Agilent Technologies Inc. (www.agilent.com) has expanded the application portfolio of the Infiniium oscilloscope series with the addition of Ethernet 64b/66b protocol decoding and triggering software, making it the first family of oscilloscope to support 64b/66b protocol decoding and triggering.
To date, the only oscilloscope-based protocol solutions available in the market were for buses, such as CAN, SPI, I2C or 8b/10b-based decoding schemes. This leaves 64b/66b developers manually decoding complex designs. Decoding in real time, the Agilent N8815A Ethernet 10Gbase-KR allow teams to develop higher-quality products more easily and quickly.
Ethernet 64b/66b is primarily used in today’s transmission and networking technologies. Ethernet, Fiber Channel and InfiniBand are some of the technologies that benefit from the lower overhead of the 64b/66b. Specifically developed to benefit designers of the 40Gbase-KR and 10Gbase-KR technology, Agilent’s N8815A software takes advantage of Infiniium’s multiple serial searching and decoding, enabling designers to view four planes at once.
The N8815A software does not only decode 64b/66b signals, they also properly identify PRBS signals including their lengths. The application allows designers to ascertain the exact pattern and pattern length of the signals they are running. It also features a forward error correction function.
Supporting the new N8815A Ethernet 10Gbase-KR decode application, Agilent’s Infiniium 90000 X-Series oscilloscope includes the industry’s fastest real-time oscilloscopes with 33 GHz real-time bandwidth. Together with Infiniium 90000 Series, these oscilloscopes offer the industry’s lowest jitter measurement floor and the lowest noise, ensuring outstanding measurement accuracy.
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