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News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: AWG7000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 November 2007
Waveform generator sets serial standard
Testronic Labs is the first test laboratory in Europe to provide precertification for SATA products using the AWG7000 arbitrary waveform generator.
Testronic Labs is using the Tektronix AWG7000 arbitrary waveform generator for test services based on high-speed serial bus standards The AWG7000 is an integral part of the Tektronix test bench for the leading serial data standard technologies including HDMI, SATA, PCI-Express, Ethernet, DisplayPort and others
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Tektronix AWG7000 arbitrary waveform generator has been approved for direct synthesis testing of Serial ATA data receivers.
With the growth in high-speed communications technologies in the new digital world, there is an increasing need to test products to ensure their compliance and compatibility with industry standards.
Testronic Labs, via its Belgian operation (formerly known as PMTC), provides leading-edge test services for these technologies, and the Tektronix AWG7000 provides state-of-the-art support for its activities.
"SATA Gen3i will push the serial bus bitrate to 6Gbit/s and the Tektronix AWG7000 is the leading generator on the market that can produce these high-speed real-life waveforms with programmed imperfections at the required speed", says Johan Craeybeckx, Chief Technology Officer, Testronic Labs.
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"The capability of the AWG7000 to provide these signals makes it a vital piece of equipment that allows us to expand our current range of activities and to deploy new high-speed services".
"Testronic Labs is the first test laboratory in Europe to provide precertification for SATA products and we are delighted that they chose our AWG7000 to achieve this capability", says Mike Higashi, Vice President, Signal Sources Product Line, Tektronix.
"Tektronix is committed to delivering industry-leading serial data test solutions with unequaled measurement accuracy and test flexibility that enable test houses like Testronic and their customers to achieve certification with the latest SATA compliance test requirements".
The most important use for the AWG7000 currently at Testronic Labs is for receiver testing in SATA II links.
In this application, the AWG7000 is programmed to generate test signals that simulate various transmitted signal conditions.
The results at the receiver end - depicting the signal quality after traversing the interconnect channel from the transmitter - are then observed on a Tektronix high-performance real-time oscilloscope.
Features of the AWG7000 make it ideally suited to SATA testing.
In particular, by using direct synthesis techniques the AWG7000 can directly generate ideal or impaired signals in a repeatable way by avoiding the need for multiple signal sources and mixing of digital signals with analogue impairments.
At these speeds, timing margins are small, eye diagrams and signal fidelity are critical, and minor design and layout problems can have great impact while remaining difficult to trace.
Interpreting rigorous jitter and compliance specifications can require a time-consuming learning curve, so an instrument like the AWG7000 becomes essential since it makes these measurements quickly and easily.
The AWG7000 is an integral part of a complete Tektronix test bench for SATA measurement needs.
The Tektronix SATA test bench includes DSA70000 real time oscilloscopes with the bandwidth to handle the fastest SATA datarates, matching probes, automated measurement software, and signal sources for receiver and out-of-band measurements. Request a free brochure from Tektronix ...
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