Tektronix, NEC Electronics Team to Demo Complete SuperSpeed USB Test Solution

Tektronix said that it has collaborated with NEC Electronics America on the first public showing of NEC (News - Alert) Electronics’ new SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) device prototypes.

 

A designer and provider of integrated circuits, NEC Electronics worked closely with Tektronix (News - Alert) to “prove” that its new silicon components meet the requirements of the emerging SuperSpeed USB standard.

 

The working USB 3.0 demonstration featured NEC’s USB 3.0 PHY test chip and also a receiver and transmitter demonstration based on the USB 3.0 Rev1.0 specification.

 

SuperSpeed USB’s data rates reach 5 Gb/s, allowing its performance to enter the territory of protocols such as PCI Express 2.0 and SATA Gen 3.

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Officials claimed that the Tektronix SuperSpeed USB solution is the “first toolset” to meet all the transmitter and receiver test requirements outlined in the SuperSpeed USB specification.

 

The Tektronix SuperSpeed USB compliance solution is built on a foundation of instruments, including sampling oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and more. These instruments, officials said, provide measurement performance that meets the demands of high speed serial protocols.

 

For example, the DSA71254 real-time oscilloscope delivers bandwidth five times that of the serial signal's clock rate. Moreover, officials said, the AWG7122B arbitrary waveform generator provides complex waveforms that contain stresses that imitate the degrading effects of transmission paths to support receiver testing.

 

These hardware tools are integrated with software applications such as the DPOJET Jitter and Eye Diagram Analysis Tool and SerialXpress Advanced Jitter Generation Tool to provide designers with the tools they require to verify and debug their designs.

 

“Tektronix provides the SuperSpeed USB ecosystem with much needed test equipment to aid implementation and acceptance of the SuperSpeed USB technology,” said Kats Nakazawa, general manager for digital consumer and connectivity strategic business unit at NEC Electronics America.

 

 

Production SuperSpeed USB interface ICs are schedule to arrive in early 2010.

 

Earlier this month, Tektronix unveiled new offerings in its active differential probes, saying that these products will complement the full portfolio of new DPO/DSA70000B Series real-time oscilloscopes.