PCI Gen is a companion card to our RST PRO2 card. With both cards installed in a target PC, the PCI Gen allows for a comprehensive system memory Bus testing. While the RST Pro2 tests for memory failures and incompatibilities, PCI Gen runs specific Bus loading and RAM testing. The PCI Gen generates memory transfers without CPU intervention using direct PCI to memory controller access. Under normal operation, data moves in a pattern from PCI Bus to CPU to RAM and back to the PCI Bus. Without the use of PCI Gen it is very difficult to detect problems that may occur when the PCI Bus is communicating directly with RAM under heavy Bus load.

If you are building servers, PCI Gen will help to isolate and verify design problems between image capture devices and system memory, these types of errors are very difficult to pin-point. However, PCI Gen will isolate these problems quickly because it can put the system through similar tasks.

If you are making or building workstations, PCI Gen will help you to isolate problems that are caused by enormous memory transfers. For example, problems that cause Video Capture and SCSI device failures. PCI Gen's main function is to load the Bus with traffic using Bus master device for data transfers. This load can cause memory noise on the memory controller thus affecting the memory sub-system. PCI Gen automates this testing process for full and proper system validation.