Agilent Technologies has introduced compliance test applications and ball-grid array (BGA) probes for double data rate 5 (GDDR5) graphics memory devices for its oscilloscopes.

The U7245A GDDR5 test application, which runs on Agilent Infiniium 90000 and 90000 X-Series oscilloscopes, provides GDDR5 physical-layer compliance measurements.

Compliance tests are based on the Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) JESD212 GDDR5 SGRAM specification. Signal access is provided by Agilent’s GDDR5 BGA probes.

The Agilent GDDR5 compliance test application provides automated physical layer testing capability for all clock, electrical and timing tests, with 100 percent test coverage as specified in the JESD212 specification.

The application automatically configures the oscilloscope for each test and generates an HTML report at the end of the test that is viewable with any web browser. 

The high speed GDDR5 graphics memory interface is used in high-performance display cards and embedded designs such as gaming consoles.