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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……