The PCI-SIG 6.0 specification has introduced PAM4 signaling to achieve 64 GT/s while maintaining NRZ signaling for backwards compatibility. The multilevel (PAM4) approach brings new signal integrity challenges to adopters and validation teams. Tektronix PCI Express 6.0 software minimizes this new complexity to automate testing and ensures measurement accuracy and repeatability.
The Tektronix Option PCE6 (Gen6), Option PCE5 (Gen5), Option PCE4 (Gen4), and PCE3 (Gen 1/2/3) applications provide the most comprehensive solution for PCI Express Transmitter and Reference Clock compliance testing as well as debug and validation of PCI Express devices against the PCI-SIG® specifications.
Key Features:
- Support for PCI Express Gen6 Base (silicon) transmitter testing
- PCI Express Gen 1/2/3/4/5 validation and compliance of Transmitters at the BASE (silicon) and CEM (system) levels for the Tektronix DPO/MSO70000 Series oscilloscopes
- Reference Clock jitter and signal integrity measurements for Gen1 to Gen5 using SkyWorks Clock Jitter Tool and DPOJET
- 64 GT/s (PAM4) signal integrity measurements using DPOJET/ PAMJET
- PCIe Gen6 Tx Equalization Preset test using AC Fit Method
- Automation fully configures the oscilloscope including the vertical and horizonal scales for accurate and specification compliant measurements
- Automated acquisition and waveform management to simplify testing across supported data rates, Tx compliance patterns, and lane widths
- Automated DUT control to step through data rates and compliance patterns
- RF switch automation of PCIe3 test solution, supporting up to x16 lanes
- Support for NVMe and CXL physical layer testing
- De-embed the impact of a break-out channel, test fixtures, and cables to achieve measurements at the test point of interest (requires Option SDLA Serial Data Link Analysis)
- Test selection: Select the specification against which to perform the analysis, and select individual tests or groups of tests to perform targeted compliance analysis for failing tests
- SigTest integration: Uses SigTest EXE (using command line interface) to perform the analysis of acquired waveforms, providing the ability to test a system using the PCI-SIG®-recommended analysis tool
DPOFL-PAMPCIE6 is the base license for PAM4 signal levels.
