Tektronix adds new High-Speed Serial Protocol test platform

Tektronix Inc., a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products and solutions, has introduced a new comprehensive protocol test platform that allows engineers to analyse, stimulate, stress and characterise high-speed serial links — with support for speeds up to 10Gb/s.

With the new TPI4000 Protocol Analyzer Series, users need only one instrument to perform multiple test functions and to look at a variety of protocols such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI), and Serial Front Panel Data Port (FPDP).

The TPI4000 Series consists of two models.

The TPI4202 is a portable unit with a built-in monitor and keyboard and supports up to 8 ports.

The TPI4208 is a 4U rack-mount unit that supports up to 32 ports.

Each model is highly configurable with options to support different data rates, to support different protocols, and to support different applications.

High-speed serial protocols supported by the TPI4000 Series include Fibre Channel (FICON, AS1760, ASM, FC-AE-1553, others), Ethernet (iSCSI, FCoE, TCP/IP, IPv6, iFCP, AFDX, ARINC664, TTE, others), Serial Front Panel Data Port (Serial FPDP), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Serial ATA (SATA), Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) and Serial RapidIO (SRIO).

Tektronix products are available in Australia through TekMark Australia.