The most important thing is to correlate with the simulation, and Keysight scopes have long been known for doing that pretty well.

The measurements that the network and laser do are very important for us because DuPont is a materials company and we need to know the performance of our materials at high frequencies. This is the way to measure that, using the VNA.

We have done some measurements and also correlated with simulation and we were able to obtain a good match, so that's a good indication of the accuracy.

The DDR Utilities that I have used on the scope speed up my debugging process. Similarly, I use the serial decoder for the serial interfaces, which helps me debug my product quickly.

We measure the skewing of the design and system with a simple click of the button.

They are one of the top name in the industry. When it comes to grabbing precise technical data, having an ecosystem of logging it correctly and working with the diagnostics, they are probably the industry leaders in the field.

The product's functionality makes things easier for my partner, who is doing the PCIe design. He is able measure the product's usage and bit error rate.

Every product that we sell goes through a regular set of testing. Keysight is our main test vendor so we're using all of their equipment for all high-speed measurements. We rely on the data and we make our design calls, risk-assessment, all based on the measurements that we take with the Keysight equipment. Those need to be accurate, otherwise our design decisions would vary from what the end customer would see in reality.

It's easier to automate and connect with multiple devices, and at the same time with laptops.

They changed a lot of the workflows, especially for the statistical analysis. They provided simplicity in the design, and we can ask for we want in futures designs. The statistical analysis is very good in the Keysight software.

There was a case where I was running a simulation of a channel, the transmit channel from the switch to the connector. In simulation, my eye measurement looked great. I wanted to see what it looked like in measurement. That's when I used the Keysight tool and a host compliance board, where I plug it into the device, using cables that plug into the scope. I measured the eye diagram to see how it correlated with my simulation. That correlation was very close. That's where it helps me really understand, whatever I’m working on in design, I can manipulate that in testing as well. It's great, it correlates there.

It does everything that's fundamental for SI design in general. I'm not really sure how to explain how it improved anything other than that it does exactly what I need it to do. I don't really need to add or subtract anything from what's already available.

Their software and hardware are integrated, so we don't have to spend a lot of time processing the data.

Before silicon came back, our customers' performance was affected. Using these tools, we are able to deliver performance to our customers. 

We generate a waveform from the AWG. We using the scope to sample the waveform, then do offline processing.

We need the results to be repeatable. By using the Keysight network analyzer, we get pretty reliable results. We like it.

It improves the functionality of our products and the products that I design. It does this every day. I use it for characterization every day, and it directly helps.

Their new features are very useful for our jobs and workflows because they are very accurate.

With telecommunications. The protocol standard needs to be created, then it uses 4G or some type of 5G for preliminary spec. Afterwards, we can create a pattern, major it, then we can see some of the IDOCs run or have some of the special masks to test it.