Date: 14/04/2009

Symwave praises Agilent's USB3.0 test tool

The testing of high speed USB3.0 transceiver devices working at data speeds in the range of 5.0 Gigabits per second require specialized test equipment. Symwave, the semiconductor supplier for USB3.0 standards is employing Agilent's test equipments such as DSA91304A real-time oscilloscope and J-BERT N4903A high-performance serial BERT to test and validate its USB 3.0 devices.

"With a data rate of 5.0 Gigabits per second, the performance of SuperSpeed transceivers is critical," said Christopher Thomas, Symwave's chief technology officer. "We wanted to ensure that our device would exceed USB 3.0 specification requirements and be a robust product for our customers. Agilent's high-performance test platforms were the ideal solution. We were able to utilize these tools to validate the highest performance USB 3.0 product available today."

The other two advisable test-and-mesurement vendors with USB3.0 test solution offerings are, Lecroy and Tektronix.