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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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Characterizing Clock Jitter through Phase Noise Measurements Speeds up Design Verification Process 
This white paper discusses a new measurement method for obtaining highly accurate low random jitter (RJ) measurements and performing real-time analysis of RJ and periodic jitter (PJ) of components.

Application Note 2008-11-20

Designing High Speed Backplanes Utilizing Physical Layer Test System 
This Application Note focuses on the problems introduced into the backplane assembly design by the many linear passive components that create reflections due to impedance discontinuities.

Application Note 2006-01-18

Limitations and Accuracies of Time and Frequency Domain Analysis of Physical Layer Devices 

Application Note 2005-11-01

Optimizing VCO/PLL evaluations and PLL synthesizer designs AN 1330-1 
This application note clarifies the role and performance requirements of the synthesized oscillator used in wireless communication equipment, and introduces our test solution for VCO/PLL evaluation.

Application Note 2000-09-01

Signal Integrity Analysis Series Part 1: Single-Port TDR, TDR/TDT, & 2-Port TDR 
This Application Note focuses on part 1: those which use a single-port TDR, those which use TDR/TDT, and those which use 2-port TDR.

Application Note 2007-01-01

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Signal Integrity Analysis Series Part 2: 4-Port TDR/VNA/PLTS 
This Application Note focuses on part 2: those which use a 4-port TDR/VNA/PLTS.

Application Note 2007-02-21

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Signal Integrity Analysis Series Part 3: The ABCs of De-Embedding 
This Application Note focuses on Part 3: The ABCs of De-Embedding explaining different de-embedding techniques & shows how to minimize fixture effects for best results.

Application Note 2007-07-01

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Using Clock Jitter Analysis to Reduce BER in Serial Data Applications 
This Application Note emphasizes on the emerging techniques for reference clock jitter analysis from the perspective of oscillator physics, phase noise theory, and serial data technology.

Application Note 2006-12-01