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Catalyst Is First to Introduce Power Management Emulation and Detection Support Features for PCI Express Protocol Analyzer/Exerciser Tools
New Enhancements Provide Developers the Ability to Test and Characterize Stringent Requirements for Power Management Performance and Compliance Behavior
San Jose, CA, June 2, 2005- Catalyst Enterprises, Inc., a leading manufacturer of advanced design verification and test tools for PCI Express™, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Serial ATA (SATA), PCI, PCI-X, USB 2.0, and other emerging technologies, today announced a major feature enhancement to its SPX Series of PCI Express protocol analyzers and exercisers. This new capability provides users with an ability to emulate, capture, and control the power management characteristics of PCI Express systems and devices.
“All PCI Express designs are expected to implement various measures of hardware and software support for power management, as defined by the specifications,” said Nader Saleh, president, Catalyst Enterprises, Inc. “The addition of power management features to the SPX Series is a key component of testing requirements throughout the PCI Express developer community. This new feature will be very helpful in characterizing PCI Express systems and devices in terms of their adherence to major portions of the specifications.”
New Capability Provides for Expanded Test and Analysis Coverage
These new features are supported on SPX analyzer and SPX exerciser models. The unique ability of the SPX exerciser includes user control of low power state entrance and exit characteristics, while operating as either an endpoint or root complex. The exerciser is capable of forcing its transmitter into an electrical idle state, based on latencies prescribed by the user, and can automatically exit this state to transmit required data packets, again with similar latency controls. On the SPX analyzer, these new capabilities provide developers the ability to fully detect, trigger, capture, and characterize data bus operating state transitions to and from low power modes, including the detection and display of an electrical idle event.
Providing a Total Solution
Catalyst’s SPX Series for PCI Express is a comprehensive hardware/software development solution designed for engineering professionals involved in PCI Express architecture design and verification. The SPX Series is designed to provide protocol analysis and characterization on up to 16 lanes of PCI Express traffic, including endpoint/root complex emulation. Catalyst also provides the popular SpekChek™ compliance test suite and various connectivity products and accessories. A more detailed description of these capabilities can be found on the Catalyst website at http://www.getcatalyst.com/pm.html or in PDF format here.
Availability
SPX Series analyzers and exercisers with power management capabilities are immediately available. These new capabilities will be on display at the PCI-SIG Developers Conference in San Jose, CA on June 6-7. Catalyst will be located at booth #19 in the exhibits area.
About Catalyst Enterprises, Inc.
Founded in 1992 in San Jose, CA, Catalyst Enterprises manufactures data bus analysis and emulation tools for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Serial ATA (SATA), PCI Express, USB 2.0, and other data communications protocols. Catalyst’s development tools incorporate a reconfigurable hardware core architecture, which can be updated in the field with software, keeping the tool current with the latest standards and updated feature sets. These flexible hardware tools are powered by protocol-specific software applications, which are made available to customers for the lifetime of the product. Catalyst products are used by companies in the telecommunications, semiconductor, software, consumer electronics, defense, and other industries. Catalyst can be found on the web at www.getcatalyst.com.
Catalyst Enterprises, Inc. ● 710 Lakeway Drive, Suite 135 ● Sunnyvale, CA 94085 ● (408) 365-3846
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