Keysight N7015A – Type-C High-Speed Test Fixture

• Bandwidth (at -3 dB): 20 GHz (de-embeddable up to 30 GHz)
• Enables signal verification, debug of USB 3.1, DisplayPort 1.3, Thunderbolt 2/3, and MHL 3.3/SuperMHL
• Breaks out 4 lanes of high-speed signals for signal measurement or injection
• Comes with the form factor to fit two fixtures side-by-side and/or top-and-bottom
• Compatible with Infiniium V-Series, 90000 X, Z-Series

The Keysight N7015A Type-C high-speed test fixture provides best-in-class performance up to 30 GHz of de-embeddable bandwidth, enabling signal verification and debug of USB 3.1 Gen 2 designs and other highspeed signal standards to support the Type-C connector.

The Keysight N7015A Type-C high-speed test fixture breaks out four differential lanes of high- speed protocol signals to an oscilloscope and passes low-speed power and control lines to a secondary fixture. The flexible fixture combination enables signal accessibility and probing to a Type-C design that has a receptacle (for example, a USB 3.1 upstream or downstream facing port).

As data rates increase, the effects of test fixtures and cabling during testing become a significant source of signal loss and impair accurate measurement of device performance. For accurate signal characterization in many high-speed compliance tests, de-embedding techniques are used, removing the effects of a test fixture from measurements to obtain the actual performance of the DUT. Best performance in overcoming the losses is achieved when the channel (in this case, the test fixture) is designed with minimum loss and care is taken in the characterization of the fixture through measurement of S-parameters. The Keysight N7015A is designed for the best signal integrity, and S-parameter models are available from Keysight that can be used in Keysight’s Infiniium baseline software and industry’s broadest portfolio of compliance test applications, including USB, DisplayPort, and Thunderbolt.

The Keysight N7015A Type-C fixture solution can be a fully automated power delivery management system with a third-party power delivery controller.