W2352EP Datasheet, PDF (2/6 Pages) Keysight Technologies – PCI Express Compliance Test Bench

02 | Keysight | W2352EP/ET PCI Express Compliance Test Bench - Data Sheet
Introduction
The W2352EP/ET PCI Express^® (PCIe) Compliance Test Bench helps solve the problem of
simulation-measurement correlation. In the past, the pre-manufacture design could be
simulated and tested using compliance tools from an EDA vendor. And the post-manufacture
prototype could be bench tested using compliance tools from test and measurement
instrument vendors. However, because of subtle differences between the two vendors
independent approaches to compliance, it was almost impossible to correlate the two. This
opened the possibility of the pre-manufacture design passing and the post-manufacture
prototype failing, necessitating a time-consuming and expensive design spin.
In contrast, PCI Express Compliance Test Bench leverages the exact same industry-leading
Compliance App used on Keysight Infiniium oscilloscopes. It mimics a real hardware test bench,
and, using a scripting technology called “Waveform Bridge,” emits the same waveforms that
the Infiniium app receives when you are testing in your lab. Thus, the exact same tests – no ifs,
ands, or buts -- are applied to both the pre-manufacture simulated design and the actual post-
manufacture prototype.