Patent ID: 8867599

Claim:
A method for testing a point-to-point connection between a first device and a second device, comprising: placing mid-bus test equipment between the first device and the second device so as to break the point-to-point connector into two separate point-to-point segments; and, simulating a training mode for the point-to-point connection between the first device and the second device, including: equalizing transmissions from the mid-bus test equipment to the first device and from the second device to the mid-bus test equipment, including: passing equalization instructions from the first device through the mid-bus test equipment to the second device, and changing quality of transmissions from the mid-bus test equipment to the first device in order to steer the first device to produce equalization instructions that will produce optimized transmissions from the mid-bus test equipment to the first device and from the second device to the mid-bus test equipment.