
SATA2.5TestAdapterUserManual
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DocumentNo.910‐0011‐000Rev.B
SOLT
SHORT,OPEN,LOAD,and2X‐THRU(SOLT)arecalibrationstandardsusedtocompensatefor
errorsassociatedwiththeTPAwhenusedforJittermeasurement,TDR,TDT,andVNAtesting.
SOLTrepresentsthesameelectricallengthandlossesastheTPAthroughtheSATAconnector
pad,andenablesthetestengineerto
compensateforthefollowingsixrepeatable,systematic
errorsthatoccurwhenmovingthereferenceplane:
Signalleakageeffects:Directivityerrors
Signalleakageeffects:Crosstalkerrors
Reflectioneffects:SourceImpedanceMismatchingerrors
Reflectioneffects:LoadImpedanceMismatchingerrors
Bandwidtheffects:ReceiverTransmissioninTestEquipmenterrors
Bandwidtheffects:ReceiverReflection‐trackinginTestEquipmenterrors
Theseerrorsneedtobecorrectedoneachport.RefertotheInstrumentManualfor
instructionsontheinstrument’sspecificcalibrationprocess.
NOTE:Thereferenceplaneistheboundary,bothphysicallyand
electrically,betweenthecalibratedanduncalibratedportionsof
thecircuit.Everythingoutsidethereferenceplaneisconsidered
partoftheDUT.Anyinstrumentthatdoesnotusecalibration
definestheDUTasthetotalofexternallyconnectedcomponents.
IftheSATA2.5‐TPA‐C‐1XorC‐2XCalibrationCablesarenot
used,all
oftheSATA2.5‐TPAandassociatedcoaxialcables,aswellascables
connectingtheTPAassemblytothetestinstrument,wouldbeapart
oftheDUT.
Non‐repeatableerrors,suchasdriftorrandomerrors,canbereducedbutnotcorrected.
Drifterrorsaggregateovertimeorwithenvironmentalchangessuchastemperatureshift.To
eliminatedrifterrors,performanothercalibration.
Arandomerrorcannotbecorrectedthroughcalibrationsincetheerroroccurredrandomly.
Randomerrorsare
typicallyassociatedwitheithertestinstrumentnoiseortestrepeatability
problems.Reducetestinstrumentnoisebyincreasingsourcepower,loweringtheIF
bandwidth,oraveragingresultsovermultiplesweeps.Reducetestrepeatabilityproblems
throughtheuseofatorquewrenchor,again,byaveragingovermultiplesweeps.
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