86100D-201 Datasheet, PDF (2/2 Pages) Keysight Technologies – Advanced Waveform Analysis Software

Keysight | 86100D Option 201 Advanced Waveform Analysis Software – Product Fact Sheet
Analyze complete waveforms
The advanced waveform analysis software allows you to capture and analyze a complete
single-valued record of a transmitted pattern waveform—up to 2²³ bits long. Pattern
waveforms provide key measurement data for design modeling and for optimizing
equalizer design.
Use MATLAB¹ to process your signal as it is received by the DCA
While you can still transfer saved pattern waveforms via a LAN or a memory stick and
analyze the data with your favorite software package, Option 201 can save you
significant time while adding convenience to the task.
The 86100C and 86100D are now able to interface with MATLAB (the industry standard
mathematical scripting tool) so that you can apply almost any filtering or signal
processing algorithm you wish and see the results on the scope in real-time. Try
different finite impulse response filters, signal-to-noise optimization schemes, image
reconstruction techniques or whatever approach you come up with to compensate for
signal degradation. You’ll see the results on the DCA as you transmit the signal.
You can also run MATLAB scripts that write yourself or that are recommended by
standards such as IEEE 802.3, FC-PI-4 and others². This allows you to see live
Waveform Dispersion Penalty (WDP), non-compensatable data-dependent jitter
(ncDDJ) and other results right on your oscilloscope screen. Verifying interoperability
and standard compliance just got faster and easier!
Example applications (*.m scripts) that are included in firmware
revision 8.0
–– Transmitter Compliance Transfer Functions (TCTF) emulate ISI on high-speed digital
signals. Save time and money—you don’t have to design and fabricate a load board
that matches each TCTF function
–– Separate transition and non-transition bits in a waveform to allow separate mask
tests to be performed
–– Pre-emphasis as defined by FC-PI-4
–– Maximum, Minimum and Average measurements (different script for each) within a
window specified by the vertical markers
–– Transmitter Waveform Dispersion Penality (TWDP) wrapper script to work with the
IEEE 802.3aq MATLAB script. The wrapper is an interface between the DCA firmware
and the TWDP script.³
1.  MATLAB Software is available from The MathWorks, Inc. (www.mathworks.com). MATLAB is sold
separately and must be installed on the DCA mainframe by the user. 86100C requires MATLAB
Version 2008a or earlier.
2.  Requires 86100C firmware revision 8.0 or later. Firmware upgrades available—for details see
www.keysight/com/find/dcaj.
3.  TWDP and related methodologies may contain intellectual property by one or more third parties.
Keysight Technologies, Inc., does not license, sell or distribute TWDP scripts. Any intellectual
property rights necessary to run TWDP scripts in conjunction with the Keysight 86100DCA are
not granted by Keysight.
Open up a closed eye with the on-board
equalization tool (top: raw waveform, bottom:
equalized waveform).
Every time the oscilloscope updates a raw
waveform MATLAB scripts (*.m files) can
calculate up to four numerical parameters. The
86100C/D then displays the current value as well
as automatically creates statistics.
Capture partial or entire pattern waveforms for
use in design modeling. A precision timebase
such as the 86107A or 86108A) helps maximize
measurement accuracy.
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