A small amount of on-chip analog-test hardware offers big payoffs when you are dealing with high-speed serial interfaces. As part of the serial-interface IP (intellectual property) or of an IP wrapper ...

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High-speed-digital serial I/O links and DDR memory interfaces are presenting significant measurement challenges as fourth-generation standards emerge. As signals travel at ever higher speeds over ...

The storage industry this year began widespread implementation of serial-based technologies to replace parallel physical-interface standards (AT bus attachment, or ATA, and Small Computer Systems ...

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With the arrival of third-generation serial standards, many of the rules around debug/verification and characterization/compliance test are changing. Here are some ...