Date: 22/10/2009

New test procedures for SATA Revision 3.0 standard from Agilent

Agilent has released the new test procedures for Serial ATA (SATA) Revision 3.0 standard offers a maximum transfer speed of 6.0 Gb/s that enables high-performance storage for applications such as emerging solid-state drives and enterprise business storage.

These test procedures cover transmitter, receiver, return loss and protocol specifications, and also in line with Unified Test Document (UTD) Revision 1.4, which describes the overview testing requirement for devices and products to achieve interoperability.

Agilent says, that its N5990A test automation software, with its SATA compliance test-automation suite, offers high-level system automation and test integration across physical-layer test requirement categories and provides a broader set of receiver characterization tests and margin analysis capabilities. Agilent also recently expanded its SATA solution portfolio with the U5031A/U5032A SerialTek BusExpert SATA protocol analyzer, which covers link speeds from 1.5 Gb/s to 6 Gb/s for protocol testing.