This setup is based on the N4903A J-BERT. It has been especially developed for the characterization of the receiver of a SATA device. This BERT based measurements are performed without the effects of retiming, coding and scrambling to ensure extensive physical layer characterization of the receiver cell. The device is tested in a near-end loop-back mode1.

Features:

  • BER based RSG characterization
  • TSG and PHY w/o OOB compliance testing
  • For SATA 1 and SATA 2 devices
  • Data rates up to 7 Gb/s or 12.5 Gb/s to protect the investment for SATA 3
  • FER based RSG compliance testing with additional logic analyzer system
  • 1x N4903A J-BERT
  • 1x DSO81004B 10GHz (or better) Infiniium oscilloscope
  • 2x 150ps 15435A transition time converters
  • 1x 15442A sets of 4 SMA cables

3rd party products:

If FER counter is needed:

  • 1x logic analyzer system (e.g. 16900 series, see Keysight web for N4219B compatible configurations)
  • 1x N4219B Serial-ATA probe

or alternatively 3rd party products:

  • 1x Crescent Heart Software SATA-II probe Adapter with frame error rate monitoring licence. See http://www.c-h-s.com

1) The test requires, that the device can be set into a near-end loopback via device custom interface.