San Jose, California – October 4, 2012 – Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. (“Arasan”) is a leading provider of Total IP Solutions, BitifEye Digital Test Solutions GmbH (“BitifEye”) is the developer of unique software and accessories for automated test and debugging of multiple high speed serial bus protocols, and Granite River Labs Inc. (“GRL”) is an engineering services company focused on helping customers adopt multi-gigabit interface technologies. All three organizations collaborated to implement and prove a methodology to address the challenge of testing and characterization of the electrical behavior of a MIPI D-PHY receiver.

D-PHY is intended to be integrated as the PHY layer IP for MIPI CSI-2 and DSI digital link layer controllers for mobile camera and display applications. The interface between the controller and D-PHY has a signal count that is too high to provide at-speed observability on the pins of chips, like those designed for camera and display panel modules. This poses a challenge for test and characterization of embedded D-PHY’s.

A comprehensive solution has been proven through a joint collaboration of the three companies. BitifEye’s ValiFrame Test Automation Software generates D-PHY frames which are physically driven from an Agilent Technologies ParBERT system combined with a BitifEye switch, and received in the Arasan D-PHY test chip interfaced to the company’s DSI Device IP mapped on an FPGA. Arasan configured its DSI Device IP to trap the recovered frames, and compare to the original frame values for pass/fail determination. Proper integration of the hardware and software components of the test and characterization environment was architected and implemented by GRL, with a view to make this a repeatable implementation and services model for the three companies’ common customers worldwide.

“These are practical solutions to practical problems our current and future customers face when they reach the silicon characterization stage,” says Ajay Jain, Director of Product Marketing for Arasan. “We have partnered with a larger ecosystem to serve our customers beyond just providing IP solutions.”

“MIPI PHY design and electrical characterization present challenges on multiple levels,” said Quintin Anderson, Chief Operating Officer at GRL.  “We are pleased to be working with Arasan and BitifEye to help the MIPI ecosystem meet these challenges.

“BitifEye is glad to work with partners and customers in order to adapt and tailor standard test solutions to the specific needs,” added Alexander Schmitt, BitifEye’s CEO.  “A high level of test automation was achieved by this collaboration.”

Specifics for this solution are available to Arasan customers, with implementation and testing services provided by GRL, using frame generation and debug hardware and software components from BitifEye and Agilent Technologies. This would allow customers to confirm electrical conformance to MIPI specifications for their D-PHY receivers in CSI-2 receiver and DSI applications.

About Arasan

Arasan Chip Systems is a leading provider of Total IP Solutions for mobile storage and connectivity applications.   Arasan’s high-quality, silicon-proven, Total IP Solutions include digital IP cores, analog PHY interfaces, verification IP, hardware verification kits, protocol analyzers, software stacks and drivers, and optional customization services for MIPI, USB, SD, SDIO, MMC/eMMC, CF, UFS, xD and many other popular standards.  Arasan’s Total IP products serve system architects and chip design teams in mobile, gaming and desktop computing systems that require silicon-proven, validated IP, delivered with the ability to integrate and verify both digital, analog and software components in the shortest possible time with the lowest risk.

Unlike many other IP providers, Arasan’s Total IP Solution encompasses all aspects of IP development and integration, including analog and digital cores, hardware development kits, protocol analyzers, validation IP and software stacks and drivers and optional architecture consulting and customization services.   Based in San Jose, CA, USA, Arasan Chip Systems has a 16 year track record of IP and IP standards development leadership.

About BitifEye

 BitifEye Digital Test Solutions is a leading supplier of test automation software and test accessories. BitifEye is a Solutions Partner with Agilent Technologies, the world’s premier test and measurement company. The BitifEye and Agilent off-the-shelf products can be combined to powerful, application-specific test systems for high-speed digital interface buses. The modular and open architecture allows customers and partners e.g. to implement customizations or to integrate the test systems into higher-level test infrastructure such as top-level test sequencers.

BitifEye is based in Boeblingen, Germany, and was founded in 2005. The company has a history of successful cooperation with development partners and alpha customers on test solutions for a broad range of digital interconnects for computer, video and mobile applications such as PCI Express, HDMI, MHL or MIPI.

 About Granite River Labs

With lab locations in Santa Clara, CA, and Taipei and Hsinchu in Taiwan, Granite River Labs provides a range of engineering services to help customers adopt multi-gigabit connectivity technologies from the IC to system level, including compliance testing, debugging, device characterization, signal/power integrity modeling and simulation, stress testing, benchmarking, and interoperability. Information about GRL is available at www.graniteriverlabs.com.

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) September 12, 2012

Granite River Labs (GRL) announced today that they have been qualified by Intel® Corporation to perform Thunderbolt product certification testing for AV, Storage, and PCI Express Expansion devices. GRL is the first and only test center authorized to test Thunderbolt products to ensure that they meet the Thunderbolt specifications. GRL currently provides Thunderbolt product certification and pre-certification testing at its Santa Clara, Calif. facility, and Thunderbolt product pre-certification testing at its Taipei, Taiwan facility. GRL expects to offer Thunderbolt product certification testing in Taiwan later this year.

A result of close technical collaboration between Intel and Apple, Thunderbolt is a revolutionary I/O technology that supports high-resolution displays and high-performance data devices through a single, compact port. Only products that have passed official certification testing are authorized to display the Thunderbolt icon.

“We are excited to support the Thunderbolt ecosystem as an authorized test center and to continue our support of strong Thunderbolt adoption,” said Johnson Tan, Chief Executive Officer at GRL. “We have leveraged our technical leadership and expertise in PCI Express and DisplayPort to offer a complete suite of Thunderbolt product certification and pre-certification test services, with ultra-responsive service and deep technical support.”

“The certification program is critical to the successful launch of Thunderbolt products and it assures customers that the products meet the compliance and interoperability requirements expected for Thunderbolt products,” said Jason Ziller, Director of Thunderbolt Marketing & Planning, Intel Corporation. “GRL has invested significant energy in support of the Thunderbolt product certification testing program and we are pleased to approve them as an authorized test center.”

About Granite River Labs:
With lab locations in Santa Clara, Calif., and Taipei and Hsinchu in Taiwan, Granite River Labs provides a range of engineering services to help customers adopt multi-gigabit connectivity technologies from the IC to system level, including compliance testing, debugging, device characterization, signal/power integrity modeling and simulation, stress testing, benchmarking, and interoperability. Information about GRL is available at http://www.graniteriverlabs.com.

VESA has completed our first compliance and testing workshop event in Taiwan, and what else can we say but that the interest level was truly amazing! One key takeaway for the future is that we need a bigger room. With more than 120 people from 40 companies attending, the event was standing room only!

Compliance and interoperability are two items that VESA believes are critical for DisplayPort’s continued success. Because Taiwan is an important global technology hub within Asia, the Taiwan DisplayPort Compliance workshop was designed to provide Asia-based companies an in-depth overview of the standard and what is required for testing and compliance.

For the one-day event, we partnered with one of our testing facilities, Granite River Labs (GRL), and a host of test equipment manufacturers, to deliver a series of free seminars on compliance and interoperability. This was followed by discussion about the DisplayPort Logo Program requirements and hands-on testing with equipment manufacturers during the afternoon. Both sessions were well attended by both VESA members and non-members, creating a great dynamic at the event.

We are very pleased with the success of this event, and believe the strong interest we saw from Taiwanese and other Asian manufacturers means adoption of DisplayPort will continue to grow, and many new companies want to learn about DisplayPort implementation and testing. The excitement we saw from the 40 companies attending was so great that we have already begun planning our next Taiwan workshop event!

Once planning has finished and a date is set for this next event, we will post details on the VESA.org homepage.  Be sure to check back!

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 4, 2012

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Granite River Labs (GRL) in Taipei, Taiwan, is using Agilent’s electronic test solution for Thunderbolt, DisplayPort and Dual-Mode DisplayPort compliance and certification testing. GRL is expected to be the first test lab in Taiwan to offer testing for Intel’s new Thunderbolt technology.

Thunderbolt is a revolutionary I/O technology developed by Intel that provides two channels of 10Gbps bidirectional data. Leading technology companies feature Thunderbolt on their host products. Third-party device vendors currently are in early adoption of Thunderbolt. By midyear, devices and hosts based on Thunderbolt technology will all need to be certified though an authorized test center.

In today’s increasingly complex electronics field, it is important for test houses and designers to have the right tools to test electronic designs for compliance to industry standards. An authorized test center for DisplayPort and Serial ATA, GRL has deep expertise in a wide range of electronic technologies, including HDMI, MHL, PCI Express Gen3, USB 3.0, DDR, and 10G Ethernet. GRL is already working with early Thunderbolt adopters as well.

“We are pleased to be using the Agilent test solution for Thunderbolt in our Taipei lab for precompliance testing,” said Mike Engbretson, chief engineer at GRL. “Agilent provides a complete physical-layer test solution for Thunderbolt. These tests include transmitter, receiver and return loss testing of the 10.3125Gb/s TBT link as well as downstream display tests, which include DisplayPort 1.2 source tests (up to 2.7Gb/s) and Dual-Mode DisplayPort source tests.”

“It’s been exciting to work with GRL to enable Thunderbolt, DisplayPort and Dual-Mode DisplayPort technology,” said Allan Chang, general manager, Agilent’s Electronic Measurements Group, Taiwan. “We are confident that Agilent’s complete testing solution will help all industrial customers meet quality and time-to-market product development requirements.”

The high speed (10Gbps) of data running on Thunderbolt buses requires the 33-GHz Agilent Infiniium 90000 X- Series oscilloscope, J-BERT N4903B high-performance serial BERT, E5071C 20GHz ENA, 81160A pulse/pattern generator and N5990A test automation software platform to carry out the high-performance testing.

The Agilent Infiniium oscilloscope used in the Thunderbolt test solution offers the world’s deepest acquisition memory and has the world’s first hardware/software integrated triggering system, InfiniiScan Plus. The Infiniium Series was designed to give engineers superior signal integrity, deep application analysis, and better insight into their designs.

About Granite River Labs

With lab locations in Santa Clara, Calif., and Taipei and Hsinchu in Taiwan, Granite River Labs provides a range of engineering services to help customers adopt high-speed connectivity technologies from the IC to system level, including compliance testing, debugging, characterization, signal/power integrity modeling and simulation, stress testing, benchmarking, and interoperability. Information about GRL is available at www.graniteriverlabs.com.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications. The company’s 18,700 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $6.6 billion in fiscal 2011. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.

Independent Test Labs Validate Discera MEMS Performance for 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Enterprise Storage

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Discera, Inc., a leading provider of silicon timing technology announced the volume availability of the world’s highest performance MEMS oscillators for Networking, Server, Storage, and Video applications. The DSC11XX silicon oscillators are available at accuracies up to 10 ppm, and temperature ranges up to 125 degrees Celsius. The DSC11XX are the highest performance silicon-based oscillators to enter production, with 300 femtosecond RMS phase jitter in CMOS, LVPECL, LVDS, and HCSL output versions.

“In our testing of the same production 6G SAS HBA design with both the DSC1122 Silicon MEMS oscillator and a 3rd overtone crystal oscillator, we found that the use of the DSC1122 resulted in equivalent system performance with a bit lower measured transmitter random jitter and total jitter”

“Silicon processes enable a great deal of programmability and flexibility, but until today, they did not provide the highest level of jitter performance, frequency stability, and noise immunity necessary for high speed communications,” said Bruce Diamond, CEO of Discera.

Independent system-level testing has for the first time validated these Silicon MEMS oscillators as exceeding the performance of crystal oscillators for storage and networking applications. Granite River Labs testing of the LVPECL DSC1122 found that it surpassed 6G SAS compliance requirements with 59% lower transmitter jitter than the SAS 2.1 specification. UNH Interoperability Labs testing of the DSC1122 found that it surpassed 10 Gigabit Ethernet conformance requirements by delivering transmitter timing jitter 45% lower than the 10GBASE-T specification.

“In our testing of the same production 6G SAS HBA design with both the DSC1122 Silicon MEMS oscillator and a 3rd overtone crystal oscillator, we found that the use of the DSC1122 resulted in equivalent system performance with a bit lower measured transmitter random jitter and total jitter,” said Mike Engbretson, Chief Technology Engineer of Granite River Labs (GRL). “The results showed the necessity of system-level compliance testing since the crystal oscillator had an even lower RMS phase jitter specification on a component level.”

Using Discera’s proven silicon MEMS technology, the DSC11XX provide excellent jitter while consuming less power and delivering higher frequency stability over a wider temperature ranges than crystal oscillator products.  By eliminating the need for quartz crystal or SAW technology, silicon oscillators significantly enhance reliability and accelerate product development. With femtosecond jitter and 10ppm frequency accuracy, DSC11XX oscillators meet the performance demands of high-speed protocols including DisplayPort, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, PON, SAS, and Wi-Gig for signaling rates of 10 Gbps and beyond.

Key Features of the DSC11XX include:

·   Ultra-low phase jitter of 300 femtosecond RMS at 156.25 MHz (integrated 200 kHz to 20 MHz)

·   Industry-leading frequency accuracy up to 10 ppm across temperature

·   Widest available temperature ranges from -20 to 70 C up to -55 to 125 C

·   Low operating power ranging from 25 to 55 mA

·   Industry standard footprints of 3.2 x 2.5, 5.0 x 3.2, and 7.0 x 5.0 mm as drop-in replacement for crystal oscillators

·   Production leadtime of 2 weeks

At volume pricing of US$3.80 in 10K quantities for the LVPECL DSC1122 and less than $1.00 for the CMOS DSC1121, the DSC11XX MEMS oscillators offer semiconductor reliability, versatility, and short leadtimes with better accuracy and pricing than crystal oscillators.

About Discera

Founded in 2001 to commercialize pioneering work at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Discera is the acknowledged leader in CMOS-based MEMS oscillator technology.  The company has 28 patents in MEMS core and implementation technologies, and was presented with the prestigious Wall Street Journal Innovation Award.  Discera’s products serve as the heartbeat to a wide variety of computing, consumer electronics, industrial, and military applications.  More information is available at www.discera.com

Contacts

For Discera
Julia Chia, +1-408-432-8600 ext. 221
jchia@discera.com

Newark, Calif., December 8, 2011 – The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) today announced that select AMD  Radeon™ HD 6000 series  graphics products, including the AMD Radeon HD 6990, the world’s fastest graphics card, are the first source devices to achieve DisplayPort® Version 1.2 certification. AMD received certification from Granite River Labs, a Santa Clara, California-based VESA DisplayPort Authorized Test Center (ATC), for support of DisplayPort’s new 5.4Gbps (gigabits-per-second) HBR2 (High Bit Rate 2) data link rate. These same AMD Radeon HD 6000 graphics products also include additional features from the DisplayPort 1.2 standard, such as multi-stream transport (MST) and Full High Definition (HD) 3D stereoscopic display support.

“Achieving DisplayPort 1.2 Source device certification is an important milestone for us,” said David Cummings, director, Graphics Technical Marketing, AMD. “With DisplayPort, we are able to go beyond offering enthusiast gamers faster performance and advanced image quality features. Depending on the GPU model, we can now offer dozens of multi-monitor configuration options up to and including six simultaneous displays, flexibility in display selection, and new DisplayPort audio features, creating an ultra-immersive visual environment for the ultimate gaming experience.”

By doubling the maximum data transfer rate to 21.6Gbps, the HBR2 link rate offered by VESA’s DisplayPort Version 1.2 standard significantly enhances display and audio performance. This includes increased display resolution, color depths and refresh rates, improved support for Full HD 3D stereoscopic displays, and with MST, better support for multiple monitors connected to a single DisplayPort receptacle. These features make DisplayPort the best choice for high performance PC gaming, prompting increased demand for DisplayPort 1.2 certified products.

“As we continue to expand the capabilities of the DisplayPort standard and add benefits for the end user, we are simultaneously increasing the value of device certification for our members,” said Bill Lempesis, executive director of VESA. “We look forward to the support and promotion of more certified devices while encouraging others to participate in the compliance program.”

DisplayPort 1.2 certification testing is available through VESA’s seven certified third-party test houses in Asia and the United States, including Allion Test Labs in Beaverton, Ore., Shenzhen, China, and Taipei, Taiwan; Cable Assemblies and Connector Labs ETC in Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan; CESI Technology Company Ltd. in Beijing; Granite River Labs; and Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) in Korea. Once submitted for certification testing, sink and source devices must pass a series of tests to prove compliance with the DisplayPort Version 1.2 standard as outlined in several test documents that include VESA’s PHY Layer Compliance Test Specification (CTS), Link Layer CTS, and EDID CTS.

“Being part of the first DisplayPort 1.2 Source device certification is a significant milestone for us,” said Mike Engbretson, chief technology engineer of Granite River Labs. “We’re thrilled to be at the epicenter of increasing momentum for DisplayPort 1.2 certification in Silicon Valley. By providing a full suite of DisplayPort product testing, we’re aiding in the adoption of DisplayPort worldwide. We will continue to contribute to the compliance testing program for DisplayPort 1.2 as it gains more and more traction as an industry standard.”

For more information about DisplayPort, or the standard, please visit http://www.displayport.org. For more information about VESA, please visit http://www.vesa.org/ or find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/VESADisplayPort.

About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of computing devices. AMD’s server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments. AMD’s superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.

About Granite River Labs

Granite River Labs (GRL) provides a range of Engineering Services to help customers adopt High Speed Connectivity technologies from the IC to System level, including compliance testing, debugging, characterization, Signal/Power Integrity modeling & simulation, stress testing, benchmarking, and interoperability. An Authorized Test Center for DisplayPort, ThunderBolt, and SATA, GRL has deep expertise in a wide range of technologies including HDMI, MHL, PCIe Gen3, USB 3.0, DDR, and 10G Ethernet. GRL’s test facilities are conveniently located in Silicon Valley, Taiwan (Hsinchu & Taipei), and near Stuttgart, Germany.

(original VESA release)

Newark, Calif., August 10, 2011 – The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today announced the certification of the first sink device under the DisplayPort Version 1.2 standard. Achieving certification from Granite River Labs, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based VESA DisplayPort Authorized Test Center (ATC), the Mstar DisplayPort 1.2 Receiver (Rx) digital controller and PHY is the first sink device to achieve DisplayPort 1.2 compliance including sink PHY and Link capabilities to support the new 5.4 Gbps High Bit Rate 2 (HBR2) link rate. Developed by Mstar Semiconductor, Inc., a Taiwan-based supplier of ASICs for the consumer and communication electronics markets, the certified Rx digital controller and PHY include features from the latest DisplayPort 1.2 standard including fast training and HBR2 support which enables the support of QSXGA (2560×2048) resolution, 3D format support and a 120Hz frame rate.

“We are very proud to be the first DisplayPort Adopter to achieve DisplayPort 1.2 certification for a sink device,” said Sean Lin, general manager of Mstar’s Monitor and Display business unit. “With the features that DisplayPort brings to the table, we are able to develop advanced, robust technologies that system manufacturers can leverage to revolutionize the consumer’s visual experience.”

DisplayPort Version 1.2 certification testing is currently available through VESA’s six approved third party test houses in Asia and the United States. Once submitted for certification testing, sink and source devices must pass a series of tests to prove compliance with the DisplayPort Version 1.2 standard as outlined in VESA’s PHY Layer Compliance Test Specification (CTS) and Link Layer CTS. Third party test houses authorized for certification testing include Allion Test Labs in Beaverton, Ore., Shenzhen, China and Taipei, Taiwan; Cable Assemblies and Connector Labs ETC in Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan; CESI Technology Company Ltd. In Beijing; and Granite River Labs.

“Being part of the first DisplayPort 1.2 sink device certification is a significant milestone for us,” said Mike Engbretson, chief technology engineer of Granite River Labs. “VESA requires very stringent testing before certification can be granted, making this achievement even more impressive. We are proud to play a critical role in VESA’s work to ensure interoperability and deliver industry leading products to market.”

VESA’s DisplayPort Version 1.2 standard is a comprehensive extension to the original DisplayPort standard, significantly enhancing display performance. Capabilities added by DisplayPort Version 1.2 include the doubling of the maximum data transfer rate to 21.6 Gbps (Gigabits-per-second), increasing display resolution, color depths and refresh rates; multiple monitor support through a single DisplayPort connector; support for high-speed, bi-directional data transfer; audio enhancements including Audio Copy Protection and support for High-Definition (HD) audio formats such as Dolby, MAT, DTS HD, all Blu-Ray formats, and China’s DRA standard; and improved support for Full HD 3D Stereoscopic displays.

“VESA’s goal has always been to enable the electronics industry to deliver a superior visual experience,” said Bill Lempesis, executive director of VESA. “With both sink and source devices having now achieved DisplayPort 1.2 certification, we are seeing this goal come to fruition. We believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg, and expect the industry to grab hold of DisplayPort 1.2 to bring products to market that take display technology to new heights.”

For more information about DisplayPort, or the standard, please visit http://www.displayport.org. For more information about VESA, please visit http://www.vesa.org/ or find us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/VESADisplayPort.

About Mstar

Founded in 2002 on the principle of constant innovation and superior customer service, MStar Semiconductor has successfully built a diverse product portfolio that propels the company to become one of the fastest growing in the industry since its inception. In 2010, the company reached $1B US dollars in total revenue, with worldwide leadership position in the LCD monitor controller, analog and digital TV, cellular and mobile communications and portable devices.

Headquartered in Taiwan, MStar Semiconductor is a true global company with R&D, sales and operations activities in more than fifteen worldwide locations. Built on the core competency in high-complexity, high-performance System-on-chip (SoC) design, the company encompasses engineering teams with a wide-range of know-how and experience in radio frequencies (RF), communication systems, multimedia display and application SW. Combined with strong execution, MStar Semiconductor consistently delivers highly integrated and cost effective solutions for the established markets and the emerging markets.

About Granite River Labs

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Granite River Labs (GRL) combines recognized industry experts, high performance test equipment, and convenient lab locations to provide the utmost in customer service.  Our teams are an extension of our customers’ teams and together we overcome problems associated with testing early stage products and new connectivity technologies.  Led by recognized veterans in the test & measurement and semiconductor industries, GRL is the only Official DisplayPort and SATA Test Lab in Silicon Valley.  GRL is a recognized leader in the DisplayPort community and has made significant contributions to DP 1.2, with GRL Chief Engineer Mike Engbretson serving as Editor of the DP 1.2 Compliance Test Specification.  GRL services include compliance, debugging, characterization, benchmarking, stress testing, interoperability, and signal integrity modeling and testing.  GRL provides expertise in a wide range of technologies in addition to DisplayPort, including HDMI, Thunderbolt, DDR, PCIe Gen3, USB 3, and 10G Ethernet.

Granite River Labs is pleased to announce its first USB 3.0 Physical Layer Test Seminar and Hands-On Workshop in its new lab in Santa Clara, led by GRL Chief Technology Engineer Mike Engbretson. This session will be held on Friday, March 18.

The session will start with a USB 3.0 CTS 0.9 Overview and Introduction to the Vendor Test Tools. The rest of the session will be focused on training in a hands-on lab environment.

In the Hands-On Labs, participants will divide up into breakout sessions where they will have an opportunity to perform testing with the latest tools and receive professional instruction from GRL Test Experts. Each lab group will rotate through the following informative and insightful labs:

Lab 1 – Physical Layer Transmitter Testing:

o Transmitter Compliance Testing – Learn to perform a USB 3.0 Transmitter ‘Plug Fest’ Compliance Test o Determining your Transmitters True Margin – Learn to De-Embed test fixture and cable losses from your measurements.

Lab 2 – Receiver Physical Layer Testing:

o Receiver Compliance Testing – Learn to perform a USB 3.0 Receiver ‘Plug Fest’ Compliance Test o Receiver Margin Testing – Learn how to determine how much margin you have in your Receiver design

Lab 3 – Cable S-Parameter Creation:

o S-Parameter Measurement – Learn to measure Cable and Fixture losses o Understanding TouchStone Files – Learn the structure of industry standard file format for S-parameters

The Hands-On Labs will feature an Agilent Test Equipment: DSA 90000 Series Oscilloscope, J-BERT-B BERT, and DCA-J Series Sampling Oscilloscope

About the Trainer: Mike Engbretson has been in been in the test solutions business for over 20 years. Prior to Granite River Labs, Mike was a Senior Professional in Tektronix’s Technology Solutions Group where he was heavily involved with such standards as USB, PCI Express, and SATA. Mike is currentlythe Chief Technology Engineer for Granite River Labs and the Compliance Test Spec Editor for DisplayPort 1.2

Those interested in the March 18 event can register at http://graniteriverlabs.eventbrite.com.

About Granite River Labs Granite River Labs (GRL) provides compliance, characterization, validation, and signal integrity test services that help customers adopt high-speed connectivity technologies such as SATA, SAS, PCI Express, USB, HDMI®, DisplayPort®, 10G Ethernet, and DDR. GRL is an official independent test lab approved for SATA and DisplayPort compliance testing and certification. GRL’s test facilities are conveniently located in Silicon Valley and near Stuttgart, Germany. Information about Granite River Labs is available on the Web at http://www.graniteriverlabs.com.

The SATA storage interface is the popular, standard interface for a majority of storage components and systems today.  New 6G SATA devices are in the early stage of wide-spread adoption and represent an important performance upgrade from the 3Gb/s SATA standard.  The increase in signaling speed can result in signal integrity issues that can be remedied by IDT’s high-quality signal-conditioning repeaters. The IDT 89HP0602Q adds to a broad set of signal conditioning solutions, and is ideal for use in computing platforms such as servers, workstations, desktop, notebook PCs, and enterprise storage systems to ensure good signal integrity and reliable system operation.

“Once again, IDT affirms its position as a leader in multi-gigabit-rate connectivity solutions for the computing market. This compliance certification represents a significant step forward in providing customers with a device that is easy to use and improves system operation and reliability,” said Mario Montana, vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Computing Division at IDT. “This SATA certification follows compliance certification by the PCI SIG of our PCIe® Gen 2 repeaters and further demonstrates IDT’s commitment to our portfolio of signal-conditioning products.”

The IDT 2-channel (1-lane) 6Gb/s SATA 89HP0602Q repeater enables 6Gb/s-per-channel operation over the same distance as older 3Gb/s implementations across system backplanes or over long cables in eSATA applications. IDT’s products improve system performance and reliability, and lower bill-of-materials costs by reducing overall design complexity.

“IDT’s signal integrity products arm system designers with the tools they need to deploy new high-speed standards,” said Mike Engbretson Chief Technology Engineer of Granite River Labs. “The IDT 6G SATA repeaters enable the linking of server storage sub-systems with high-speed communications that conform to the new 6G SATA standard. The convenience of using a repeater to ensure signal integrity and standards compliance will provide a clear benefit to many 6G SATA applications.”

The IDT 89HP0602Q repeater includes a high-performance analog front end receiver, followed by an adjustable Continuous Time Linear Equalizer (CTLE). This highly sensitive input can recover data from a very small millivolt-range input signal. The device’s output transmitter provides adjustable swing and de-emphasis to pre-compensate the transmission signal allowing data communication over a long trace or cable.

Availability
The IDT 89HP0602Q 1-lane repeater is available in a 4mm x 4mm, 20-pad QFN package. Complementary SATA repeaters offering an increased number of ports include the 89HP604SB (2-lane), 89HP0604S (2-lane with I2C configuration) and 89HP0608S (4-lane with I2C configuration). IDT’s Signal Integrity Product family contains solutions for common industry interfaces, including PCIe Gen2 and Gen3, USB3, XAUI, SATA, SAS and Serial RapidIO®.  The devices come in various channel densities and package sizes. For more information on features and specifications, please visitwww.idt.com/go/SIP.

About IDT
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., the Analog and Digital Company™, combines analog and digital technology to develop system-level innovations that optimize customers’ applications and enrich the end-user experience. IDT uses its market leadership in timing, serial switching and interfaces, and adds analog and system expertise to provide complete application-optimized, mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing and consumer segments. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing and sales facilities throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol “IDTI.” Additional information about IDT is accessible at www.IDT.com. Follow IDT on Facebook, LinkedIn,Twitter, and YouTube.

About Granite River Labs
Granite River Labs (GRL) provides compliance, characterization, validation, and signal integrity test services that help customers adopt high-speed connectivity technologies such as SATA, SAS, PCI Express, USB, HDMI®, DisplayPort®, 10G Ethernet, and DDR.  GRL is an official independent test lab approved for SATA and DisplayPort compliance testing and certification.  GRL’s test facilities are conveniently located in Silicon Valley and near Stuttgart, Germany. Information about Granite River Labs is available on the Web at http://www.graniteriverlabs.com.

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