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Compliance and automation testing: Thunderbolt
Verify and debug your Thunderbolt designs more easily and ensure compliance.
Thunderbolt is becoming increasingly popular as an
interface for connecting devices to a computer through a bus.
Thunderbolt combines PCI Express and DisplayPort into a
serial data port that can be transmitted longer distances with
less expensive cables.
Thunderbolt technology must work with other devices and
must pass compliance. Agilent provides full compliance for
the Thunderbolt technology and the 90000 Q-Series is a key
part of transmitter compliance. Use the Thunderbolt software
to debug your Thunderbolt designs and ensure compliance.
With 4 channels of real time oscilloscope bandwidth at 33
GHz, the 90000 Q-Series is ideal for looking at two differential
pairs for the Thunderbolt technology.
Agilent’s Thunderbolt compliance application features to test
the following specifications:
1. Eye pattern testing
2. Jitter testing
3. TJ, DJ, RJ
4. AC common mode
5. Rise and fall times