Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
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Contents 1 Introduction Overview 6 2 ValiFrame Station Configuration 2 USB 8 3 ValiFrame DUT Configuration DisplayPort 9 Thunderbol t 10 Remote Instruments Server 10 Instrument Configuration 11 USB 14 DisplayPort 18 Thunderbol t 20 PDO Configuration 21 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 3
Contents 4 Connection Diagrams 4 4 USB 26 Rx Tests with M8020A 26 LFPS Rx Tests with M8020A 28 Rx Tests with N4903B 29 DisplayPort 31 Rx Tests with M8020A 31 Rx Tests with N4903B 33 Rx Tests with ParBERT 7G 34 Rx Tests for DP 2+2 mode 35 Thunderbol t 37 Rx TP2 Tests with M8020A 37 Rx TPEQ Tests with M8020A 39 5 Calibration Procedures References 42 6 Rx Test Procedures PDO Iterations Node 44 7 Contact Information 4 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 1 Introduction Overview / 6
1 Introduction Overview The Keysight Technologies N5990A Test Automation Software Platform ValiFrame is an open and flexible framework for automating tests of the latest digital bus standards. This QuickStart guide describes how to configure the Type-C PDO test options in the ValiFrame Rx tests for USB3.1, DisplayPort and Thunderbolt. The use of the PDOs (Power Data Object) allows the inclusion of different power contracts in the test plan. NOTE This document is just a short overview over the PDO test extension.it is not a complete manual for using those applications. For each particular standard, please refer to the following documents: Keysight N5990A Test Automation Software Platform for USB Keysight N5990A-155 Test Automation Software Platform for Display Port Keysight N5990A-104 Test Automation Software Platform for Thunderbolt The PDO test extension requires the option - 006 Type-C enabling. It is a supplement to the standard ValiFrame-USB, ValiFrame-Thunderbolt or ValiFrame-DisplayPort-Module. It only works in conjunction with a basic license for these standards. 6 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 2 ValiFrame Station Configuration USB / 8 DisplayPort / 9 Thunderbolt / 10 Start the Station Configuration of the particular ValiFrame application to choose and connect to the relevant instrument setup. In the Station Configuration window select the following options for Type-C PDO test support (Refer to Figure 1): 1 Check the option Test Type-C PDOs. 2 Choose a power supply. The main options are: N6786A: The N6786A is suitable for testing sink and source up to 20V. 5V Power Supply: The simple 5V power supply is just to bring a DUT to work, but not to test any PDOs. It maybe any fixed 5V supply with current capability sufficient for the DUT. The recommended minimum is 500mA.
2 ValiFrame Station Configuration USB Figure 1 ValiFrame Station Configuration wizard To choose the 5V power supply, select None as power supply. In this case, ValiFrame will not try to configure the power supply during the tests (for example, for link training or loop back purposes). The other options are: E3631A, E363xA, E364xA and N67xx. For a full featured PDO test of USB Type-C DUT, choose N67xx. 8 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
ValiFrame Station Configuration 2 DisplayPort Figure 2 DisplayPort Station Configuration Wizard For DisplayPort, you can choose between a Simple 5V Supply and Keysight N67xx Power Supply (Refer to Figure 2). Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 9
2 ValiFrame Station Configuration Thunderbolt Figure 3 Thunderbolt Station Configuration Wizard For Thunderbolt, you can choose between Keysight N67xx and a Simple 5V supply (Refer to Figure 3). For details about the complete setup options, refer to the specific User Guide for each standard. Remote Instruments Server The Remote Instruments Server is a host server application. All information needed is packed into an installer. This installer also contains special USB driver libraries as well as the driver for N7018A. When Type-C PDO testing is enabled, the N7018A Type-C Controller will be included in the Rx setup. 10 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
ValiFrame Station Configuration 2 The Remote Instruments Server is necessary to access the N7018A. It can be installed on any machine with a MS-Windows system like a PC, laptop or a Keysight DSO. It allows connection via Ethernet to the USB port, where the N7018A is plugged in. Download it from BitifEye's ftp-site, http://www.bitifeye.com/downloads/remoteinstrumentsserver_1.6.exe install and run it the first time with admin rights. If you also want to use the Unigraf AUX channel controller DPT-200 and/or the Artek CLE1000 for DisplayPort-tests, you can access them remotely through this RemoteInstrumentsServer. Instrument Configuration The last step of the Station Configuration is the Instrument Configuration. In this step, you have to enter instrument addresses. For Keysight N7018A, use the address of the machine where the N7018A is connected to. NOTE The Remote Instrument Server must be installed in that machine. In the example below, the Remote Instrument Server is installed in the Keysight oscilloscope (Refer to Figure 4): Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 11
2 ValiFrame Station Configuration Figure 4 Instrument Configuration with Remote Instrument Server installed in the Keysight Oscilloscope If you have connected the N7018A to the same PC where ValiFrame is running, type in the local IP address 127.0.0.1 (Refer to Figure 5). Figure 5 Instrument Configuration with Remote Instrument Server installed in the same PC as ValiFrame 12 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 3 ValiFrame DUT Configuration USB / 14 DisplayPort / 18 Thunderbolt / 20 PDO Configuration / 21 After the Station is configured, perform the following steps: 1 Open the ValiFrame software of the particular application. 2 From the main window of each active application, click Configure DUT to open the corresponding Configuration Dialog window. In the Configuration Dialog Window, all test parameters can be configured, including the PDOs and other properties of the DUT's Type-C.
3 ValiFrame DUT Configuration USB To select the PDOs, perform the following steps (Refer to Figure 6, Figure 7 and Figure 8): 1 In the Station Configuration window, select the Test Type-C PDOs option. 2 In the Configure DUT window, select 3.1 as the Spec Version and Type-C as the connector type. 3 Select ExpertMode and click Parameters 4 In the Common Tab of the Test Parameters Window, select Power Supply as the mode under Power-Automation and Keysight N7015A as the fixture under Type-C. 5 In the Rx Super Speed tab of the Test Parameters Window, set the Loopback Training Method to Warm Reset LTSSM. Setting the Mode under Power Automation to Power Supply and the Method under Loopback Training to WarmResetLTSSM ensures that the DUT is brought into loopback while testing Lane1 and Lane2 in a single (instead of one?) run. 6 Click Select PDOs. Refer to the section PDO Configuration on page 21 for more details. 14 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
ValiFrame DUT Configuration Figure 6 USB PDO Selection Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 15
3 ValiFrame DUT Configuration Figure 7 PDO Selection - Test Parameters Window 16 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
ValiFrame DUT Configuration Figure 8 PDO Selection Display Window For a description of all the other test properties, please refer to section 4.2.3 of the "Keysight N5990A Test Automation Software Platform for USB" guide. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 17
3 ValiFrame DUT Configuration DisplayPort To select the PDOs follow the next steps (Refer to Figure 9): 1 Select the Support for Type-C PDOs option. 2 Select DPType-C as CTS Version. 3 Select Keysight N7015A as the Plug Fixture. 4 Set the Type-C PDO Configuration section. Refer to PDO Configuration on page 21 for more details. Figure 9 DisplayPort PDO Selection By default, the standard 4 lanes operation mode is selected. In this mode, 1, 2 or 4 DP lanes can be tested. 18 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
ValiFrame DUT Configuration Select the Check Box for DP 2+2 mode to enable the 2+2 lane operation mode. In this mode, two lanes of the Type-C interface are dedicated to USB3.1 (the other two are DP lanes) (Refer to Figure 10). Figure 10 DP 2+2 Mode Selected For the description of other test properties, refer to section 2.3 of the "Keysight N5990A-155 Test Automation Software Platform for Display Port" guide. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 19
3 ValiFrame DUT Configuration Thunderbolt To select the PDOs, perform the following steps (Refer to Figure 11): 1 Select the Support for Type-C PDOs option in the Station Configuration. 2 Select Keysight N7015A Test Fixture as Fixture Type. 3 Click Select PDOs to configure PDOs. Refer to the section PDO Configuration on page 21 for more information. Figure 11 Thunderbolt PDO Selection For the description of all the other test properties please refer to the section 3.2 of the "Keysight N5990A-104 Test Automation Software Platform for Thunderbolt" guide. 20 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
ValiFrame DUT Configuration PDO Configuration In the PDO Selection dialog/section, you can read out the PDOs from the DUT and select such PDOs that must be applied during the RX tests. Prior to reading the PDOs, it is necessary to configure the power supply. To do so, click Configure Power Supply (Refer to Figure 12). Figure 12 PDO Power Supply Configuration If N67xx is used, the dialog shows the available channel modules of the N67xx frame. Here, you can choose the module to use (Refer to Figure 13). In case of a simple 5V power supply, the dialog shows the configured current capability. Here, you can type in the actual current capability of the power supply. For the 5V power supply, you may use a high-power USB plug-in charger (Refer to Figure 13). Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 21
3 ValiFrame DUT Configuration Figure 13 N67xx Power Module Configuration After you have configured the power supply, click Read the DUT PDOs to query the PDOs from the DUT. The PDO list displays only those PDOs, which can be supported by the currently configured power supply. For example, a consumer PDO 5V/900mA will be not displayed, if your configured power supply is only capable of 5V/500mA. To view unsupported PDOs, uncheck the Only supported PDOs check box. NOTE You can only select supported PDOs for tests. 22 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
ValiFrame DUT Configuration Figure 14 Supported PDO selection In the same dialog, you can select the configuration channel to CC1 for normal connection orientation and to CC2 for flipped orientation. If, for some reasons, you want to run tests with flipped SBU-lines, select the Flip SBU-lines check box. The SBU lines are assigned to AUX +/- in Displayport-mode and to LSTX / LSRX in Thunderbolt-mode in the right orientation, taking the CC into account (Refer to Figure 14). Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 23
3 ValiFrame DUT Configuration 24 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 4 Connection Diagrams USB / 26 DisplayPort / 31 Thunderbolt / 37
4 Connection Diagrams USB Rx Tests with M8020A Figure 15 Rx Tests with M8020A 1 Connect the DC blocking capacitors to the M8020A data outputs. 2 Connect the blocking capacitors to the Keysight N7015A Fixture data inputs. 3 Connect the Keysight N7015A Fixture to the Keysight N7018A Type-C Test Controller. 4 Connect the Keysight N7015A Fixture data outputs to the M8020A data inputs. 5 Connect the Keysight N7015A Fixture to the DUT. 26 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Connection Diagrams 6 Connect the N67XX Modular Power System Mainframe to the Keysight N7018A Type-C Test Controller power input 7 Terminate all the connectors as indicated. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 27
4 Connection Diagrams LFPS Rx Tests with M8020A Figure 16 LFPS Rx Tests with M8020A 1 Connect the DC blocking capacitors to the M8020A data outputs. 2 Connect the blocking capacitors to the Keysight N7015A Fixture data inputs. 3 Connect the Keysight N7015A Fixture to the Keysight N7018A Type-C Test Controller. 4 Connect the positive output of the Keysight N7015A Fixture to Oscilloscope Channel 1. 5 Connect the negative output of the Keysight N7015A Fixture to M8020A SYS IN A. 6 Connect M8020A Trig Out+ to Oscilloscope Channel 3. 7 Connect the Keysight N7015A Fixture to the DUT. 8 Connect the N67XX Modular Power System Mainframe to the Keysight N7018A Type-C Test Controller power input. 9 Terminate all the connectors as indicated. 28 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Connection Diagrams Rx Tests with N4903B Figure 17 Rx Tests with N4903B 1 Connect N4903B Data Out+ to N4916 De-Emphasis Signal Converter Data In. 2 Connect N4903B Aux CLK Out to N4916 De-Emphasis Signal Converter CLK In. 3 Connect two DC blocking capacitors to the N4916 De-Emphasis Signal Converter data outputs. 4 Connect the blocking capacitors to the Keysight N7015A Fixture data inputs. 5 Connect the Keysight N7015A Fixture to the Keysight N7018A Type-C Test Controller. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 29
4 Connection Diagrams 6 Connect the Keysight N7015A Fixture data outputs to the N4903B data inputs. 7 Connect the Keysight N7015A Fixture to the DUT. 8 Connect the N67XX Modular Power System Mainframe to the Keysight N7018A Type-C Test Controller power input. 9 Terminate all the connectors as indicated. 30 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Connection Diagrams DisplayPort Rx Tests with M8020A Figure 18 Rx Tests with M8020A 1 Use DC Blocks for victim aggressor lane. 2 TTCs for the victim lane: 60ps (Picoseconds Pulse Labs). 3 TTCs for the aggressor lanes: 150ps (Picoseconds Pulse Labs). Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 31
4 Connection Diagrams 4 Use 3-way power dividers to generate the signals from the aggressor generator. 5 Terminate all the unused outputs of the signal generator with 50 Ohm. 32 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Connection Diagrams Rx Tests with N4903B Figure 19 Rx Tests with N4903B 1 Use the DC Blocks for victim aggressor lane. 2 TTCs for the victim lane: 60ps Picoseconds Pulse Labs. 3 TTCs for the aggressor lanes: 150ps Picoseconds Pulse Labs. 4 Use 3-way power dividers to generate the signals from the aggressor generator. 5 Terminate all the unused outputs of the signal generator with 50 Ohm. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 33
4 Connection Diagrams Rx Tests with ParBERT 7G Figure 20 Rx Tests with ParBERT 7G 1 Use the DC Blocks for victim agressor lane. 2 TTCs for the victim lane: 60ps Picoseconds Pulse Labs. 3 TTCs for the aggressor lanes: 150ps Picoseconds Pulse Labs. 4 Use 3-way power dividers to generate the signals from the aggressor generator. 5 Terminate all the unused outputs of the signal generator with 50 Ohm. 34 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Connection Diagrams Rx Tests for DP 2+2 mode Figure 21 Rx Tests for DP 2+2 mode 1 Use the DC Blocks for victim agressor lane. 2 TTCs for the victim lane: 60ps Picoseconds Pulse Labs. 3 TTCs for the aggressor lanes: 150ps Picoseconds Pulse Labs. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 35
4 Connection Diagrams 4 Use 3-way power dividers to generate the signals from the aggressor generator. 5 Terminate two of the power divider outputs with 50 Ohm. 6 Terminate all the unused outputs of the signal generator with 50 Ohm. 36 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Connection Diagrams Thunderbolt Rx TP2 Tests with M8020A Figure 22 Rx TP2 Tests with M8020A 1 Connect the N5171B EXG output to the M8062A CM input 'INTERFERENCE IN / CM'. 2 Use the DC-blocking caps at the M8062A outputs. 3 Connect the M8062A data outputs to the lane under test of the fixture. The lane under test is 'Rx0'. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 37
4 Connection Diagrams 4 Connect the TBT fixture to the PortA/PortB of the DUT 5 Use the same cables and accessories that were connected for calibration. Do not disconnect them between calibrations and tests. 38 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Connection Diagrams Rx TPEQ Tests with M8020A Figure 23 Rx TPEQ Tests with M8020A 1 Connect the N5171B EXG output to the M8062A CM input 'INTERFERENCE IN / CM'. 2 Use DC-blocking caps at the M8062A outputs. 3 Connect the M8062A data outputs to the lane under test of the fixture. The lane under test is 'Tx0'. 4 Connect the TBT fixture to the PortA/PortB of the DUT. 5 Use a Thunderbolt Type-C cable of 2m between the TBT fixture and the DUT. 6 Use the same cables and accessories that were connected for calibration. Do not disconnect them between calibrations and tests. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 39
4 Connection Diagrams 40 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 5 Calibration Procedures References / 42
5 Calibration Procedures References The calibration procedures for USB, Display Port and Thunderbolt Type-C are the same as for the respective technology standards. Refer to the base manual of the particular application to get relevant information about calibrating your setup: Section 4.5.1 of the Keysight N5990A Test Automation Software Platform for USB. Chapter 5 of the Keysight N5990A-155 Test Automation Software Platform for DisplayPort. Section 5.1 of the Keysight N5990A-104 Test Automation Software Platform for Thunderbolt. 42 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 6 Rx Test Procedures PDO Iterations Node / 44
6 Rx Test Procedures PDO Iterations Node When at least one PDO has been selected, there will be an additional node in the test tree. This is the PDO iterations node that will contain all the receiver test procedures (Refer to Figure 24). 44 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Rx Test Procedures 6 Figure 24 PDO Iterations Node If you select the PDO iterations node, the property panel will display information of all the selected PDOs and some configurable parameters: Do Auto Iterations through the PDO list?: If set to true, each selected PHY test will be done with each of the selected PDOs applied to the DUT. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 45
6 Rx Test Procedures The procedure is the same as that for other tests (Refer to Figure 25): 1 Select the desired set of PHY tests and start the sequencer, following which ValiFrame will automatically repeat each test for each PDO. Figure 25 Test Selection and Execution 2 Save a Workbook after each PDO step?: If set to true, for each PDO, the set of test results is saved in an HTML-workbook (Refer to Figure 26). 3 Path for auto-saved Workbooks: Set the location of the saved workbook. 46 Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide
Rx Test Procedures 6 Figure 26 Test Results The PDO handling method is the same for all standards (that is, USB, DP and Thunderbolt). The list of Rx tests is not affected by the selection of the PDOs. Refer to the base manual of the particular application to get relevant information about them: Section 4.5.2 of the Keysight N5990A Test Automation Software Platform for USB. Chapter 6 of the Keysight N5990A-155 Test Automation Software Platform for Display Port. Section 5.2 of the Keysight N5990A-104 Test Automation Software Platform for Thunderbolt. Keysight N5990A Type-C Extension User Guide 47
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