Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has introduced a precision
waveform analyzer for engineers involved in design verification and validation
of high-speed electrical communications systems and components.
With industry-best residual jitter (below 50 femtoseconds),
channel bandwidths to 50 GHz and integrated clock recovery to 32 Gb/s, the
Agilent 86108B precision waveform analyzer gives
engineers confidence they are seeing the true performance of their designs.
This new plug-in module is the latest addition to the Agilent
86100C/D DCA wide-bandwidth oscilloscope family.
Emerging Standards Require Industry-Leading Performance
Engineers testing IEEE 802.3ba (40-Gb/100-Gb Ethernet), Optical
Internetworking Forum CEI 3.0, INCITS T-11 32G Fibre Channel and high-speed
proprietary systems will benefit from the measurement performance of Agilent's
86108B waveform analyzer. As data rates increase to 28 Gb/s and beyond,
accurate component characterization becomes more difficult. Cabling to
instrumentation degrades signal integrity, and performance margins are consumed
due to non-ideal measurement systems. The 86108B's integrated precision
timebase and clock recovery design, with typical residual jitter below 50 fs
rms, enable it to minimize potential problems. With this plug-in module,
Agilent's wide-bandwidth oscilloscopes meet the requirements of advanced
technologies better than any other oscilloscopes on the market today.
Continuous data-rate coverage from 50 Mb/s to 32 Gb/s, peaking
control and adjustable loop bandwidths to 20 MHz also allow the clock recovery
circuit to provide a golden PLL response for accurate and compliant device characterization.
Integrated Design Enables Significant Ease-of-Use Advantages
In addition to the performance benefits offered by the Agilent
86108B, the integrated instrumentation-grade clock recovery circuit allows the
module to trigger directly from single-ended or differential data signals. This
eliminates the need for a separate trigger input. The module also integrates
high-bandwidth pickoffs and phase-matched cables, which significantly reduce
setup complexity, maintain signal integrity and make it easy for users to start
making accurate measurements quickly.
Characterizing Closed Eyes and Phase-Locked Loop Designs
An auxiliary clock-recovery input circuit allows engineers to
analyze extremely low-level signals, or signals that have been closed due to
severe inter-symbol interference, by triggering the scope using a separate
synchronous data (or clock) signal connected to the 86108B's auxiliary CR
input. The on-board phase detector enables a flexible and accurate technique to
determine PLL bandwidth/peaking on devices with either clock or data inputs and
outputs.
Economical and Upgradeable
The integration of several instrumentation blocks in the 86108B
provides significant cost advantages in addition to the highest measurement
accuracy. The cost of the system (an 86100D mainframe plus the 86108B module)
is far below any comparable real-time or equivalent-time oscilloscope solution.
Additionally, Agilent offers the 86108B with bandwidth options of 35 GHz and 50
GHz and clock recovery data-rate options of 16 Gb/s and 32 Gb/s. Both bandwidth
and clock recovery options are upgradeable, so users can enhance their
instruments as their designs warrant.
"These new high-speed standards are challenging the
engineering community like never before," said Jay Alexander, vice
president and general manager of Agilent's Oscilloscope Products Division.
"Agilent is pleased to provide engineers with the 86108B, a new gold
standard engineered to characterize their designs more easily and accurately.
This product is an essential tool to help high-speed chipset suppliers remain
competitive."
Benefits of the Agilent 86108B precision waveform analyzer
include:
- Lowest intrinsic jitter (<
50 fs rms typical), which provides the most accurate measurement
waveforms.
- Widest continuous
clock-recovery range (50 Mb/s to 32 Gb/s), allowing for easy measurement
setup and compliant device characterization.
- High-bandwidth receivers
(35-GHz and 50-GHz options), providing a faithful and accurate
representation of the incoming signal.
- Integrated triggering
architecture, allowing simple connection schemes, analysis of
low-amplitude signals and the elimination of the clock-data delay that can
corrupt jitter measurements.
- An internal phase detector that
enables accurate measurements of PLL bandwidth, jitter transfer and
jitter/phase noise spectrum.
U.S. Pricing and Availability
The Agilent 86108B precision waveform analyzer is available now,
with prices starting at $80,000. Further information about the Agilent 86108B
is available at www.agilent.com/find/86108B. Images of the
Agilent 86108B are available at www.agilent.com/find/86108B_images.
Further information about the Agilent 86100D DCA-X wide-bandwidth
oscilloscope family is available at www.agilent.com/find/dcax.
About
Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier
measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life
sciences, electronics and communications. The company's 18,700 employees serve
customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $6.6 billion
in fiscal 2011. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.