Tektronix Introduces Industry's Most Cost-Effective Solution for MIPI® Alliance M-PHYSM Testing

Beijing, China - October 13, 2011 - Tektronix, a global oscilloscope market leader, has announced the industry's most cost-effective and only customer-proven solution for MIPI Alliance M-PHY testing of the newly released M-PHY v1.0 specification. Building on the industry's first M-PHY test solution launched last September, Tektronix now offers mobile device hardware engineers a simple, integrated solution for M-PHY transmitter and receiver debug, validation and conformance testing.

Compared to competing M-PHY test solutions that require a complex array of instruments to cover comprehensive M-PHY test requirements, the Tektronix solution is much simpler, requiring only a Tektronix DPO/DSA/MSO70000 Series oscilloscope and an AWG7000 Series arbitrary waveform generator. Developed in close collaboration with Synopsys, the Tektronix “2-box” solution offers integrated error detection on the oscilloscope for receiver tolerance testing and reusability (one setup to test M-PHY or the lower speed D-PHYSM specification).

“We are committed to simplifying M-PHY testing with our customers, partners and MIPI working groups,” said Roy Siegel, General Manager of Oscilloscopes at Tektronix. “We pioneered the M-PHY test solution and have been working with our customers to improve our solutions in this area, culminating in the June release of a solution for the full M-PHY v1.0 specification.”

"We have worked closely with Tektronix to test our high-quality DesignWare® MIPI M-PHY solution to further enhance designers' confidence that the technology is robust and fully compliant with the latest M-PHY v 1.0 specification," said Navraj Nandra, senior director of marketing for mixed-signal and analog technologies at Synopsys. "Synopsys used Tektronix DPO70804 and DSA8200 oscilloscopes to help ensure that the silicon-proven DesignWare MIPI M-PHY solution meets the necessary electrical characteristics and performance requirements."

Synopsys recently posted a video on its website ( www.synopsys.com/mphy ) demonstrating the capabilities of the DesignWare MIPI M-PHY Complete Solution using a Tektronix oscilloscope.

“As an active MIPI contributor, Tektronix products accelerate the evaluation of D-PHY and M-PHY performance and signal integrity,” said Joel Huloux, chairman of the MIPI Alliance. “Tektronix is ​​driving adoption of the new M-PHY interface by helping to simplify physical layer testing and validation.”

M-PHY is a high-speed serial interface for MIPI Alliance's DigRF v4, UniPro, LLI, CSI-3 and DSI-2 connectivity standards and will be used in the development of mobile devices that offer high performance, effective power management schemes, robustness against RF interference and low RF emissions. It is expected to be widely adopted in the mobile device industry in the coming years.

泰克“2-box”解决方案既支持发射机测试也支持接收机测试，包括全面的高速测试，误差检测、脉冲宽度调制（PWM）信令、PSD（功率谱密度）测试和DigRF验证。与其他厂商的解决方案相比，该解决方案显著降低了设备成本。在示波器上执行PSD测量的能力是泰克公司的独有技术，目前正在申请专利。另外，该解决方案还提供了针对接收机容限测试（基于误码率测试）的一个新配置库和实现方法（MOI），用于M-PHY接收机的验证。

The DPO/DSA/MSO70000 digital and mixed signal oscilloscopes offer the most accurate real-time performance on the market, with 100 GS/s sampling rate, lower noise, and 3x oversampling at 33GHz acquisition to provide more data points (comparable oscilloscopes typically only provide 2.5x). The AWG7000 Series arbitrary waveform generators with 24 GS/s sampling rate and 10-bit resolution provide the accuracy, performance and flexibility required for comprehensive M-PHY debug and validation testing.

In addition to the M-PHY solution, Tektronix also provides customers with expanded support for the MIPI specification with trigger, decode and search functions for MIPI CSI-2 and DSI-1 and serial buses on its Microsoft Windows operating system oscilloscopes. In addition, Tektronix also provides the TekExpress fully automated toolset for one-button compliance testing of MIPI D-PHY and DigRFv.4 or CSI-2 or DSI-1 logic tests using the TLA7000 logic analyzer.

Availability
The Tektronix M-PHY solution, including the M-PHY Upgrade Option for upgrading to full high-speed testing, PSD measurements, and M-PHY receiver tolerance testing, is available through your local Tektronix sales representative.

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