LeCroy Corporation (www.lecroy.com) and Evatronix SA (www.evatronix.pl) announced that they have signed a partnership agreement aiming for a market adoption of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 technology. The two companies have established robust leadership positions in the USB market through years of design experience and comprehensive portfolios.

The USB 3.0 Test Suite from LeCroy includes the SDA 813Zi-A oscilloscope designed for physical layer transmitter verification, compliance and debug; transmitter tolerance tester and the protocol-enabled receiver, PeRT3, for receiver testing; the first USB 3.0 protocol analyzer exerciser platform, the Voyager verification system, to address the protocol layer; and the SPARQ Signal Integrity Network Analyzer for TDR measurements and S-parameter critical characterization.

“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, Vice President of LeCroy (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 of 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.”