LeCroy has introduced a serial data test system with a 13GHz bandwidth. The system consists of the SDA13000 serial data analyser, the D13000PS active differential probe along with debug and analysis tools.

Sample rate is 40GS/s, and memory depth 100Mpts/channel.

With the adoption of high speed serial data buses such as SAS II, SATA II, Fibre Channel and PCI-Express Gen 2 is mind, the test firm has designed both the compliance and debug tests for straight-forward set up with an integrated phase locked loop specifically for PCI-Express, FB DIMM, and Fibre Channel.

The debug tools include and eye violation locator and ISI (Inter-symbol Interference) plot to understand which bit or bit combination is contributing the most errors.

Other tools include periodic jitter breakdown feature for analysis of periodic jitter and 8b/10b decode and search capabilities.

See www.lecroy.co.uk