Lecroy Launches Thunderbolt Serial Data Analyzer

LeCroy Corporation's lineup of physical layer test instruments provides complete transmitter and receiver electrical physical layer testing for the new Thunderbolt[R] serial data standard. LeCroy's SDA 8 Zi-A Serial Data Analyzers, SDA II and Eye Doctor[R] II analysis software, SPARQ Signal Integrity Network Analyzers, and PeRT3[R] Protocol-enabled Receiver Transmitter Tolerance Testers have established leadership in their respective domains and provide unique and powerful toolsets for Thunderbolt design analysis, debug, and validation. Highest Performance Serial Data Analyzers and Oscilloscopes The LeCroy SDA 825Zi-A Serial Data Analyzer and oscilloscope models provide two input channels at 25 GHz ideal for capturing the fifth harmonic of 10 Gb/s NRZ serial data. The SDA 825Zi-A may also be used in a four channel 20 GHz mode with exceptional signal fidelity in fact, it is the only oscilloscope that provides 25 GHz with two input channels and 20 GHz with four input channels. This flexibility in bandwidth and input channel count is beneficial when the test engineer needs both the ability to perform a crosstalk analysis between multiple lanes using cable inputs and also to measure with the highest signal fidelity possible for validation of jitter performance on a single differential lane using cable inputs. Differential probes with bandwidth ratings up to 25 GHz are also available for use with the SDA 825Zi-A.