Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Kozio | Subject: KDiagnostics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 May 2006
Diagnostics software supports PCI Express
Kozio now offers full diagnostics support for custom boards using PCI Express
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Kozio supports multiple PCI Express links and provides testing of all memories, buses and connected devices, including basic configuration testing, link protocol testing and transaction protocol testing, enabling a one-of-a-kind diagnostics solution for product developers in as little as two weeks.
'With this release, our suite of diagnostics products support testing the next generation of PCI Express peripherals, providing design engineers with a tool to fully validate their entire design at the earliest prototype stages', stated Keith Short, Kozio's Director of Technology.
As the speed of processors, buses and devices increase, product developers are finding that they need new solutions for testing high-speed devices.
Older technologies such as emulation are not capable of providing the test coverage needed.
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Software supports PowerPC evaluation
Kozio now provides support for Applied Micro Circuit Corporation's new PowerPC 440SPe Katmai, 440EPx Sequoia, 440GRx Rainier and 440GX Taishan evaluation kits
Software ships free with reference design
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Kozio delivers the hardware diagnostic software needed to support PCI Express, with extensible PCIe capabilities and PCIe test features, giving product developers a complete pre-verified diagnostics solution in just two weeks.
The results are guaranteed to save development effort, board bring-up, and production testing time.
All Kozio products, including kDiagnostics, kManufacturing, kPOST and kField, provide self-booting capabilities, including the ability to discover multiple PCI (PCI, PCI-X, and PCI Express) buses and the automatic configuration of all devices discovered on those buses.
Each discovered device is memory-mapped allowing full interaction with the device through the Kozio command line, menu or scripting faces.
For known devices, Kozio provides a full test suite validating the complete data path to and from the bus-connected device.
Kozio's diagnostics support software for custom boards using PCI Express is available now.
Kozio's kDiagnostics software is available for a free 30-day evaluation on Advanced Micro Circuits Corporation's PowerPC 440SPE Yucca platform.
A full evaluation list can be found on Kozio's website.
Kozio provides a turnkey image that can be programmed and requires no bootloader, OS or application software.
With the full diagnostic package, a full-board test report is available within minutes of running Kozio's preverified software.
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