PILOT: Predictive Integrity Link Optimization and Telemetry
Credo’s PILOT environment is a powerful Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables rapid system bring-up, deep visibility into PCIe link behavior, and predictive insight into signal integrity issues—before they become system-level failures. More than a debug tool, PILOT can also run on a baseboard management controller stack like OpenBMC, and empowers designers with a rich telemetry platform purpose-built for next-generation data center interconnects. PILOT enables fast time to market and deployment at scale.
PILOT accelerates time-to-market by giving system teams access to configuration parameters, link training status, equalization parameters, SNR, FOM, BER, eye and ISI plots, logic analyzer functionality, a waveform viewer and more—reducing the dependance on expensive protocol analyzers.
With built-in diagnostics, analytics and real-time alerts, PILOT detects early signs of link degradation, signal margin erosion, or configuration mismatches. Engineers can now pinpoint root causes before link failures disrupt critical workloads and maximize link performance and reliability.
PILOT isn’t just a monitoring dashboard—it’s a robust set of software tools that allow integrators and system architects to customize data collection, automate testing, and plug into larger validation frameworks via industry-standard APIs.
Whether you’re deploying PCIe Gen5/6 retimers on GPU and CPU trays or high-performance Active Electrical Cables (AECs), PILOT gives full access to device-level diagnostics and performance tuning knobs, all accessible remotely via SMBus, I2C, or I3C.
By combining best in class debug tools and a telemetry-driven C/Python SDK, PILOT gives system designers the tools they need to confidently scale PCIe and CXL deployments in complex, high-density AI and cloud environments.
Schedule a DemoPILOT is currently available for Credo’s PCIe product line and will be available for Ethernet products later this year.
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