Advanced Link Analyzer
Overview
The Advanced Link Analyzer is a state-of-the-art jitter/noise eye link analysis tool that allows you to quickly and easily evaluate high-speed serial link performance. It is an ideal pre-design tool supporting FPGA IBIS-AMI standard and enhanced models to help you understand how FPGA solutions can fit your system requirements. It is also an effective tool for post-design support to assist in debug and validation, providing silicon correlated end-to-end simulation over various Process Variation and Temperature (PVT).
New Features Included in Intel® Advanced Link Analyzer 24.1
Available to Quartus® Prime Standard and Pro Edition customers.
Link Builder
- Automatically construct a simulation-ready schematic and configurations by eliminating manual link-building processes
Channel Viewer Enhancement
- JESD204C/D channel compliance support
Data Viewer Enhancement
- Color coded FEC word error analysis supporting RS
Key Features and Benefits
The Advanced Link Analyzer combines the speed of a statistical link simulator with the accuracy of a time-domain waveform-based simulator to form a new hybrid behavioral simulation paradigm. With the Advanced Link Analyzer, you can quickly estimate the optimal link equalization and other electrical parameter settings for the transmitter and receiver of your system. You can also predict your link performance with high confidence.
The key benefits and features of the Advanced Link Analyzer are as follows:
Reduces Time to Design Success
- Silicon and package characterization/correlation of integrated models
- Link model or simulation comprehends PVT variations
- Hybrid simulation with statistical and time-domain analysis
- NRZ and PAM4 modulation schemes
- Reference clock jitter and PLL subsystem
Provides Ease of Use
- Self-contained, holistic link analysis tool
- Push-button link analysis to enable simulation in minutes
- Support for industry-standard models (e.g. IBIS-AMI 7.0 and Touchstone 2.0 S-Parameter)
- Comprehensive link performance analysis: Eye diagrams, bathtub curves, jitter analysis, and waveforms
- Fast, accurate, and comprehensive link optimization
- Channel compliance check (including COM) and characteristics analysis
- Comprehensive channel design environment for what-if analysis
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