LeCroy intros comprehensive test suites for MIPI M-PHY and PCI Express 3.0

CHESTNUT RIDGE, USA: LeCroy Corp. has launched a MIPI M-PHY test suite tailored specifically to the verification, debug and conformance testing of MIPI Alliance M-PHY(SM) and various other signal types using the M-PHY physical layer standard.

The MIPI M-PHY test suite was introduced using the silicon-proven Mixel M-PHY at the MIPI Alliance Test Forum Days meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 16. In addition, LeCroy will exhibit the industry's only protocol-aware suite of test and debug solutions for the PCI Express 3.0 specification at the PCI-SIG Developers Conference in Santa Clara, CA, June 22-23. LeCroy is a platinum sponsor of the event.

"Successful development of new products with these emerging standards requires a coordinated test program," said LeCroy president and CEO, Tom Reslewic. "Our active participation in the groups chartered to develop and manage these standards, ensures that our integrated test suites cover the full range of the developer's needs."

"LeCroy has been, and continues to be, committed to providing complete, end-to-end solutions for established and emerging serial data standards," said David Graef, CTO of LeCroy. "Our latest offerings clearly establish LeCroy as the leader with the only complete end-to-end solutions for MIPI M-PHY and PCI Express 3.0. Our continued investment in this area will ensure that we provide our customers with the best-in-class tools for serial data standard debug and compliance measurements."

There were approximately 700 million MIPI powered integrated circuits in production in 2010, with projected growth to 6.2 billion units by 2015. The M-PHY standard is an important factor in driving the unit growth with improved power efficiency, low pin count, more robust symbol coding, multiple transmission speed rates, and compatibility with optical applications. As part of the Mixel MIPI Alliance Ecosystem Partnership, LeCroy was able to leverage the relationship with Mixel to develop and validate the M-PHY test suite with early IP Cores.

"We are confident that our collaboration with LeCroy will help accelerate our customers' product development supporting MIPI M-PHY specifications," said Ashraf Takla, CEO of Mixel Inc. "We are looking forward to a continued successful collaboration with LeCroy and all of our MIPI ecosystem partners."