widths
Summit T28 Analyzer  The Summit T28 Protocol Analyzer captures, decodes and displays PCIe 2.5GT/s and 5GT/s data rates for x1, x2, x4, x8 lane widths
Summit T24 Analyzer  The Teledyne LeCroy Summit T24 PCI Express analyzer is for customers developing PCIe 1.0 or 2.0 x4 lane width server, workstation, desktop, graphics, storage, and network card applications.
PCIe Compliance Testing  

The UNH NVMe conformance tests run on the Teledyne LeCroy Protocol analyzer and exerciser. These tools support the necessary NVMe emulation capabilities to perform these tests.

PCI Express 5.0 Test platform  Teledyne LeCroy’s PCI Express 5.0 Test Platform provides a convenient, powerful and flexible test platform for PCI Express devices at data rates up to 32.0 GT/s and link widths up to x16.
PXP-100B Test Platform  The Teledyne LeCroy PXP-100B Test Platform provides a convenient means for testing PCIe cards with a self-contained portable and powered passive backplane. The PXP-100B provides power required for both cards under test, and an interposer can be used for connection to a protocol analyzer.
PXP-400A Test Platform  The Teledyne LeCroy PXP-400A Test Platform provides a convenient means for testing PCIe 4.0 add-in cards with a self-contained portable and powered passive backplane. The PXP-400A provides power required for both cards under test, and an interposer can be used for connection to a protocol analyzer.
PXP-500A Test Platform  The Teledyne LeCroy PXP-500A Test Platform provides a convenient means for testing PCIe 5.0 add-in cards with a self-contained portable and powered passive backplane. The PXP-500A provides power required for both cards under test, and a separate interposer can be used for connection to a protocol analyzer.

Teledyne LeCroy offers a broad spectrum of PCI Express protocol analyzer platforms (Summit M616, Summit T516, Summit T54, Summit M5x, Summit T416, Summit T48, Summit T3-16, Summit T3-8, Summit T34, Summit T28, and Summit T24). The Summit M616, T516, T54 and M5x are Teledyne LeCroy’s leading edge products supporting PCIe 6.0 and CXL specifications. The Summit T416, T48, T34, and T3-16 are Teledyne LeCroy's midrange protocol analyzers. These protocol analyzers are at the forefront of SSD and computer storage analysis, test and compliance. The Summit T28 and T24 are entry level protocol analysis tools for development and test at PCIe 2.0.

The Summit M616 Protocol Analyzer for PCIe 6.0 and CXL is the highest performance platform. It provides full bidirectional support of x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 64 GT/s. With 64GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T516 Protocol Analyzer for PCIe 5.0 and CXL is the highest performance platform. It provides full bidirectional support of x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 32 GT/s. With 256GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T54 Protocol Analyzer for PCIe 5.0 and CXL is a high performance platform. It provides full bidirectional support of x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 32 GT/s. With 64 GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams. Two Summit T54 systems can be connected together to achieve a full x8 lanes at 32GT/s.

The Summit M5x Protocol Analyzer for PCIe 5.0 and CXL has full bidirectional support of xx8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 32 GT/s. With128GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express and CXL data streams. It can also be licensed with jammer capabilities for both PCIe 4.0 and NVMe for inline debugging. In this special inline mode it will support protocol capture and analysis for x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 16 GT/s.

The Summit T416 protocol analyzer has full bidirectional support of x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 16 GT/s. With128GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T48 protocol analyzer has full bidirectional support of x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 16 GT/s. With 64GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T3-16 protocol analyzer has full bidirectional support of x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 8 GT/s. With 8GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T3-8 protocol analyzer has full bidirectional support of x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 8 GT/s. With 4GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

Ideal for embedded systems monitoring and analysis is the Summit T28, smaller and a more cost effective PCI Express protocol analyzer for x8 lanes at 5GT/s. While all of the Summit analyzers support PCIe storage protocols like NVM Express, SATA Express and SCSI Express, the Summit T34 is addresses PCIe storage analysis with a small, portable form factor, x4 lane width and a deep recording buffer of 32 GB of memory. For portability and ease-of-use the Summit T24 protocol analyzer offers analysis support for x1-x4 lanes at 2.5/5GT/s. The Summit T24 is Teledyne LeCroy's most optimized and low cost analyzer for analysis of PCIe 2.0 add-in-boards.

All Summit analyzer platforms use a proprietary PCI Express connector for probing. Teledyne LeCroy features the largest selection of PCIe based interposers and probing solutions. Teledyne LeCroy's PCI Express Protocol Analyzer solutions employ non-intrusive and transparent probing technologies thereby allowing fully unaltered data pass-through. In addition, it leverages the intuitive and powerful Teledyne LeCroy’s Trace expert software system, embedding a deep understanding of the PCI Express protocol hierarchy and intricacies and presents this knowledge to the user in a colorful, intuitive and easy to use graphical display, allowing users to quickly capture and validate PCI Express product designs. These analyzers enable IP, semiconductor, switch, software and system developers as well as add-on card vendors to quickly identify protocol violations and ultimately reduce development and debugging time.

Developers can use Teledyne LeCroy's PCI Express Protocol solutions to easily capture and decode PCI Express Transaction Layer Packets (TLPs), Data Link Layer Packets (DLLPs), and low-level link traffic, including Training Sequences and Skip Ordered-sets. Some of the errors detected include: 8b/10b errors, such as invalid symbols and incorrect running disparity; CRC errors; idle data errors; and EDB (End-of-Packet Bad) errors. They also provide a detailed display of split transactions, correlating requests transmitted from one PCI Express endpoint with completions received from the endpoint at the opposite end of the link.

Teledyne LeCroy is well known for its technical leadership. Customers have come to depend on Teledyne LeCroy supporting protocols while they are early in development when these tools are essential.

Exercisers

The PCI Express exercisers can generate PCI Express transactions, observe behavior, and perform both stress testing and compliance testing. The Summit Z516 supports the PCIe 5.0 Specification ("Gen5"). The Summit Z516 Exerciser supports up to x16 lane widths at data rates of 32 GT/s. As complete solutions, the Summit family of products give you the unique ability to record (capture) live traffic, modify the traffic, and then playback the exact data stream, or "script," using the exerciser.

Compliance

Teledyne LeCroy offers an integrated and automated compliance testing system, including Summit Z416 and Test Platform, approved by the PCI-SIG® as a standard tool for compliance testing for developers working with both the PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 specifications. In addition, the Summit Z3-16 exerciser is the only approved tool to run the UNH-IOLs NVM Express Conformance Tests. These tests are required for the NVM Express Integrators test.

 

 

The BitTracer Logic Display is a software option that runs on the Teledyne LeCroy Summit PCI Express Protocol Analyzers. BitTracer offers developers a physical layer view of PCI Express traffic, similar to what might be displayed on a logic analyzer, but provides this capability on a protocol analyzer. This means that developers can view bit stream traffic before it is decoded to high-level packets, to better understand where signal integrity issues may be causing data corruption.

The BitTracer option is available for all Summit PCI Express Analyzers. The software interface displays a "raw mode" view of all bits in the bit stream for each individual lane. These bits are delineated to the user as they appear in the multi-striped bit stream. Two additional views show the high-level packet decoding created from the delineated bits, either as the familiar CATC Trace packet display or showing the packet layout as defined in the PCI Express Specification. These windows correlate together as a user moves through the bit stream showing clearly the nature of any corrupted packets. The BitTracer software also has tools that allow searching, data manipulation and traffic summaries of traces recorded on any Teledyne LeCroy Summit PCI Express Analyzer.

Key Benefits
  • Find signal integrity issues fast using the correlated bit stream packet view
  • Reduce setup time by using one piece of equipment instead of two
  • Discover difficult-to-find intermittent lane errors
  • Key Features
  • Gen1/Gen2/Gen3 (if supported by analyzer)
  • x1-x16 lane support (if supported by analyzer)
  • Errors Traffic Summary
  • Symbol Traffic Summary
  • Timing Measurement Display
  • Display Modes
    • 10-bit Codes
    • Symbol Decoding
    • Scrambled Bytes
    • Unscrambled Bytes
  • Editing Functionality (after capture)
    • Link Width
    • Lane Swizzling
    • Lane Skew
    • Polarity Inversion
    • Scrambling Mode
  • Export to Trace
  • Color Coding in Raw View
    • All Special Symbols
    • Error Highlighting
  • Tool Tips Show Breakdown for Each Symbol
  • User Markers
  • Triggering