Improving Networks Worldwide. UNH InterOperability Lab Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Testing

2 SAS Testing Presentation Topics Physical Layer Test Suites Physical Layer Test Equipment Protocol Test Suites Protocol Test Equipment Interop Testing

3 SAS Testing Physical Layer We offer test suites for Clause 5, Clause 6 Sync, and Clause 6 OOB testing Also we offer testing for SAS-2 6Gbps Physical Layer and SAS-2 Speed Negotiation. All test suites can be found at: ng/sas/testsuites/

4 SAS Testing Clause 5 Physical Layer Test Suite This test suite verifies OOB Signaling, SAS signaling, and Impedance/Crosstalk specifications for SAS devices as defined in Clause 5 of the SAS standard. It requires 1 week for testing

5 SAS Testing Clause 6 Sync Test Suite This test suite verifies the sync specifications for SAS devices as defined in Clause 6 of the SAS standard It requires 1 week for testing

6 SAS Testing Clause 6 OOB Test Suite This test suite verifies Out-Of-Band specifications for SAS devices as defined in Clause 6 of the SAS standard. It requires 1 week for testing

7 SAS Testing SAS-2 6Gbps Physical Layer Test Suite This test suite verifies the physical layer requirements of 6Gbps SAS-2 devices. It requires one week for testing

8 SAS Testing SAS-2 Speed Negotiation Test Suite This test suite covers many of the various changes and adjustments to SAS Speed Negotiation introduced with SAS 2.0. SAS 2.0 devices are required to support these added steps, but are not required to support 6 Gb/s operation. It requires 1 week for testing

9 SAS Testing Agilent DCA-J 86100C with the 5474A TDR Modules This platform provides the ability to test Return Loss for physical layer electrical SAS conformance and Impedance Profiling.

10 SAS Testing Agilent DCA-J 86100C with the 5474A TDR Modules

11 SAS Testing LeCroy SDA11000 This platform provides the ability to capture real-time SAS traffic for physical layer electrical SAS conformance as well as protocol analysis up to 6G speeds.

12 SAS Testing LeCroy SDA11000

13 SAS Testing Agilent 81204A 12 Ghz Realtime DSO This platform provides the ability to capture real-time SAS traffic for physical layer electrical SAS conformance as well as protocol analysis.

14 SAS Testing Agilent 81134A Pattern Generator This platform is capable of producing a repeating pattern at speeds up to 3.35 Ghz.

15 SAS Testing Agilent J-BERT This platform provides the complete jitter tolerance test solution for characterization of serial gigabit devices.

16 SAS Testing Agilent J-BERT

17 SAS Testing Tektronix DSA8200 This platform provides the a complete network and link layer analysis.

18 SAS Testing Tektronix DSA8200

19 SAS Testing Tektronix CSA8000B This platform provides evaluation of datacom and telecom components, transceiver subassemblies and transmission systems.

20 SAS Testing Tektronix CSA8000B

21 SAS Testing Protocol Testing We offer protocol testing for Clause 7, 9, and 10 of the SAS standard The testing is done on our CATC- LeCroy Tracer/Trainer and Sierra M6-2 SAS/SATA Protocol Analyzer All test suites can be found at: ng/sas/testsuites/

22 SAS Testing Clause 7 Link Layer Test Suite This test suite verifies link layer specifications for SAS devices as defined in Clause 7 of the SAS standard It requires 1 week for testing

23 SAS Testing Clause 9 Transport Layer Test Suite This test suite verifies Transport layer specifications for SAS devices as defined in Clause 9 of the SAS standard. It requires 1 week for testing

24 SAS Testing Clause 9 Target Error Handling Test Suite This test suite verifies Target Error Handling specifications for SAS devices as defined in Clause 9 of the SAS standard. It requires 1 week for testing

25 SAS Testing Clause 10 Application Layer Test Suite This test suite verifies application layer specifications for SAS devices as defined in Clause 10 of the SAS standard. It requires 1 week for testing

26 SAS Testing SAS Power Management This Test Suite measures the power drawn by a device in each Phy Power Condition, verifies that the device conforms to the Power Management Protocol defined in the SAS Spec, and verifies the Power Management state machine specified in the SAS 2.1 standard. This requires one week for testing.

27 SAS Testing CATC-LeCroy Tracer/Trainer This platform provides analysis and diagnostic capabilities for SAS/SATA devices Generator capabilities up to 3G speeds. It has the ability to act as a target or initiator and transmit all primitives and OOB signals.

28 SAS Testing CATC-LeCroy Tracer/Trainer

29 SAS Testing Sample Trace

30 SAS Testing Sierra M6-2 SAS/SATA Protocol Analyzer This device has all the same features of the CATC only it supports speeds up to 6G It also has Jammer capabilities The traces look the same as the CATC

31 SAS Testing Sierra M6-2 SAS/SATA Protocol Analyzer

32 SAS Testing More Info More info on the test equipment and test suites can be found at our website: ng/sas/