Crescent Heart Software

The following test tools are designed according to the criteria defined in the SATA-IO Interoperability Program. As the SATA-IO approved test tool, it can help you to effectively pre-verify if your product is in conformance to the SATA-IO Interoperability Program.

 

Product	Features
TF-SATA-FE/XP	• TF-SATA-FE-XP facilitates far-end connection to the Serial ATA host or device under test • 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s bus signaling rates supported, meets or exceeds SATA-II electrical specification • Test fixture connects to the far end of the host or device Serial ATA cable • Differential 100 Ohm controlled-impedance PCB design • Side-launch SMA connectors result in reduced torque from SMA cable connections • Complementary companion to TF-SATA-NE-XP test fixture • Facilitates Serial ATA compliance testing when used with Tektronix® TDS6604 and TDS7704 digital oscilloscopes and P7380SMA and P7313SMA probes, or other manufacturers’ DSOs and probes • Facilitates Serial ATA compliance testing when used with Tektronix® Serial ATA Test Utility software
TF-SATA-NE/XP	• TF-SATA-NE-XP facilitates near-end connection to the Serial ATA host or device under test • 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s bus signaling rates supported, meets or exceeds SATA-II electrical specification • Test fixture plugs in to the host or device Serial ATA connector, in place of the Serial ATA cable • Differential 100 Ohm controlled-impedance PCB design • Side-launch SMA connectors result in reduced torque from SMA cable connections, and reduced stress on Serial ATA plugs and connectors • Complementary companion to TF-SATA-FE-XP test fixture • Facilitates Serial ATA compliance testing when used with Tektronix® TDS6604 and TDS7704 digital oscilloscopes and P7380SMA and P7313SMA probes, or other manufacturers’ DSOs and probes • Facilitates Serial ATA compliance testing when used with Tektronix® Serial ATA Test Utility software
TF-SATA-IS/XP	• TF-SATA-IS-XP facilitates in-system monitoring of Serial ATA data signals • 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s bus signaling rates supported, performance similar to CHS' TF-SATA-NE-XP and TF-SATA-FE-XP test fixtures • Test fixture plugs in to the host or device Serial ATA connector, and connects to the device or host via the Serial ATA cable • In-system access provided to all four Serial ATA differential signals • Accommodates differential probe connections through 0.15 inch-spaced (3,8 mm-spaced) PCB vias • Accommodates non-differential probe connections to ground through 0.15 inch-spaced (3,8 mm-spaced) PCB vias • Unique three-layer differential 100 Ohm controlled-impedance PCB design • Facilitates monitoring Serial ATA data signals in-system when used with appropriate high-performance digital oscilloscopes and differential probes
SATA II	• Serial ATA II, Serial ATA 1.0 and ATA/ATAPI 6 compliance; 1.5 Gb/s Gen1 and 3.0 Gb/s Gen2 rates supported • Optionally supports SATA compliance frame error rate testing without use of a logic analyzer • Acquisition of spread-spectrum-clocked data streams supported • Monitors, triggers on, acquires and displays all aspects of Serial ATA signaling, including bus signal level (squelch), out-of-band (OOB) signaling, primitives, FIS frames, encoding and protocol errors (including independent CRC verification), bus utilization and error statistics • Optional acquisition of undecoded (10b) data or unscrambled Data FIS contents • Efficient use of acquisition memory achieved through optional compressed storage of repeated primitives • Trailing portions of lengthy FIS Data frames can be optionally suppressed • Works with Tektronix® TLA5xxx/6xx/7xx/7xxx logic analyzers having 136 channels and 150 MHz acquisition capability (also supports Gen1-only acquisition at 75 MHz); supports use of Mictor® or compression probes (with adapters) • Hierarchical display shows optionally-acquired undecoded/unscrambled data, primitives, FIS frames, command protocol

 

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