N5991HE1x HDMI eARC and HEAC Receiver Compliance Test Automation Platform

At a Glance

High-speed digital standards are quickly evolving to keep pace with emerging technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and autonomous vehicles.

Each generational change introduces new test challenges for your digital designs. You need to test your high-speed digital designs across all product development stages — from design and simulation, analysis, debug, and compliance test. The latest N5991 software solution anticipates test challenges, optimizes performance, and accelerates time-to-market of your high-speed computing interfaces, data center connections, and consumer electronics.

• Supported standards include SATA, SAS, PCIe, CCIX, and USB / Thunderbolt, HDMI, MIPI C-PHY and other standards will be continuously added with the requirements for higher data speed testing

• Guided setup with automated fast stress signal calibration and compliance measurement functions

• Modern look and feel with enhanced functionalities

• System modularity allows the user to enable only required functionalities

• HTML / Excel test reports 

• Link training suites available that also feature debugging of DUTs

• Node-locked and transportable licenses

• Single and multi-lane device testing

• Characterization mode for in-depth testing

• Supports real-time parameter changes of amplitude levels, etc.

Turn Your Instruments into a Solution

An efficient test strategy is a proven competitive advantage. The Keysight Technologies N5991 is the successor of the well-known industry standard N5990A test automation software platform. It follows the same concept - combining the performance of your instruments with the convenience of your PC. The system’s software provides unprecedented test integration, high-throughput, and ease-of-use for a wide range of stimulus and response systems, providing a level of control that transforms a collection of instruments into a universal, user-friendly and highly productive test solution.

Fast and Reliable Testing

The comprehensive N5991 software platform increases test speed, reduces test costs, and ensures greater thoroughness than manual electrical testing. Using PCI Express as an example, the system can test a range of devices - transmitters, receivers and bridges, network adapters, DSP, TV, and dataacquisition cards - whether they are production-ready prototypes, development boards, or chipsets.

Standardize Your Tests

The N5991 receiver-test options provide dedicated receiver compliance tests for popular and emerging digital buses. You can select either compliance mode for fast certification testing or characterization mode for in-depth analysis. The Receiver Test Automation Platform’s compliance testing capabilities have been repeatedly proven at interoperability workshops or “plug-fests” and at Methods of Implementation (MOI) events.

Built upon the success of the previous generations, the N5991 platform delivers significant gains in productivity. Like its predecessor (the N5990A software), the interface for the new system has been designed using a common framework, which makes it easy to test multiple buses such as HDMI, USB, PCI Express, CCIX, SAS, and more. It delivers additional gains using HTML or Excel file formats for reporting results. The N5991 software architecture is based on C# code and Microsoft .NET, which in conjunction with on-the-fly amplitude and jitter control supported by many Keysight instruments, ensures fast interaction, calibration, and test execution for the highest possible throughput.

Test Selection and Test Results

With the test automation software platform, you can select tests from an intuitive tree structure with multiple levels of detail. Select the tests you want to run and set the number of repetitions. Test results are provided in HTML or Microsoft Excel format. Measured results are reported in parameter tables. An example of which can be seen below. (see Figure 1).