High Speed Interconnects And How To Accurately Characterize Your Device

A product’s reliability and system performance is affected by the signal integrity through the interconnects, transmitters, and receivers, which can be a challenge in designing high speed systems. Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs) must also be effectively and accurately used for time domain and frequency domain measurements. This application note discusses how to use VNAs for time domain measurements, as well as how the time and frequency domain relate, and what to look out for when measuring them. Download the full article for detailed measurement examples with different settings, filters, and gates in order to help explain key aspects in accurately measuring a device.