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News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: Tektronix 80A07 BERTScope CR for OEM deal
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2007
Tektronix and SyntheSys Research in OEM
deal
Tektronix has entered into an OEM agreement with SyntheSys Research to offer an advanced clock-recovery instrument.
Tektronix has entered into an OEM agreement with SyntheSys Research to offer an advanced clock-recovery instrument Marketed as the Tektronix 80A07 BERTScope CR, this instrument provides highly flexible clock-recovery capabilities for stressed or degraded signals, and is designed to make compliance testing of today's high-speed serial data designs easy and accurate
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Oct 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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When used with a Tektronix DSA8200 sampling oscilloscope system, the 80A07 will assist engineers by making serial data characterisation and compliance testing simple, repeatable, and precise.
Many serial standards, such as SATA, PCI Express, Ethernet (802.3ap, 802.3aq, XAUI, etc), Fibre Channel, HDMI, Infiniband and others now specify that testing must be done using a recovered clock with well-defined loop bandwidth and roll-off shape characteristics.
Some standards, such as PCI Express and SATA, make use of spread-spectrum clocking, which puts further stress on the clock recovery instrument for transmitter characterisation and compliance testing.
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The 80A07 provides instrumentation grade performance, with best in market timebase stability, unequalled phase loop lock (PLL) bandwidth and roll-off shape control, and the lowest intrinsic jitter, for recovering clocks from stressed or degraded signals.
The instrument will cover data rates continuously from 100Mbit/s to 12.5Gbit/s, meeting the market requirements for all existing and emerging serial data standards.
"With the addition of the 80A07 BERTScope clock recovery instrument to the DSA8200 sampling system, Tektronix now provides best-in-class capabilities for characterisation and compliance testing of high-speed electrical serial data signals", says Brian Reich, General Manager, Electrical Optical Product Line, Tektronix.
"Acquiring and analysing stressed or degraded electrical signals can be very challenging".
"The DSA8200 sampling system now provides best-in-class horizontal and vertical fidelity, the highest performance and most flexible clock recovery".
"Additionally, DSA8200 customers have access to industry leading jitter, noise, and BER analysis software to aid development of electrical and electro-optical components".
"Early on, we recognised the powerful synergy that our BERTScopeTM CR technology would have with the Tektronix DSA8200 product line in the fast growing market of second and third-generation serial data standards", says Dr Lutz Henckels, Chief Executive Officer, SyntheSys Research.
The Tektronix 80A07 provides best-in-class slew rate and jitter tolerance and provides support for spread-spectrum clocks that meets worst-case needs of serial data standards such as SATA and PCI-E.
It provides the user independent control of loop bandwidth and peaking, allowing precise emulation of "golden PLL" specifications dictated in serial data test standards.
The instrument's low 250 fs intrinsic jitter enables good measurement system fidelity, and the continuous rate coverage between 100Mbit/s and 12.5Gbit/s together with excellent PLL shape control ensure support for all current and emerging standards.
The Tektronix 80A07 BERTScope CR clock recovery instrument that supports data rates up to 12.5Gbit/s is available for order and shipment.
MSRP for the 80A07 is GBP 25,100/Eur 37,200. Request a free brochure from Tektronix ...
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