07 | Keysight | N4960A Serial BERT 17 and 32 Gb/s - Data Sheet
Integrated control
interface and analysis
software
Support for the N4960A serial BERT is
included in the N4980A multi-instru-
ment BERT software. The base software
provides an intuitive user interface and is
free of charge. With the base software,
you can perform single-channel BER,
multi-channel BER with an unlimited
number of channels, and bathtub mea-
surements. Measurement results can be
plotted or saved, as well as complete test
setups. The optional jitter tolerance pack-
age adds single and multi-channel JTOL
measurements with a choice of search
algorithms. Testing JTOL in multi-lane de-
vices in parallel is much faster than testing
each lane individually, and more represen-
tative of the actual operating environment
with live traffic present on all lanes. With
the JTOL template editor, you can create
templates to meet the testing criteria of
the most common standards. The JTOL
package requires a license to use.
Figure 9. N4980A multi-instrument BERT software.
The N4980A multi-instrument BERT soft-
ware also facilitates the setup and execu-
tion of multi-channel BER measurements.
The Multi-channel N4960A control window
supports up to 4x N4960A BERTs allow-
ing for easy setup and instrument control
during synchronous or asynchronous chan-
nel testing in 100GbE applications.
Figure 10. N4980A multi-channel BER measurement interface.
Figure 11. N4960A multi-channel hardware configuration.
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