- Teledyne LeCroy is pleased to announce general market availability of Voyager M480x Protocol Analyzer, the first protocol analysis system for testing next-generation USB4® 80Gbps interfaces.
- This protocol analyzer supports PAM3, Tunneled DisplayPort 2.1, and USB3 Gen T.
- This solution is designed to address the entire development lifecycle including functional verification, qualification, and compliance testing.
The updated USB4® version 2.0 specification doubles the data transfer rate of today’s USB4 to enable higher throughput displays, storage, and USB-based hubs and docks. Aligned with the DisplayPort 2.1 standard, the USB4 version 2.0 specification supports tunneling of ultra-high bit rate (UHBR) video for higher resolution monitors. It also features USB3 Gen T support which, among other things, enables USB 3.2 applications to take advantage of USB4 throughput. These additions to the USB4 technology introduce a new level of complexity related to signal integrity, increased channel loss, new error correction mechanisms and backwards compatibility for design and test engineers that need to validate their products.
“The availability of protocol and compliance test equipment is essential to driving industry adoption, advancing USB innovation, and ensuring USB products continue to deliver the high performance and reliability users expect. USB-IF values Teledyne LeCroy’s continued contributions to the USB ecosystem and its commitment to advancing USB technology », said USB-IF President and COO Jeff Ravencraft.
About the Voyager M480x Protocol Analyzer
The Voyager M480x Protocol Analysis system leverages Teledyne LeCroy’s T.A.P.6™ passive probe technology allowing accurate capture of the new PAM3 based signaling which is the foundation of the USB4 version 2.0 specification.
The Voyager M480x provides an extensible architecture to allow the addition of traffic generation and compliance test capabilities for USB4 80Gbps in the future. Fully backward compatible with legacy Gen 3, Gen 2 and Gen 1 USB links, the Voyager M480x can seamlessly address the past, present, and future of USB protocol testing.
The Voyager M480x works with industry standard USB Protocol Suite software that features a hierarchical display, real-time statistics, protocol traffic summaries, detailed error reports, powerful scripting, and the ability to create user-defined test reports, which allow developers to troubleshoot intricate problems and finish their projects on time. While offering support for prior generations of USB, the software now includes full decoding and analysis of both tunneled PCI Express version 4.0 and DisplayPort 2.1, as well as USB Gen T protocol decoding.
