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SATA Gen-2 Testing
TekExpress™ SATA, a test suite for Serial ATA (SATA) physical layer testing, automates 100% of the required SATA Gen-1 and Gen-2 compliance tests for receivers, transmitters, and interconnects. The test suite runs on TekExpress, a new network test framework built on top of National Instruments' TestStand test executive, which serves as the test sequence control engine.
TekExpress provides the elements needed in a compliance test framework including a graphical user interface, control libraries, compliance test automation scripts, report generation, instrument discovery, and test results database management. TekExpress SATA software orchestrates the instrument setup and control sequences to execute the 153 SATA Gen-2 tests required by the four SATA-IO approved Methods of Implementation in less than three hours, representing a 70% time saving.
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