Signal quality analyser editor.

New GUI-based test creation capabilities accelerate validation of high-speed transmission devices

Significant enhancements have been announced by Anritsu to the Sequence Editor feature of its Signal Quality Analyser-R MP1900A, a high-performance Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT). The enhanced capabilities enable intuitive, GUI-based creation of test sequences for abnormal and stress conditions, streamlining the evaluation process for PCI Express® 6.0 (PCIe® 6.0) devices operating at unprecedented speeds.

Key Enhancements.
The updated Sequence Editor delivers several critical capabilities for next-generation device validation:

• Intuitive Test Creation: GUI-based interface simplifies the development of complex test sequences for abnormal and stress conditions
• Multi-Channel Evaluation: Simultaneous testing across multiple PCIe lanes enables realistic test environments
• Precision Fault Isolation: Advanced capabilities help engineers isolate both physical and logical-layer errors in high-speed transmission environments
• Enhanced Workflow Efficiency: Streamlined design and validation processes improve overall product quality and reduce time-to-market

Addressing PCIe 6.0 Testing Challenges.
As PCIe 6.0 transmission speeds reach 64 GT/s, traditional signal evaluation and fault identification methods face increasing complexity. With electrical performance compliance testing on the horizon, engineers require sophisticated yet user-friendly solutions that balance precision with speed.

The enhanced MP1900A addresses these challenges by supporting both standard compliance testing and advanced abnormal/stress test scenarios through its intuitive interface. This dual capability helps prevent costly rework while significantly improving validation efficiency.

Advanced Multi-Lane Testing.
The solution's multi-channel evaluation capability enables simultaneous testing of multiple PCIe lanes, creating more realistic test environments that mirror actual deployment conditions. Combined with Link Training Status State Machine (LTSSM) log analysis, these features support:

• Realistic scenario reproduction
• Efficient fault analysis and troubleshooting
• Higher validation accuracy across complex multi-lane configurations.

The enhanced Signal Quality Analyser-R MP1900A represents Anritsu's continued commitment to providing cutting-edge test solutions that meet the evolving needs of high-speed digital design and validation teams.

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Software verification.

The latest release of TrustInSoft Analyzer 2024.10 (TISA), which includes new and substantially updated features that streamline software testing workflows has been announced, significantly accelerating the testing process while ensuring compliance with strict industry safety and security standards.

“In today's fast-paced software development world, ensuring code reliability, security, and compliance is more critical than ever,” said Caroline Guillaume, CEO of TrustInSoft (right). “The rapid onset of software-defined services in many aspects of manufacturing, industry, and business demands software that is guaranteed to be error free. Using formal methods modelling techniques, this latest release of TISA ensures software safety, reliability and security like no other analyzer available today.”

Among several new features in the latest version of TISA is its improved GUI, which enables users to quickly create and configure projects.

The GUI also enables users to manage and track progress across multiple projects from a single interface and organize their analyses parameters more effectively. Easy access to project settings, analysis configurations, and results also make it easier for teams to collaborate and stay organized.

This version of TISA addresses the need for smarter, faster, and more automated verification tools with the inclusion of assisted analysis setup, which provides step-by-step, user-friendly guidance for configuring the analysis environment. This avoids common configuration errors by ensuring that every critical analysis and verification parameter is correctly set. This not only reduces the likelihood of errors during setup, but it also introduces additional functionality that further improves verification precision.

New drivers are automatically generated based on selected entry points and call conditions and users can easily view their lists in the tabular view of analysis, which simplifies the process and ensures comprehensive coverage of the code being analyzed. Building on the foundation of the assisted analysis setup, an automated analysis tuning feature offers suggestions for fine-tuning analysis parameters based on project specifics, reducing the need for deep manual intervention.

Additionally, a dynamic parameter adjustment tool analyses project context and recommends changes that further enhance precision and performance; and an improved accuracy feature ensures that the analysis is specifically tailored to the needs of the project. This release also delivers significant enhancements to the analysis of C++ programs. In testing, overall analysis time was reduced by 75 percent, further evidence of TISA’s ability to quickly and effectively process complex codebases.

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Speeding Time-to-Deployment of Embedded Computing Applications.

Abaco Systems have announced AXIS DataView, an innovative extension to the company’s AXIS software development environment. DataView is unique in the market, and allows customers to rapidly develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for their embedded applications deployed on Abaco Systems hardware. Ideal for displaying data and adding controls to signal- and image processing applications as well as any system control or communications application, DataView significantly reduces the time, cost and risk of developing sophisticated software solutions and speeds time-to-deployment.

By addressing the development costs associated with developing and porting GUIs to multiple platforms while also addressing performance overhead issues DataView makes adding a GUI to a broad range of applications both practical and valuable. DataView is both quick and simple to learn; it is easily portable; and it has minimal impact on overall system throughput.

In-house tests performed by Abaco show that, using DataView, a reduction of over 90% in the lines of code required to create a typical signal generator GUI or signal processing GUI is achievable when compared with alternative approaches. In addition to development time and cost savings the DataView tool creates code that is considerably easier to maintain and enhance.

Key benefits of AXIS DataView include:

• No specialist programming GUI knowledge required
• Simple and easy to learn – allows creation of application GUI in days
• Easy to maintain - no complex event-driven GUI code to maintain
• Multi-OS support, including Windows® and Linux® hosts, and Windows, Linux and VxWorks® embedded targets
• Multi-platform support includes Intel®, NXT (PowerPC™) and ARM® hardware architectures

“Our customers need to get from concept to deployment faster than ever before in order to secure competitive advantage – and AXIS DataView is yet another demonstration of our commitment to helping them do so,” said Chris Lever, VP, Product Management at Abaco Systems. “Our customers can benefit substantially from the uniquely rich, intuitive, high performance software development environment that AXIS delivers, enabling them to field applications more quickly than would otherwise be possible.”

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