Tektronix offers test modules for PCI Express 3.0

The Tektronix TLA7SA16 and TLA7SA08 Logic Protocol Analyzer modules, bus support software and probes combine to give PCIe 3.0 developers an exclusive time-correlated view of system behaviour, starting with protocol analysis and working down to the physical layer to debug the root cause of elusive problems.

The Tektronix PCIe 3.0 test solution builds on Tektronix's previous-generation PCIe protocol and logic analysis offerings, which have been broadly adopted across the industry by silicon vendors, system designers and high-performance embedded engineers.

It also expands on previously announced offerings for PCIe 3.0 electrical test and validation, including Serial Data Link Analysis (SDLA) Software for the DPO/DSA/MSO70000 oscilloscopes.

The Tektronix Logic Protocol Analyzer delivers the best of both a protocol analyser and a logic analyser for PCIe design, test and debug.

Protocol-analyser capabilities include flexible, integrated data views for analysing and displaying protocol traffic flow correlated with physical-layer events.

Logic-analyser capabilities include a range of probing options, sophisticated triggering and time-correlated waveform and disassembled listing data displays of raw symbols and lane data.

The PCIe solution expands the TLA7000 series high-performance logic analyser range and works with TLA7000 mainframes including TLA7012 portable and TLA7016 benchtop models.