Data center: Hot-plug & Fault injection

Hotplug and fault injection for data center & AI systems

The Torridon system is the backbone of automated physical layer testing for data center and AI systems.

The modular design allows testing of a single prototype SSD on an engineers desk, or an entire rack of servers with control over many different devices, controllers, NICs and cables.

  • Zero-Touch Automation: Run thousands of power cycles, hot-swaps, and fault injections without manual intervention.

  • Scenario Testing: Reduce lane width, isolate REFCLK, alter power rail order and run corner-case tests on hot-plug timing

  • Precise Fault Injection: Inject physical layer failures—such as pin bounce, data glitches, sideband failure and much more. Prove your error handling and recovery logic across a vast range of scenarios

  • Seamless Integration: Run a single module on an engineers desk, or automate an entire rack. Simple python automation with no ongoing license fees.

  • All major interfaces: Quarch instruments every major interface: SFF, EDSFF, M.2, MCIO, OCP, USB, RJ45, SFP, AIC and many more. Small runs of custom modules can also be built if we don’t have exactly what you need.

  • Widely proven: Used by most major companies working on SSD design, PCIe & CXL silicon, Telecomms interfacing and more. Quarch Breakers are also part of mandatory testing schedule for NVMe drives at the UNH-IOL Plugfests

 

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