Serial Bus Test: FB-DIMM, Serial-ATA IO, DisplayPort

Description

The need to relieve throughput bottlenecks in computing and communications, together with the development of low cost, high speed CMOS technology, has caused the move to high speed (›1.5 Gb/s) serial buses. Fully Buffered DIMM is an evolving standard for fast access to large amounts of RAM for servers. RapidIO is an open-standard, switched fabric designed for developers of wireless infrastructure, edge networking, storage, scientific, military, and industrial equipment. CSI and HyperTransport are competing to be the next generation front side bus for processor interconnect applications. All of these have serial data rates that are firmly in the microwave arena, requiring significant attention to signal integrity.

Useful Links

InterfaceBus.com, Standards and Publications: www.interfacebus.com

http://www.hypertransport.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertransport

Recommended Products

BERTScope™ S 12500B with
Option SSC: Spread Spectrum Clocking

BERTScope DPP Digital Pre-Emphasis Processor

BERTScope CRJ Variable Clock Recovery Jitter Spectrum Analyzer

BERTScope CR 12500A Clock Recovery Instrument

BERTScope Differential ISI Test Board

Applications Literature

DisplayPort Sink: VESA DisplayPort MOI, Method of Implementation, for DisplayPort Sink Jitter Tolerance Tests Using BERTScope 7500B by SyntheSys Research, Inc., Ver. 0.25 • OCT 2007
(Released JAN 2008)

DisplayPort Source: VESA DisplayPort MOI, Method of Implementation, for DisplayPort Source PHY Compliance Tests Using the BERTScope by SyntheSys Research, Inc., Ver. 0.19 • OCT 2007

Signal Integrity Success in Computer and Storage Applications Technical Brief • OCT 2006

Measurements of Pre-Emphasis on Altera Stratix GX with the BERTScope 12500A • MAY 2005