Frequencies of high speed serial standards continue to climb and the difficulty of meeting the design requirements has grown accordingly. Test instrumentation is readily available for testing a single four-lane path, however changing connections introduces error and repeatability issues.
The FlexMatrix Differential Series offers dual one by 4, 8, 16 and 32 port solutions to speed time-to-market for products using the latest standards such as PCI Express Gen 3, IEEE 1394, USB 3.0, SATA, SerDes, InfiniBand and Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE and 100 GbE). The Differential Series minimizes path delay skew between differential pairs, including delay matching for transceiver measurements as low as 2 picoseconds at the DUT interface. Test engineers can perform multi-lane testing with a single connection. Complete test plans may be automated and suspected problems may be checked without changing any connections.
SenarioTek strives to ensure their equipment performs better than the extremes of the test environment. Most importantly, their switch matrix helps to ensure that station-to-station test results are consistent and correlate to make it easier for the engineers to evaluate results. FlexMatrix offers excellent cycle-to-cycle insertion loss magnitude and delay repeatability, lowering test system calibration uncertainty for longer periods of time. Each switch matrix contains on-board internal memory providing the ability to conveniently de-embed the nominal amplitude and delay of each differential pair. The Differential Series tight phase/delay matching produces results with the lowest uncertainty and repeatability to allow developers to verify their most challenging designs.
SenarioTek’s FlexMatrix RF Switch Matrix Family delivers off-the-shelf performance from DC up to 40 GHz. FlexMatrix offers test engineers a high performance RF switching capability over the broadest range of standard input and output configurations for applications such as radar, military communications, consumer wireless and signal integrity.
SenarioTek
Santa Rosa, Calif.
www.senariotek.com