- Supports Serial RapidIO Gen2 or Gen1
- Descrambling & scrambling supported
- Tight integration and easy setup with award winning Tektronix analyzers
- x4, x2, and x1 serial widths (modes) supported
- 100% Capture
- All data rates supported from 6.25- to 1.25-Gbps
- Analyze up to two full duplex links
- Analysis from PCS to full-duplex link exchanges (8b/10b to upper layer protocol ULP)
- Real time analysis, filtering, and triggering
- Stimulus transmitter
- Pattern or error injection
This product enables passive monitoring, debugging, and target system analysis of all speeds of Serial RapidIO Gen2 and Gen1 from the physical coding-sublayer (PCS), through serial protocol, to full-duplex link protocol exchanges. Stimulus transmitters allow for injection of SRIO packets, control symbols, and 8b/10b characters.
Capture / View / Expand
Tight integration with Tektronix equipment allows for simple setup and fast capture to quickly pinpoint and fix elusive problems. This integration also provides the widest possible expansion with pinpoint correlation on up to 48 independent buses simultaneously. Protect your investment with the industry’s best and broadest test equipment for processor and bus support including FPGA verification, MIPI, DDR2, DDR3, and PCI Express.
Automatic Descrambling
Advanced & intuitive user experience
Free offline software to share data with the whole team
PCS Analysis
Trigger / capture / filter / view standard and custom packets
Multi-level triggering across all channels
Real-time filtering
Predefined triggers for standard control symbols and packets
Assistance in building custom control symbol or packet triggers
Real time statistics
Automatic decoding and display of lower and upper layer protocol
Mark, search, and save acquired data
8b/10b, hex, and full decoding available in the same or separate displays
TPI.NET API Library allows full control of the Tektronix test equipment using Microsoft’s Visual Studio development environment
Transmitter Traffic Generator
This product supports the real time monitoring and triggering of full-duplex links for the following conditions
- x4, x2, or x1 lane widths supported
- Data rates of 6.25-, 5.00-, 3.125-, 2.50-, and 1.25-Gbps
- Transmitter features supported64k-Symbols of stimulus memory
- Transmits on each of the enabled lanes
- Transmitter generates the proper idle sequence (IDLE1 or IDLE2)
- Scrambling of stimulus data
- Injects lane stimulus at proper time between idle sequences
- Transmitter can also loop indefinitely on a pre-defined pattern
- Transmits 10b symbols and maintains running disparity to specification
Product Details
Acquisition of Serial RapidIO x4/x2/x1, full-duplex mode links is available for all speeds of Serial RapidIO up to 6.25-Gbps. The Serial RapidIO data is automatically descrambled, decoded and aligned, for easy debug and analysis. Real-time error checking capabilities allow the user to quickly root-cause system level failures.
Real time filtering can be used to filter out IDLE sequences and other types of data to more efficiently capture and store the packet and control symbol data. This allows the user to capture an event of interest as well as the conditions that resulted in the occurrence of that event on the Serial RapidIO bus.
This product also supports transmission of stimulus data, including SRIO packets, control symbols and 8b/10b characters in x4/x2/x1 mode. These transmitters allow testing of Serial RapidIO receivers on a user system for different link conditions and error recovery logic. The transmitters can also be used as a substitute for the Serial RapidIO transmitter on the user system to quickly recreate infrequent events and test the system response. Stimulus data can be injected into a continuous IDLE sequence or the stimulus can loop on a predefined data pattern. 64k-Symbols of stimulus memory is available.
Protocol Analysis Features
- Embedded clock recovery
- x4, x2, or x1 lane widths supported
- Data rates of 6.25-, 5.00-, 3.125-, 2.50-, and 1.25Gbps
- Physical Coding Sub Layer features supported
- 8b/10b decoding
- Flexible synchronization state machine
- Flexible alignment state machine
- Marking of invalid code groups
- Automatic descrambling of packet and control symbol data as required
- All packets and packet fields from LP-Serial physical layer, PCS, and PMA layers available for analysis
- Long and short control symbol formats supported
- Real-time CRC checking for packets and long/short control symbols (CRC-16, CRC-13, & CRC-5)
- Visibility and storage of the acquired and analyzed data is provided through a Tektronix logic analyzer
Real Time Analysis Features
This product supports the real time monitoring and triggering of full-duplex links for the following conditions
- Packets
- Control Symbols
- Idle Sequences
- CRC Errors
- Disparity Errors
- Lanes Locked to Data
- Lanes Synchonized
- Lanes Aligned
- Invalid Character in Symbol or Packet
- Packet Header
- /SC/ or /PD/ Control Symbols
- Start-Of-Packet, Packet-Cancel, & End-Of-Packet Controls
Visibility and storage of the acquired and analyzed data is provided through the Tektronix logic analyzer. The link status flags, CRC error flags, 8b/10b symbols, decoded control symbols, and decoded packets can be viewed. All packet types and all packet fields (from the LP-Serial physical layer, PCS, and PMA layers) are available for analysis.
Performance You Can See™ at 6.25-Gbps
Product Base Configurations
Multi-bus configurations are available for two or more full-duplex acquisition. Please contact us for more information.The following single bus (full-duplex) configurations are:
| Nomenclature | Data Rates(Gbps) | Modes Supported | Links Supported | Injection Transmitters | Descrambling/ Scrambling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEX-SRIO2-1 | 3.125, 2.50, 1.25 | 4x, 2x, 1x | 1 – Full Duplex | 0 | No |
| NEX-SRIO2-1-T | 3.125, 2.50, 1.25 | 4x, 2x, 1x | 1 – Full Duplex | 1 | No |
| NEX-SRIO2 | 6.25, 5.00, 3.125, 2.50, 1.25 | 4x, 2x, 1x | 1 – Full Duplex | 0 | Yes |
| NEX-SRIO2-T | 6.25, 5.00, 3.125, 2.50, 1.25 | 4x, 2x, 1x | 1 – Full Duplex | 1 | Yes |
Optional Future Add-On Nomenclatures
| Upgrade Nomenclature | Prerequisite | Data Rates(Gbps) | Links Supported | Injection Transmitters | Descrambling/ Scrambling |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEX-SRIO2-U2 | NEX-SRIO2-1(-T) | 6.25, 5.00, 3.125, 2.50,1.25 | 1 – Full Duplex | Depdant on ‘T’ option in Prereq. | Yes | Upgrade to Max of 6.25 Gbps |
| NEX-SRIO2-U1T | NEX-SRIO2-1 | 3.125, 2.50, 1.25 | 1 – Full Duplex | 1 | No | Add transmitter to 3.125 Gbps |
| NEX-SRIO2-U2T | NEX-SRIO2 | 6.25, 5.00, 3.125, 2.50, 1.25 | 1 – Full Duplex | 1 | Yes | Add transmitter to 6.125 Gbps |
Tektronix Recommended Equipment
| Nomenclature | Recommended Tektronix Equipment(Full Duplex) | Recommended Tektronix Equipment(1/2 duplex) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEX-SRIO2-1(-T) | 1-TLA6204 Opt.45 | 1 – TLA6202 Opt. 45 | No Upgrade paths for Tektronix equipment. Recommend NEX-SRIO2(-T)(see below) equipment if future upgrade-ability is desired. |
| NEX-SRIO2(-T) | 1- TLA7000 & 1- TLA7BB4 | 1- TLA7000 & 1- TLA7BB2 | Future upgrade from 1/2-duplex to full-duplex would require a second TLA7BB2 module. |