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Keysight Protocol Exerciser for PCI Express Hardware Guide

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Summary of Contents for U4305A

Page 1: ...Keysight Protocol Exerciser for PCI Express Hardware Guide...

Page 2: ...EMENT WITH WARRANTY TERMS COVERING THE MATERIAL IN THIS DOCUMENT THAT CONFLICT WITH THESE TERMS THE WARRANTY TERMS IN THE SEPARATE AGREEMENT WILL CONTROL Technology Licenses The hardware and or softwa...

Page 3: ...potential shock hazard that could result in personal injury Fuses See the user s guide or operator s manual for information about line fuse replacement Some instruments contain an internal fuse which...

Page 4: ...Earth ground terminal Protective earth ground terminal Frame or chassis ground terminal Terminal is at earth potential Equipotentiality N Neutral conductor on permanently installed equipment L Line co...

Page 5: ...efer to accompanying documentation Caution risk of electric shock Do not apply around or remove from HAZARDOUS LIVE conductors Application around and removal from HAZARDOUS LIVE conductors is permitte...

Page 6: ...ance with the Safety requirements The C tick mark is a registered trademark of the Spectrum Management Agency of Australia This signifies compliance with the Australia EMC Framework regulations under...

Page 7: ...in the guide Keysight Technologies also reserves its right to not issue a new edition of the guide for every system release Manual Name Keysight Protocol Exerciser for PCI Express Hardware Guide The...

Page 8: ...8 Keysight Protocol Exerciser for PCI Express Hardware Guide...

Page 9: ...Guide 9 Contents 1 U4305A U4305B Exerciser Card U4305A U4305B Exerciser Card Introduction 12 Features 13 Components 14 Exerciser Card Status LEDs 16 U4305A U4305B Exerciser Card as an Endpoint 19 U43...

Page 10: ...10 Keysight Protocol Exerciser for PCI Express Hardware Guide Contents...

Page 11: ...14 U4305A U4305B Exerciser Card as an Endpoint 19 U4305A U4305B Exerciser Card as a Root Complex 20 This chapter provides information on the U4305A U4305B exerciser card used for testing PCIe devices...

Page 12: ...d validation testing for the DUT As an LTSSM Tester the Exerciser card helps you verify the DUT s LTSSM state transitions and timeout implementations As an Exerciser it exercises DUT with the configur...

Page 13: ...specifications It provides non IOV SRIOV and MRIOV capabilities based on the licensed options It supports NVMe root complex and endpoint emulation capabilities based on the licensed options You can ma...

Page 14: ...Express Hardware Guide Components This topic describes the hardware components of the U4305A U4305B exerciser card Figure 1 and Figure 2 display the U4305A U4305B exerciser card to indicate the variou...

Page 15: ...in the upper left corner of the board and the rest of the 7 LEDs are in the upper right corner of the board The module number to which U4305A U4305B is configured is also displayed in the upper left...

Page 16: ...r in pulse should be greater than 32 ns Trigger Out TTL levels series terminated with 50 Ohms Vout High Min no load termination 2 4V Vout Low Max no load termination 0 4V Vout High Min with 50 Ohms Ex...

Page 17: ...eysight Protocol Exerciser for PCI Express Hardware Guide 17 U4305A Exerciser Card 1 Figure 4 Exerciser card status LEDs The following table describes the status LEDs on board and on the front bracket...

Page 18: ...he upper right corner of the board DONE When this LED is on it indicates that FPGA has been programmed successfully This is displayed in the upper right corner of the board PE3 3 When this LED is on i...

Page 19: ...into the motherboard under test through the Edge connector of the card A controller system hosts the Protocol Exerciser software and hardware support services to control and manage the Exerciser card...

Page 20: ...the card In this case the Exerciser card communicates to the DUT through the bottom connectors A controller system hosts the Protocol Exerciser software and hardware support services to control and m...

Page 21: ...press Hardware Guide 21 Index E Edge Connector 15 H hardware components 14 P Power Supply Connector front bracket 16 S Status LED on front bracket 15 Status LEDs 15 T Trigger Connector 16 U U4305A U43...

Page 22: ...Index 22 Keysight Protocol Exerciser for PCI Express Hardware Guide...

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