LeCroy has shipped its PCI Express 3.0 Protocol Analysers in the protocol test equipment industry. The new Summit T316 captures, decodes and analyses PCI Express bus traffic at data rates up to 8GT/s per lane on bus widths up to 16 lanes, with an effective data transfer rate of 2X the previous PCIe 2.0 specification.
In addition to the Summit T3-16, the company’s PCI Express protocol test family includes the Edge T14 for PCIe 1.0 with lane widths up to x4, the PETracer ML Analyser and exerciser for PCIe 1.1 with lane widths up to x8, and the Summit T216 Analyser and Summit Z216 Exerciser for PCIe 2.0 with lane widths up to x16.
John Wiedemeier, product marketing manager of LeCroy’s Interconnect Communications Group, said: The Summit T316 protocol analyser not only supports an 8GT/s recording speed with the industry’s most advanced software tools, but also supports two probing methods that can tap the high speeds of PCI Express 3.0. PCIe 3.0 achieves an effective data transfers rate of 2X the previous specification through the combination on an increased data rate and significant reduction on overhead during data transfer.
LeCroy has also introduced new Mini Card Interposer for the Summit PCI Express Protocol Analyser product line. This new Mini Card interposer is a probe that makes it possible to analyse data traffic from a Mini Card that uses a PCI Express interface to connect to a laptop/notebook/tablet system.
