Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that its Protocol
Test Card (PTC) 2.0 has been approved by the PCI-SIG(r) (PCI Special
Interest Group) for PCI Express(r) (PCIe(r)) 2.0 protocol testing. This
approval means designers can use Agilent’s PTC
2.0 to test and validate their designs with the confidence that the PCIe
specifications for link layer, transaction layer and BIOS are being met.
“We are pleased to see Agilent’s
continued investment in PCI Express compliance testing by building PTC
2.0,” said Al Yanes, PCI-SIG president. “Testing
tools will help expedite the industry adoption of PCIe 2.0 and ensure
that developers can quickly identify and fix areas of compliance
deficiency.”
“As the existing provider of gold standard PTC
1.0 for PCIe 1.0, Agilent is delighted to have been selected once again
for PCIe 2.0 compliance testing,” said
Siegfried Gross, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s
Digital Test Division. “We have always been a
strong supporter of the efforts of the PCI-SIG, to define, create and
promote the PCI Express technology into the marketplace. Agilent
believes having a tool to validate compliance is key to ensuring
interoperability and adoption of the technology. To support this goal,
we will continue to provide advanced tools and capabilities to support
the PCI-SIG and future PCI Express standards.”
The PTC 2.0 is a user-friendly concept: With a single mouse click,
engineers can run all tests specified by the PCI-SIG and view detailed
results through an intuitive HTML report. The PTC 2.0 was designed with
investment protection in mind. A simple software upgrade enables the
compliance-assured test package to run more than 180 additional
recommended tests, or turns the PTC 2.0 into a fully functional
exerciser and Link Training and Status State Machine (LTSSM) tester.
The compliance assured test package is a suite of 180 additional tests
comprised of 94 transaction-layer tests, 31 link-layer tests, 57
configuration-space tests and one electrical-layer test. The intuitive
HTML report displays failed tests in red, warnings in yellow and passed
tests in green.
“We are excited that Agilent is building on
the success of their Protocol Test Card for PCIe 1.0 by providing a PTC
card that supports the PCIe 2.0 technology specification,”
said Don Anderson, vice president, MindShare Inc. “We
have seen significant demand shift from our PCIe 1.0 class to our PCIe
2.0 technical class. Designs based on PCIe 2.0 are becoming a reality.
Agilent’s PTC, which uses the same hardware
as the PCIe exerciser, will enable R&D engineers to verify their designs
quickly. Agilent’s PTC 2.0 is MindShare’s
chosen tool for demonstrating PCIe protocol in our PCIe
public-enrollment seminars scheduled throughout the year.”
U.S. Pricing and Availability
The Agilent E2969B PTC II card for PCIe 2.0 is available now. Pricing
starts at $9,150. More product information is available at www.agilent.com/find/PTC2.
Images are available at www.agilent.com/find/PTC_images.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world’s
premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications,
electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company’s
19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had
net revenues of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2007. Information about Agilent
is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
PCI-SIG, PCI Express and PCIe are trademarks or registered trademarks of
PCI-SIG.
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