Portable USB 5Gb/s Analyzer

CrossSync is Teledyne LeCroy's analyzer synchronization solution that enables time-aligned display of protocol traffic from multiple daisy-chained analyzers. Captured packets are displayed in separate windows that share a common time scale. Navigating the traffic in either direction will scroll to the same timestamp in the synchronized window. When using the CrossSync option, users can access the full complement of analysis capabilities available within each individual Teledyne LeCroy software. Search, reporting, and decoding all operate normally.

Identifying the point where a specific bus event moves over a bridge is nearly impossible without the CrossSync synchronization solution. Now it's easy to use triggering to find the same packet travelling across both busses. Either analyzer can be set up as the trigger master. When the trigger event is detected, the capture on all daisy chained analyzers stops, Each display will show the exact point where the event occurred. It's also possible to define separate trigger events that operate independently for each side of the bridge.

The solution includes a lightweight software control panel that starts and stops recording across daisy-chained analyzers. Users can sync or un-synch traces on-the-fly. The Time Tune feature provides a real time slider for adjusting the offset between displays. This makes it easy to see latency across busses.

The CrossSync control panel is available at no cost and only requires the analyzers to be connected using their on-board Sync ports. This Sync port is built-in to every Advisor T3 and STX M6-1 analyzer. For owners of Teledyne LeCroy's, Summit T3, Voyager M3i, and Sierra -based analyzers, the Sync port is available as an optional expansion board (ACC-EXP-002-X) that can be installed by users in just a few minutes. This allows developers to leverage analyzers already in the lab to help resolve multi-protocol problems at the system level.

The CrossSync option supports a wide combination of Teledyne LeCroy's flagship analyzers including PCI Express Gen 1, Gen 2 and Gen 3, USB 2.0 and 3.0, Serial ATA (SATA) 1.5, 3, and 6Gbps, Serial Attached SCSI 6Gbps, and Fibre Channel 1, 2, 4 and 8Gbps systems.

Teledyne LeCroy's Ultra-portable SuperSpeed USB analyzer can be upgraded to support several advanced features that are part of the Pro configuration. These enhancements include:

Advanced Triggering

Adds the ability create sequential event triggering. When enabled, the Advisor can monitor multiple sequential events with counters incorporated within each state. The ability to add loops and incorporate timer-based actions allows users to capture time out conditions.

Real Time statistics

Useful for performance analysis, the RTS view provides real time throughput and frame-error-rate metrics in real time for 3.0 links. The RTS continually reports:

• Devices Detected
• Endpoints Detected
• Throughput (MB/Sec)
• Frame Error Rate
• DP, TP, ITP count
• Retried Transactions Count
• % Time in U0 / U1 / U2 / U3
• ACK / ERDY / NRDY Count

Export to .CSV

Packet and transfer layer events can be extracted for post-processing in 3rd party applications.

Verification Script Engine

VSE provides an API which allows third party applications to extract information from a USB recording. This scripting language is capable of opening and parsing any size trace file to allow users to automate routine analysis tasks such as performing timing calculations between link layer events or automating data compares for individual header fields.

Custom Micro-D to DB9 cable enables multiprotocol analysis capability by synchronizing Advisor T3 capture with captures from Teledyne LeCroy Voyager/Sierra based analyzers. The BNC portion of this cable can also be used independently to provide External Trigger In/Out to general purpose test equipment.

Custom Micro-D to Micro-D cable enables cascading two Advisor T3 systems to provide 2 time-synchronized USB recording channels.