10G BERT System

Shown: SB10 with OPTC13
Affordable - Flexible Frequency - Test Systems

Product description

The Centellax Modular 10G BER Test System is designed for device characterization, research and development testing, production testing, and general lab use. The system features a synthesizer that operates the BERT at bitrates from 500 Mb/s to 12.5 Gb/s, and enables stressed eye testing. With the addition of other modular hardware, like a 622 Mb/s-13.5 Gb/s clock recovery unit, the SB10 system can be configured to address a wide range of physical layer digital signal integrity test applications.

The base system allows physical-layer BER testing of single-ended or differential DUTs with operating rates from 500 Mb/s to 12.5 Gb/s. The system is GPIB controlled with a suite of features including PRBS pattern selection (PRBS7-31), electronic clock/data alignment, variable output voltages (0.6-3.6 V p-p differential), and many clock and subrate trigger outputs.The SB10 system can support six BER test channels.

The system can be used as a bit error rate tester for many different applications, including characterization and production test of components and low-level systems. The jitter injection and clock chirping features allow compliance testing to a wide range of datacom standards, including PCI express, infiniband, serial ATA, and others.

When outfitted with the extended synthesizer range and un-banded clock recovery unit, the SB10 is ideally suited for testing higher-rate devices that induce signal distortion (like fiber loops). The clock recovery unit can also be used to test a signal generated at a remote site, where the fullrate data clock must be recovered to test bit error rates.

The BER test system comes with a standard 1 year warranty on all modular components. An extended system warranty - which extends the warranty on each component an additional year - is available at any time while the system is still under warranty.

Key benefits and features

• Operates from 500 Mb/s to 12.5 Gb/s
• Integrated jitter source for stressed eye testing
• Configurable with a clock recovery unit
• Cost-effective alternative to other systems
• Modular solution allows functional additions later
• Differential or single-ended connections to DUT
• System controlled by GPIB remote interface
• PRBS patterns: 7, 10, 15, 23, 31
• Mark/space density (ratio of 0's to 1's): 1/2, 1/4, 1/8

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NI LabVIEW drivers

The following National Instrument LabVIEW drivers are provided free of charge with no user license required. You may download, modify, and freely distribute the driver. Centellax offers no direct or implied warranty on the software; contact National Instruments for troubleshooting or compatibility concerns. The driver allows virtual instrument (VI) GUI control of the 10G BERT, along with additional BER scan, differential BER measurement, and other features.

The complete LabVIEW 6.1 virtual instrument (VI) files for graphical control of the TG1B1-A: 10G BERT via GPIB; software includes graphical BER scan, differential BER measurement, and other features.

The compiled driver executable, download if you want to use the compiled driver without installing LabVIEW on your computer.

The NI VISA library, download if you want to use the compiled driver without installing LabVIEW on your computer.

The NI RunTime library, download if you want to use the compiled driver without installing LabVIEW on your computer.

IVI-COM driver

Centellax IVI-COM instrument drivers are provided free of charge to assist you in developing software using Centellax instruments. The driver is a COM-model API that can be used in most application development environments, including Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, MATLAB, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++, and others. Review the Centellax appnotes and the IVI Foundation 'Quick Start' guides for use examples.

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