Teledyne LeCroy Sierra M6-4 SAS_SATA Protocol Analyzer User Manual - Manual (Page 19)

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Chapter 1
Introduction
This manual describes installation and operation of the Teledyne LeCroy Sierra M6‐4™
Protocol Analyzer and includes examples of typical applications.
Figure 1.1: Teledyne LeCroy Sierra M6-4 Protocol Analyzer
1.1 Analyzer Overview
The Sierra M6‐4 SAS/SATA Protocol Analyzer is a serial bus analyzer, supports host and
device emulation, and provides error injection functionality. The SAS analyzer software
performs serial bus analysis for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) data transfers, as well as
Serial ATA (SATA) data transfers through STP data transfers. The SATA analyzer software
performs serial bus analysis for Serial ATA (SATA) data transfers.
The Sierra M6‐4 Analyzer helps Hardware, Firmware, Design, and Application Engineers
troubleshoot and diagnose SAS and SATA problems within their product. The analyzer
supports the following:
 Capture, triggering, and filtering of Serial Attached SCSI packets or Serial ATA
packets
 Generation of bus traffic as a SAS Initiator Emulator or a SATA Host Emulator,
while monitoring and analyzing results
 SAS target emulation and SATA device emulation
 Running a Pattern Generator
 TX Vout on transmitters for test and characterization
 CATC API