32 Gb/s Stressed Serial BER Tester

SSB32/SSB32J
5-32 Gb/s Stressed Serial BERT

The world's most affordable solution for characterizing 
100GbE (4x25G), 28G, and High Speed SerDes applications

Product description

The SSB32 is a 5-32 Gb/s Stressed BER Tester containing a controller (SSB16000) and pattern generator (PG32) and error detector (ED32) remote mountable heads. The SSB16000 controller has an integrated clock source with calibrated stress capability. This base model is ideal for many optical serial data applications, providing a single tone of sinusoidal jitter. For applications which require a more complex "stress recipe," the SSB32J comes with the SSB16000J controller, which includes two independent sources of sinusoidal along with broadband true random jitter sources. In addition, all three clock outputs of the SSB32J can be modulated with spread spectrum, with a deviation settable up to 1.0% of the clock frequency (10,000 ppm). Having both controller options provides flexibility for your application and budget needs.

The PG32 pattern generator provides true PRBS, common telecom/datacom stress patterns, and user generated patterns up to 8 Mb. Both the PG32 pattern generator and ED32 error detector remote mountable heads allow for a compact system that places the signal close to your device under test, greatly reducing the effects of cable loss. These heads run at full rate at the input and output connectors, eliminating the need for complex cabling, external multiplexers/demultiplexers, and careful calibration needed to align the clock phasing as in systems that run at a fractional sub-rate.

All features can be controlled through the SSB16000 control panel or remotely through a GPIB or USB interface. Additionally, Centellax offers an analysis software program, the Signal Integrity Studio, designed to control this system using your computer.

Modular components

SSB32 Datasheet