LeCroy Upgrades 6Gbs SAS/SATA Emulators

LeCroy
Corporation
announced an upgrade to the industry’s only 6Gb/s traffic-generation
emulators for SAS and SATA protocols. Designed to run on the popular LeCroy
STX-460 platform, the emulators are the industry’s first to enable developers
to generate valid and invalid traffic at data rates up to 6Gb/s. The new
enhancements add additional capability to support connection multiplexing for
both hosts and devices, as well as for the new SMP commands and emulating two
hosts or two drives simultaneously.

“One of the most significant and complex new additions to the SAS
specification is connection multiplexing,” said Matthew Hallberg,
storage protocol specialist for LeCroy’s Protocol Solutions Group.
“Emulation systems that can generate traffic supporting this new
capability are crucial to SAS product developers, enabling them to test
and debug this functionality in their products. The STX-460 platform
from LeCroy is the only test system capable of emulating connection
multiplexing from either the host or device side, enabling
storage-system designers to accelerate their product development cycle
ahead of industry-wide adoption.”
With
the new STX emulators, high-level commands can be easily defined and
sent to initiator or target devices through a series of convenient
pull-down menus. All traffic on the bus—including both traffic
generated by the STX and returned traffic from the device under test—is
captured and displayed in an intuitive trace format. Looping, iteration
and a wealth of conditional statements provide for precise control of
the emulator scripting routines.

LeCroy Corporation