The Keysight N4962A is a cost-effective 10G BERT, consisting of an internal clock system, PRBS generator, and error detector. It is designed for automated production-line testing, manufacturing, and characterization. The N4962A instrument features highly integrated custom ASICs, which lower part count and operating temperature, resulting in high reliability. The N4962A is also compact with a simple interface, making it ideal for use on a production test bench.

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The high-performance Keysight J-BERT M8020A enables fast, accurate receiver characterization of single- and multi-lane devices running up to 16 or 32 Gb/s.

With today’s highest level of integration, the M8020A streamlines your test setup. In addition, automated in situ calibration of signal conditions ensures accurate and repeatable measurements. Through interactive link training, it can behave like the link partner of your device under test. The J-BERT M8020A will accelerate insight into your design.

Target Applications

The M8020A is designed for research and development engineers and test engineers who characterize and verify compliance of chips, devices, boards, and systems with serial I/O ports up to 16 Gb/s and 32 Gb/s. The M8020A can be used to test popular serial bus standards, such as PCI Express, USB, MIPI M-PHYTM, SATA/SAS, DisplayPort, SD UHS-II, Fibre Channel, memory buses, backplanes, repeaters, active optical cables, Thunderbolt, 10 GbE, 100 GbE (optical and electrical), SFP+, CFP2/4 transceivers, and CEI.

• data rates up to 8.5/ 16 Gb/s for pattern generator and error detector
• expandable to 32 Gb/s with M8062A, 32 Gb/s BERT front-end
• integrated and calibrated jitter injection: RJ, PJ1, PJ2, SJ, BUJ, sinusoidal interference (common-mode and differential-mode), SSC (triangular and arbitrary, residual)
• 8-tap de-emphasis (positive and negative) up to 20 dB
• integrated and adjustable ISI for loss emulation
• interactive link training for SAS-3, USB 3.0/3.1 and PCI Express supporting 8 GT/s and 16 GT/s
• interactive TxEQ training for IEEE 10GBASE-KR, 25GBASE-KR, and 100GBASE-KR4
• built-in clock data recovery and equalization
• system integration with M8070A software for M8000 BER series
• seamless operation with BERT/scope and arbitrary waveform generators

The Keysight N4917BACA optical receiver test solution is a complete, automated, and repeatable solution for optical receiver stress test. It provides repeatable calibration of the optical stressed eye, saving hours of calibration time compared to manual calibration. The N4917BACA 100G Optical Receiver Test, BERT Compliance App enables control and setting of all required instruments for calibration, receiver sensitivity, and jitter tolerance test according to IEEE 802.3-2015 clause 88 and related multi-source agreements (MSA).

The equipment configuration is based on the M8040A high-performance bit error ratio tester (BERT). It includes an arbitrary waveform generator, an optical reference transmitter, a DCA-series digital sampling oscilloscope, a tunable laser source, and an optical attenuator and is fully compatible with the N4917BSCA optical receiver stress test solution for 400G.

Alternative setup configurations are supported, and the hardware can be used for other kinds of device-compliance test such as for optical transmitters and chip-to-module interfaces.

Capabilities

• standard-compliant stressed optical receiver characterization for 25GBASE-ER / -LR / -SR, 100GBASE-LR4 / -ER4 / -SR4 and related 100G multi-sources agreements (CLR4, CWDM4, 4WDM)
• one vendor turn-key solution automates all required instruments in the solution
• repeatable and stable calibration of optical stressed NRZ signal
• adjustable target values for ER, VECP, J2, J4, J9, optical modulation amplitude (OMA)

Functionality

• unified instrument control and setting with the N4917BACA software
• automated stress signal calibration, receiver sensitivity, and jitter tolerance measurements
• customized device testing and reporting via DUT control and scripting interface
• adjustable stress mix for user-defined calibration
• flexible calibration based on customer-defined parameter settings

Excellent Signal Integrity and Analysis Capability

Developing next-generation technology requires world-class signal integrity and analysis capability. Keysight offers the widest choice of serial bit error ratio test (BERT) products for accurate and efficient characterization, compliance, and manufacturing test for digital interfaces in computer, video, datacom, and telecom applications operating up to 40 Gb/s. Keysight’s breakthrough technology enables you to conquer even the most difficult measurement challenges.