Teledyne Lecroy Summit Z2-16 User manual

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Summit Z2-16™
PCI Express Multi-Lane Exerciser
User Manual

Summit Z2-16 Exerciser User Manual
Teledyne LeCroy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 1. General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 Summit Z2-16 Exerciser Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 Summit Z2-16 Exerciser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 Other Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 2 Hardware Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1 System Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 Host Machine Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3 Summit Z2-16 Exerciser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.4 Summit Z2-16 Front Panel Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.5 Summit Z2-16 Rear Panel Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 3 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.1 Installing the PETracer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2 Setting Up the Summit Z2-16 Exerciser using an Ethernet Connection . . 15
Connecting to a Summit Z2-16 Exerciser in the Local Network . . . . . . 15
3.3 Setting Up the Summit Z2-16 Exerciser using a USB Connection . . . . . . 18
3.4 Connecting Summit Z2-16 to the DUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Device Emulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Host Emulation Test Fixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Final Steps: Power on the Exerciser and then DUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.5 Connecting Summit Z2-16 to a T2-16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 2. Exerciser Traffic Generation . . 25
Chapter 4 Traffic Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.1 Theory of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.1 Traffic Generation Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.2 Creating a Traffic Generation File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Exporting a CATC Trace to a Traffic Generation File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Saving a Script to a New File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Creating a New Empty Generation File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4.3 Editing Generation Files with the Script Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Script Editor Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Script Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Command Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Script Editor File Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Script Editor Error Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
View Options Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4.4 Generation Options Dialogs Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Opening the Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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4.5 Generation Options for Summit Z2-16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.6 Generating Traffic: Set Generation Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.7 Generating Traffic: Prepare Traffic Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4.8 Generating Traffic: Begin Traffic Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 5 Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.1 Macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Default Macros: Connect and Disconnect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.2 Adding New Script Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using the Generation Macros Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Adding Script Files to the GenScriptMacros Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
5.3 Modifying Script Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5.4 Changing the Order of Macro Icons on the Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5.5 Deleting User-Defined Script Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
5.6 Restoring the Default Appearance of the Connect and Disconnect Icons. 59
Chapter 6 Configuration Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.1 Configuration Space Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.2 Launching the Configuration Space Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Configuration Space Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
6.3 BARs Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
6.4 Configuration Read and Write . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Chapter 7 Address Spaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7.1 Memory/IO Space Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7.2 Memory Region for Host Emulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Chapter 8 Updates and Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8.1 Updating the Exerciser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8.2 License Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
8.3 License Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Appendix A Configuration Space Decoding . . . . . . . . . . 71
A.1 Mandatory Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
A.2 Mandatory Module Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
A.3 Configuration Register Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
A.4 Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
A.5 Helper File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Appendix B China Restriction of Hazardous Substances
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How to Contact Teledyne LeCroy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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Chapter 1: Overview
Designed for developers and validators, the Teledyne LeCroy Summit Z2-16™ is a
Gen1/Gen2 PCI Express advanced verification system.
By leveraging years of experience in protocol analysis tools for emerging markets,
Summit Z2-16 blends sophisticated functionality with practical features to speed the
development of PCI Express™ IP cores, semiconductors, bridges, switches, add-in
boards, and systems.
1.1 Summit Z2-16 Exerciser Hardware
Features and Benefits
Summit Z2-16 Exercisers have these features and benefits
Features Benefits
Bidirectional x1-x16,
2.5 GBps to 5.0 GBps
generation support
Accurate generation of PCI Express bus traffic
Script level traffic generation Programmability to test PCI Express components with
more precision and control
Manual Error injection Verify fault handling and identify error recovery
Host/End-Point Emulation Support Host emulation platform/end-point emulation
Interposer allows for design and stress testing.
Programmable Physical Layer Flexibility to program lane skews, link control bits, skip
intervals and link states for more robust verification
Programmable Data Link Layer Ability to modify flow control, ACK/NAK, and retry
behaviors
Flexible/programmable Transaction Layer User ability to define arbitrary sequence of
transactions, payload generation, and conditional
repeat of transactions provide users with maximum
flexibility
Point and Click Script Editor Complex scripts can be created quickly and easily
Read/modify/playback capability Allows automatic generation of Exerciser scripts
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Programmable ACK/NAK behavior ACK all TLP packets
NAK all TLP packets
Automatic ACK/NAK behavior
ACK/NAK delay timer
Programmable Flow control behavior Set Credit values
Disable Credit checking
Set Update FC intervals
Automatic CRC
calculation and Sequence number
assignment
DLLP CRC calculation
TLP LCRC calculation
Replay buffer Programmable Transaction timeout timer
Auto Recovery behavior after 4 Replays
Programmable
configuration space
Full 4 KB configuration space configurable by user
Accessible through Configuration Reads and Writes
over PCI Express
Endpoint memory emulation Up to 1 GB memory accessible through memory read
and write
Fast Transit module Special hardware-accelerated module to increase
link utilization

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1.2 Summit Z2-16 Exerciser
Teledyne LeCroy Summit Z2-16, a Gen2 PCI Express 16-lane advanced Exerciser
system, is a critical test and verification tool intended to assist engineers in improving the
reliability of their systems. It can emulate PCI Express root complexes or device
endpoints. You can test PCI Express IP cores, semiconductors, bridges, switches, and
systems.
The Summit Z2-16 is a stand-alone PCI Express Exerciser that can generate and
respond to all types of PCI Express transactions. The scripting language allows creation
of Transaction Layer Packets (TLPs), Data Link Layer Packets (DLLPs) and Ordered
Sets. ACK's and NAK's can be automatically generated under user control.
A Configuration Space can be easily created using the Configuration Space Editor.
The scripting language is powerful yet easy to use. One way to create test scripts is to
export traffic from a CATC Trace file captured with Teledyne LeCroy PETracer. You can
then modify the exported script to generate different test cases, insert errors, or create
loop tests. The “point and click” capability of the script editor simplifies modifying or
creating scripts.
1.3 Other Documents
For more information, refer to the following documents:
• Teledyne LeCroy Analyzers File-based Decoding Manual
• PETracer/Trainer Automation Manual
• PETracer VSE Manual
• PETracer Gen2 Multi Lead Probe User Manual
• PETrainer Scripting Language Reference Manual
•PETracer Online Help

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