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The Keysight 71603B error performance analyzer (formerly Agilent Technologies) addresses applications for high speed digital testing up to 3 Gb/s, including R&D and manufacturing test of lightwave components and sub-assemblies, advanced computer technology and high-capacity communication systems.
For transmission systems up to 3 Gb/s, such as datacoms and CATV trunk feeds, the 71603B and 71603B Option 807 error performance analyzers (3 and 1.5 Gb/s) provide a range of PRBS and user-defined patterns with versatile triggering facilities. Keysight 71603B Error Performance Analyzer models were previously manufactured by Agilent Technologies.
Features
- High performance 100 Mbit/s to 3 Gbit/s pattern generation and bit error ratio (BER) measurement
- 1 bit to 4 Mbit user programmable test patterns
- Low-phase-noise clock source
- User-programmable patterns up to 4 Mbits with screen-based editor
- Capability to trigger anywhere in the pattern
- Variable clock/data delay
- True complementary outputs
- Automatic setting of data threshold and decision point
Specifications
| Bit Rate |
100 Mb/s to 3 Gbit/s |
| Rise Time (20% to 80%) |
less than 90 ps |
| Patterns |
27-1, 210-1, 215-1, 223-1, 231-1; zero substitution; variable mark density; variable length user pattern from 1 bit to 8 Mbits |
| Data & Data Outputs |
ECL or variable 0.25V to 2V peak-to-peak amplitude into 50 ohms |
| Clock/Data Delay |
1 ns; resolution 1 ps |
| Data Input |
0.5 V to 1 V peak-to-peak amplitude |
| Decision Threshold Range |
+1 V to -3 V, resolution 1 mV |
| Termination Voltage |
0 V or -2 V nominal, selectable |
| Errors Detected |
Errored ones and zeros and all logic errors |
| Measurements |
Error count, ratio; errored seconds, deciseonds, centiseconds, milliseconds; and G.821 Analysis |