A Survey of High Speed Bus Technologies for Data Movement in ATE Systems

Author

Frock, Heidi ; Geruso, Mike ; Wetzel, Mark

Author_Institution

Nat. Instrum., Austin, TX

fYear

2006

fDate

18-21 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

655

Lastpage

657

Abstract

A number of commercial bus technologies have emerged for creating high bandwidth (>1 Gbytes/s) data links and switched fabrics. These bus technologies can be applied to create high-bandwidth ATE systems and are particularly important for virtual/synthetic instrumentation architectures in which large data pipes are required to move data to a host processor for real-time software analysis. This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of several of these technologies, including PCI Express, Advanced Switching, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Serial Rapid I/O, and Infiniband. Data on bandwidth and latency performance and features such as native processor interfaces are discussed for each technology.

Keywords

automatic test equipment; local area networks; system buses; virtual instrumentation; ATE systems; Ethernet; Infiniband; PCI Express; advanced switching; automatic test equipment; data links; high speed bus technology; host processor; real-time software analysis; serial rapid I/O; switched fabrics; virtual/synthetic instrumentation; Bandwidth; Communication switching; Computer architecture; Costs; Delay; Ethernet networks; Fabrics; Instruments; Real time systems; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autotestcon, 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1088-7725

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0051-1

Electronic_ISBN

1088-7725

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2006.283743

Filename

4062456