Date: 2nd Dec 2010

Evatronix and LeCroy partnering in adopting SuperSpeed USB 3.0 technology

Evatronix SA and LeCroy Corporation have signed a partnership agreement that aims towards a faster market adoption of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 technology by cooperation on mutual product development and USB market investigation.

"LeCroy is enthusiastic to cooperate with Evatronix with our complete solution for Super Speed USB compliance testing including the physical as well as the protocol layers," said Roberto Petrillo, LeCroy's Vice President for EMEA and Americas. "As signal speeds increase, compliance testing and debug become more challenging. LeCroy's innovative solutions for testing high-speed serial data will enable Evatronix and their customers to perform these tests faster, more comprehensively, and at lower cost."

"In the area of USB 3.0 it is the same like with all top-notch technologies, in particular if they reflect industry standards: there is no company that can do it all by itself. We build on alliances to assure the seamless product interoperability among different development environments," said Carsten Elgert, VP Sales and Marketing at Evatronix. "We have already proven the quality of our USB-IF certified USB 3.0 controller IP with first pass success in LeCroy protocol analyzers. Now we look forward to tighten these bonds in other areas, especially very high end analog signal analysis."

Evatronix offers single function controllers through dual role On-The-Go semiconductor devices to USB Application Platforms. The LeCroy USB 3.0 Test Suite includes the SDA 813Zi-A oscilloscope for physical layer transmitter verification, compliance and debug; the protocol-enabled receiver and transmitter tolerance tester, PeRT3, for receiver testing; the SPARQ Signal Integrity Network Analyzer for S-parameter critical characterization and TDR measurements; and the USB 3.0 protocol analyzer exerciser platform, the Voyager verification system, to address the protocol layer.