App Note: CATC's Mid-Bus Probe Solution for PCI Express

A mid-bus probe is one of the tools that can greatly help engineers debugging PCI Express buses.
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CATC’s Mid-Bus Probe Solution for PCI Express


Preliminary Application Note

Rev 1.0



Introduction
A mid-bus probe is one of the tools that can greatly help engineers debugging PCI
Express buses. A PCI Express mid-bus probing solution provides direct probing capability
of a PCI Express bus at a width of up to 16 lanes. To accommodate a mid-bus probe, the
standardized mid-bus probe footprint is requi