SV1C-12 Personalized SerDes Tester
The SV1C-12 Personalized SerDes Tester from Introspect Technology is a compact, high-performance instrument engineered for parallel testing and validation of high-speed SerDes interfaces. Supporting continuous data rates up to 12.5 Gbps, it enables true parallel bit-error-rate measurement across 8 lanes and provides per-lane control for TX amplitude, pre-emphasis, RX clock recovery, and equalization.
With advanced capabilities like TX jitter injection, RX jitter testing, BERT, eye diagram, and analog waveform measurements, it delivers comprehensive signal integrity analysis. Designed to address the challenges of modern SerDes protocols such as PCIe Gen 3, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, and MIPI M-PHY, the SV1C-12 is powered by Introspect’s Python-based Pinetree software, enabling efficient test automation and SerDes algorithm development in a handheld, ultra-portable form factor.
- Continuous data rate selection up to 12.5 Gbps
- True parallel bit-error-rate measurement across 8 lanes
- Per lane TX amplitude and pre-emphasis control
- Per lane RX clock recovery and equalization
- TX jitter injection and integrated RX jitter testing
- BERT, eye diagram and analog waveform measurement capabilities
- Flexible loopback support
- State-of-the-art programming environment based on the highly intuitive Python language
The SV1C Personalized SerDes Tester is an ultra-portable, high-performance instrument that creates a new category of tool for high-speed digital product engineering teams. The instrument fits in one hand and contains 8 independent stimulus generation ports, 8 independent capture and measurement ports, and offers world-class signal-integrity features such as jitter injection and jitter measurement.
The SV1C has been designed specifically to address the growing need of a parallel, system-oriented test methodology to enable the test and measurement of complex SerDes interfaces such as PCI Express Gen 3, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, or MIPI M-PHY. Powered by Introspect’s award-winning software environment, Pinetree, this tool enables product engineers with widely varying skill sets to efficiently work with and develop SerDes verification algorithms.
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