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Agilent E2960B Series
Hardware and Probing Guide
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Before Applying
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Ground the
Instrument
Do Not Operate in
an Explosive
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Contents
Safety Summary 3
1 N5306A I/O Module
2 N5322A ExtendedInterface Module
3 N5309A Exerciser Card and Extension Card
N5309A Exerciser Card 16
N5309-66417 ExerciserExtension Card 20
4 N5323A Jammer Card
5 N5315 Solid Slot Interposer Card
6 N5316A Backplane Board for PCIe
7 Soft Touch Midbus Probes
Midbus2.0(FullSize)Probes 40
Overview and Configuration Support 41
Installation Instructions 41
Characteristics 42
Mechanical Design Considerations for Midbus 2.0 Probes 43
Electrical Design Considerations for the Midbus 2.0 Probes 50
N5328A Half Size Midbus Probe 62
SettingUp the Probe 64
FootprintPinoutoftheProbe
64
Mechanical Dimensions 65
Electrical Design Considerations for Midbus Probes 69
Midbus PlacementWithin SystemTopology 69
Load Model 71
Reference Clock Probe 72
Mechanical Design Considerations for the Reference Clock Probe 72
Electrical Design Considerations for the Reference Clock Probe 74
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8 N4241F Flying Lead Probe
Resistor Dimensions 78
Lane Mapping 80
Important Points About Using N4241F 81
9 N4241Z ZIF Flying Lead Probe
N5426A ZIF Tip 86
N5426A ZIF Tip Dimensions 87
N5451ALongWired ZIF Tip 88
N5451A Long Wired ZIF Tip Dimensions 89
Trimming Log Wired ZIF Tip Resistor Leads 89
Soldering Resistors to Long Wired ZIF Tips 91
BreakingOff LongWiredZIF TipsfromPackagingStrip 94
ZIFFlyingLeadConnectiontoDUT 95
ZIF Tip Connection to Flying Lead 95
Soldering the ZIF Tip or Long Wired ZIF Tip into a DUT 96
Lane Mapping 102
Important Points About Using N4241Z 103
Index
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N5306A I/O Module
This chapter provides information on the N5306A I/O module used for
PCIe.
Trigger In/Out
LED Display Analyzer Probe
Lane Status
Inter-Module (x16)
Ref Clk Output
10MH z Output
Self-Test Port
Figure1 N5306A I/O Module
As shown in Figure 1, the N5306A I/O module has the following
components:
• LED Display— This component is used to display the diagnostic
information when fatal faults are discovered, and to indicate progress
during the bootstrap. If everything is working properly, then this
component displays the module number, such as 103.
• 10 MHz Output— This component is a reference clock, which is used
for generating timestamps in Protocol Analyzer. This component
delievers 10 MHz output.
• Analyzer Probe— This component is used to connect the midbus probe
module connector with N5306A and N5307A (slot interposer card).
For complete information on midbus probe, refer to Agilent Soft Touch
Midbus Probe, User's Guide.
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N5306A I/O Module
For information on plugging midbus probe module connector with
N5306A Analyzer Probe, refer to Agilent System Protocol Tester,
Installation Guide.
• Self-Test Port— This component is a loopback board, and is used to
connect the midbus probe tip with N5306A. The one side of this
loopback board has a retainer for the probe, and the other side has the
connector for the self-test port. To verify if N5306A I/O module and
midbus probe are working properly, plug in this loopback board into the
self-test port and then watch the lane status.
• Lane Status— This component has 18 LED bullets that displays the
status of the lane by using different colored bullets. Two bullets,
labelled A and B, indicate global status information. Different colors
used to indicate global status information are:
• Grey — This colored bullet means system is not configured.
• Red — This colored bullet means the speed is not detected or the
system is not configured.
• Yellow — This colored bullet represents speed of 2.5 Gb/s
• Green — This colored bullet represents speed of 5 Gb/s.
Other 16 LED bullets, labelled 0 to 15, indicate the status of each lane.
These bullets are:
• Red — This colored bullets means that there are no signals or the
lane is electrically idle.
• Orange — This colored bullet marks the presence of invalid signals
on the lane.
• Green — This colored bullet means that the data on the lane is
deskewed.
• Blinking Green — This colored bullet means that the data on the
lane is skewed. It corresponds to yellow in the Port Overview pane
in the Protocol Analyzer GUI.
• Grey — This colored bullet means that the lane is not configured. For
example, if you are using x4 link width, then first four bullets of the
lane would be green and rest of the bullets would be grey colored
bullets.
• Inter- Module (x16) — This component is used to share information with
another N5306A I/O module in the same chassis. The features of this
component are not yet supported by the System Protocol Tester
platform.
• Ref Clk Output— This components is a reference clock, which N5306A
use to process the data internally. This components delivers 100 MHz
output.
• Trigger In/Out— This component is used to listen to external trigger in
from a different device or send external trigger out to another device.
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N5306A I/O Module 1
The following figure shows meaning of the pins of the Trigger In/Out
component.
Figure2 Trigger In/Out Pins
The following are some important points about the Trigger In/Out
component:
• The outputs circuitry is designed to work into open in order to fit to
the LA input that is typically in the K-ohms range.
• Maximum trigger input voltage should not exceed 3.3 V.
• Trigger Out and 10 MHz Out have nominal output level of 2.0 V after
20 ns minimum pulse width.
• Minimum Trigger In duration is ~20 ns.
Use trigger cable to send or receive external trigger in and out events.
Do not directly touch any component on the I/O module. It may be hot.
Componentson the I/O module are sensitivetothe staticelectricity.Therefore, take
necessary anti-static precautions, such as wear a grounded wrist strap, to minimize
the possibility of electrostatic damage.
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N5322A Extended Interface Module
This chapter provides information on the N5322A extended interface
module used for PCIe.
The N5322A extended interface module is used with the N5306A module
to capture the traffic of DUTs that use PCIe power management (L0s, L1,
L2/L3).
The following figure shows the N5322A extended interface module.
Ref Clk Input
To N5306A
Figure3 N5322A Extended Interface Module
As shown in the above figure, the N5322A module has the following
components:
• Ref Clk Input— This component is used as an alternate 100 MHz
reference clock input.
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N5322A ExtendedInterface Module
• Analyzer Probe— This component is used to connect the N5322A
module with the following probe types:
• N4241A Straight
• N4242A Swizzled
• N4243A Split Cable
• N5315A Solid Slot Interposer
• N5317A PCIe Gen1 Probe Connection Cable
• N4241F Flying Leads
• To N5306A— This component is used to connect N5322A with N5306A
using the Extended Interface Module interconnect cable.
Thefollowing figure shows how you can use N5322A and N5306A
modules, and a probe type together.
N5306A module
Figure4 N5322A paired with N5306A
N5322AandN5306Amodulesshouldbeusedasapair.Thatis:
• Use 1 N5306A and 1 N5322A for a x8 setup.
• Use 2 N5306A and 2 N5322A for a x16 setup.
N5322A Module
N4241A Straight
NOTE
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• Lane Status— This component has 18 LEDs that display the status of
the lane by using different colors. Two LEDs, labelled A and B, indicate
global status information. Different colors used to indicate global status
information are:
• Green — This colored LED means that N5322A and N5306A modules
are connected, the Port Overview pane in Protocol Analyzer is
showing Connected, and also the check box for N5322A in the
Hardware Setup dialog box is selected.
• Yellow — This colored LED means that N5322A and N5306A modules
are connected, the Port Overview pane in Protocol Analyzer is also
showing Connected, but the check box for N5322A in the Hardware
Setup dialog box is not selected.
• Red — This colored LED means that N5322A is not connected with
N5306A.
Other 16 LEDs, labelled 0 to 15, indicate the status of each lane. These
LEDs are:
• Green — This colored LED means that the lane is not in electrical
idle state.
• Grey — This colored LED means that the lane is not configured. For
example, if you are using x4 link width, then first four bullets of the
lane would be green and rest of the bullets would be grey colored
bullets.
• Red — This colored LED means there are no signals or the lane is
electrically idle.
Do not directly touch any component on the N5322A module. It may be hot.
Components on the N5322A module are sensitive to the static electricity. Therefore,
take necessary anti-static precautions, such as wear a grounded wrist strap, to
minimize the possibility of electrostatic damage.
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N5309A Exerciser Card and Extension
Card
N5309AExerciser Card 16
N5309-66417 Exerciser Extension Card 20
This chapter provides information on the N5309A exerciser card and the
N5309-66417 exerciser extension card used for PCIe.
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N5309A Exerciser Card
The following figure displays the N5309A exerciser card.
Edge Connector
Figure5 N5309A Exerciser Card
Components of the N5309A exerciser card are described below:
• Ref Clk Input— This component can be used as an alternative 100 MHz
reference clock input.
• LED Display — This component displays the module number, such as
module number 10003, to which N5309A is configured. The module
number displayed here scrolls horizontally from right to left.
• Status LEDs (on board)— This component has the following LEDs to
display the status information.
LED Display
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Figure6 N5309A Exerciser card -Status LEDs
• First 16 LEDs displays the status of the link.
• One LED, separately highlighted on the right, shows the power status
of the board.
• Last three LEDs shows the power status of DUT.
• Edge Connector— This component is used to connect N5308A with a
PCIe Connector on the backplane board, or with a system.
• Trigger Connector— This component is a six-pin header, and is used to
connect the trigger cable (N5306-61604) to enable triggering between
Protocol Exerciser and Protocol Analyzer. In this scenario, the other
end of the trigger cable is plugged into the trigger connector of the
Protocol Analyzer module.
You can also use this connector for cross-triggering with other
instruments, such as Logic Analyzer.
The following figure shows the meaning of the pins in the Trigger
Connector component:
Figure7 Trigger Connector Pins
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N5309A Exerciser Card and Extension Card
• Power Supply Connector — This component is used to connect N5309A
with the external power supply.
Use the power supply delivered with N5309A only.
• Status LED (on front bracket)— This LED represents the following
different states:
• No light state means there is no link up.
• Green light means there is a link up at the Gen2 speed.
• Blinking green light means there is a link up at the Gen1 speed.
• USB Connector— This component is used to connect N5309A with the
controller PC using the USB cable.
The following figure shows the Trigger Connector, Power Supply
Connector, Link Status LED, and USB Connector components.
Trigger
Connector
Power Supply
Connector
Status LED (on
front bracket)
USB Connector
Figure8 N5309A Exerciser Card
TheN5309AexercisercardalsohastheExtensionCardConnectorcomponentatitstop,
which is used to connect the Exerciser Extension Card with N5309A. For more information
on this component and exerciser extension card, refer to "N5309-66417 Exerciser Extension
Card" on page 20.
For more information on the N5309A exerciser card, refer to:
• Agilent Protocol Exerciser, User's Guide
NOTE
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N5309A Exerciser Card and Extension Card
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Do not directly touch any component on the N5309A exerciser card. It may be hot.
ComponentsontheN5309Aexercisercardaresensitivetothestaticelectricity.
Therefore,take necessaryanti-staticprecautions,suchas wear a grounded wrist
strap, to minimize the possibility of electrostatic damage.
WARNING
CAUTION
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N5309A Exerciser Card and Extension Card
N5309-66417 Exerciser Extension Card
This chapter provides information on the N5309- 66417 exerciser extension
card used with the N5309A exerciser card for PCIe.
The following figure displays the N5309-66417 exerciser extension card.
Add-in card Connector
ref Clk Input Power Connector
N5309A connector
retention Module
Screw locks
Figure9 N5309-66417 ExerciserExtension Card
Components of the N5309- 66417 exerciser extension card are described
below:
• Ref Clk Input— This component can be used as an alternative 100 MHz
reference clock input.
• Add-in Card Connector— This component is used to connect any
add-in PCIe card at the top of N5309-66417.
• Retention Module— This component is used to connect the midbus
probe, which isthen used for capturing traffic between the N5309A
exerciser card andthe add-in card.
• Power Connector— This component is used to provide power supply to
an add-in card, which is hooked on the N5309-66417 card.
• N5309A Connector — This component is used to connect the
N5309-66417 card with the N5309A exerciser card.
To connect the two cards:
a Insert the N5309A Connector component into the Extension Card
Connector component of the N5309A card.
b Tighten the screw locks of the N5309-66417 card to tightly align it
with the N5309A card.
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