The MPAX Analyzer is best described as a cross between a Logic Analyzer and Protocol Analyzer, and it carries the best traits from both sides of its ancestry.

From the Protocol analysis side, it gets the following characteristics: Protocol Decoding, Statistical Analysis, Bit Error Rate (BERT) analysis, Bus-specific triggering menu’s, Bus-specific filtering menu’s, Ultra-deep Memory, Command-Level, State-Level, and Histogram Displays, Portable Size.

From the Logic Analyzer side, it gets the following traits:
Fast Sample Rate, Ability to support other busses, Ability to support future busses, Powerful programmability of triggering and filtering, Displays waveforms of bus signals.

MultiBus is a Protocol Analyzer capable of taking multiple traces from different types of busses at the same time using the same reference clock. This product provides a new class of analysis tools for design, verification, and field engineers who work with networking, sub-systems, SAN, NAS, complex systems, and other multiple communication bus applications.

ATA/IDE/UDMA 100 Multi-Interface Analyzer The ATA/ATAPI Pod turns the MPAX into a full-featured protocol analyzer, with the depth, ease-of-use, protocol decoding, and statistics that are needed by software and systems testers.

SCSI 320 Analyzer Pod turns the MPAX into a full-featured protocol analyzer, with the depth, ease-of-use, protocol decoding, and statistics that are needed by software and systems testers. 

The PCMCIA & Compact Flash Analyzer Pod turns the MPAX into a full-featured protocol analyzer, supporting both 3.3V and 5V systems, with the depth, ease-of-use, protocol decoding, and statistics that are needed by software and systems testers. 

Cardbus Analyzer Pod turns the MPAX into a full-featured protocol analyzer, with the depth, ease-of-use, protocol decoding, and statistics that are needed by software and systems testers. 

Gigabit Ethernet Analyzer Pod turns the MPAX into a full- featured protocol analyzer, with the depth, ease-of-use, protocol decoding, and statistics that are needed by software and systems testers. 

InfiniBand Analyzer pod supports bidirectional transfers at 1X speeds (2.5Gb/sec). In addition to decoding all the native and management InfiniBand protocol, the analyzer also decodes IP packets. With the deepest memory option, the InfiniBand pod allows the user to store over 1GByte of InfiniBand traffic. Whenever errors are detected, the analyzer displays the 10b codes as well as the 8b.

Serial ATA Analyzer Pod turns the MPAX into a full-featured protocol analyzer, with the depth, ease-of-use, protocol decoding, and statistics that are needed by software and systems testers. 

Logic Analyzer Pod turns the MPAX into a full-featured logic analyzer, with the depth, ease-of-use, symbolic decoding, and statistics that are needed by software and systems testers.