Powerful SerialTek Features
- CXL, PCIe, NVMe, DOE/IDE, SMBUS and all sideband signals supported
- No tuning required (I.e. No calibration). Kodiak’s Rx automatically and quickly equalizes (EQs) the PCIe signals at all data rates
- Embedded trace processing architecture and accelerated performance
- Deep Trace Buffers
- - 72GB, 144GB or 288GB
- Internal Trace Storage (SSD)
- - 2, 4, or 8TB
- Direct Attach Storage
- - Two OCuLink (PCIe) ports
- - Two USB 3.1 ports
- Network and Direct Connectivity
- - Two 10GbE SFP+ (optical/copper)
- - One 1GbE RJ-45
- Supports single-port (1×4) and dual-port (2×2) analysis in one platform
- Real-time traces in memory (prior to saving). Users can review and analyze captured traces without downloading the trace to a client PC
- Touchscreen LCD for analyzer setup, control, and status
Powerful SerialTek Features
- No tuning (calibration) required, Kodiak’s Rx automatically equalizes (EQs) the incoming PCIe signals at all data rates
- Embedded trace processing architecture and the fastest performance
- Deep 144GB Trace Buffers
- Internal 4TB Trace Storage (SSD) and access for multiple users
- Direct Attach Storage, including two PCIe OCuLink ports and two USB 3.2 ports
- Two 10GbE SFP+ (optical/copper) and one 1GbE RJ-45 connections for fast and reliable connectivity
- Real-time access to traces in memory prior to downloading
- Touchscreen LCD for analyzer setup and status
This technology improves critical test coverage by providing high signal integrity, even over changing conditions, such as link training (LTSSM), Power Management, Hot Plug, Reset, and other tests where the physical link/lane characteristics may change.
SI-Fi™ PCIe Gen5 Interposers continue SerialTek’s TCO approach. With the focus on signal integrity, QSFP-DD based cables connect each interposer to the analyzer. These cables are readily available and rated greater than 32GHz, resulting in uncompromised SI at all PCIe transfer rates. All sideband signals are passed through the interposer from Root Complex (Host) to Controller (Device), and all are made available to the analyzer for trigger, decode, and analysis.
Interposer Key Features
- No tuning (calibration) required, Kodiak’s Rx automatically equalizes (EQs) the incoming PCIe signals at all data rates
- No tuning (calibration) required. Host and Device signals pass through the interposer, allowing for real-world PCIe link training and easier setup
- Supports PCI Express Gen 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0
- Access to all sidebands, including SMBus
- Accurate capture of PCIe traffic at line rates from 32.0 GT/s (Gen5) down to 2.5 GT/s (Gen1)
- Passive tapping to avoid masking, hiding, or cleaning up electrical and/or link issues
- Low-cost, flexible, high-performance cabling for reliable analyzer to interposer connections
AIC Interposers
PCI Express slots are ubiquitous in ATX or ATX-based form factors in computing, storage, networking, and communication equipment applications. SerialTek’s PCIe Gen5 slot interposers support analysis of x1, x2, x4, x8, and x16 link-widths. All relevant sidebands, including SMBus from the host or from external/third-party injection or generation tools are supported.
Key Features
- Real-world PCIe link training type probing design. Host and Device signals pass through the interposer, allowing for real-world PCIe link training and easier set up.
- Each lane’s analog signal is received at the probes differential input and distributed to two separate phase matched differential outputs with a nominal gain of 0dB.
- No calibration. Eliminates requirement for interposer and analyzer Rx calibration.
- Improves critical test coverage, including link training (LTSSM), Power Management, Hot Plug, Reset, and other tests where the physical link/lane characteristics may change.
- Form-factors: AIC, M.2, U.2, U.3, EDSFF*, OCuLink*, and others currently in development.
Together with the new Kodiak™, SerialTek’s Gen4 (16.0 GT/s) PCI Express® (PCIe®) and Non-volatile Memory Express® (NVMe®) interposers with SI-Fi™ allow users to monitor an unprecedented variety of PCIe and NVMe bus traffic with unparalleled power and ease.
Enabled by SerialTek’s proprietary SI-Fi™ technology, users can save hours over legacy approaches requiring interposer calibration. This technology improves critical test coverage by providing high signal integrity, even over changing conditions, such as link training (LTSSM), Power Management, Hot Plug, Reset, and other tests where the physical link/lane characteristics may change.
Each lane’s analog signal is received at the probe’s differential input and distributed to two separate phase matched differential outputs with a nominal gain of 0dB, allowing the Host and Device signals to pass through the interposer, allowing for real-world PCIe link training and easier set-up of the analyzer and DUT.
SI-Fi™ PCIe Gen4 Interposers continue SerialTek’s TCO approach. With the focus on signal integrity, flexible, low-cost, SFF-8644-based cables connect each interposer to the analyzer. These cables are readily available and rated greater than 20GHz, resulting in uncompromised SI at all PCIe transfer rates.
All sideband signals are passed through the interposer from Root Complex (Host) to Controller (Device), and all are made available to the analyzer for trigger, decode, and analysis.
- SI-Fi™ Interposers require no calibration.
- Supports PCI Express Gen 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 Accurate capture of PCIe data traffic at line rates including 16.0 GT/s (Gen4), 8.0 GT/s (Gen3), 5.0 GT/s (Gen2), and 2.5 GT/s (Gen1).
- Single U.2 / U.3 interposer supports both single-port and dual-port capture (only one analyzer is needed for dual-port).
- “Passive” tapping to avoid masking, hiding, or “cleaning up” electrical and/or link issues.
- Low-cost, flexible, high-performance cabling for reliable analyzer to interposer connections.
The Panda appliance conveniently brings together SerialTek’s iTAP™ technology and BusXpert™ software with Broadcom PEA technology to smartly solve the problem of analyzing embedded PCIe links in ICs such as the Broadcom PEX89000 PCI Express Gen 5.0 ExpressFabric Platform. The iTAP software is a specialized “tap” framework that is fully integrated with BusXpert, the feature-rich analysis software developed for the revolutionary Kodiak™ PCIe 5.0 Protocol Analysis System.
Powerful Features
- Advanced BusXpert analysis software with collaborative web UI
- Can be used in conjunction with Kodiak PCIe 5.0 protocol analyzers with the same UI
- Captures TLPs, DLLPs, and Ordered Sets
- 288K capture buffers per station / port
- Synchronized multi-station capture
- Filtering capabilities:
– Discard TLPs, DLLPs and Ordered Sets
– Compression of repeating bytes
- Triggering capabilities:
– Two-level triggering on input trace data
– Input trigger can be pin-based or routed from internal signals
– Output trigger can be routed to other trace buffer instances and to a chip output pin
- No user calibration required. The SerialTek interposers are linear pass-through designs and the analyzer auto-calibrates.
- No boot trace required. The SerialTek analyzers use a unique auto-archiving design to automatically capture set up and changes to the Config Space, Registers, and NVMe Queue creation and deletion. This is particularly important to test environments for hot-plug, link resets, and any other situations where the Config Space, Registers, or Queues change.
- Industry standard (and lower cost) SFF-8644 cables.
- Large protocol trace capture memory options.
- Slot Interposer : Capture and display PCI Express traffic between an adapter card (AIC) and Host system.
- M.2 Interposer : For M.2 socket 2 or M.2 socket 3 devices between a host system and a M.2/NGFF connector on an SSD.
- U.2 Interposer : Designed to be used to analyse PCIe traffic between a host backplane and single or dual ported SSDs.
