Tektronix (www.tek.com), the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscope, has announced the release of its latest optical sampling oscilloscope module specifically designed for the Tektronix DSA8200 Digital Serial Analyzer Series for validation testing and characterization of 14GB FDR Infiniband and 16GFC Fibre Channel communications standards.
Both Infiniband and Fibre Channel standards are designed for high-bandwidth devices and applications, such as data center migration and interconnect, large databases, high-performance super-computing clusters and memory arrays or solid-state disks. The company’s latest 80C14 module is the highest-performance testing system in the industry for compliance verification from 8.5 Gb/s via 14.063 Gb/s.
“These latest optical standards bring higher performance and lower power consumption per bit over previous generations, driving demand and putting a premium on time to market,” said Brian Reich, Performance Oscilloscopes General Manager at Tektronix. “With the new 80C14 optical module, we are moving quickly to give equipment suppliers the comprehensive test capabilities they need to deliver products based on the new standards.”
The latest addition to the DSA8200 platform, the 80C14 optical sampling module supports both multimode and singlemode fiber offering up to 3 uW of RMS noise performance, and Optical sensitivity ranging from 19 dBand to -14 dBm to provide cutting edge signal integrity performance for improved mask margin. The module also offers optical reference receivers that are T11- and ITU-compliant for characterization and evaluation of the recently completed 14 GB FDR Infiniband channels and 16GFC Fibre Channel standard.
Vladimir Sokolov says
Gentlemen,
I work for the Mayo Clinic and we have one of your DSA8200 scopes with optical plug-ins 80C08C and 80C10B. We also have the 80SJNB software for this scope. Please tell me what does “sample count” mean on the 80SJNB output report. What is a “sample” ? Is it a single point on the screen? Is it a single waveform aquisition, or what is it? I looked all over your Quick Setup guide and tried to find this information on your web sites – no luck. It is quite frustrating.
Thank you.