BSX Series BERTScope
A fast-moving market requires faster Rx test processes and workflows. The BSX Series BERTScope® is the quickest path to compliance. This BERT receiver test solution has unique features that take the complexity out of receiver testing and brings confidence to Gen3/4 designs.
- Single solution for Receiver stress testing, debug and compliance.
- Test Gen3/Gen4 standards - PCIe, SAS/SATA, USB3.1, DP + propriety standards.
- Handshaking and link training for devices running up to 32 Gb/s.A fast-moving market requires faster Rx test processes and workflows. The BSX Series BERTScope® is the quickest path to compliance. This BERT receiver test solution has unique features that take the complexity out of receiver testing and brings confidence to Gen3/4 designs.
- Single solution for Receiver stress testing, debug and compliance.
- Test Gen3/Gen4 standards - PCIe, SAS/SATA, USB3.1, DP + propriety standards.
- Handshaking and link training for devices running up to 32 Gb/s.A fast-moving market requires faster Rx test processes and workflows. The BSX Series BERTScope® is the quickest path to compliance. This BERT receiver test solution has unique features that take the complexity out of receiver testing and brings confidence to Gen3/4 designs.
- Single solution for Receiver stress testing, debug and compliance.
- Test Gen3/Gen4 standards - PCIe, SAS/SATA, USB3.1, DP + propriety standards.
- Handshaking and link training for devices running up to 32 Gb/s.A fast-moving market requires faster Rx test processes and workflows. The BSX Series BERTScope® is the quickest path to compliance. This BERT receiver test solution has unique features that take the complexity out of receiver testing and brings confidence to Gen3/4 designs.
- Single solution for Receiver stress testing, debug and compliance.
- Test Gen3/Gen4 standards - PCIe, SAS/SATA, USB3.1, DP + propriety standards.
- Handshaking and link training for devices running up to 32 Gb/s.A fast-moving market requires faster Rx test processes and workflows. The BSX Series BERTScope® is the quickest path to compliance. This BERT receiver test solution has unique features that take the complexity out of receiver testing and brings confidence to Gen3/4 designs.
- Single solution for Receiver stress testing, debug and compliance.
- Test Gen3/Gen4 standards - PCIe, SAS/SATA, USB3.1, DP + propriety standards.
- Handshaking and link training for devices running up to 32 Gb/s.

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Key performance specifications
- Pattern Generation and Error Analysis up to 32Â Gb/s
- Optional built-in 4-tap Tx equalization with support for interactive link training
- Protocol-oriented and bit-oriented multi-chain pattern sequencing with enhanced pattern/sequence editor
- User-defined detector pattern matching with stimulus-response feedback
- Patented Error Location Analysis™ goes beyond BER measurement to provide insight into the sources of errors through analysis of correlations and deterministic error patterns
- Optional Forward Error Correction analysis provides for simulation of post-FEC error rate based upon measured error location patterns
- Integrated Eye Diagram Analysis with BER Correlation including Mask Testing, Jitter Peak, BER Contour
- Optional Jitter Map Comprehensive Jitter Decomposition - with Long Pattern (i.e. PRBS-31) Jitter
Key features
- Provides a single solution for Receiver stress testing, debug and compliance
- Test Gen3 and Gen4 standards including PCIe, SAS, and USB3.1Â and proprietary standards
- DUT handshaking capability above16 Gb/s supporting RX test requirements for loopback initiation and adaptive link training for key standards such as PCIe
- Protocol-aware pattern generation and error detection supports flexible stimulus response programmability and debugging of handshaking issues.
- Forward error correction (FEC) emulation option supports measurement of BER both before and after error correction for commonly used Reed-Solomon FEC codes.
- Calibration and test automation software available for key standards
Applications
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- Design verification including signal integrity, jitter, and timing analysis
- Design characterization for high-speed, sophisticated designs
- Design/Verification of high-speed I/O components and systems including DUT handshaking
- Signal integrity analysis – mask testing, jitter peak, BER contour, jitter map, and forward error correction emulation