Teledyne PETracer User Manual

PROTOCOL SOLUTIONS GROUP

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SANTA CLARA, CA 95054

PETracer Summit™ and Summit T2-16

™

PCI Express Multi-Lane Protocol Analyzer

User Manual

For Software Version 6.7x

June 2013

Summit User Manual

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Section 1. General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.1 PETracer Analyzer Hardware and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2 CATC Trace Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.3 Summit T2-16 Analyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.4 PETracer Gen2 Summit Analyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

1.5 Other Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 2 Hardware Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.1 System Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.2 Host Machine Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.3 Summit T2-16 Front Panel Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

LCD Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.4 PETracer Summit Front Panel Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

LCD Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.5 Summit T2-16 Rear Panel Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.6 PETracer Summit Rear Panel Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.7 External Interface Breakout Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Pin-Outs for the Data In/Out Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Prototype Rework Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Breakout Board Input and Output Signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 3 Installation and Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.1 Installing the PETracer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.2 Setting Up the Summit T2-16 Analyzer using an Ethernet Connection. . . 25

Connecting to a Summit T2-16 Analyzer in the Local Network. . . . . . . 25

3.3 Setting Up the Summit T2-16 Analyzer using a USB Connection . . . . . . . 28

3.4 Setting Up the PETracer Summit Analyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Connecting to a PETracer Summit Analyzer in the Local Network. . . . 29

3.5 Interposers and Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

3.6 Using Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Example: Connecting the Summit T2-16 Analyzer to the Device Under

Test Using a Gen2 MidBus Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Example: Connecting the Summit T2-16 Analyzer to the Device Under

Test Using a Gen2 Multi-lead Probe for x1 and x4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Example: Connecting the Summit T2-16 Analyzer to the Device Under

Test Using a Gen2 Multi-lead Probe for x8 and x16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

3.7 Using Interposers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Example: Connecting the Summit T2-16 Analyzer to the Device Under

Test Using a Gen2 Passive Interposer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Example: Connecting the Summit T2-16 Analyzer to the Device Under

Test Using a Gen2 Active Interposer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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Section 2. PETracer Analyzer Software . . 45

Chapter 4 Software Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

4.1 The PETracer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

4.2 Application Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

4.3 Using the Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Multi-Segment Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Toolbar Hide Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

4.4 Using the Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

4.5 Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

4.6 Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

4.7 Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

4.8 Making a PCI Express Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

4.9 Recording Multi-Segmented CATC Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

How to Create a Multisegment Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

4.10 PETracer Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

CATC Trace Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Recording Options Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Display Options Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

4.11 Opening CATC Trace Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

4.12 Saving CATC Trace Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using the Save As Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Saving a Portion of a CATC Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

4.13 Exporting a CATC Trace File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

4.14 Printing Data Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

4.15 Analyzer Chat Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Chapter 5 Reading CATC Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

5.1 Viewing PCI Express CATC Traces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

5.2 Expand and Collapse Data Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

5.3 Resizing Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

5.4 Pop-up Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

5.5 View Data Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

5.6 Show Raw 10b Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

5.7 Show Header Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

5.8 Packet Cell Popup Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Packet Header R-> Cell Popup Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Packet Header G1 Cell Popup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

5.9 Set Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

5.10 Edit or Clear Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

5.11 Decoding Traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Chapter 6 Searching CATC Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

6.1 CATC Trace Search Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

6.2 Go to Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

6.3 Go to Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

6.4 Go to Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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6.5 Go to Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

2. Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Markers Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Functionality of Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Attaching Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Adding an Attachment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

5. Recording an Audio File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Video Files supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Attachment Types and Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Embedded Attachments to a Marker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Viewing Attachments of a Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

File Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

URL Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

YouTube Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Other Attachments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Edit Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

All Markers Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

6.6 CATC Walk Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Playlist Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Playback Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Playlist Playback Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

6.7 Go To Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

6.8 Search Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

6.9 Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Event Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

6.10 Search for the Next Packet Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Chapter 7 Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

7.1 Setting Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

7.2 Specifying General Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Analysis Tools Checkboxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Configuration Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

7.3 Color, Format, and Hiding Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Setting Field Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Changing Field Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

7.4 Load a Previously Saved Display Options File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

7.5 Saving Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Chapter 8 Recording Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

8.1 Setting Recording Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

8.2 General Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Recording Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Buffer Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Target Analyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Trigger Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Trigger On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

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Trace Filename and Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Options Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Save As MultiSegment Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Viewing Multisegmented Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Link for Summit and Summit T2-16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Saving and Loading Previously Saved Recording Options . . . . . . . . . 130

Setting Default Recording Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

8.3 Recording Rules Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Global State vs. Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

8.4 Recording Rules Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

8.5 Creating Recording Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

8.6 Recording Rules Logic: How Contradictory Rules are Resolved . . . . . . 136

Recording Rules Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

8.7 Properties Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

8.8 Event Properties Dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Accessing the Properties Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Dialog Settings and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Error Properties Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Actions Properties Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

TLP Header Properties Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

TLP Prefix Properties Dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Payload Properties Dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

DLLP Packet Properties Dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Ordered Set Properties Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

8.9 Counting Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

8.10 Creating a Payload Match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

8.11 Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

8.12 Filter In and Filter Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Chapter 9 BitTracer Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

9.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

PETracer Summit and Summit T2-16 Only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

9.2 Enabling BitTracer Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

9.3 Trigger Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

9.4 Views Available for Captured Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

9.5 De-Skewing Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

9.6 Data Display Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

9.7 Color-Coding of BitTracer Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

9.8 Report and Analysis Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

9.9 Timing Measurements Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Markers Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

9.10 Errors Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

9.11 Symbols Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

9.12 Events Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

9.13 Packets Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

9.14 Decoding Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

9.15 Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

9.16 Link Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

9.17 Export of BitTracer Capture to CATC Trace Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Exports Involving Multiple Logical Links on One Physical Link. . . . . . 169

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9.19 Opening and Saving BitTracer Captures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Chapter 10 Reports and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

10.1 File Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

10.2 Error Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

10.3 Traffic Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Using the Traffic Summary Window to Search the CATC Trace . . . . . 174

Traffic Summary Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

10.4 Bus Utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Bus Utilization Pop-up Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Bus Utilization Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

10.5 Link Tracker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Using the Link Tracker Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Link Tracker Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

10.6 Data Flow Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

10.7 Using the CATC Trace Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Displaying the Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Navigator Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Navigator Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Navigator Panes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

10.8 LTSSM Flow Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

10.9 Packet Header Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

10.10 Packet Data Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

10.11 Configuration Space View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

10.12 Using Unit Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Show Metrics in the CATC Trace Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Show Metrics in the Traffic Summary Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Show Metrics in the Bus Utilization Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

10.13 Real-Time Statistics Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Real-Time Statistics Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Real-Time Statistical Monitor Pop-up Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Real-Time Statistics Graph Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

10.14 TC to VC Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

10.15 Timing and Bus Usage Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

10.16 Running Verification Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Chapter 11 Updates and Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

11.1 Updating the Analyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

11.2 License Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

11.3 License Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Appendix A Configuration Space Decoding . . . . . . . . . 221

A.1 Mandatory Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

A.2 Mandatory Module Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

A.3 Configuration Register Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

A.4 Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

A.5 Helper File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Appendix B China Restriction of Hazardous Substances

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Designed for developers and validators, the Teledyne LeCroy PETracer Summit™ and Summit T2-16™ are Gen1/Gen2 PCI Express advanced verification systems.

By leveraging years of experience in protocol analysis tools for emerging markets, PETracer Summit and Summit T2-16 blend sophisticated functionality with practical features to speed the development of PCI Express™ IP cores, semiconductors, bridges, switches, add-in boards, and systems.

1.1 PETracer Analyzer Hardware and Software

Features and Benefits

PETracer Summit and Summit T2-16 Analyzers have these features and benefits:

Features Benefits

Powerful and Intuitive CATC Trace™ Analysis Software

Extensive Decoding Complete, accurate and reliable decoding of TLPs (Transaction

Monitoring and Link Utilization View link utilization and other performance measurements

Advanced Triggering Isolate important traffic, specific errors, or data patterns. Trigger

Hardware Filtering

Intelligent Reporting

Sophisticated Viewing View Packet, Link and Split Transaction levels of the PCI Express

Faster interpretation and debug of PCI Express traffic with color-coded, clearly labeled protocol elements in a graphical display. Reduces coding and deciphering.

Layer Packets), DLLPs (Data Link Layer Packets), and all PCI Express Primitives

changing in real time.

condition setup is made simple with drag and drop tools to link events to trigger or filter actions.

Analyze faster and understand transactions more clearly by removing non-essential fields from the trace.

Quickly identify and track error rates and abnormal link or timing conditions. Display configuration space and protocol specification details.

protocol. Collapsible/expandable headers with Tool tip explanations make it easy to navigate and interpret packet contents, headers, and commands. View packets, transactions of TLPs and DLLPs in classic CATC Trace™ format or in raw 10b code for deeper analysis.

8 GB Recording Capacity,  4 GB in each direction

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Flexible Host Interface Summit T2-16: USB and GigE . 

PETracer Summit: 10/100 MBps.

Downloadable CATC Trace Viewer

Bidirectional x1-x16,

2.5 GBps to 5.0 GBps recording support

Field-upgradeable firmware and recording engine

Flexible probing options Active and passive slot interposers

External interface for probing and monitoring auxiliary digital signals

Share and annotate CATC Trace recordings within a development team. Freely distributable PETracer software enables collaborative analysis across sites and time zones.

Accurate and non-intrusive collection of PCI Express CATC Trace data

Upgrades available for download direct from the Teledyne LeCroy website

MidBus probe Flying lead probe Gen1 AMC interposer Gen1 XMC interposer Gen1 SIOM interposer Gen1 Express card interposer

Enables cross triggering between other test instruments.

Dword to Transaction Level Viewer

CRC checking Know that info being displayed is accurate.

View Dwords, Packet, Link and Split Transaction levels of the PCI Express protocol.

1.2 CATC Trace Software

PETracer Summit and Summit T2-16 utilize the CATC Trace™ to assist users in analyzing how PCI Express components work together, diagnose problems, and test for interoperability and standards compliance.

The CATC Trace is a powerful and intuitive expert software system embedding detailed knowledge of the protocol hierarchy and intricacies, as defined in the protocol specification. The software allows the user to control the Analyzer and set specific real-time triggering and filtering conditions. The CATC Trace utilizes a Windows-based graphical display that has been optimized for fast and easy navigation through a captured traffic session. Users are alerted as violations are detected at all levels of the protocol layering and can easily drill down on areas of interest or collapse and hide fields that are not relevant.

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1.3 Summit T2-16 Analyzer

The Teledyne LeCroy Summit T2-16 is Teledyne LeCroy’s fourth-generation PCI Express analyzer for customers in server, workstation, desktop, graphics, storage and network card markets.

With advanced features such as support for PCI Express Spec 2.1, data rates of both 2.5 and 5 GBps, lane widths from x1 to x16, and a full 8 GB of trace (recording) memory, the Summit T2-16 provides unmatched capability and flexibility for developers and users of advanced PCI Express products. The Summit T2-16 is the most advanced and sophisticated PCI Express Analyzer available in the market today.

As with other Teledyne LeCroy PCI Express analyzers, the Summit T2-16 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. All Teledyne LeCroy PCI Express protocol analyzers employ high-impedance, non-intrusive probing technology, thereby allowing fully unaltered data pass-through.

In addition to a full suite of advanced hardware and software features, the Summit T2-16 introduces new 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 T2-16 maps the lanes back into their correct order and accurately displays the embedded bus traffic. Other new software features include enhanced error checking for automatic identification of additional error types, more compact CATC Trace files that allow for faster analysis of data, and the choice of simplified or advanced modes for setting up recording options. An optional raw-recording mode 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.

The Summit T2-16 supports USB and GIGE host interfaces. By connecting over GIGE, engineers can operate the system remotely (for example, install the client software on their desktop systems to 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.

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Features

• Powerful and Intuitive CATC Trace Analysis Software System: The CATC Trace embeds deep understanding of the PCI Express protocol hierarchy and intricacies. This knowledge is presented in a colorful, intuitive and easy-to-use graphical display, allowing you to quickly capture and validate PCI Express product designs.

• Protocol Hierarchical Viewing: Displays Packet, Transaction, and Split Transaction levels of the PCI Express protocol, with increased drill-down detail for PCI Express primitives, errors, payloads or individual packets.

• Advanced Triggering: Allows you to trigger on various PCI Express Events such as Link Conditions, TLP Headers, DLLP Messages, and Data Payload.

• Lane-Reversal Compatible: Triggers, records, and displays PCI Express traffic logically, regardless of the physical configuration of the lanes.

• Statistical and Error Reporting: Provides a quick summary of the CATC Trace file to identify and track error rates and abnormal link or timing conditions.

• Raw Recording Mode (optional): Records the bytes exactly as they come across the link, allowing debugging of PHY layer problems.

• Auto Speed detection: Follows link transitions through speed changes.

• Auto Polarity detection: Automatically detects lanes with inverted polarity.

• Auto Sense Lane Width: Analyzes all negotiation traffic between devices with different lane widths, eliminating the need to set up lane widths before a trace.

• Lane Swizzling Support: Allows board developers to lay out lanes in a non-standard order, simplifying board design.

• Powerful Real-time BusEngine Protocol Processor Technology: Sophisticated triggering and filtering help you focus on critical protocol data and isolate important protocol traffic, specific errors, or data patterns.

• Field-upgradeable Firmware and Engine: Positions you to receive the latest PETracer enhancements and future additional capabilities. Allows field upgrades of all system types.

• 8-GB Data Buffer: Capture long time windows for in-depth analysis and identification of erratic problems.

• GIGE Ethernet Connectivity: Allows connection to an Ethernet network and sharing of analyzer resources by multiple engineers.

• USB connectivity: Allows connection by USB cable.

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1.4 PETracer Gen2 Summit Analyzer

The Teledyne LeCroy PETracer Gen2 Summit is Teledyne LeCroy’s first-generation high-performance PCI Express analyzer for customers in server, workstation, desktop, graphics, storage and network card markets.

With advanced features such as support for PCI Express Spec 2.0, data rates of both 2.5 and 5 GBps, lane widths from x1 to x16, and a full 8 GB of memory, the PETracer Gen2 Summit provides excellent capability and flexibility for developers and users of advanced PCI Express products.

As with other Teledyne LeCroy PCI Express analyzers, the PETracer Gen2 Summit 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. All Teledyne LeCroy PCI Express protocol analyzers employ high-impedance, non-intrusive probing technology, thereby allowing fully unaltered data pass-through.

In addition to a full suite of advanced hardware and software features, the PETracer Gen2 Summit supports “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 PETracer Gen2 Summit maps the lanes back into their correct order and accurately displays the embedded bus traffic. Other new software features include enhanced error checking for automatic identification of additional error types, more compact CATC Trace files that allow for faster analysis of data, and the choice of simplified or advanced modes for setting up recording options. An optional Bit Tracer mode 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.

The PETracer Gen2 Summit supports both a USB and a 10/100 MBps Ethernet LAN port as standard features. By connecting over a LAN, engineers can operate the system remotely (for example, install the client software on their desktop systems to 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.

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