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News Release from: LeCroy | Subject: PCI Express protocol analysers
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 August 2006
Analysers upgrade to latest PCI Express
spec
LeCroy Corporation has added support for the new PCI Express Specification 2.0.
LeCroy Corporation has added support for the new PCI Express Specification 2.0 Spec 2.0 includes a 100% increase in datarates to 5Gbit/s per lane, in addition to numerous errata updates, completion timeouts, functional level reset, link bandwidth notification, and access control features
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new PETracer Software Version 5.0 supports the new features defined in PCI Express Spec 2.0 across LeCroy's entire line of PCI Express protocol analysers, which include the low-cost PETracer Edge, the PETracer ML, the PETracer EML, and the new PETracer Gen2 Summit.
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"Maintaining our PCI Express PETracer analysers so they are in compliance with emerging new specifications allows our customers to stay ahead in the market place", said John Wiedemeier, Product Marketing Manager, LeCroy.
"Developers can continue to use the same analysers they have already come to depend on, even as specifications advance as they have with the new PCI Express Spec 2.0".
The low cost PETracer Edge is intended for server, workstation, desktop, and add-in-board developers.
The PETracer Edge analyser system allows for complete bidirectional capture and decode of x4, x2, and x1 PCI Express links.
LeCroy's PETracer ML provides complete bidirectional capture and decode of x8, x4, x2, and x1 PCI Express links.
The PETracer ML can be used with the companion PETrainer ML Multilane PCI Express Exerciser to reduce time to market by enabling users to quickly identify logic and design flaws in products under development.
The PETracer EML advanced analyser system allows for complete bidirectional capture and decode of PCI Express links up to 16 lanes wide (x16).
A companion PCI Express 16-lane advanced exerciser system, the PETrainer EML, is a critical test and verification tool intended to assist engineers in improving the reliability of their systems.
The new PETracer Summit is LeCroy's top-of-the-line PCI Express protocol analyser, and the first analyser to support PCI Spec 2.0 datarates of 5Gbit/s on each lane.
The PETracer Summit also introduces new features such as lane swizzling, which provides developers flexibility in PCB design; auto sensing of link width; support for bifurcated links where lanes of a single link are split across multiple connectors; and raw mode recording, allowing debugging of PHY layer problems and combining the features of a logic analyser format with a decoded protocol analyser format.
The PETracer Software Version 5.0 is available on the web for all customers who are under maintenance.
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