D9110PCIP PCI Express and SATA/SAS Protocol Trigger/Decode

D9010PCIP

PCI Express® and SATA/SAS Protocol Trigger/Decode for Infiniium oscilloscopes

Introduction

The D9010PCIP is a powerful software package with the ability to trigger and decode two of the most important protocols to date. PCIe Gen1 through Gen4 and SATA/SAS. Compatible with a wide range of Infiniium oscilloscopes from Keysight, the latest UXR B-Series, to the legendary Z, V, and 90000-Series lineup.

Product Overview

The Keysight D9010PCIP Infiniium protocol viewer software provides packet-level decode for PCI Express and SATA/SAS signals built directly into the real-time oscilloscope. This software provides you with a quick and simple way to isolate signal integrity problems from a logic-level perspective caused by coding errors on bi-directional serial data streams. This capability allows you to test, debug, and characterize your designs to the logic and link layer. D9010PCIP Infiniium protocol decode software has decode options that support both PCIe 4.0 at 16GT/s as well as legacy PCIe speeds of 8GT/s, 5GT/s, and 2.5GT/s. D9020ASIA is highly recommended for equalization and opening closed eye diagrams when it comes to PCIe Gen4 signal integrity analysis.

SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) serial buses are interfaces used to connect ATA hard drives to a computer’s motherboard. However, since these protocols transfer bits serially, using a traditional oscilloscope has limitations. Manually converting captured 1’s and 0’s to protocol requires significant effort, can’t be done in real-time, and includes potential for human error. As well, traditional scope triggers are not enough for specifying protocol-level conditions.

D9010PCIP uses built-in, intelligent, automated setup algorithms to configure the software to decode serial buses with just a push of a button.

• Set up and decode in less than 30 seconds.
• Access a rich set of integrated protocol-level triggers.
• Save time by eliminating errors through packet view at the protocol level.
• Enable time-correlated views to quickly troubleshoot serial protocol issues caused by timing or signal integrity

You can search through a rich set of integrated protocol-level triggers and configurable protocol-level trigger conditions specific to PCIe, SAS, and SATA. A software-based triggering takes the acquired signals and reconstructs the protocol frames after each acquisition. It then inspects these protocol frames against specified protocol-level trigger conditions and executes the triggers when the condition is met.

PCI Express

Features

The D9010PCIP Infiniium protocol trigger and decode software offers several features to simplify the validation of your PCI Express designs:

• Setup wizard for quick setup, configuration, and test
• Packet-level decode of ordered sets as well as link and logical physical layers
• Serial data analysis with 128/130-bit streams (Gen3, Gen4)
• Serial data analysis with 8B/10B symbols (Gen1, Gen2)
• Decode of scrambled and unscrambled symbols
• Bi-directional symbol and packet-level decode
• Simultaneous display of packet/symbol lists and waveformoverlay
• Capability to save symbol and packet data lists to .csv and .txt files
• Packet decode details tab provides detailed information on packets:

o Channel information

o Listing index

o Link ordered set type

o Control symbols

o Reserved-bit settings

o Data payload popup

o CRC

o Packet length

• Payload display shows data payload
• Unique packet-waveform correlation marker “blue line” makes it easy to scroll through waveforms to view synchronized

o Comprehensive serial search capabilities

o Trigger and stop on search

o Primitive, control symbol, and packet search capability