FMS: Advantest MPT3000 SSD Test Systems Compatible With PCIe Gen 5 and Compute Express Link Interconnect Standard

Advantest Corporation announced that its MPT3000 SSD test systems is the first with the ability to test PCIe Gen 5 devices, including those utilizing the Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect standard.

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To help drive product introduction, qualification and volume production demands associated with PCIe Gen 5 NVMe and CXL devices, several memory device makers have purchased multiple MPT3000 products, including MPT3000ES engineering systems, MPT3000HVM high-volume manufacturing testers, and device interface boards.

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PCIe Gen 5 enables high-speed data transmission, with transfer speeds as high as 32GT/s and up to 128GB/s bandwidth – essential for data centers as well as AI and 5G applications. CXL is an open standard memory interconnect that builds on the physical and electrical interfaces of PCI Gen 5 to provide performance connections across memory types. By eliminating proprietary memory interconnects, CXL allows different processors to share memory pools, optimizing speed, latency and shared resource coherency and enabling creation of new storage architectures that will benefit servers, AI neural networks, and deep/ML.

Added test flexibility supporting new product development increases SSD manufacturers’ gross margins, while earlier product introduction helps grow market share. The company designed its MPT3000 systems to meet testing needs for both enterprise and client SSDs, helping shorten customers’ time-to-market. In addition to CXL test, MPT3000 capabilities include testing up to 32Gb, increased sideband and high-speed support, and improved temperature management for high-wattage drives.

“We are committed to driving memory and storage test innovation by developing the first systems and boards that will enable testing for both PCIe Gen 5 CXL and NVMe SSDs,” said Indira Joshi, VP, SSD test division, Advantest America. “By expanding our proven MPT3000 system’s capabilities to address PCIe Gen 5 CXL, we are well positioned also to expand our relationships with important customers in the memory market.”

Advantest is a contributing member of the CXL Consortium.

The company will showcase its complement of SSD and memory test offerings at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA, August 2-4, 2022.