Keysight (formerly Agilent) M8040A-32G

DESCRIPTION

The Keysight (formerly Agilent) M8040A-32G is a highly integrated BERT (Bit Error Rate Tester) for physical layer characterization and compliance testing. With support for PAM-4 and NRZ signals and data rates up to 64 GBaud (corresponds to 128 Gbit/s) it covers all flavors of 200 and 400 GbE standards.
The M8040A BERT offers true error analysis and provides repeatable and accurate results optimizing the performance margins of your 400GbE devices. The M8040A can be used for receiver (input) testing for many popular interconnect standards that use PAM-4 and NRZ data formats, such as: 400 GbE, 50/100/200 GbE, OIF CEI-56G and CEI-112G, 64G/112G Fibre Channel, Infiniband-HDR and proprietary interfaces for chip-to-chip, chip-to-module, backplanes, repeaters and active optical cables. Freely defined test points, e.g. jitter frequencies, without the need for pre-calculating pattern. Integrated sources for periodic jitter, random jitter and bounded uncorrelated jitter stress generation.

Specifications

• Data rates from 2 to 32 and 64 GBaud for pattern generator and analyzer
• PAM-4 and NRZ selectable from user interface
• Built-in de-emphasis with 4 taps
• Integrated and calibrated jitter injection: RJ, PJ1, PJ2, SJ, BUJ, and clk/2 jitter
• Two pattern generator channels per module to emulate aggressor lane
• True PAM-4 error detection in real-time for low BER levels