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| LeCroy Unveils PCI Express Gen2 Protocol Analyzer LeCroy Corporation introduces their fourth generation protocol analyzer for PCI Express. The PETracer Gen2 Summit x16 captures and analyzes second generation PCI Express bus traffic at data rates up to 5 Gb/s per lane, providing developers of servers, workstations, desktop graphics, and add-in boards an essential new tool to ensure design performance. The performance of the PETracer Gen2 Summit brings numerous benefits to design applications. The analyzer locates errors much faster using the widely acclaimed PETracer application with its powerful triggering, filtering, and error reporting tools. Unlike other analyzers, the PETracer Gen2 Summit records and displays all traffic even at high lane widths and high data rates. Engineers are provided much more useful results because the system displays added views and greater analysis tools within the trace display. LeCroy has designed the PETracer Gen2 Summit with real-time monitoring tools to analyze response and latency of transactions, data throughput, and link utilization. The PETracer Gen2 Summit has all the inherent advantages of the PETracer system architecture. With powerful analysis features provided in the PETracer software, it allows for real-time statistics, protocol traffic summaries, detailed error reports, powerful scripting, and the ability to create user-defined test reports. Ethernet and USB ports are provided for flexibility in connection and configuration. The new analyzer supports spread spectrum clocked (SSC) traffic, lane swizzling for flexibility in board configurations, and support for multi-link operations where PCI Express ports are bifurcated into narrower links. Also featured is auto link sensing for links of varying width. The Raw Mode Recording is another newly developed capability which records bytes just as they come across the link, allowing debugging of PHY layer problems and combining the features of a logic analyzer format with a decoded protocol analyzer display. In addition to the PETracer Gen2 Summit, LeCroy's PCI Express PETracer family includes the PETracer Edge for Gen1 support from x1 to x4, the PETracer ML Analyzer and Exerciser for Gen1 support from x1 to x8, and the PETracer EML Analyzer and Exerciser for Gen1 support from x1 to x16. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |