Keysight Technologies M8046A

The M8046A supports symbol rates up to 32 Gbaud and 64 Gbaud, the default is 32 Gbaud and NRZ format. The analyzer module can be used for error analysis in conjunction with the M8045A pattern generator and the M8195A/M8196A arbitrary waveform generator. 

The M8046A is not a standalone model. It is part of a M8040A BERT system.

The Keysight M8040A is a highly integrated BERT for physical layer characterization and compliance testing. With support for PAM-4 and NRZ signals and data rates up to 64 GBaud (corresponds to 128 Gbit/s) it covers all flavors of 200 and 400 GbE standards.

The M8040A is designed for R&D and test engineers who characterize chips, devices, transceiver modules and sub-components, boards and systems with serial I/O ports operating with data rates up to 32 GBaud and 64 GBaud in the data center and communications industry.

The M8040A can be used for receiver (input) testing for many popular interconnect standards that use PAM-4 and NRZ data formats, such as: 400 GbE, 50/100/200 GbE, OIF CEI-56G and CEI-112G, 64G/112G Fibre Channel, Infiniband-HDR and proprietary interfaces for chip-to-chip, chip-to-module, backplanes, repeaters and active optical cables.

The remote head M8057A is required for each channel and is required for NRZ and PAM-4 signals.It contains an adjustable gain amplifier without re-timer. Users can select NRZ or PAM-4 coding and de-emphasis taps settings from the user interface with no need to reconnect cables. The cable between the remote head and the module is 0.85 m long. This allows positioning the remote head closely to the test board for the device under test.

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