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Keysight 71603B Error Performance Analyzer - BERT

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The Keysight 71603B error performance analyzer (formerly Agilent Technologies) addresses applications for high speed digital testing up to 3 Gb/s, including R&D and manufacturing test of lightwave components and sub-assemblies, advanced computer technology and high-capacity communication systems.

For transmission systems up to 3 Gb/s, such as datacoms and CATV trunk feeds, the 71603B and 71603B Option 807 error performance analyzers (3 and 1.5 Gb/s) provide a range of PRBS and user-defined patterns with versatile triggering facilities. Keysight 71603B Error Performance Analyzer models were previously manufactured by Agilent Technologies.

Product Info

Bit Rate	100 Mb/s to 3 Gbit/s
Rise Time (20% to 80%)	less than 90 ps
Patterns	2⁷-1, 2¹⁰-1, 2¹⁵-1, 2²³-1, 2³¹-1; zero substitution; variable mark density; variable length user pattern from 1 bit to 8 Mbits
Data & Data Outputs	ECL or variable 0.25V to 2V peak-to-peak amplitude into 50 ohms
Clock/Data Delay	1 ns; resolution 1 ps
Data Input	0.5 V to 1 V peak-to-peak amplitude
Decision Threshold Range	+1 V to -3 V, resolution 1 mV
Termination Voltage	0 V or -2 V nominal, selectable
Errors Detected	Errored ones and zeros and all logic errors
Measurements	Error count, ratio; errored seconds, deciseonds, centiseconds, milliseconds; and G.821 Analysis

High performance 100 Mbit/s to 3 Gbit/s pattern generation and bit error ratio (BER) measurement
1 bit to 4 Mbit user programmable test patterns
Low-phase-noise clock source
User-programmable patterns up to 4 Mbits with screen-based editor
Capability to trigger anywhere in the pattern
Variable clock/data delay
True complementary outputs
Automatic setting of data threshold and decision point