I'm interested to see posts to the list regarding experiences, methods and test equipment used for testing the signal integrity, Bit Error Rate Testing (BERT) and cable qualification people are currently using for Gigabit ethernet boards and devices as=20 well as and cat5/cat5E/cat6 cable used for Gigabit ethernet. The 802.3ab (PAM5) standard calls out four test modes: Test mode 1 - Transmit waveform test Test mode 2 - Transmit jitter test in MASTER mode Test mode 3 - Transmit jitter test in SLAVE mode Test mode 4 - Transmitter distortion test What kind of equipment/results are people seeing doing these=20 tests? A good reference is George Schroeder's paper from SEMICON=AE West 2002 entitled: "Addressing Emerging Test Challenges For Multilevel Signaling Devices" - how are people applying this theory? Please reply to the list. Thanks, --- mkp=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu