Advantest MPT3000 Holistic Test Solution for Advanced PCIe Gen 4 SSDs

Advantest Corporation introduced an integrated test solution for developing, debugging and mass producing PCIe Gen 4 SSDs on the MPT3000 platform, the same tester used by manufacturers of PCIe Gen 3, SATA and SAS SSDs.

SSD test system MPT3000ENV

This all-inclusive test solution enables SSD manufacturers to accelerate their newest products’ time to market.

The MPT3000 platform can cover all test insertions for PCIe Gen 4 devices – from engineering with the MPT3000ES to reliability demonstration testing (RDT) with the MPT3000ENV to production testing with the MPT3000HVM – without waiting for third-party PCIe Gen 4 SSD applications to be commercially available. It streamlines the transition to the next generation of devices by offering users a test flow that spans design to manufacturing and uses the same tester architecture and software as the company’s PCIe Gen 3 solution. This holistic solution gives SSD manufacturers a fast, low risk path to market.

“To address the variety of SSD protocols and form factors, we offer our modular MPT3000 platform, which we have now enhanced to validate and test the newest generation of PCIe memories,” said Colin Ritchie, VP, system-level test, Advantest. “This highly flexible system’s tester-per-DUT architecture and hardware-acceleration make it a single-system solution for virtually all engineering, volume production and BIST (built-in self-test) applications.“

MPT3000 PCIe Gen 4 products are available and shipments to customers have begun.