Agilent 86100C Infiniium DCA-J
The fastest way to the right answer
The multi-functional analysis tool
Time Domain
Reflectometer
Digital
Communications
Analyzer
Wide Band
Oscilloscope
Jitter
Analyzer
T
he ultimate
flexible tool—
the 86100C Digital
Communications Analyzer
with advanced jitter
analysis (DCA-J). Four
instruments in one—a
digital communications
analyzer with automated
eye measurements; a full-function
time domain reflectometer (TDR) for
impedance analysis; a full function
oscilloscope with bandwidth in
excess of 80 GHz; an innovative and
accurate jitter analyzer for electrical
and optical signals.
With the ability to accept plug-in
modules that you already own from
the 83480A/54750A and 86100A/B,
the DCA-J also protects your
investment.
New Advantages
• Jitter Measurements at any
rate, even beyond 40 Gb/s
• Jitter separation into
subcomponents:
• Total Jitter (TJ)
• Random Jitter (RJ)
• Deterministic Jitter (DJ)
• Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI)
• Duty Cycle Distortion (DCD)
• Periodic Jitter (PJ)
• Sub-Rate Jitter (SRJ)
• No need for an external
pattern trigger
• Stable, accurate measurements
• One button ease
• Support for all DCA plug-ins
New Capabilities
• Pattern lock—internally generates
pattern trigger from an ordinary clock
• Eyeline mode—isolates specific bit
sequences, creates an averaged
eye diagram
• Jitter Mode—one-button RJ/DJ
separation; accurate, stable, in-depth
jitter analysis
• Jitter Mode with the 86107A
Precision Timebase—the easiest
jitter measurements combine with
the lowest jitter intrinsics of any
enterprise jitter solution to measure
ultra high performance components
• Open Operating System—Windows®
XP Pro allows external applications
to be installed
Essential tools for the high speed digital designer…
• Wide bandwidth oscilloscope
• Communications analyzer
…all in one instrument!
• Signal integrity analyzer
• Jitter analyzer
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Easy jitter analysis that scales to any bit rate
I might need in the future—at an amazingly
cost-effective price. That this comes with 3 other other
instruments in the same package is amazing!
DCA-J: Expect more
Smashing through the barriers
to gigabit jitter analysis
Derived
pattern
trigger
Pattern lock
Eyeline
Jitter analysis
Clock
Data
New Hardware Enabler
• Verify the transmission quality
of components and channels
with a precision time domain
reflectometer
• Single ended or differential
TDR for accurate impedance
measurements
• Advanced calibration
techniques remove cabling/
fixturing/probe effects; measure just the test device
• Conversion to complete mixed-mode S-parameter data
through N1930A software package
• Widely trusted for optical and electrical eye diagram analysis
• Easy transmitter compliance testing to international standards
• Optical bitrate coverage from 155 Mb/s to >40 Gb/s
• Optical module bandwidth to >65 GHz
• Fast test throughput for manufacturing
• NRZ/RZ built-in measurement ease
• Completely compatible with the 86100B
• Windows® XP Pro open environment
and easy networking
• Eyeline Mode allows averaging of eye
diagrams, isolation of mask violation
bit sequences
• One button does it all
• Easy set up means you get right
answers faster
• Separation of jitter into
subcomponents for fast debugging
• Highly repeatable measurements
• High sensitivity—ideal for testing devices with low intrinsic jitter
• Negligible jitter contribution from the instrument—you’re measuring
your device, not your test equipment
Jitter Analyzer
Pages 4-5
• Electrical bandwidths
from 12 to over 80 GHz
ensure the most accurate
waveforms
• Pulse trains viewed with-
out the need for a separate
pattern or frame trigger
• Analog scope look and feel
• Trigger bandwidth to
>13 GHz (option 001) or 43 GHz
(with 86107A precision time base)
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Wide Bandwidth
Oscilloscope
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Signal
Integrity
Analyzer
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Digital
Communications
Analyzer
Pages 10-11
4 essential
tools in 1
T
he DCA-J takes jitter analysis
to a new level of simplicity
and accuracy. Add to that the
scalability to any data rate that is
likely in the future, and you have the
ultimate in investment protection.
As device performance and system
requirements push jitter performance
to ever higher levels, it is sometimes
hard to distinguish between the
behavior of your device and the jitter
of your test equipment. That will never
be a problem with the DCA-J. The
instrument jitter in the standard mainframe is already very low. Combine
that with the 86107A precision timebase, and intrinsic jitter falls away
to less than 250 fs. DCA-J—see
what’s really going on.
Key enablers
• Jitter Measurements at any
rate, even beyond 40 Gb/s
• Jitter separation into
subcomponents:
• Total Jitter (TJ)
• Random Jitter (RJ)
• Deterministic Jitter (DJ)
• Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI)
• Duty Cycle Distortion (DCD)
• Periodic Jitter (PJ)
• Sub-Rate Jitter (SRJ)
• No need for a pattern trigger
• Stable, accurate measurements
• One button ease
• Wide bandwidth means lowest
intrinsic ISI/DDJ
• Lowest Intrinsic Jitter floor
means highest sensitivity RJ
measurements
• Support for all DCA plug-ins,
optical and electrical
• Limit tests provide quick pass-fail
jitter results
Displays that save you time
Sometimes you want to get in-depth
analysis of a difficult device performance issue. Sometimes you want
data views that are compatible with
other instruments so you can correlate multiple answers. And then,
there are times when you just want
to know whether your device meets
a standard.
The DCA-J handles all of these
situations by providing revealing
histograms and intuitive graphical
views, and by providing an easy and
simple table of jitter sub-components.
Its aim is to save you time.
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Think jitter measurements
are hard to make? Think again.
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As bit rates increase, jitter budgeting and
characterization of jitter performance present an
ever increasing challenge. In order to manage jitter
effectively, we need tools that can decompose the jitter into
the numerical and statistical forms that allow us to predict our performance
effectively and provide the insight necessary to solve problems quickly.
The new capability of the DCA-J provides irreplaceable visibility for
the challenges of jitter characterization of our world class
products. This new instrument is a major contribution
to our ability to manage jitter.
—Anthony Sanders
Principal Engineer, Infineon Technologies
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