Summit T34 Analyzer

Teledyne LeCroy offers a broad spectrum of PCI Express protocol analyzer platforms (Summit M616, Summit T516, Summit T54, Summit M5x, Summit T416, Summit T48, Summit T3-16, Summit T3-8, Summit T34, Summit T28, and Summit T24). The Summit M616, T516, T54 and M5x are Teledyne LeCroy’s leading edge products supporting PCIe 6.0 and CXL specifications. The Summit T416, T48, T34, and T3-16 are Teledyne LeCroy's midrange protocol analyzers. These protocol analyzers are at the forefront of SSD and computer storage analysis, test and compliance. The Summit T28 and T24 are entry level protocol analysis tools for development and test at PCIe 2.0.

The Summit M616 Protocol Analyzer for PCIe 6.0 and CXL is the highest performance platform. It provides full bidirectional support of x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 64 GT/s. With 64GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T516 Protocol Analyzer for PCIe 5.0 and CXL is the highest performance platform. It provides full bidirectional support of x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 32 GT/s. With 256GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T54 Protocol Analyzer for PCIe 5.0 and CXL is a high performance platform. It provides full bidirectional support of x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 32 GT/s. With 64 GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams. Two Summit T54 systems can be connected together to achieve a full x8 lanes at 32GT/s.

The Summit M5x Protocol Analyzer for PCIe 5.0 and CXL has full bidirectional support of xx8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 32 GT/s. With128GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express and CXL data streams. It can also be licensed with jammer capabilities for both PCIe 4.0 and NVMe for inline debugging. In this special inline mode it will support protocol capture and analysis for x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 16 GT/s.

The Summit T416 protocol analyzer has full bidirectional support of x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 16 GT/s. With128GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T48 protocol analyzer has full bidirectional support of x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 16 GT/s. With 64GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T3-16 protocol analyzer has full bidirectional support of x16, x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 8 GT/s. With 8GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

The Summit T3-8 protocol analyzer has full bidirectional support of x8, x4, x2, and x1 at data rates up to 8 GT/s. With 4GB of trace memory, it offers enough capacity for analyzing and recording extensive PCI Express data streams.

Ideal for embedded systems monitoring and analysis is the Summit T28, smaller and a more cost effective PCI Express protocol analyzer for x8 lanes at 5GT/s. While all of the Summit analyzers support PCIe storage protocols like NVM Express, SATA Express and SCSI Express, the Summit T34 is addresses PCIe storage analysis with a small, portable form factor, x4 lane width and a deep recording buffer of 32 GB of memory. For portability and ease-of-use the Summit T24 protocol analyzer offers analysis support for x1-x4 lanes at 2.5/5GT/s. The Summit T24 is Teledyne LeCroy's most optimized and low cost analyzer for analysis of PCIe 2.0 add-in-boards.

All Summit analyzer platforms use a proprietary PCI Express connector for probing. Teledyne LeCroy features the largest selection of PCIe based interposers and probing solutions. Teledyne LeCroy's PCI Express Protocol Analyzer solutions employ non-intrusive and transparent probing technologies thereby allowing fully unaltered data pass-through. In addition, it leverages the intuitive and powerful Teledyne LeCroy’s Trace expert software system, embedding a deep understanding of the PCI Express protocol hierarchy and intricacies and presents this knowledge to the user in a colorful, intuitive and easy to use graphical display, allowing users to quickly capture and validate PCI Express product designs. These analyzers enable IP, semiconductor, switch, software and system developers as well as add-on card vendors to quickly identify protocol violations and ultimately reduce development and debugging time.

Developers can use Teledyne LeCroy's PCI Express Protocol solutions to easily capture and decode PCI Express Transaction Layer Packets (TLPs), Data Link Layer Packets (DLLPs), and low-level link traffic, including Training Sequences and Skip Ordered-sets. Some of the errors detected include: 8b/10b errors, such as invalid symbols and incorrect running disparity; CRC errors; idle data errors; and EDB (End-of-Packet Bad) errors. They also provide a detailed display of split transactions, correlating requests transmitted from one PCI Express endpoint with completions received from the endpoint at the opposite end of the link.

Teledyne LeCroy is well known for its technical leadership. Customers have come to depend on Teledyne LeCroy supporting protocols while they are early in development when these tools are essential.

The PCI Express exercisers can generate PCI Express transactions, observe behavior, and perform both stress testing and compliance testing. The Summit Z516 supports the PCIe 5.0 Specification ("Gen5"). The Summit Z516 Exerciser supports up to x16 lane widths at data rates of 32 GT/s. As complete solutions, the Summit family of products give you the unique ability to record (capture) live traffic, modify the traffic, and then playback the exact data stream, or "script," using the exerciser.

Teledyne LeCroy offers an integrated and automated compliance testing system, including Summit Z416 and Test Platform, approved by the PCI-SIG® as a standard tool for compliance testing for developers working with both the PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 specifications. In addition, the Summit Z3-16 exerciser is the only approved tool to run the UNH-IOLs NVM Express Conformance Tests. These tests are required for the NVM Express Integrators test.

The Teledyne LeCroy Summit T34 PCI Express protocol analyzer is designed for PCIe storage, add-in card and embedded application developers. It supports x1 to x4 lane widths with the capability of expanding to x8 with two boxes connected together, and deep buffer memory that is expandable from 4GB to 64GB ideal for storage analysis, the Summit T34 provides unmatched capability and flexibility for developers and users of advanced PCI Express products. Teledyne LeCroy has been the leader in NVM Express and SATA Express protocol analysis since 2010. This storage analyzer incorporates all of these powerful legacy features and adds the latest in storage queuing performance analysis.

	Title	Time
	Summit T3-16 PCI Express Protocol Analyzer Introduction Video	4:05
	Synopsys and Teledyne LeCroy Showcase PCI Express 3.0 Interoperability at PCI-SIG 2010	3:04
	Demo of Synopsys DesignWare PCI Express 3.0 with Teledyne LeCroy Protocol Test Suite	4:34
	IDT PCIe Switch Demo using Summit T3-16 protocol analyzer	7:15
	Cadence and Teledyne LeCroy work together supporting PCI Express 3.0 development and test	1:26
	PCIe 3.0 at 8.0 GT/s	3:17
	NVMe Protocol Analysis Features for Storage Development and Test	36:27
	PCI Express 4.0 Performance at More Than 1600 MB/s	3:35

The Summit T34's small dimensions (209 x 40 x302 mm) and at a light weight of 3 lbs it is clearly the most portable compact PCI Express protocol analyzer in the market today.

The Summit T34 supports PCI Express 3.0 Specification at data rates from 2.5 to 8 GT/s.

With a flexible memory buffer that is expandable from 4GB to 64GB (expanded using a second unit), the Summit T34 provides a deep trace memory capture for developers debugging challenging storage issues.

As with other Teledyne LeCroy PCI Express analyzers, the Summit T34 leverages the intuitive and powerful CATC Trace analysis software system, embedding a deep understanding of the PCI Express protocol hierarchy and intricacies. The colorful, intuitive and easy to use graphical display allows you to quickly capture and validate PCI Express product designs. The application display is highly configurable and can be modified to fit most users debugging styles. A customizable multi-state trigger makes it easy to discover protocol issues on the bus. Features such as multiple local/global timers and counters allow the user advanced control to create sophisticated trigger sequences.

The portable Summit T34 protocol analyzer is designed to support multiple PCIe storage protocols such as SATA Express, NVMe and SCSI Express. The new storage related capabilities and new protocol analysis views optimized for PCIe storage development are currently supported across the product line and make these tools valuable to understanding data transmission from the PCI Express protocol layer up to the command layer.

In addition to a full suite of advanced hardware and software features, the Summit T34 provides user-convenience and analysis features, such as support for "lane swizzling" which allows a board developer to lay out a Mid-Bus probe pad with lanes in non-standard order, simplifying the design of the board. Internally the Summit T34 maps the lanes back into their correct order and accurately displays the embedded bus traffic. Other software features include enhanced error checking for automatic identification of additional error types, more compact trace files that allow for faster analysis of trace data, and the choice of simplified or advanced modes for setting up trace recording options.

A new raw recording mode, Bit Tracer, allows bytes to be recorded as they come across the link, allowing debugging of PHY layer problems and combining the features of a logic analyzer format with a protocol analyzer format. The new auto sense link feature monitors negotiation between devices of different lane widths, and the bifurcated link support recombines multilink PCI Express operations that have been separated into narrower links.

The Summit T34 also supports Ethernet LAN port as a standard feature. By connecting over a LAN, engineers can operate the system remotely (e.g., install the client software on their desktop systems, and control an analyzer operating in a remote lab). Also, multiple engineers working collaboratively can time-share use of a single analyzer, reducing the need for an additional analyzer for each engineer, and increasing the cost effectiveness of the product.

The Summit T34 is available in two configurations—that support either x1, x2, and x4,; or x1, x2, x4, and x8, if combined with a second Summit T34—to match user requirements with available budgets.

All Teledyne LeCroy PCI Express protocol analyzers employ high-impedance, non-intrusive probing technology, thereby allowing fully unaltered data pass-through.

By leveraging years of experience in protocol analysis tools for emerging markets, Teledyne LeCroy's PCI Express protocol analyzers blend sophisticated functionality with practical features to speed the development of PCI Express IP cores, semiconductors, graphics, servers, workstations, bridges, and switches.

• Trace Expert Analysis and Report - NVM Express, SATA Express performance, statistics and analysis
• Powerful & Intuitive CATC Trace - Faster interpretation and debug of PCI Express traffic.
• Expert Software Extensive Decoding - Understand the protocol completely with accurate and reliable decoding of TLPs (Transaction Layer Packets) and DLLPs (Data Link Layer Packets) and all Primitives for PCI Express.
• LTSSM Flow Graph - Look at the trace from the LTSSM State machine perspective to understand how the link is behaving. Quickly see if states are getting stuck or if the link is going up or down. Navigate the trace using the state bubbles that are hyper linked to the trace.
• Compact Trace View - Compact the trace to get a better overall understanding of what is happening in the entire trace.

• Advanced Triggering/Filtering - Find Errors fast by isolating important traffic, specific errors or data patterns. Understand transactions more clearly by removing non-essential fields from the trace.
• Flow Control View - Check on credit behavior between Root complex and endpoint transactions. See the credit decrement and credit updates in the trace with clarity.
• Intelligent Reporting - Quickly identify and track error rates, abnormal link or timing conditions, display configuration space, and protocol specification details.
• One Button Error Report - View the entire trace for PCI Express Errors. Navigate to each error by clicking on the error indicated.
• Dword to Transaction Level Viewer - See and understand Symbol, Packet, Link and Split Transaction levels of the PCI Express protocol.
• Monitoring and Link Utilization - Troubleshoot throughput, link utilization, and bandwidth issues.
• BitTracer Software Option - Records the bytes as they come across the link. Allows debugging of PHY layer problems. Gives protocol analyzer the best of both worlds; a logic analyzer format and decoded protocol analyzer format.

  

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  • See the new 128/130 bit encoding structure in PCIe 3.0 packets

    

• Auto Sense Link - Analyzes all traffic negotiation between two devices of different lane widths.
• NVMExpress(PCIe SSD) Specification Decoding and Analysis - NVMe Initialization Decoding
• Decode NVMe Commands
• Analyze NVMe Queues
• NVMe Multiple Pointer Based Transactions
• NVMe Power Management
• Extract the PCIe SSD Base Address automatically
• SRIOV Decode Support - Analyze Single Root IO Virtualization enabled devices.
• MRIOV Decode Support - Analyze Multi Root IO Virtualization enabled devices.
• Lane Swizzling - Accommodates specialized or unique board layouts for MidBus connections.
• Deep Buffer Recording Capacity - Capture long recording sessions for analysis and problem solving up to 8 GB (4 GB in each direction).
• CRC Checking - Know that info being displayed is accurate.
• High-speed Interface Ports - No complicated setup required, with 1 Gb/s Ethernet and USB 2.0 ports available.
• Downloadable Trace Viewer - Share and annotate trace recordings within a development team.