Embedded

Troubleshoot and verify 8b/10b encoded signals with a real-time oscilloscope

Few serial technologies have become more widely adopted than 8b/10b coding, which is now used in standards like PCI-Express, Serial ATA, SAS, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, FireWire, MIPI M-PHY, HDMI, ...
EDN

How to turn every FPGA LVDS pair into a complete SERDES solution

Just a couple of days ago as I pen these words, I was chatting with Bryan Hoyer from Align Engineering. After slaving away for years in their secret underground bunker, these little rapscallions have ...
EDN

Industry-first 8B/10B scope analysis package

Speeding debugging, characterization, and validation of high-speed serial bus designs, Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, Calif.) is introducing what it says is an industry-first, a serial data analysis ...
Electronic Design

Interfacing FPGAs to an ADC’s Digital Data Output

Different types of interface standards used in LVDS. Recommendations for interfacing FPGAs to ADCs. Methods of troubleshooting when connecting to the AD9268 ADC. 1. Multiple interface possibilities ...
Electronic Design

R&S RTO oscilloscope decodes 8b/10b buses

Rohde & Schwarz has expanded the application field of its R&S RTO oscilloscope by adding an option to decode and analyze 8b/10b encoded interfaces up to 6.25 Gb/s. The new software option’s full ...