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In digital standards, every generational change puts new risks in your path. We see it firsthand when creating our products and working with engineers like you. Agilent’s solution set for high-speed digital test is a combination of instrumentation and broad expertise built on our ongoing involvement with industry experts. By sharing our latest experiences, we can help anticipate challenges and accelerate your ability to create products you’ll be proud of. Agilent - achieve your best design.

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Advanced Jitter Generation and Analysis Product Note 
This product note shows how the Agilent pulse generators can be used with the DCA-J Oscilloscope.

Application Note 2004-10-04

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Automated USB 2.0 Receiver Compliance Test and Characterization with the Agilent N5990A 
Automated USB 2.0 Receiver Compliance Test and Characterization with the Agilent N5990A Software Platform: 8 pages

Application Note 2007-01-31

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Calibrated Jitter, Jitter Tolerance Test and Jitter Laboratory with the Agilent J-BERT N4903A 
This application note describes the N4903A BERT characterization solution for emerging serial gigabit devices: it helps engineers make quick and accurate jitter tolerance tests, which have been complicated and hard to do in the past.

Application Note 2006-07-18

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Eye Characterization on Idle and Framed Data Traffic: the Bit Recovery Mode 
Traditionally, bit error rate testing compares the bits from a Device Under Test (DUT) against a reference data set, called the expected data. The user of Bit Error Ratio Tester (BERT) has to provide this expected data and load it into the tester.

Application Note 2005-09-21

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Fast Total Jitter Test Solution 
This application note compares different total jitter measurement and extrapolation techniques to the Fast Total Jitter Measurement

Application Note 2005-08-29

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Finding Sources of Jitter with Real-Time Jitter Analysis (AN 1448-2) 
This application note describes how to use a real-time oscilloscope with jitter analysis, along with the stimulus-response techniques, to meet the critical time-correlation requirement to relate jitter trend measurement results to measured signals.

Application Note 2003-06-30

Flat Panel Display Link Test 
This Product Note shows how to verify the Bit Error Rate (BER) of 1-serial to 7-parallel Rx chip with the Agilent 81250 Parallel Bit Error Ratio Tester (ParBERT).

Application Note 2004-07-29

Forward Clocking - Receiver (RX) Jitter Tolerance Test with J-BERT N4903B High-P 
This document describes the requirements for forward clocking topology RX Jitter tolerance testing.

Application Note 2009-03-24

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How to use the Agilent 81200 together with Agilent VEE 
This attached Product Note shows how to use the Agilent 81200 Data Generator/Analyzer together with Agilent VEE for Signal Integrity Analysis.

Application Note 2002-01-28

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Jitter Analysis Techniques for High Data Rates (AN 1432) 
This new application note describes the basic jitter measurements and the specific measurement techniques used in SONet/SDH/OTN and Gigabit Ethernet applications.

Application Note 2003-02-03

Measuring Jitter in Digital Systems (AN 1448-1) 
Measuring jitter and how to calculate total jitter.

Application Note 2008-01-30

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Measuring Jitter with the Agilent E4874A Characterization Software Components 
The Product Note shows how to measuring jitter with the Agilent E4874A Characterization Software Components on the Agilent 81200 Data Generator/Analyzer Platform. See also R & D Central at: http://www.agilent.com/find/randd Select "Bit Error Ratio Testing (BERT)" on that page. Then...

Application Note 2000-06-01

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Method of Implementation (MOI) for DisplayPort Sink Compliance Test 
Method of Implementation (MOI) for DisplayPort Sink Compliance Test

Application Note 2008-08-18

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PCI Express Receiver Design Validation Test with 81134A / 81250A 
Describes functional validation and compliance and stress tests for PCI Express receiver design

Application Note 2005-03-18

PCI Express Transmitter Electrical Validation and Compliance Testing - Application Note 
This application note is intended for digital designers and developers validating electrical performance of PCI Express-based designs and working toward electrical compliance of PCI Express products.

Application Note 2011-10-28

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PCIe Revision 2 Receiver Jitter Tolerance Testing with J-BERT N4903B  
This document focuses on physical layer testing of the transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) ports of PCI EXPRESS® (PCIe) devices.

Application Note 2006-01-30

Power Toolbox for Embedded System Designs 
Properly Powering On and Off Multiple Power Inputs in Embedded Designs

Application Note 2009-06-01

Simulation of Jittering Synchronization Signals for Video Interfaces (PN 4) 
This Product Note shows how Research and Development engineers use pulse generators of the Agilent 81100 Family for the development of interfaces ...

Application Note 2006-12-12

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USB 2.0 Compliance Testing with Infiniium Oscilloscopes - Application Note 
This Application Note discusses the Agilent solution for the USB 2.0 test suite. The Agilent solution is the only one-box solution that uses the official USB-IF scripts for precompliance ans compliance testing.

Application Note 2013-05-10

Using Receiver Tolerance Testing to Assess the Performance of High-Speed Devices 
Using Receiver Tolerance Testing to Assess the Performance of High-Speed Devices

Application Note 2007-06-19

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