Weekly PULSE Issue
Jennifer Zhao – GM of System Management Products at NXP
SATA II Drive Tx/Rx Testing & Cable SI Test Using the 86100C DCA-J
Posted Feb 15th 2013
This procedure describes how to setup and use the 86100C DCA-J to make the following measurements on a SATA internal cable to determine if the cable meets the requirements of the standard:
- SI-01 Mated Connector Impedance
- Cable Absolute Impedance
- Cable Pair Matching
- Common Mode Impedance
- Differential Rise Time
- Intra-Pair Skew
- Insertion Loss
- Differential to Differential Cross Talk: NEXT
- Inter-Symbol Interference
Tests SI-01 through SI-08 use Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) techniques to measure impedance in the time domain with test results reported in the time domain or frequency domain (S-Parameters) as required by the standard. The 86100C DCA-J with option 202 can easily translate between the time and frequency domains with a single button push.
