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Digital Design and Interconnect Standards
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Digital Design and Interconnect Standards

Overcome Challenges Across the Design Cycle When digital signals reach gigabit speeds, “the unpredictable” becomes normal. In digital standards, every generational change puts new risks in your path. We see it firsthand when creating our products and working with engineers like you. The process of getting your project back on track starts with the best tools for the job. Keysight’s solution set for high-speed digital test is a combination of hardware, software, and broad expertise built on ongoing involvement with industry experts. Keysight’s tools for simulation, measurement, and...

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Count on Keysight to help you through to a complete gigabit design. PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) software and its capabilities model RF and microwave effects quickly and accurately. Use PathWave ADS and the Physical Layer Test System (PLTS) software to solve modeling problems such as long, lossy interconnects or crosstalk in densely packed interconnects. PLTS software calibrates and controls both vector network analyzer (VNA) and time domain reflectometry (TDR) measurements. PathWave ADS provides an integrated workflow that unites system, circuit, and physical-level design and...

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To help pinpoint problems, PathWave ADS provides integrated simulation and data displays. PathWave ADS includes eye-diagram, mask, and bit error rate (BER) contour displays for visualizing channel- or circuitsimulation results. The PathWave ADS Channel Simulator (for serial buses) and DDR Bus Simulator (for parallel buses) produce ultralow BER contours in seconds by applying state-of-the-art statistical analysis techniques that include a unique treatment of transmitter jitter modeling that correlates closely with measured data. Both simulators support not only built-in generic models but...

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With our high-speed digital solution set, you can estimate system performance with models of devices and structures before hardware design or fab shop results. Use proxy devices to estimate component behavior and vary device parameters to account for process variation, temperature drift, humidity effects, and more. To maximize design margins, you can assess a system’s segmented performance at IC pins, interface connectors, backplanes, and elsewhere. Collectively, these capabilities can help you predict and optimize yields. PathWave ADS lets you build a foundation for a deeper understanding...

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Real-world measurements reveal performance parameters that can help you identify critical components within a specific budget. They can also help you validate or refine assumptions in your simulations and enable correlation of model results with actual tests. To create consistent data sets, you can correlate data in the time, frequency, and simulation domains. For greater visibility, you can use simulation to interpolate and extrapolate waveforms in locations measurements can’t reach. For greater confidence in actual VNA and TDR measurements, the PLTS software includes advanced calibration...

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Today’s demanding environment means you have much less time to understand the intricacies of the technologies you are testing. Compliance applications save you time and money with built-in measurement automation. Keysight’s Infiniium compliance applications are fully functional with design tools such as PathWave ADS. Imagine running your waveforms at design through the entire suite of compliance tests earlier than was previously possible. As the design moves to silicon and then to validation, you can run the same suite of tests live on your device. Keysight compliance applications are...

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Signal Integrity Today’s emerging high-speed digital applications require a special kind of design engineer who understands the subtle signal integrity issues at hand. High-frequency microwave effects cause the most problems within telecommunications and computer systems, channels, and components. High-speed interconnects such as connectors, printed circuit boards (PCBs), cables, integrated circuit (IC) packages, and backplanes are critical elements of differential channels that must be designed using today’s most powerful analysis and characterization tools. Both measurements and...

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PathWave ADS is unique in its integration of accurate channel, circuit, and EM simulators. This ensures that you get the right answers faster by avoiding data transfers between point tools. It includes: • SIPro Signal Integrity EM Analysis • PIPro Power Integrity EM Analysis • Interconnect Toolbox Element to optimize your PCB stack up and design transmission line geometry • Transient Convolution and Channel Simulation Element • Layout Element Learn More Find us at www.keysight.com Page 10

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N1930B Physical Layer Test System (PLTS) Software The triple-play of voice, video, and data drive internet bandwidth requirements to extreme levels only attainable from telecommunication networks designed with the most advanced design tools. Keysight’s PLTS is just such a tool, providing the calibration, measurement, and analysis capabilities needed to characterize digital interconnects precisely and accurately. Developing and refining channel models enables you to meet project schedules and performance requirements. When these models don’t extend to high enough frequencies to emulate...

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Gain deeper confidence with Keysight Vector Network Analyzers Whether you’re testing active or passive devices, the right mix of speed and performance gives you an edge. Our vector network analyzers provide a level of measurement integrity in R&D that helps you transform in-depth understanding into better designs. On the production line, our VNAs provide the throughput and repeatability you need to transform parts into competitive components. Every Keysight VNA is the ultimate expression of our expertise in linear and nonlinear device characterization. On the bench, in a rack, or in the...

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E5071C ENA Option TDR Signal integrity of interconnects drastically affects system performance at Gb/s data rates. Fast and accurate interconnect performance analysis in both time and frequency domains is critical to ensure reliable system performance. The ENA Option TDR provides a one-box solution for cable and high-speed interconnect analysis, enabling time domain, frequency domain, and eye diagram analysis for system integrity and compliance testing. • TDR oscilloscope look-and-feel allows for simple and intuitive operation with a minimal learning curve. • Proprietary electrostatic...

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