Product category: Compliance Engineering
News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: AWG7000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 02 May 2007
Waveform generator tests serial data
receivers
The Tektronix AWG7000 arbitrary waveform generator has been approved for direct synthesis testing of Serial ATA data receivers.
Tektronix has made significant advances in the application of direct synthesis (DS) for high speed serial receiver compliance testing Direct synthesis is a flexible and repeatable method for creating ideal or impaired waveforms that are then directly synthesised by the Tektronix AWG7000 arbitrary waveform generator
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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