Keysight's BERT systems enable precise verification of the physical layer design of high-speed communications and multi-gigabit digital interfaces. Keysight's high-performance 64 Gbaud M8040A BERT is the only PCI-SIG-approved BERT test receiver for PCIe 4.0 capable of testing PCIe 5.0 (32GT/s) and enabling pathfinding (the process of selecting a design choice by evaluating different technical approaches against a defined set of system parameters and objectives) for the speeds of the emerging PCIe 6.0 (64GT/s).
“PCI-SIG is very pleased to have Keysight participating as one of the key manufacturers we can rely on to provide effective compliance testing for our members in their official laboratories,” said Al Yanes, a PCI-SIG executive. “We appreciate the time, effort, and expense associated with our testing events and recognize Keysight’s continued efforts to support SIG’s activities, particularly in obtaining approval for the equipment used in official compliance testing.”
“Keysight is pleased to receive PCI-SIG approval for the high-performance M8040A BERT for PCIe 4.0 receiver testing,” said Kailash Narayanan, group vice president of business communications at Keysight. “The PCI Express standard is important to Keysight and our customers. As the industry looks to the future with PCIe 6.0, we believe that the approval of our M8040A for PCIe 4.0 receiver testing will increase our customers’ confidence in the testing tools currently in use, while also providing a clear path to the next generation of technologies at PAM4 speeds up to 32Gbaud.”
“PCI Express-based I/O technology is expected to pave the way for high-performance I/O interfaces, including accelerator interconnects like Compute Express Link,” said Jim Pappas, director of Technology Initiatives at Intel Corporation. “The receiver and transmitter testing solutions offered by companies like Keysight Technologies are critical to enabling the development, deployment, and adoption of high-performance I/O technologies on future Intel platforms and across the industry.”
PCI-SIG (originally formed as the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group) develops and manages the PCI bus specification, the industry standard for high-performance I/O interconnection that transfers data between central processing units and peripherals. PCI-SIG currently manages the PCI, PCI-X®, and PCI Express standards.
