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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Easy setup, easy triggering
Many jitter measurements turn
out to be inaccurate because of
some small but important error in
a complicated measurement setup.
With the DCA-J, a simple physical
setup, combined with a user interface that never lets you get lost,
makes getting simple, accurate
jitter measurements easy.
Jitter mode—one button gateway
to understanding jitter
Jitter can be a complex subject, and sometimes
it can seem that your test equipment is making
it even more complicated. Ultimately, you just
want to get a design completed and working.
Finally, there is a test solution that makes
things simpler.
Eye diagrams have proved useful because they
are so intuitive. Building on this intuitiveness,
the DCA-J shows you the behavior of your
device in the jitter domain but always tracks
back to the eye diagram. Measurements not
making sense? Maybe something changed in
your setup. It’s easy to switch back to the eye
and quickly see whether everything is how
you left it. Results are in familiar formats—
but that have never been available for 6, 10,
or 40 Gb/s applications. Simplicity in setup
and operation means you can be confident
that you are making accurate, valuable
measurements from the very beginning.
Eyeline mode—see your problem sequences
It’s easy to move between eye diagrams that
overlay all possible bit sequences to single
valued waveforms that show individual bit
sequences. Sometimes it would be useful to
make the noise disappear and just see the
inter-symbol effects (ISI). Averaging in Eyeline
Mode enables you to do exactly that. Now you
can see exactly which sequences are causing
mask violations. No need for a pattern trigger
either—connect your signal and in most cases
the instrument detects pattern length and bit
rate without being told—you have an immediate display to work from.
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The fastest way
to the right answer
Compatible
The 86100C is code-
compatible with the
86100A and B.
NRZ/RZ
Complete set of
NRZ/RZ measurements
Touchscreen
A high performance touchscreen
allows easy navigation of the
instrument interface. Or, use
dedicated knobs or a mouse—
the choice is yours.
Easy user interface
A well-designed Windows®-based
graphical user interface makes it
easy to access advanced features.
Icons provide access to an
extensive set of common tests
and measurements.
Dedicated jitter
analysis mode
Whether you are making electrical
or optical measurements, quickly
change between observing the
eye to making quick, accurate, and
intuitive jitter measurements with
the touch of a button.
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The big picture—4 instruments in 1
Autoscale
Improved autoscale for a quick
display of waveforms including
eye-diagrams
Quick measure
Use Quick Measure to do a
compliance test with a single
button press. Quick Measure
can also be configured to
automatically perform your
favorite four measurements.
Flexible storage
Internal hard drive, front panel
USB port, and supplied USB pen drive
make storage and transfer of setups, image
files, database files, and waveforms easy.
Dedicated controls for
common adjustments
Analog oscilloscope type front
panel provides simple controls
for basic functions.
4 instruments in 1
A digital communications
analyzer, a full featured widebandwidth oscilloscope, a time
domain reflectometer and now a
fast and accurate jitter analyzer.
Just select the desired operating
mode to set up the instrument
you want.
Very low intrinsic jitter
The intrinsic jitter noise floor of
the instrument is extremely low,
making it easy to measure high
performance designs where
instrument jitter might otherwise
hide the real device performance.
For the ultimate in performance,
the 86107A can be used to reduce
the intrinsic jitter to an industry
leading level.
Modular
Configure the 86100C for
the exact capability you need
with a large family of plug-in
modules to choose from.
Modules for the 83480A/
54750A are compatible with
the 86100 family.
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Pattern Lock control
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”
In the modern ultra high speed SERDES business,
understanding jitter at the zero crossing points of a waveform is
not enough. Accurate capture of very long data packets becomes a
requirement to permit post-processing both for design analysis and
standards compliance testing. It is also our desire to have a single signal
analysis platform to handle bit rates from 1 Gb/s to 12.5 Gb/s and beyond.
The 86100C meets our requirements well. In addition to its new jitter analysis
package, the combination of its flexible triggering system and precision timebase
enables the capture of averaged very long data packet waveforms with unprece-
dented accuracy. The speed of the instrument has also been impressive with DDJ
measurements that used to take hours being reduced to less than a minute.
—Steve Hubbins
Silicon Evaluations Specialist, Texas Instruments
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Fast time to insight
W
ith higher bit rates
being used in ever lower
target cost systems,
advanced techniques are being used
to get a low system BER. Circuit
boards constructed from FR-4 can be
cheap, but they distort pulse trains
passing across them. Designers are
increasingly employing pre-emphasis
and equalization to counteract intersymbol interference (ISI) and open
up the eye. However, it can be hard
to measure the effectiveness of such
systems. Designers use modeling to
predict component performance,
but they ultimately need to verify with
real-world measurements.
An end to bit rates
outpacing your test equipment
• Even closed eyes can be captured as
pulse train data and the effectiveness
of common equalization schemes
seen from on-board algorithms.
• With many standards scaling up in
bandwidth at an increasing rate, the
DCA-J has you covered for now and
for the foreseeable future. All at a
new price/performance benchmark.
The DCA-J can swiftly provide insight
• Pattern Lock enables single-valued
waveform viewing at even the fastest
bit rates when no separate pattern
trigger is available.
• Triggering is also enhanced with the
industry’s first 10 Gb/s electrical
clock recovery instrument solution,
the 83495A.
• With electrical channels that have
bandwidths ranging from 12 GHz to
in excess of 80 GHz, you can be sure
of the most precise pulse fidelity.
• Probing—if connectorized test points
are not available, use the awardwinning Infiniimax probes to their
maximum bandwidth advantage (in
excess of 7 GHz) by pairing them
with the N1022A probe adapter and
the DCA-J’s wide bandwidth inputs.
86100C
partnered
with N4901A
13.5 Gb/s
Serial BERT
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Superior signal integrity insight
C
onfigure the DCA as a time
domain reflectometer (TDR)
to quantify the transmission/
impedance properties of components
and channels
• Unique calibration capabilities
remove systematic measurement
errors from cabling, connectors, and
probes so you see only the properties
of the test device
• Similar to calibrations of network
analyzers...just place a short circuit
and load at the reference plane of
the test device
• Increase the two-event resolution
impedance precision of the TDR
through pulse enhancement
• See sub-millimeter two-event
resolution and accurately measure
impedance for ultra-fast edge speeds
with accessories from Picosecond
Pulse Labs (www.Picosecond.com)
• Accurately characterize differential
circuitry
• Highest fidelity and symmetry
dual-TDR outputs yield precision
differential and common mode
results in a single setup
• Gain insight and improved modeling
through frequency domain
S-parameters
• Use the N1930A Physical Layer Test
System software to automatically
configure and calibrate the 86100
TDR system.
• Time-domain TDR results are
transformed to complete set of
single-ended and mixed-mode
frequency domain S-parameters
V-connector pin-collette
Hermetic feedthrough Coaxial
feedthrough launch
Coaxial
microstrip launch
9ps Step
35ps Step
Using the Picosecond
Pulse Labs 4020 to get more
information about your device.
The N1930A software being
used to convert precision
TDR measurements into
S-parameter data.
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With a press of a button, filters
can be switched in or out for
compliance testing or wide
bandwidth analysis.
Mask Test Diagnostics—
86100C Infiniium DCA-J goes
beyond basic testing with mar-
gin analysis for process moni-
toring. Mask hits/failures are
easily viewed with red pixels.
SONET/SDH Compliance
T
ransmitters used in SONET/SDH
applications must perform
according to a rigorous set
of industry-defined standards. A
significant portion of what defines
acceptable performance is based on
waveform quality tested with a highspeed sampling oscilloscope. The
86100C is ideally suited to verify
transmitter compliance quickly and
accurately. Tests are performed
automatically according to industryrecognized procedures. The 86105B
is an industry leader in waveform
fidelity and extinction ratio accuracy
for 10 Gb/s applications.
Easy. Quick. Accurate.
The 86100C makes compliance
testing straightforward—only two
keystrokes are needed to perform a
complete compliance test. Scaling the
waveform, acquiring the data, and
completing the compliance test require
only a few seconds. Many plug-in
modules contain multiple filters so
many different rates can be tested
with the required standards-based
reference receiver methodology. Filters
are easily switched out to allow testing
with the full instrument bandwidth.
Enterprise & Storage
Transmitter testing for 10 Gigabit
Ethernet and 10X Fiber Channel uses
similar methodologies to those used
in SONET/SDH, but there are some
important variations. An aspect that
makes testing easier is that despite
the differing bit rates (10.3125 Gb/s
and 10.51875 Gb/s respectively) the
compliance filter has been specified
to be the same frequency as for
9.95 Gb/s SONET/SDH.
Clock recovery is a more significant
difference. Transmitter test requires
the use of a clock trigger that is
derived from the transmitted signal
itself. A critical feature of the clock
recovery process is the loop bandwidth being specified at 4 MHz. This
is intended to “track out” the jitter
components that are less than 4 MHz,
so that only elements beyond this are
displayed on the eye diagram. The
83495A clock recovery module is
compliant to this requirement as well
as offering continuous rate coverage
in the 10 Gb/s band to cover
many applications.
Clock Recovery Flexibility
The 83495A is the newest member
of a clock recovery family covering
electrical, optical multimode, and
optical single-mode
transmission media.
Hot-swapping and
matching alongside
the other 86100
plug-in modules
gives you maximum
flexibility in the lab
and in production.
In just a few minutes, become
an expert in Compliance Testing
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The same 40 GB/s RZ signal captured
using current DCA (right) and now
with the 86107A patented precision
timebase module (left).
T
here are many demanding
aspects to 40 Gb/s testing.
RZ modulation is now a
common format in 40 Gb/s systems,
and has a unique set of measurement
parameters defined to describe it.
Components designed for 40 Gb/s
systems also must have very low
intrinsic jitter to successfully operate,
with levels sometimes so low that it
is difficult to tell whether measured
jitter is the result of component jitter
or the inherent jitter noise floor of
the measuring instrument.
To counter both of these new
challenges, Agilent has industry
leading answers to enable your
success. A broad choice of modules
is led by the 86118A module with
70+ GHz dual electrical remote heads,
or choose the 86116B 65 GHz optical/
80 GHz electrical module. In both
cases, once the signal is acquired, it
is a breeze to activate the automated
RZ measurements to instantly see
contrast ratio, eye opening factor,
and many other critical parameters.
To lower the intrinsic jitter of the
instrument for the most demanding
applications, the 86107A has enabled
many, many customers to see their true
device performance. This module has
revolutionized high performance
10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s measurements.
The 86107A plugs into any 86100
mainframe and reduces the inherent
timebase jitter to about 200 fs—
almost a factor of 5 reduction
in system jitter.
The 86107A requires an electrical
reference clock that is synchronous
with the signal under test and allows
timebase resolution to be improved
from 2 ps/division to 500 fs/division.
For 40 Gb/s applications, the 86107A
is considered a must.
40 Gb/s RZ?
No problem!
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The most significant improvement
is that we can now show a repeatable,
low jitter result to customers without going into
lengthy discussions about test methods. As a result, we
are able to go to customers with results taken directly from
the equipment—results better than anything they’ve seen before.
We expect additional future business directly as a result of
returning to the 86100 platform, recognizing this as the premier
solution in our measurement laboratory.
—Matt Isaacs
Verification Engineer, Broadcom Corporation
More details can be found in the Infiniium DCA
Technical Specifications, 5989-0278EN
Mainframe
86100C Digital Communications Analyzer, 3.2 GHz trigger bandwidth.
Option 001 Enhanced trigger to 13 GHz+. Pattern Lock, Eyeline Mode.
Option 100 Jitter Analysis Software Package (requires Option 001).
TJ, RJ, DJ, DDJ, PJ, DCD histograms and numerical results.
DDJ vs. Bit display.
Option 101 Advanced Waveform Analysis Software Package
(requires Option 001 & 101).* Bathtub, export of large single
valued waveform segments, equalization of closed eyes,
SRJ analysis, support for 86107A precision timebase.
*Available Summer ‘04
Vertical Channel & Clock Recovery Modules:
A wide variety of optical, optical & electrical, and electrical modules are available
with bandwidths ranging from 12 to >80 GHz electrical and 3 to >65 GHz optical.
Electrical and optical clock recovery modules are also available. See Technical
Specifications for more details.
Trigger Module
86107A Precision Timebase with <200 fs intrinsic jitter.
Time Domain Reflectometer
54754A Dual channel differential TDR module.
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