Join Teledyne LeCroy for this hands-on webinar to learn how to make accurate, high bandwidth measurements of power rail voltages and avoid introducing probing artifacts or interference into the measurements.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Best practices for power rail probing
• Probing tradeoffs: Noise, reflections, offset, bandwidth, loading
• Power rail static and transient analysis
• Correlating power rail noise to clock jitter
• Using spectral analysis to finding root causes of PDN noise

Pre-work Recommended Before Hands-on Webinar

It is recommended that prior to the start of the webinar you should download and register (at no cost) MAUI Studio and download LabNotebook (waveform plus setup files) .lnb files (they will be combined into one .zip file that will need extracting).

MAUI Studio
>> https://teledynelecroy.com/mauistudio/

Zip file with Lab Notebook files
>> Click here to download zip file

These files will allow you to load the various waveform examples shown during the webinar and participate in hands-on instruction on how to make critical power integrity measurements.

Time: 11AM Pacific | 2PM Eastern

Duration: 1 hour

How to Efficiently Debug Embedded Systems with Your Oscilloscope

Join Teledyne LeCroy for this 3-part webinar series on how to efficiently and accurately debug embedded systems with your oscilloscope. The goal of this series is to improve your knowledge and efficiency in validating and troubleshooting the interactions of analog, digital, serial data, and sensor signals in embedded designs.

4 Practical Real-world Examples of Embedded System Validation and Debug

In this session (Part 3), we apply the display, measurement and waveform math tools covered in Part 1 and 2 to specific embedded design application examples.

Topics to be included:

• Power rail integrity measurements and probing power rails
• Power rail sequence measurements
• Low-speed event correlation to high-speed event
• Correlating sensor signals with embedded serial data

Who should attend? Design Engineers and Technicians looking to improve skills and efficiency in using an oscilloscope to both validate and troubleshoot the circuit performance of embedded designs.

What attendees will learn? How to use underutilized oscilloscope math and measurement tools that have broad utility in embedded system validation and debug.

Presenter: Stephen Murphy, Marketing Product Specialist / Applications Engineer

In this webinar, we will help you to understand programmable resistors, their construction, why they are needed, resistor selection and look at some applications where sensor simulation is an integral part of the adopted test strategies to improve repeatability, reduce test times, and ultimately lower the cost of test. View the webinar here

A few of the takeaways are:

Noise on the power rail may not only create bit errors due to voltage spikes, but it may also increase clock jitter. Clock jitter is an insidious source of noise difficult to debug.

In this webinar, we demonstrate how to measure the jitter in both clocks and data and identify the contribution from noise on the power rail. These techniques can be applied to any system in which minimizing clock and data jitter is important.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Using time interval error (TIE) to measure jitter
• The statistics and spectrum of TIE as a way of characterizing jitter
• Typical jitter in various types of oscillator circuits
• Best practices to measure power rail noise
• The impact power noise can have on clock jitter
• Examples of clocked systems with high and low jitter sensitivity to power rail noise

Who should attend? Hardware and circuit engineers who design interconnects and clocked circuits.

What attendees will learn? This webinar will introduce you to how to measure jitter and power rail noise, and how to reduce the sensitivity of your clocks to power rail noise.

Presenter: Dr. Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow

Can't attend live? Register anyway, and we will send you the recording and slides afterward.

You’ve got a scope, now how do you get the most out of it without spending a lot of money?

In this free webinar from Teledyne LeCroy, Eric Bogatin will show you the right way you can do five common SI and PI measurements with a budget scope and some simple probes you probably already have around. We’ll look at some of the common artifacts to avoid so you can get meaningful measurements.

Topics covered include:

• Probing a fast rise time signal to get its rise time
• Measuring a power rail with a 10x probe
• Measuring a low impedance power rail with a build it yourself power rail probe
• Measuring the source of near field pick up
• Using the FFT function to analyze the root cause of noise pick up

Presenter: Dr. Eric Bogatin, Signal Integrity Evangelis, Teledyne LeCroy

Can't attend live? Register anyway, and we will send you the recording and slides afterward. 

A single-polarization 160-Gb/s (80-Gbaud) electronically time-division-multiplexed (ETDM) quadrature phase-shift-keyed (QPSK) signal is generated and coherently detected using two 45-GHz-bandwidth oscilloscope prototypes and offline processing.

For the most efficient validation, get the most analog channels and longest memory to capture your entire power sequence.

1. Start with WaveRunner 8000HD’s 8 analog channels, 16 with our OscilloSYNC™ option.
2. Add MSO capability for 16 digital lines, no sacrifice of analog channels.
3. Use 5 Gpts memory to capture the entire power on/off sequence.
4. Use automated measurements with Pass/Fail testing to validate timing over multiple acquisitions.

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Oscilloscope Coffee Break Webinar Series

Join Teledyne LeCroy for this 30-minute Oscilloscope Coffee Break Series to remind us how to get the most test and debug capability from our oscilloscopes. Grab your refreshment and spend a few minutes with us as we focus on a specific topic each month.  Click here to access the entire series.

Part 8: How Do I Measure Current on an Oscilloscope Using a Shunt Resistor?

Current sense (shunt) resistors are commonly included on printed circuit assemblies to provide a convenient means to measure current flow somewhere in your circuit. How do you use that resistor to measure the actual current with your oscilloscope?

In this coffee break webinar we provide practical guidance on how to probe the voltage drop across the shunt resistor to minimize noise and accurately measure the current on your oscilloscope.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Selecting the right probe for the measurement
• Rescaling the voltage output of the probe to a current value
• Considerations for accurate measurements

Presented by: Jonathan Shechter, Product Marketing Engineer

Can't attend live? Register anyway and you will receive an email with the recording and slides after the live event.

As electrical/automation and control systems components become more compact and complex the internal enclosure heat loads are increasing. PLC’s, starters and drives are some of the major generators of heat in an enclosure. There are many challenges in the way we choose to keep the enclosures cool. ACT has developed a series of heat exchangers and air conditioners that are environmentally sealed to cool and protect the internal cabinet components from water, airborne chemical, and particulate contaminants.

Watch now for an in-depth discussion on sealed enclosure cooling technology options. We will discuss both above and below ambient cooling technologies, how they are selected and how they are installed. We will conduct live demonstrations of each ACT sealed enclosure cooling family so you can compare sizes and options. We will encourage questions and discussion as if you were with us, in person, at a trade show!

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Much like driving from one point to another in a big city, routing an electrical signal between a test instrument and a device under test can require navigating a complex network of interconnected relays, wiring and interfaces. Instead of right and left turns, the ATE software engineer must determine the correct position setting of multiple relays to establish the desired route. 

In this training, you'll learn how Switch Path Manager (SPM) signal routing software accelerates the software development effort of Automated Test Systems, considerably reducing the number of lines of code required to route test instrumentation to the device to be tested.

SPM signal routing software is an interactive utility that essentially maps a wiring and interconnect schematic into a configuration file that can be used to simplify code development. Features include:

Enhanced Sample Rate, combined with the low-noise system architecture and the tailored brick-wall frequency response in the HDO4000A, HDO6000A, HDO8000A and MDA800A series oscilloscopes dramatically improves the measurement precision when the input frequency signals are very high frequency, such as a high-frequency sine wave or fast edge.

Join Teledyne LeCroy for our new three-part webinar series to learn more about how to accelerate and improve testing of PCIe® v. 4.0 and 5.0, USB4™, Thunderbolt™ 4, and DisplayPort™ 2.0 serial data links.

Nov. 19 - Part One: Identifying and Debugging PCIe Link Equalization Problems
Dec. 3 - Part Two: Simplifying Receiver Calibration and Test of 16+ Gb/s Serial Data Links
Dec. 16 - Part Three: Optimizing Transmitter Test and Margin Analysis of 16+ Gb/s Signals

Join us for Part Three: Optimizing Transmitter Test and Margin Analysis of 16+ Gb/s Signals

High-speed serial link transmitter testing can be optimized with the right tools, and valuable circuit design operating margin information can be extracted.

This webinar will provide an overview of a typical high-speed serial data transmitter test using USB4 as an example. We will synthesize a high-speed serial data signal, use a real-time oscilloscope to analyze the signal at a virtual receiver, and compare the virtually-received signal to a live signal. We will review signal integrity margin analysis and jitter, eye diagram, IsoBER contour and crosstalk eye measurements.

Who should attend?

• Signal Integrity Engineers
• Design and Validation Test Engineers

Presenters:
Mike Engbretson, Product Marketing Manager and John Smith, HSS Business Development Manager

PCI Express® 5.0 Compliance Test Overview

Join Teledyne LeCroy for this two-part master class in PCI Express 5.0 – from electrical through Link layer and Transaction layer. PCIe 5.0 is approaching the time when initial compliance and interoperability testing can commence. Teledyne LeCroy PCIe Gen5 physical-layer and protocol test experts will focus on each test, explain the background theory, how the test procedure works, how passes and failures are determined, and how to track down and debug problems.

PCI Express 5.0 Electrical Compliance Test Overview

In this session (Part 2), we describe the new PCIe 5.0 electrical compliance test procedures – what’s new, what’s the same as past generations, and how to avoid the most common test pitfalls.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Fixture characterization
• Transmitter electrical testing
• Transmitter Link Equalization testing
• Receiver Link Equalization testing
• PLL bandwidth testing
• What’s new in PCIe 5.0 compared to PCIe 4.0.

Who should attend? Design, validation and test engineers working on PCIe 5.0 devices.

What attendees will learn? How to be prepared for upcoming PCIe 5.0 electrical compliance test events.

Presenter: Dr. Patrick Connally, Product Marketing Manager

EMC Live: Automotive 

Anechoic chambers are necessary for many of the tests involved in automotive EMC testing. We will be looking into what is needed in today’s automotive EMC chamber and discussing shielding effectiveness, how to properly size a chamber, 40 GHz performance, and other topics that could affect accreditation. Elements sometimes overlooked will also be identified, such as fire detection & suppression and door maintenance. 

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We experimentally demonstrate transmission of 6 mode-multiplexed 20-Gbd-QPSK signals over 1200 km of three-core microstructured fiber (3C-MSF). An aggregate single-wavelength capacity of 240 Gbit/s is recovered by off-line 66 coherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) digital signal processing.

In this video, we show how to use LabNotebook with the Teledyne LeCroy MAUI Studio oscilloscope software. With LabNotebook, you can save your signals, setups and screenshots to share with a colleague or add to a report. For additional information visit, teledynelecroy.com/mauistudio.

Selecting the right cable is crucial for both Microwave and mmWave applications. Indeed, measurements are not accurate nor reliable unless appropriate cables are used. This video outlines how to select the most appropriate cable for any given purpose.

We demonstrate 12 x 12 multiple-input multiple-output mode multiplexed transmission over 130-km of few-mode fiber of a combined 6-space-, 2-polarization-, and 8-wavelength-division multiplex, using low-loss photonic lantern and 3D-waveguide mode multiplexers.

We experimentally demonstrate multiple-input-multiple-output transmission of a combined 3-space-, and 2-polarization-, and 5-wavelength-division multiplex in a 3-core microstructured fiber over 4200 km. This is the record transmission distance for spatial-division multiplexing in a fiber.

Power electronics designs have inherent measurement challenges. This has led to development of many specialized high and low voltage single-ended and differential probes to meet the specific needs of this market. However, proper probe selection and use is critical for operator, equipment and DUT safety and also has a large influence on the accuracy of the measurement.

Join Teledyne LeCroy for this two-part webinar series as we provide tips to overcome these questions.

In Part 1 we will review the different HV rated probe specifications and topologies and explain what measurement each probe topology is ideally suited for.

In Part 2 we provide real-word examples and comparisons between a variety of different probes and amplifiers. Register here

Presenter: Ken Johnson, Director of Marketing, Product Architect Teledyne LeCroy

Can't attend live? Register anyway, and we will send you the recording and slides afterward. 

All electronics dissipate waste heat. In typical high-power electronics cabinets this waste heat can become significant, in the range of 100’s to 1,000’s of Watts. At these levels dissipating the waste heat becomes a critical design issue. Most cabinets that operate in controlled indoor environments use fan filter systems, which duct ambient air through the cabinet, because they are the most eective and ecient way of dissipating the waste heat load. This is also feasible for some outdoor applications assuming rain guards and filters are used.

However, in many applications such as dirty / dusty environments, hose down / wash down facilities in the food industry, harsh outdoor applications, and many others it is not possible or advisable to allow ambient air to flow through and cool the sensitive and expensive components inside your enclosure. The best way to protect electronics is to use a sealed cabinet that does not allow any contaminated ambient air, even filtered air, from entering the cabinet. This is where sealed air-to-air heat exchangers, or sealed enclosure coolers, become an invaluable part of the overall system.

Time: 11AM Pacific | 2PM Eastern

Duration: 1 hour

How to Become an Expert in DDR Memory Physical Layer Testing Series

Join Teledyne LeCroy for this 4-part DDR Memory Master Class to learn about the basics of DDR testing with oscilloscopes, including common test preparation and challenges, the difference between compliance and debug test tools, and practical tips and techniques to increase your DDR validation efficiency and apply the correct debug tools.

Beyond DDR Compliance Testing — Using Advanced Debug Tools

In this session (Part 2), we review the latest DDR test requirements and provide practical advice on solving test challenges. We will provide guidance on how to test to the latest JEDEC standards and proper use of debug tools to overcome test and validation challenges.

Topics to be included:

• DDR/LPDDR4, LPDDR4X, and DDR/LPDDR5 specification review
• Test system ‘bring-up’ and debug
• When are you ready to move from ‘debug’ to ‘compliance’?
• Implications of fully encoded command bus and DFE in LPDDR5 and DDR5
• How to send the proper test signals
• Read/Write eye separation
• Eye and jitter measurements

Who should attend? Design and validation engineers working to validate and debug DDR in embedded systems.

Technologies and design considerations are presented for the design of very high bandwidth oscilloscopes. These include chip, DSP and microwave technologies employed in some of the fastest waveform digitizers in the world.

How to Efficiently Debug Embedded Systems with Your Oscilloscope

Join Teledyne LeCroy for this 3-part webinar series on how to efficiently and accurately debug embedded systems with your oscilloscope. The goal of this series is to improve your knowledge and efficiency in validating and troubleshooting the interactions of analog, digital, serial data, and sensor signals in embedded designs.

4 Practical Real-world Examples of Embedded System Validation and Debug

In this session (Part 3), we apply the display, measurement and waveform math tools covered in Part 1 and 2 to specific embedded design application examples.

Topics to be included:

• Power rail integrity measurements and probing power rails
• Power rail sequence measurements
• Low-speed event correlation to high-speed event
• Correlating sensor signals with embedded serial data

Who should attend? Design Engineers and Technicians looking to improve skills and efficiency in using an oscilloscope to both validate and troubleshoot the circuit performance of embedded designs.

What attendees will learn? How to use underutilized oscilloscope math and measurement tools that have broad utility in embedded system validation and debug.

Presenter: Stephen Murphy, Marketing Product Specialist / Applications Engineer

How to Become an Expert in Automotive Ethernet Testing

Automotive Ethernet is the becoming the serial data backbone of choice for faster data communication to enable advanced ADAS, infotainment, connected car, and autonomous vehicle technologies. Join Teledyne LeCroy for this 4-part webinar series covering automotive ethernet (BroadR-Reach, 100Base-T1, and 1000Base-T1) fundamentals through advanced testing for electrical link and PHY compliance test to advanced PHY debug.

Mastering MDI Return Loss and Mode Conversion Loss Test

In this session (Part 2), we will focus on the reflection measurements MDI return loss and MDI mode conversion loss. We will review the basic concepts of the S-parameters and their meaning in single ended and mixed-mode form with particular reference to the single balanced twisted pair. We’ll follow with a measurement demonstration.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Automotive Ethernet and single-balanced unshielded twisted pair
• Mixed-mode S-parameter overview
• Why to measure common-to-differential mode conversion?
• Testing the fixture for mode conversion loss margin compared to the MDI requirement
• Introduction to MDI S-parameter testing

Who should attend? All HW engineers developing and testing Automotive Ethernet accordingly to the 100Base-T1 and 1000Base-T1 standards with particular reference to MDI S-parameters.

What attendees will learn? Background knowledge for MDI S-parameter Automotive Ethernet measurement and what to expect when testing it.

The workhorse instrument used to characterize all PCB traces is the Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR). But its measurements are often mis-interpreted because the impedance properties of transmission lines are confusing.

Join Eric Bogatin and Teledyne LeCroy for this webinar that will show you the right way to think about signals on transmission lines and how to interpret TDR results. Using live measurements, we’ll look at some cool examples of the properties of real circuit board traces.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• What is characteristic and instantaneous impedance?
• How a TDR measures instantaneous impedance
• How to read the characteristic impedance off the front screen of a TDR
• How to interpret discontinuities
• The limitations to a single channel TDR

Who should attend? Any engineer who uses a TDR or uses TDR measurements.

What attendees will learn? How to get the most value from TDR measurements to analyze your interconnects.

Presenter: Dr. Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow

Can't attend live? Register anyway, and we will send you the recording and slides afterward.

In this webinar we describe common causes of oscilloscope noise and how additive noise from the oscilloscope can be reduced to improve the quality of your measurement result, regardless of the starting resolution/noise of your oscilloscope.

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Join Teledyne LeCroy for this hands-on webinar where we will examine and analyze Physical Layer compliance testing of BroadR-Reach, 100Base-T1, and 1000Base-T1 Automotive Ethernet designs. Starting with Automotive Ethernet background, we then focus on the individual Physical Media Attachment (PMA) electrical tests as defined by the OPEN Alliance and IEEE standards.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Defining Automotive Ethernet PHY layer
• Intro to Physical Media Attachment (PMA) compliance tests
• Device Test Mode generation, test setup and fixturing
• Details of each compliance test with live, hands-on analysis
  • Maximum Output Droop
  • Transmitter Distortion
  • Transmitter Timing Jitter, Master and Slave
  • Transmitter Power Spectral Density (PSD)
  • Transmitter Peak Differential Output
  • Transmitter Clock Frequency

Pre-work Recommended Before Hands-on Webinar

It is recommended that prior to the start of the webinar you should download and register (at no cost) MAUI Studio and download LabNotebook (waveform plus setup files) .lnb files (they will be combined into one .zip file that will need extracting).

Join Eric Bogatin and Teledyne LeCroy as we introduce you to five simple, yet essential, principles of signal integrity which we will apply to understanding how to interpret oscilloscope measurements from DC to 1 GHz bandwidth.

Many questions have obvious answers if we understand just a little bit about transmission lines and what the oscilloscope actually measures:

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Is it really true that the longer the cable, the longer the RC charging and the longer the rise time?
• Does this mean only short cables can offer high bandwidth?
• When should you use a 50 Ω input and when a 1 MΩ input to the scope?
• Why do I measure a rise time of 150 ns for the compensation signal on the front of the scope and others report it as 5 ns rise time?

Who should attend? Any engineer who wants a practical understanding of transmission lines and why this is so important in any oscilloscope measurement.

What attendees will learn? Attendees with never be confused about transmission lines again and will know the right way of using the 50 Ω termination on an oscilloscope.

Presenter: Dr. Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow

EMC Live: Automotive 

Automotive electronics developments have impacted automotive EMC testing by exposing higher frequency RF technologies to the lab. AR is making this easier for the lab and Test Engineering by bringing state-of-the-art shielding capabilities to their product line-up by joining forces with Comtest, a leader in shielding technologies and RF absorber techniques. In addition to being a technology leader, AR is now a full-service EMC solution provider. We will discuss how AR chambers use the latest in RF technologies to make testing repeatable, reproducible, and safe from 10 kHz to above 40 GHz to support these new technologies in ways that legacy shielding could not. 

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Selecting battery test equipment is not as obvious as it might seem. The wrong choice will lead to major integration challenges as well as setbacks including hidden development costs, delayed test start dates, increased complexity, project risks and reduced safety.

This presentation will cover the top 10 factors to consider when deciding to buy a battery cycler, or building your own battery test system with sources and loads, or bidirectional power supplies. In this webinar, we’ll explain key considerations for testing batteries to ensure safety, product performance, flexibility, and time to market. Key topics include:

• Fundamental differences between battery cyclers and build your own approaches
• The hidden technical challenges in building your own test system
• Future-proofing your test solutions
• How to reduce time to market and improve engineering productivity 

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If you cannot attend the live event, please register and we will send you the recording.

In Part 3 of our 2023 Oscilloscope Coffee Break Webinar Series we discuss the relationship between signal rise time and oscilloscope bandwidth and how to choose the right bandwidth of oscilloscope for your application.

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How to Become an Expert in Power Integrity Testing Webinar Series

Power Distribution Networks (PDNs) require careful design to ensure excellent power integrity, especially in high-speed designs. This 8-part series walks you through the fundamentals to advanced topics with a large number of live demonstrations.

SI/PI Measurements on a Budget

In this session (Part 4), we will show you how you get the most out of your oscilloscope for power integrity measurements without spending a lot of money, including the right way you can do five common SI and PI measurements with a budget scope and some simple probes you probably already have around your lab. We’ll also show some of the common artifacts to avoid so you can get meaningful measurements.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Calculating the approximate bandwidth needs for your oscilloscope
• Measuring a power rail with a 10x probe
• Measuring a low impedance power rail with a build-it-yourself power rail probe
• Measuring the source of near field pick up
• Using spectral analysis to analyze the root cause of noise pick up.

Who should attend? Hardware design and validation engineers and technicians interested in how to best leverage low-cost probes and techniques to measure power integrity well.

Delivering consistently accurate results is integral for the flexographic industry. When a customer in this industry sought to update their analog inspection system, they sought the expertise of ClearView Imaging and Matrox® Imaging to provide an automated vision-system-driven mounting machine. Comprising a Matrox Imaging vision controller and software, this customized system is able to locate precise targets on flexographic plates, using advanced illumination techniques and software tools to address noise, locate shapes, and matching patterns.

SD-WAN was first introduced to provide a reliable and cost-effective backup to MPLS-based enterprise WAN connectivity. As IP and Internet networks have become more reliable, along with the growth in adoption of cloud services, SD-WAN has evolved and is replacing branch office routers as the preferred WAN connectivity solution.

According to Gartner, 60% of enterprises will have implemented SD-WAN by 2024 compared to just 30% today. At least 30% of enterprise locations will only have Internet WAN connectivity, which is twice the current number. The impact of SD-WAN on the WAN infrastructure market is also clear with Gartner expecting a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of -3.1% from 2017 to 2024 as cheaper SD-WAN solutions replace more expensive branch office routers

Nevertheless, one should not make the mistake of thinking that SD-WAN is less complex or intelligent. Quite the contrary in fact. The latest generation of SD-WAN solutions are expected to be application-aware and capable of determining the optimal path through the WAN in real-time on a per application basis. This includes cloud services with direct offload from the branch to co-located cloud edge services. In addition, sophisticated security capabilities are provided to support Zero Trust Network (ZTNA) and/or Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) concepts.

The sophistication of modern SD-WAN solutions allows a true de-coupling of WAN connectivity from the underlying transport mechanism, which is predominantly Ethernet based. It also means that there is little insight into the data transport layer, only to the tunneled SD-WAN connections that are supported. As data consumption continues to grow and more sophisticated and demanding Internet-based services contend for public Internet resources, the underlying data transport layer networks supporting SD-WAN are becoming more dynamic and unpredictable. Multiple choices can be available, such as fixed broadband access over copper or fiber, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) or 5G mobile broadband, but when should one choose these options, and can one be sure that the current measured performance will be maintained?

Time: 11 AM Pacific | 2 PM Eastern
Duration: 60 minutes including Q&A

How to Perform PCI Express 5.0 PHY Compliance Testing

Join Teledyne LeCroy for this live demonstration of PCI Express 5.0 Electrical Compliance Testing. In this webinar we will demonstrate everything a Test or Validation Engineer will need to do to perform PCIe® 5.0 CEM physical layer/electrical compliance testing.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Test Equipment Requirements
• Physical Connections between DUT and Test Equipment
• ISI Board Characterization
• Stressed EYE Calibration
• Link EQ, TX, PLL Testing

Who should attend? Design, validation and test engineers working on PCIe 5.0 devices

What attendees will learn? How to perform PCIe 5.0 CEM physical layer/electrical compliance testing.

Presenter: Thomas Stüber

Looking for background knowledge for Automotive Ethernet, who uses it, why they are using it, and what to expect when testing it? This webinar is for you.

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Are Heat Pipes the Answer to Your Thermal Issues?

Heat Pipes are one of the most efficient ways to move heat, or thermal energy, from one point to another. These two-phase systems are typically used to cool high power electronics, even in outer space. Watch the on-demand webinar to learn more about designing and modeling heat pipes into your project.

What you get:

• Answers to common questions about how to integrate heat pipes and best practices
• An in-depth heat pipe calculator tutorial
• Heat pipe modeling How-To's
• Types of heat pipes and working fluids you may not have known were available

Join Teledyne LeCroy as we describe and demonstrate best practices for de-embedding test fixtures, cables, and probes from serial data link and other signal integrity measurements. This is a critically important process to ensure that the signal integrity measurements for the DUT are not contaminated by the interconnection elements.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Why de-embedding is almost always necessary
• Best practices for reference-plane calibration
• Traditional Frequency-domain de-embedding
• Time-domain gating and peeling (i.e. fixture removal, in-situ de-embedding (ISD))
• Causality conditions

Who should attend? Hardware engineers who use a Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) to obtain S-parameters for use in emulation software.

What attendees will learn? How to accurately measure S-parameters of high-speed interconnects.

Presenter: Giuseppe Leccia, Business Development Manager

Can't attend live? Register anyway, and we will send you the recording and slides afterward.

How to Become an Expert in Automotive Ethernet Testing

Automotive Ethernet is the becoming the serial data backbone of choice for faster data communication to enable advanced ADAS, infotainment, connected car, and autonomous vehicle technologies. Join Teledyne LeCroy for this 4-part webinar series covering automotive ethernet (BroadR-Reach, 100Base-T1, and 1000Base-T1) fundamentals through advanced testing for electrical link and PHY compliance test to advanced PHY debug.

Mastering Transmitter Droop, Distortion, Jitter and Spectral Density Test

In this session (Part 3), we will describe the requirements for the Physical Media Attachment (PMA) compliance tests with practical demonstrations using complex signals while indicating the procedures for obtaining the best measurement results and signal integrity.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Maximum Output Droop
• Transmitter Distortion
• Transmitter Timing Jitter, Master and Slave
• Transmitter Power Spectral Density (PSD)
• Transmitter Peak Differential Output
• Transmitter Clock Frequency

Who should attend? Engineers and technicians looking to learn more about the physical layer compliance test process for Automotive Ethernet.

What attendees will learn? What to expect when setting-up and performing Automotive Ethernet physical layer tests. Each of the different tests will be covered in detail with hands-on experience.

The oscilloscope has been a primary tool for electronic design engineers since the invention of that instrument, many years ago. The first decades of oscilloscopes were “analog” in nature.

Have you ever had a device which passed compliance but did not establish a communication link between Master and Slave? Join Teledyne LeCroy for this webinar as we explore some of the different approaches for debugging Automotive Ethernet links by looking at both the physical and protocol layers.

Who should attend: Engineers and technicians who have worked on or will work on Automotive Ethernet. This session will start with the basics and build on them to cover debugging techniques.

What attendees learn: A working knowledge of how Automotive Ethernet frames compare to standard Ethernet frames, how the link startup sequence works, and how to debug Automotive Ethernet links.

Presenter: Bob Mart, Director of Product Management, Teledyne LeCroy

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Time: 11AM Pacific | 2PM Eastern

Duration: 1 hour

How to Characterize Lossy Interconnects in High-speed Designs

Join Eric Bogatin and Teledyne LeCroy for this webinar exploring the properties of lossy transmission lines and how to extract their important figures of merit. All losses are frequency dependent. We introduce a simple way of estimating the losses expected based on the interconnect design and how to measure the losses using S-parameters.

Topics to be included:

• The root cause of losses
• Estimating the conductor and dielectric losses
• Extracting an important figure of merit from insertion loss
• How much insertion loss is too much?
• Estimating the maximum data rate of a channel from the insertion loss

Who should attend? Any Engineer designing, validating or using high-speed serial data links.

What attendees will learn? How to analyze insertion loss and interpret measurements in terms of highest acceptable data rate.

Presenter: Dr. Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow

Can't attend live? Register anyway, and we will send you the recording and slides afterward.

The cable design for a automated test system is critical for repeatability and accuracy, it needs care and expertise. Depending on the application, a test engineer needs to consider test specifications, including voltage, current, temperature, insertion losses, and more. Unless the test engineer is an expert on cabling, researching wires and connectors can be a daunting task.

There are times when a standard cable assembly is not suitable, and there is a need for custom connectors and wire types or specific harness wiring. Our free online Cable Design Tool (CDT) is a simple and efficient way of creating these custom cabling solutions.

In this training, we demonstrate the tools abilities and features which include:

Xena is proud to launch "Freya", our newest and fastest Valkyrie test module. The first of a new product family based on 112Gbps PAM4 SerDes, Freya is aimed at first movers in the 800GE space and designed for 800G switch, transceiver and PHY design validation & Quality Assurance.

A Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) displays the instantaneous single-ended or differential impedance profiles of an interconnect and the location of discontinuities. While this is valuable information, there is additional information we can extract by expanding to multiple ports and looking at not just the differential impedance, but also the common impedance and even the location of crosstalk and mode conversion.

Join Eric Bogatin and Teledyne LeCroy as we introduce the value of looking at multi-port and mixed-mode TDR and impedance measurements, the best measurement practices and how to analyze the results.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• Converting frequency domain into the time domain
• Impedance profiles and interconnect structures
• Measuring near- and far-end crosstalk
• Identifying the location of crosstalk
• Features that can cause mode conversion
• Three important consistency tests to always consider

Who should attend? Engineers who need to characterize the electrical properties of interconnects, or currently use TDR measurements.

What attendees will learn? How to use TDR measurements to interpret interconnect electrical features.

Presenter: Dr. Eric Bogatin, Teledyne LeCroy Fellow

How to Become an Expert in Power Integrity Testing Webinar Series

Power Distribution Networks (PDNs) require careful design to ensure excellent power integrity, especially in high-speed designs. This 8-part series walks you through the fundamentals to advanced topics with a large number of live demonstrations.

Don’t Let Ground Bounce Ruin Your Day

In this session (Part 7), Dr. Eric Bogatin will focus on ground bounce. Ground bounce is a common problem in packages, connectors and circuit boards that gets worse with shorter rise times. This insidious problem can cause enough cross talk to break almost any product. We will look at the principles behind the root cause of ground bounce, how we can measure the ground bounce in your system, and based on the root cause, how we can design ground bounce out of your next product.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

• What is ground bounce
• What interconnect features create ground bounce
• Measure ground bounce on a circuit board
• Measure ground bounce on the die and package
• Measure ground bounce from return path discontinuities

Who should attend? Hardware design and validation engineers and signal/power integrity engineers interested in expanding their knowledge on this very important topic.

Time: 11 AM Pacific | 2 PM Eastern
Duration: 60 minutes including Q&A

Jitter University Webinar Series

Confused about jitter? Did someone’s explanation of jitter create more questions than answers? If so, join Teledyne LeCroy as we teach everything about jitter – what jitter is, different categories, instruments used, measurements and views, deconvolution and extrapolation, and more. Click here to access the entire series.

Part 6: Serial Data Jitter Separation, Extrapolation, and Jitter Views

In this session we describe what total jitter at a given bit error rate (Tj@BER) is and how it is derived from time interval error (TIE) measurements using extrapolation models. Random jitter (Rj) and deterministic (Dj) separation is explained, with further explanation of Dj separation into data dependent jitter (DDj), duty cycle distortion (DCD), intersymbol interference (ISI), bounded uncorrelated jitter (BUj) and periodic jitter (Pj), with examples provided.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

How to Become an Expert in Automotive Ethernet Testing

Automotive Ethernet is the becoming the serial data backbone of choice for faster data communication to enable advanced ADAS, infotainment, connected car, and autonomous vehicle technologies. Join Teledyne LeCroy for this 4-part webinar series covering automotive ethernet (BroadR-Reach, 100Base-T1, and 1000Base-T1) fundamentals through advanced testing for electrical link and PHY compliance test to advanced PHY debug.

Debugging PHY Layer Link Communication Learning Lab

In this session (Part 4), we review Automotive Ethernet link communication and explore how to debug and troubleshoot these links using an oscilloscope during an interactive session with live signals. We will look at both the physical and protocol layers during this Learning Lab webinar.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

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One of the most basic things to know when using any probe is “what is the maximum voltage the device can safely measure?” The answer isn’t as straightforward as you might imagine, it requires understanding several key probe specifications as well as the nature of your signal.

Single-ended Range

Everyone is pretty familiar with single-ended range: that's the maximum safe voltage input to ground, shown in Figure 1. Ground is directly tied to oscilloscope ground, which is tied to building ground. Therefore, when measuring voltage within this range using a single-ended probe, the ground connection cannot be a floating voltage, or you could damage the probe, the DUT, the oscilloscope...maybe yourself, as well. Single-ended voltage must be a grounded voltage on your board or something that could be tied to ground.

Dynamic Range and Maximum Non-destruct Input Voltage

Figure 2. Differential mode range is measured between inputs.

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Time: 11 AM Pacific | 2 PM Eastern
Duration: 30 minutes

Oscilloscope Coffee Break Webinar Series

Join Teledyne LeCroy for this 30-minute Oscilloscope Coffee Break Series to remind us how to get the most test and debug capability from our oscilloscopes. Grab your refreshment and spend a few minutes with us as we focus on a specific topic each month.  Click here to access the entire series.

Part 10: How Do I Rescale a Sensor to Use With an Oscilloscope?

Sensors are commonly used in automotive, motor, and other applications to measure rotational speed, shaft angle or position, torque, pressure, wheel speed, crankshaft speed, oxygen levels, anti-lock braking system (abs) parameters, temperature, magnetic or electrical fields (Teslas, Webers, Siemen, Volt/meter, etc.) and many others.

In this coffee break webinar, we will describe various techniques used to take sensor outputs and rescale them into appropriate and useful non-voltage scientific units, such as Pascals, Volt/meter, Webers, Newton-meter, revolution/minute (RPM), etc. for display as an easily understandable waveform on an oscilloscope.

Topics to be covered in this webinar:

This webinar will introduce the M21 Video Analyzer/Generator for HDMI 8K and DisplayPort UHBR testing.

The presentation will provide an overview of the HDMI video generation features and the HDMI video analysis features through connection to external devices. We will also discuss the auxiliary channel analyzer (ACA) utility for monitoring the HDMI transactions over the DDC channel.

A high level roadmap will be provided to discuss the rollout of other important features such as DisplayPort analysis. Future M21 webinars will cover the DisplayPort analyzer features.

When: Thursday, August 3, 2023, 12:00PM Central Daylight Time

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Presenter: Neal Kendall, Product Marketing Manager – quantumdata Product Family, Teledyne LeCroy

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We explore in detail the relationship between discrete-frequency responses connected with sparameters and the implied continuous time response. This is done in both the frequency- and time-domain to develop the proper insight and explore issues with real time-domain responses, time-aliasing, causality, interpolation and re-sampling of discrete-frequency data. Using the insight gained, we identify the conditions for sufficiency of sampling and the side-effects of the invariable practical conditions when these side-effects cannot be completely dispelled. This paper is especially useful for understanding issues involved in direct application of sparameters in linear simulations, like those used in virtual probing applications in scopes.