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N5393C PCI Express® 3.0 (Gen3) Software for Infiniium Oscilloscopes

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Verify and debug your PCI Express® designs more easily

Keysight Technologies, Inc. N5393C PCI Express electrical performance validation and compliance software provides you with a fast and easy way to verify and debug your PCI Express 3.0, 2.0, and 1.1/1.0a designs for both silicon validation (as per the PCIe® BASE specification) as well as for adding cards and motherboard systems (as per the PCIe CEM specification). The PCI Express electrical test software allows you to automatically execute PCI Express electrical transmitter tests, and it displays the results in a flexible report format. In addition to the measurement data, the report provides a margin analysis that shows how closely your device passed or failed each test.

The N5393C PCI Express electrical test software utilizes the prescribed test methods and algorithms as required by the PCI Express Card Electromechanical (CEM) specifications for all current PCI Express Standards. This produces results that are not only consistent with the PCI-SIG®’s own SigTest utility, but also provides you with a fast and easy means of executing complex twoport motherboard tests and single port add-in card test with total automation. In addition to transmitter testing, the N5393C PCI Express electrical test software also provides an optional receiver test calibration test suite, which allows you to setup your N4903B JBERT bit error ratio tester for performing PCI Express 3.0 jitter tolerance testing under the PCIe 3.0 BASE specification. 

The PCI Express electrical performance validation and compliance software performs a wide range of electrical tests as per the PCI Express PCI Express 2.0 and 1.1/1.0a. electrical specifications for add- in cards and motherboard systems as documented in Section 4 of the base specification and Section 4 of the card electromechanical specification. Tests for PCI Express 3.0 (based on section 4.3.3.10 and 4.3.3.13) are also included to help you test your products against for the next generation of this powerful I/O technology. In addition to full swing (800 mV) testing, the N5393C also supports testing for low-power, half-swing devices (400 mV) as per the PCI Express Architecture Mobile Graphics Low-Power Addendum to the PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.0.

Benefits

Capability Keysight N5393C PCI-SIG SigTest

Support for PCIe 3.0 BASE Spec N/A

Integrated de-embedding support Yes (N5465A Required) No

Number of measurement assertions 16+ 4

Support for PCIe 1.0a, 1.1, 2.0 Yes Yes

Reference clock tests 10 (1.1) 0*

Automated oscilloscope setup for each measurement Yes, guided No, single setup

Measurement results Pass/fail with margin analysis Pass/fail with measured value

CEM based measurement methodology Yes Yes

Clock recovery method PCI-SIG SigTest or 1st/2nd order PLL PCI-SIG SigTest

Brick wall filter (2.0 testing) Yes Yes

Custom HTML report generation Yes No

Support for low power device Yes No

Selectable number of tests performed Yes No

Multi-trial run support Yes No

Debug mode for “what if” analysis Yes No

Compliance test boards supported CBB1, CBB2, CLB1, CLB2 CBB1, CBB2, CLB1, CLB2

N5393C benefits

The N5393C PCI Express electrical test software saves you time by setting the stage for automatic execution of PCI Express electrical tests, including JBERT jitter stress calibration (optional). Part of the difficulty of performing electrical tests for PCI Express is hooking up the oscilloscope, loading the proper setup files, and then analyzing the measured results by comparing them to limits published in the specification. The PCI Express electrical test software does much of this work for you. In addition, if you discover a problem with your device, robust debug tools are available to aid in root-cause analysis. These debug tools are provided by the Keysight E2688A high-speed serial data analysis software, which you must install on your oscilloscope to use the PCI Express electrical test software.

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