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News Release from: LeCroy | Subject: STX-460
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 December 2007
Emulators comply with SAS and SATA
protocols
Emulators are the industry's first to enable developers to generate valid and invalid traffic at datarates up to 6Gbit/s.
LeCroy has made a major upgrade to the industry's only 6Gbit/s traffic-generation emulators for SAS and SATA protocols Designed to run on the popular LeCroy STX-460 platform, the emulators are the industry's first to enable developers to generate valid and invalid traffic at datarates up to 6Gbit/s
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new enhancements add additional capability to support connection multiplexing for both hosts and devices, as well as for the new SMP commands and emulating two hosts or two drives simultaneously.
"One of the most significant and complex new additions to the SAS specification is connection multiplexing", says Matthew Hallberg, Storage Protocol Specialist for LeCroy's Protocol Solutions Group.
"Emulation systems that can generate traffic supporting this new capability are crucial to SAS product developers, enabling them to test and debug this functionality in their products".
"The STX-460 platform from LeCroy is the only test system capable of emulating connection multiplexing from either the host or device side, enabling storage-system designers to accelerate their product development cycle ahead of industry-wide adoption".
With the new STX emulators, high-level commands can be easily defined and sent to initiator or target devices through a series of convenient pull-down menus.
All traffic on the bus - including both traffic generated by the STX and returned traffic from the device under test - is captured and displayed in an intuitive trace format.
Looping, iteration and a wealth of conditional statements provide for precise control of the emulator scripting routines.
The new host and target emulator offerings are currently available for purchase.
Pricing depends on the specific configuration.
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