Anritsu Company showcased innovative high-speed signal integrity solutions at DesignCon 2025, January 29-30 in Santa Clara, CA. Anritsu (booth #907; Exhibit Halls A-D) presented live PCI-Express® 6.0 and 7.0 demonstrations of its industry-leading Signal Quality Analyzer-R MP1900A BERT in collaboration with Synopsys, Teledyne LeCroy, and Tektronix to verify emerging high-speed designs.

Live Demonstration (Anritsu booth #907)

Anritsu, with Synopsys and Tektronix, demonstrated a system featuring the Anritsu MP1900A MU196020A PAM4 PPG to transmit the required 64 Gbaud PAM4 signal over a long-reach channel to Synopsys’ PCIe 7.0 PHY IP receiver for preliminary PCIe 7.0 evaluation.

Additionally, Anritsu, using Synopsys’ PCIe 7.0 PHY IP and Tektronix’s RTO, performed signal transmitter testing through SNDR measurements and waveform analysis at 128 GT/s. This integrated solution can be leveraged by engineers for initial PCIe 7.0 chip design and development with existing MU196020A PAM4 PPGs.

In collaboration with Teledyne LeCroy, Anritsu also presented a solution for evaluating the effect of differential skew in PCIe 6.0.

Transitioning to PAM4 signaling reduces eye size by more than 3 times, thereby increasing margin sensitivity. Signals transmitting through a particular ISI channel cause a dip in the fundamental frequency due to the introduction of skew. While most BERTS do not natively support skew evaluation, Anritsu proposes using two MP1900A MU196020A PAM4 PPG units and the Channel Sync function to inject P-N skew.

Collaboration Partners

Network with Synopsys’ experts at partner booths and see next-generation interoperability demonstrations of Synopsys’ best-in-class 224G Ethernet IP and PCIe 6.0/7.0 IP. Learn more about Synopsys’ full DesignCon 2025 schedule here.

Synopsys is a leading provider of high-quality, silicon-proven semiconductor IP solutions for SoC designs. The broad Synopsys IP portfolio includes logic libraries, embedded memories, interface IP, security IP, embedded processors and subsystems to accelerate IP integration and silicon bring-up. Synopsys’ IP Accelerated initiative provides architecture design expertise, hardening, and signal/power integrity analysis. Synopsys’ extensive investment in IP quality, comprehensive technical support and robust IP development methodology enables designers to reduce integration risk and accelerate time-to-market. Learn more at www.synopsys.com/designware-ip.

Anritsu and Teledyne LeCroy share a common goal of providing engineers with early availability of highly accurate test solutions to verify leading-edge designs. At DesignCon 2025, we showcased joint solutions for high-speed serial data validation, including fully-integrated automated receiver and transmitter test for PCI Express 6.0 and USB4. In addition, Teledyne LeCroy also demonstrated cross-layer physical and protocol debug of PCIe 6.0 and USB4 interfaces, PCIe 7.0 transmitter characterization, and DDR5/LPDDR5 analysis and debug tools.

Teledyne LeCroy is a leading manufacturer of advanced oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and other test instruments that verify performance, validate compliance, and debug complex electronic systems quickly and thoroughly. Since its founding in 1964, the Company has focused on incorporating powerful tools into innovative products that enhance “Time-to-Insight”. Faster time to insight enables users to rapidly find and fix defects in complex electronic systems, dramatically improving time-to-market for a wide variety of applications and end markets. Teledyne LeCroy is based in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. For more information, visit Teledyne LeCroy's website at teledynelecroy.com.

Visitors to Tektronix’s booth #819 experienced the latest innovations in testing for compliance, power, and memory. Tektronix experts showcased how to streamline PCIe Gen6/7 validation testing, automate tests at 64 GT/s for PCI Express 6.0 CEM Tx/Rx, and explored 128 GT/s measurements for PCIe 7.0 base specifications. They demonstrated USB4v2 validation at 40 Gb/s and introduced a unified DDR5 DRAM Tx/Rx test workflow.

Demonstrations included optimizing power and signal integrity for GenAI data centers to achieve energy efficiency with improved PI/SI measurements. Tek experts showcased networking solutions for AI/HPC interconnects through accurate 800G PHY transmitter conformance testing. Visitors learned about scaling high-power battery testing with flexible platforms adaptable to various power test applications.

Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix is the measurement insight company committed to performance and compelled by possibilities. Tektronix designs and manufactures test and measurement solutions to break through the walls of complexity and accelerate global innovation. Tektronix has been at the forefront of the digital age for over 75 years. Learn more at www.tek.com.