Oscilloscopes receive PCIe approval

Designers can use Agilent's DSO/DSA91304A Infiniium oscilloscope to test and validate their designs with confidence they will meet PCIe physical layer specifications.

Agilent Technologies' Infiniium 90000A series of 13GHz oscilloscopes has been approved by the PCI-SIG (PCI Special Interest Group) for PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 electrical signal quality testing.

This approval means designers can use Agilent's DSO/DSA91304A Infiniium oscilloscope to test and validate their designs with confidence they will meet PCIe physical layer specifications.

Al Yanes, PCI-SIG President and Chairman said "Testing tools like the Infiniium 90000A series oscilloscope will help speed industry adoption of PCIe 2.0 and ensure that developers obtain the necessary signal quality based on the 5GT/s PCIe 2.0 technology".

The Agilent Infiniium 90000A series oscilloscopes offer the world's deepest acquisition memory depth, giving designers the ability to capture 25ms of time, at 40Gsamples/s on all four channels simultaneously.

The memory depth is six times deeper than the memory in other oscilloscopes in the same class.

For PCI Express, the 90000A's deep memory easily exceeds the requirement to capture a minimum of 1 million unit intervals of waveform data for jitter and voltage margin analysis.

The DSO and DSA models are capable of more than 150,000 measurements per second and offer modes supporting more than 300,000 triggers per second.

The 2.5GHz model has a 147uV RMS noise floor at the 5mV per division setting.

The InfiniiScan Plus event identification system is based on the world's fastest hardware trigger system.

For PCI Express electrical testing, the Agilent N5393B PCI Express compliance application turns the Infiniium 90000A series oscilloscope into a one-button electrical compliance validation instrument supporting PCIe 2.0, 1.1 and 1.0a electrical compliance measurements.

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