The explosive growth in data communication traffic demands a significant increase in the capacity and speed of digital communication systems. Increasing the speed of typical serial bus interface standards such as PCI Express and USB, while simultaneously ensuring signal quality, is becoming increasingly challenging and requires margin confirmation using jitter tolerance testing. The high-speed serial test software controls the MX183000A, a jitter signal modulation source, pulse pattern generator (PPG), and error detector (ED), enabling state machine control of the high-speed serial bus interface and jitter tolerance testing. This helps reduce testing time and ensures accurate signal integrity measurements.
Thunderbolt Receiver Testing Solution:
Achieving high-capacity, high-speed data transfers requires network and device acceleration technologies, as well as faster interfaces between high-end computers and peripherals. Receiver testing for PHY devices using high-speed interfaces employs a signal with enhanced loss, jitter, etc., to ensure connectivity compatibility. The next-generation Thunderbolt 3 standard increases the bit rate per lane to 20.625 Gbit/s, requiring even greater precision calibration and measurement. The GRL-TBT3-RXA Thunderbolt receiver testing software, developed in cooperation with Granite River Labs (GRL), utilizes a combination of the MP1800A noise generation signal source and a software-controlled real-time oscilloscope to lighten the workload of test engineers by automatically calibrating complex test signals and performing jitter tolerance testing.
The MP1800A signal quality analyzer is a highly expandable, modular BER tester. It incorporates a pulse pattern generator (PPG) module for generating the highest quality, highest amplitude signals in the industry, as well as an error detector (ED) module with the highest input sensitivity available. The platform supports signal analysis, including burst pattern, bathtub jitter, and eye diagram measurements. Furthermore, the MP1800A is a high-performance, wideband BERT tester, offering excellent waveform quality and input sensitivity. It supports highly reproducible Thunderbolt receiver testing and the evaluation of high-speed serial interfaces such as 100GbE, InfiniBand, and others.
