OCTOBER 30, 2009 -- SyntheSys Research Inc. announces the availability of two new products to enable the 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) market. Building on the BERTScope physical layer generator and bit-error-rate (BER) analyzer, the new 25000 models enable semiconductor, transceiver, and system engineers to stimulate and analyze performance of critical 25.78125-Gbps Ethernet and OIF CEI building blocks. The companion to this new BERTScope is the new CR25000A clock recovery instrument with equalization .
Many test engineers that need to make physical layer measurements also need clock recovery, either because they have no clock available, or they need to make measurements with compliant loop bandwidths. According to the company, the BERTScope CR 25000A fulfills these needs with all the flexibility in loop bandwidth and peaking that engineers require, to 26 Gbps. At speeds greater than10 Gbps, circuit board materials can cause appreciable distortion to transmitted bits due to frequency-dependent loss. The CR25000A includes a linear equalizer applying to the clock recovery circuit to allow successful lock even on distorted eye diagrams that are closed from such effects. The level of equalization may be varied by the user to allow for a wide range of intersymbol interference (ISI).
The BERTScope 25000 is available in two models -- the BERTScope Si 25000C with stressed eye generation and the BERTScope 25000A without. The BERTScope CR 25000 is also available in two models -- one with a data through path usable to 12.5 Gbps (CR25000A), the other with a direct input for higher-sensitivity applications (CR HS 25000A).
The equipment is available 8 weeks ARO.