The Effects of Passive Probe Ground Leads
This article explains how the inductance of passive probe ground leads can dramatically reduce effective bandwidth, distort measurements, and introduce resonance and frequency-response errors.
Deep dives into high-speed PCI Express signaling, compliance testing, and performance analysis across generations. Covers oscilloscope-based electrical compliance testing and cross-layer (electrical and protocol) analysis for debugging complex problems.
Understanding PCIe’s layered architecture reveals why capturing synchronized physical- and protocol-layer behavior is essential for effective link debugging.
CrossSync PHY enables time-synchronized protocol and oscilloscope analysis to diagnose unexpected PCIe link equalization and preset training behavior.
CrossSync PHY enables time-synchronized oscilloscope and protocol analysis to verify PCIe L1 substate clock request and reference clock timing.
PCIe 6.0’s move to PAM4 signaling introduces new compliance pattern measurements—SNDR, RLM, and ps21TX—that require updated test methodologies and noise-aware analysis.
PCIe 6.0 compliance requires SNDR and RLM results with oscilloscope noise removed—these three methods show how to compensate noise accurately in real test setups.