IBTracer™ 4X Infiniband Protocol analyzer

The LeCroy IBTracer 4X is an InfiniBand Protocol analyzer that advances validation and compliance testing for next generation InfiniBand silicon, switches and software. Supporting 4 wide 2.5Gb/s dual-simplex connections, IBTracer 4X captures and displays InfiniBand traffic using the de facto standard LeCroy Trace™ graphical interface. The intuitive use of collapsible, color-coded packets to represent MADs, payloads and packets, provides IBTracer 4X with a level of ease of use and understanding that is unsurpassed in the industry.

Key Features

• CATC Trace display - Faster interpretation and debug of InfiniBand silicon, components, and networks
• Intelligent triggering - Isolate important traffic, specific errors or data patterns
• Hardware filtering - Faster analysis by removing non essential fields from the trace
• Statistics and Traffic Summary - Quickly identify and track error rates, abnormal bus or timing conditions
• Collapsible / expandable headers - Increased drill-down detail for MADs, errors, payloads or individual packets
• Records and Displays lane-to-lane Skew - Faster analysis of multi-lane links
• Lane-Reversal Compatible - Trigger, record, and display IB traffic logically regardless of the physical configuration of the lanes
• IB Specification 1.1 Option - View new mad types with purchase of Spec 1.1 software upgrade. More
• Script Verification Engine - Create "custom" scripts that can automate analysis and debug tasks
• Display skip ordered-sets - Improved troubleshooting shows actual skip ordered sets and flags violations
• USB 2.0 high-speed interface - Access recorded data up to 40x faster than USB 1.1
• 2GB recording capacity - Capture long time windows for analysis and problem solving
• ToolTips - Context sensitive descriptors improve understanding of the InfiniBand specification

IBTracer™ Infiniband Protocol analyzer

The LeCroy IBTracer system provides fast, efficient and accurate debug, test and verification of Infiniband semiconductors, devices, systems and software. IBTracer taps into standard copper 1x Infiniband links to record Infiniband traffic on the link. You use software running on a PC to control the IBTracer hardware and upload the trace it records and, most importantly, to analyse how your Infiniband components work together, diagnose problems, and ensure interoperability and standards compliance. IBTracer offers many innovative features to dramatically reduce time-to- market for your Infiniband solutions.

Key Features

• Upgradeable firmware and recording engine
• Software operates stand-alone on any Microsoft Windows-based computer as a "Trace Viewer"
• Link and data packets are displayed and fully decoded
• Optional 8b/10b encoding is reference for every packet
• Training sequences are displayed
• Transport level functions are fully decoded with a graphical illustration of the comprised packets and messages
• Errors at the physical, link and transport levels are highlighted in red
• On-line and context sensitive help