Document Outline

• Contents
• Overview
  • 1.1 PETracer Analyzer Hardware and Software
    • 1.1.1 CATC Trace Software
    • 1.1.2 Summit T24 Analyzer
    • 1.1.3 Other Documents
• Hardware Description
  • 2.1 System Components
  • 2.2 Host Machine Requirements
  • 2.3 Summit T24 Front Panel Description
  • 2.4 Summit T24 Rear Panel Description
• Installation and Setup
  • 3.1 Installing the PETracer Software
  • 3.2 Setting Up the Summit T24 Analyzer using a USB Connection
  • 3.3 Networking an Analyzer
    • 3.3.1 Setup for IP LAN Use
  • 3.4 Analyzer Network
  • 3.5 Interposers and Probes
  • 3.6 Using Interposers
    • 3.6.1 Gen2 Passive Interposer
      • Summit T24 Components
      • Installing the Gen2 Passive Interposer
      • Power On Analyzer and then DUT
  • 3.7 Using Probes
    • 3.7.1 Example: Connecting the Summit T24 Analyzer to the Device Under Test Using a Gen2 MidBus Probe
      • Connections Overview for Gen2 MidBus Probe
      • Connection Procedure
    • 3.7.2 Example: Connecting the Summit T24 Analyzer to the Device Under Test Using a Gen2 Multi-lead Probe for x1 and x4
      • Components
      • Connections for Gen2 Multi-lead Probe
      • Connection Procedure
    • 3.7.3 Example: Connecting the Summit T24 Analyzer to the Device Under Test Using a Gen2 Multi-lead Probe for x4
      • Components
      • Connections Overview for Gen2 Multi-lead Probe
      • Connection Procedure
      • MicroD to CATC Sync Cable
• Software Overview
  • 4.1 The PETracer Software
  • 4.2 Application Layout
  • 4.3 Using the Toolbar
  • 4.4 Multi-Segment Toolbar
    • 4.4.1 Toolbar Hide Buttons
  • 4.5 Using the Menus
    • 4.5.1 File Menu
    • 4.5.2 Setup Menu
    • 4.5.3 Record Menu
    • 4.5.4 Report Menu
    • 4.5.5 Search Menu
    • 4.5.6 View Menu
    • 4.5.7 Tools Menu
    • 4.5.8 Window Menu
    • 4.5.9 Help Menu
  • 4.6 Dashboard View
    • Launching and Setting Recording Option from Dashboard View
  • 4.7 Tool Tips
  • 4.8 Keyboard Shortcuts
  • 4.9 Status Bar
    • 4.9.1 Recording Progress Bar
    • 4.9.2 Recording Status
    • 4.9.3 Recording Activity
    • 4.9.4 Search Direction Indicator
  • 4.10 Making a PCI Express Recording
    • 4.10.1 Stopping a Recording
    • 4.10.2 Saving a Recording
  • 4.11 Recording Multi-Segmented CATC Traces
    • 4.11.1 How to Create a Multisegment Recording
    • 4.11.2 What Gets Created
  • 4.12 PETracer Files
    • 4.12.1 CATC Trace Files
    • 4.12.2 Recording Options Files
    • 4.12.3 Display Options Files
  • 4.13 Saving CATC Trace Files
    • 4.13.1 Using the Save As Function
    • 4.13.2 Saving a Portion of a CATC Trace
  • 4.14 Exporting a CATC Trace File
  • 4.15 Printing Data Files
  • 4.16 Analyzer Chat Window
    • 4.16.1 CrossSync Control Panel
      • Launching the CrossSync Control Panel
• Recording Options
  • 5.1 Recording Overview
  • 5.2 General Tab
  • 5.3 Recording Options-General Tab
  • 5.4 Simple and Advanced Mode
  • 5.5 Trace Filename and Path
  • 5.6 Saving and Loading Previously Saved Recording Options
    • 5.6.1 Setting Default Recording Options
    • 5.6.2 Loading Recording Options
    • 5.6.3 Saving Recording Options
  • 5.7 Recording Type
    • 5.7.1 Snapshot
    • 5.7.2 Manual Trigger
    • 5.7.3 Event Trigger
  • 5.8 Buffer Size
  • 5.9 Upload Size
  • 5.10 Misc
  • 5.11 Recording Mode
    • 5.11.1 BitTracer Recording
  • 5.12 Trigger Position
  • 5.13 Save As MultiSegment Trace
    • 5.13.1 Viewing Multisegmented Files
  • 5.14 Link Settings
    • 5.14.1 Speed
    • 5.14.2 Link Width
    • 5.14.3 Upstream and Downstream
    • 5.14.4 Reference Clock
    • 5.14.5 Disable Descrambling
    • 5.14.6 Auto-Configure Lane Polarity
    • 5.14.7 Ignore Idle Errors
    • 5.14.8 Swizzling Config...
  • 5.15 Triggering
    • 5.15.1 Triggering On (Simple Mode)
    • 5.15.2 Triggering On (Advanced Mode)
  • 5.16 Recording Rules Overview
    • 5.16.1 Defining Recording Rules
  • 5.17 Resources
    • 5.17.1 Packet Match Resource
    • 5.17.2 Basic Resource
  • 5.18 Global State and Sequence States
    • 5.18.1 Global State
    • 5.18.2 Sequence State
  • 5.19 Navigating Recording Rules
    • 5.19.1 Toolbar
    • 5.19.2 Available Events Area
    • 5.19.3 Main Display Area
    • 5.19.4 Recording Rules Buttons
  • 5.20 Recording Rules Events
  • 5.21 Properties Dialog Boxes for Events
    • 5.21.1 Accessing the Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.2 Event Properties Dialog Box Features
    • 5.21.3 Link State Dialog
    • 5.21.4 Ordered Set Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.5 Error Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.6 DLLP Packet Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.7 TLP Header Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.8 TLP Prefix Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.9 AHCI Register Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.10 ATA Command Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.11 NVME Register Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.12 NVME Command Submission Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.13 NVME Command Completion Properties Dialog
    • 5.21.14 Actions Properties Dialog
  • 5.22 Counter
    • 5.22.1 How to Set a Counter
    • 5.22.2 How to Increment or Reset a Counter
    • 5.22.3 Changing the Value of the Counter
    • 5.22.4 Deleting a Counter
  • 5.23 Timer
    • 5.23.1 How to Set a Timer
    • 5.23.2 How to Start or Reset a Timer
    • 5.23.3 Changing the Value of the Timer
    • 5.23.4 Deleting a Timer
  • 5.24 Channel
  • 5.25 Filter Out
  • 5.26 Probe Settings
    • Setting Auto Calibration
    • 5.26.1 Save
    • 5.26.2 Load
• Reading CATC Traces
  • 6.1 Viewing PCI Express CATC Traces
  • 6.2 Expand and Collapse Data Fields
  • 6.3 Resizing Cells
  • 6.4 Pop-up Menus
  • 6.5 View Data Block
  • 6.6 Show Raw 10b Codes
  • 6.7 Show Header Fields
  • 6.8 Packet Cell Popup Menus
    • 6.8.1 Set Start Quick Timing Marker
    • 6.8.2 Set End Quick Timing Marker
    • 6.8.3 Delete All Quick Timing Marker
    • 6.8.4 Packet Header R-> Cell Popup Menu
    • 6.8.5 Packet Header G1 Cell Popup Menu
  • 6.9 Set Marker
  • 6.10 Edit or Clear Marker
  • 6.11 Compressed CATC Trace View
  • 6.12 Spreadsheet View
    • 6.12.1 Columns
      • Restore Factory Default Settings
    • 6.12.2 Rows
    • 6.12.3 Detail View and Spreadsheet View
  • 6.13 Decoding Traffic
    • 6.13.1 Packet
    • 6.13.2 Link
    • 6.13.3 Split
    • 6.13.4 NVM
    • 6.13.5 PQI
    • 6.13.6 AHCI
    • 6.13.7 ATA
• Searching CATC Traces
  • 7.1 CATC Trace Search Overview
  • 7.2 Go to Trigger
  • 7.3 Go to Packet
  • 7.4 Go to Packet
  • 7.5 Go to Time
  • 7.6 Go To Marker
    • 7.6.1 Markers
      • Markers Overview
      • Functionality of Markers
      • Set New Marker
    • 7.6.2 Attaching Markers
    • 7.6.3 Adding an Attachment
    • 7.6.4 Recording an Audio File
    • 7.6.5 Video Files Supported
    • 7.6.6 Attachment Types and Visualization
    • 7.6.7 Embedded Attachments to a Marker
    • 7.6.8 Viewing Attachments of a Marker
      • Text
      • Audio
      • Video
      • File Attachment
      • URL Link
      • YouTube Video
      • Images
      • Other Attachments
    • 7.6.9 Edit Marker
    • 7.6.10 All Markers Window
  • 7.7 CATC Walk Playlist
    • 7.7.1 Playlist Functionality
    • 7.7.2 Playback Window
      • Playlist Playback Controls
  • 7.8 Go To Menu
  • 7.9 Search Direction
  • 7.10 Find
    • 7.10.1 Event Groups
      • TS1 and TS2 Event Groups
  • 7.11 Search for the Next Packet Type
• Display Options
  • 8.1 Setting Display Options
  • 8.2 Specifying General Display Options
    • 8.2.1 Fonts
    • 8.2.2 Configuration Name
    • 8.2.3 Color, Format, and Hiding Options
    • 8.2.4 Setting Field Colors
    • 8.2.5 Changing Field Formats
    • 8.2.6 Hiding Fields
    • 8.2.7 Hiding Levels
  • 8.3 Load a Previously Saved Display Options File
  • 8.4 Saving Display Options
• BitTracer Recording
  • 9.1 Enabling BitTracer Recording
  • 9.2 Views Available for Captured Data
  • 9.3 De-skewing Data
  • 9.4 Data Display Formats
  • 9.5 Color-Coding of BitTracer Contents
  • 9.6 Report and Analysis Windows
  • 9.7 Timing Measurements Bar
    • 9.7.1 Markers Bar
  • 9.8 Errors Bar
  • 9.9 Symbols Bar
  • 9.10 Events Bar
  • 9.11 Packets Bar
  • 9.12 Decoding Bar
  • 9.13 Search
  • 9.14 Link Configuration
  • 9.15 Export of BitTracer Capture to CATC Trace Format
    • 9.15.1 Exports Involving Multiple Logical Links on One Physical Link
    • 9.15.2 Export To CSV Text
  • 9.16 Compressing and Expanding the Data View
  • 9.17 Opening and Saving BitTracer Captures
• Reports and Tools
  • 10.1 File Information
  • 10.2 Error Summary
    • 10.2.1 AHCI Error Summary
  • 10.3 Traffic Summary
    • 10.3.1 AHCI Traffic Summary
    • 10.3.2 Using the Traffic Summary Window to Search the CATC Trace
    • 10.3.3 Traffic Summary Buttons
  • 10.4 Bus Utilization
    • 10.4.1 Bus Utilization Pop-up Menu
    • 10.4.2 Bus Utilization Buttons
  • 10.5 Link Tracker
    • 10.5.1 Using the Link Tracker Window
    • 10.5.2 Zooming In and Out
    • 10.5.3 Collapsing Idle Time, Enabling Tool tips, and Resetting Column Widths
    • 10.5.4 Docking and Undocking the Window
    • 10.5.5 Setting Markers
    • 10.5.6 Calculating Time between DWORDs
    • 10.5.7 Hiding Traffic
    • 10.5.8 Link Tracker Buttons
  • 10.6 Data Flow Window
  • 10.7 Flow Control Tracking
  • 10.8 Using the CATC Trace Navigator
    • 10.8.1 Displaying the Navigator
    • 10.8.2 Navigator Toolbar
    • 10.8.3 Navigator Ranges
    • 10.8.4 To Determine Current Position
    • 10.8.5 To Reset Navigator Range
    • 10.8.6 Navigator Panes
    • 10.8.7 To Show/Hide Navigator Panes
    • 10.8.8 Navigator Slider
    • 10.8.9 CATC Trace Navigator Legend
    • 10.8.10 Using the Legend to Show/Hide Navigator Panes
    • 10.8.11 Using the Legend to Set the Priority of Information Display
  • 10.9 Detail View
  • 10.10 LTSSM Flow Graph
  • 10.11 Packet Header Bar
  • 10.12 Packet Data Window
  • 10.13 Configuration Space View
  • 10.14 Using Unit Metrics
  • 10.15 Metrics Defined for Link Transactions
    • 10.15.1 Metrics Defined for Split Transactions
  • 10.16 Show Metrics in the CATC Trace Display
    • 10.16.1 Collapsed Metrics Header Display
    • 10.16.2 Metrics Tool Tip Display
    • 10.16.3 Expanded Metrics Header Display
  • 10.17 Show Metrics in the Traffic Summary Window
    • 10.17.1 Reports at Split Transaction Level
    • 10.17.2 Reports at the Link Transaction Level
  • 10.18 Show Metrics in the Bus Utilization Window
    • 10.18.1 Unit-Based Averaging
    • 10.18.2 Bus Utilization Window Features
    • 10.18.3 Split Transaction Level Graphs
    • 10.18.4 Link Transaction Level Graphs
  • 10.19 Memory I/O Space Editor
  • 10.20 TC to VC Mapping
  • 10.21 Timing and Bus Usage Calculations
    • 10.21.1 Bus Utilization
    • 10.21.2 Split Transaction Performance
    • 10.21.3 Memory Writes Performance
  • 10.22 PCIe SSD Base Address Mapping
    • 10.22.1 NVMe PCIe SSD Device Configuration
    • 10.22.2 PQI PCIe SSD Device Configuration
  • 10.23 Running Verification Scripts
• Updates and Licensing
  • 11.1 Updating the Analyzer
  • 11.2 License Keys
  • 11.3 License Information
• Configuration Space Decoding
  • 12.1 Mandatory Definitions
  • 12.2 Mandatory Module Functions
    • 12.2.1 DecodeRegister()
    • 12.2.2 GetSize()
  • 12.3 Configuration Register Types
  • 12.4 Primitives
    • 12.4.1 GetRegisterField()
    • 12.4.2 AddField()
    • 12.4.3 AddSubField()
  • 12.5 Helper File
• Example of XML File Format for SSD Decodes
• China Restriction of Hazardous Substances Table
• How to Contact Teledyne LeCroy
• Index