P25 Script Language

Purposes

• Product Development Engineering, Design Verification Engineering,
  
• Quality & Reliability Engineering, Compliance & Compatibility
  
• Engineering, Production
  
• Ambient, Burn-In, and Environmental

Script Program

• Powerful Macro Commands
  
• A collection of statements/commands and conditions
  
• Sophisticated vendor unique
  

Programming Style

• Pick and place. Virtually no syntax errors.

Basic Functions of Storage Devices

• Seek (Search)
  
• Write (Store information)
  
• Read (Retrieve information)
  
• Executed via Macro’s or vendor unique commands.

Advanced

• Interface settings (speed, bus width, modes).
  
• Vendor Unique commands. Formulate individual Task File, CDB, and Packet commands. Execute Idle, Sleep, SMART, or any arbitrary commands. Allows to specify data direction (if any) for vendor unique commands.
  
• Data downloading and uploading to and from drive.
  

You can measure the data transfer performance within the script by using the START PERF and END PERF command. The data thought put minus the command to command overhead will be measured in all the commands in between the START PERF and END PERF commands.

0001 TEST SPIN-UP
0002 CONFIGURE PORT
0003 SET HOST DMA mode=9
0004 SET XFER LENGTH (#Sec's)=256
0005 START PERF { SEQ WRITE
0006 WRITE INCR FORWARD pass=1
0007 } END PERF