beautypg.com

Teledyne LeCroy STX M6-1 SAS_SATA Protocol Analyzer User Manual User Manual

Page 161

background image

    

Sierra M6‐4 SAS/SATA Protocol Analyzer User Manual

159

Performance Analysis

LeCroy Corporation

Note:

When you use the Exerciser, channel 2 is not usable and is greyed out.

Figure 2.163: SATA: Settings Dialog

The settings dialog allows you to set the Analysis update interval and define the counter
mode.

1. Choose the Update Interval in the range of 1 ms to 245 minutes.
2. Set the Counter Mode to either Cumulative or Instantaneous.

Cumulative causes the measurement counters to continually increment>
Instantaneous causes the measurement counters to reset for each Update interval.

3. Set the Analyzer Speed for each port used.
4. To disable descrambling, check the Disable Descrambling check box or check

Disable Scrambling.

5. Enter a value for Primitive Response Timeout.
6. Choose the Align Transmission Period by checking the corresponding option button.
7. To select Protocol Errors to exclude from the analysis, click the Protocol Error Mask 

button and check any or all of the protocol errors to exclude. See

“Protocol Errors”

on page 62

.

8. To save the analysis result for later review, check Save to file and enter the path in

which to save the result.

9. To include a descriptive note about the project, click the Notes tab and enter

information in the Notes dialog. See

“Add a Project Note” on page 101

.

To perform the Performance Analysis, click the

Run Hardware button and wait for

the real time analysis for the selected items to display

.