===== ValiFrame USB3 Module ===== ======================================================================================================================= 1.11 [released 2021-10-25] ======================================================================================================================= 1.11.7.3 [available 2022-06-20] prerequisite Windows 10 (64 bit), English, version 2004 or newer prerequisite Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 or newer prerequisite Keysight IO Libraries Suite 18.1 or newer supported Microsoft Office Excel 2016, English supported Keysight X- Z- and V-series oscilloscope FW rev. 6.70.00001 supported Keysight UXR oscilloscope FW rev. 11.15.00203 supported Keysight J-BERT M8070B FW rev. 8.0.390.34 supported Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.4 for 5 Gb/s supported Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s modification Add link cable on connection diagrams with M8040A bugfix Minimum required eye height for 5G eye height calibration at 1.2V is 145mV and not 150mV 1.11.6.9 [available 2022-04-29] prerequisite Windows 10 (64 bit), English, version 2004 or newer prerequisite Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 or newer prerequisite Keysight IO Libraries Suite 18.1 or newer supported Microsoft Office Excel 2016, English supported Keysight X- Z- and V-series oscilloscope FW rev. 6.70.00001 supported Keysight UXR oscilloscope FW rev. 11.15.00203 supported Keysight J-BERT M8070B FW rev. 8.0.390.34 supported Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.4 for 5 Gb/s supported Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s new Support for the new TTCs BIT-1001-0021-1 modification Add more wait time when recording waveform bugfix Result of non-config lane was never set for the sensitivity test at Gen1x2 1.11.5.6 [available 2022-03-07] prerequisite Windows 10 (64 bit), English, version 2004 or newer prerequisite Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 or newer prerequisite Keysight IO Libraries Suite 18.1 or newer supported Microsoft Office Excel 2016, English supported Keysight X- Z- and V-series oscilloscope FW rev. 6.70.00001 supported Keysight UXR oscilloscope FW rev. 11.15.00203 supported Keysight J-BERT M8070B FW rev. 8.0.390.34 supported Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.4 for 5 Gb/s supported Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s modification Add one step calibrations for LFPS voltage at 1300mV modification Maximal Jitter reported inside the caltable of the jitter tolerance test for Gen2 is reported as the maximal jitter + the 2nd tone PJ modification Removal of TJ obsolete calibration for Gen 1 modification As we do not do TJ calibration anymore for Gen 1, the margin on RJ and SJ are not automatically recalculated but can be modified by the user modification Add one step calibrations for LFPS voltage at 1300mV bugfix For USB 3 Gen 1 we can now run the jitter tolerance calibration several times in a row bugfix With M8020A change voltage range to provide differential voltage until 2.4V 1.11.4.1 [available 2021-12-16] prerequisite Windows 10 (64 bit), English, version 2004 or newer prerequisite Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 or newer prerequisite Keysight IO Libraries Suite 18.1 or newer supported Microsoft Office Excel 2016, English supported Keysight X- Z- and V-series oscilloscope FW rev. 6.70.00001 supported Keysight UXR oscilloscope FW rev. 11.15.00203 supported Keysight J-BERT M8070B FW rev. 8.0.390.34 supported Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.4 for 5 Gb/s supported Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s modification Release dates mismatched 1.11.3.0 [available 2021-12-02] prerequisite Windows 10 (64 bit), English, version 2004 or newer prerequisite Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 or newer prerequisite Keysight IO Libraries Suite 18.1 or newer supported Microsoft Office Excel 2016, English supported Keysight X- Z- and V-series oscilloscope FW rev. 6.70.00001 supported Keysight UXR oscilloscope FW rev. 11.15.00203 supported Keysight J-BERT M8070B FW rev. 8.0.390.34 supported Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.4 for 5 Gb/s supported Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s modification Removed obsolete TJ calibration for 5G data rate 1.11.2.0 [available 2021-11-23] prerequisite Windows 10 (64 bit), English, version 2004 or newer prerequisite Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 or newer prerequisite Keysight IO Libraries Suite 18.1 or newer supported Microsoft Office Excel 2016, English supported Keysight X- Z- and V-series oscilloscope FW rev. 6.70.00001 supported Keysight UXR oscilloscope FW rev. 11.15.00203 supported Keysight J-BERT M8070B FW rev. 8.0.390.34 supported Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.4 for 5 Gb/s supported Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s modification Wrong supported firmware reported in the previous changelog for DSAV334A. Valiframe supports rev. 06.70.00001 1.11.1.8 [available 2021-11-22] prerequisite Windows 10 (64 bit), English, version 2004 or newer prerequisite Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 or newer prerequisite Keysight IO Libraries Suite 18.1 or newer bugfix All component retimers can be trained with passthrough method 1.11.0.7 [available 2021-10-25] prerequisite Windows 10 (64 bit), English, version 2004 or newer prerequisite Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 or newer prerequisite Keysight IO Libraries Suite 18.1 or newer supported Microsoft Office Excel 2016, English supported Keysight X- Z- and V-series oscilloscope FW rev. 6.60.00802 supported Keysight UXR oscilloscope FW rev. 11.15.00203 supported Keysight J-BERT M8070B FW rev. 8.0.390.34 supported Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.4 for 5 Gb/s supported Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s modification ValiFrame is now running in 64 bit mode modification SigTest version 3.2.11.4 default installation folder's name with underscore modification Default sample rates for 5G and 10G calibrations with UXR Senior are respectively 64GSa/s and 128GSa/s modification Added CDR loop selection to test tree modification Connection diagrams display pictures of UXR 2 and 4 channels modification ValiFrame does not support the N7016A controller anymore modification HTML reports are now generated as a single file. Styles, scripts and images are embedded in that file bugfix ShCh keyword has been added in the report of short channel tests bugfix Can export all results including TxEq calibration as Excel workbook bugfix Changed steps of the sequence to get the DUT in loopback on setting the Squelch threshold from manual to auto and back to manual bugfix The verification calibrations are no longer loaded for 5G calibrations bugfix Long channel caldata is no longer necessary to run short channel tests with stdA/uB connectors bugfix Sheets in exported result workbooks were in the wrong order if the target format was an Excel file bugfix The ValiFrame Remote Interface was reporting an InvalidProgramException while ending the application known issue Training a component retimer ======================================================================================================================= 1.1 [released 2021-05-19] ======================================================================================================================= 1.10.2.1 [available 2021-07-27] modification SigTest version 3.2.11.4 default installation folder's name with underscore bugfix Export TxEq calibration as Excel workbook 1.10.1.6 [available 2021-07-12] supported M8070B SW rev. 7.5.700.8 supported UXR0134A SW rev. 10.25.01302 supported DSAV334A SW rev. 06.60.00403 supported Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.4 for 5 Gb/s supported Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s modification M8040A with two frames in the connection diagrams modification Possibilbity to run compliance test at certain PJ frequencies, not all modification Loop Bandwidth range from 2MHz to 20MHz bugfix Offline behavior of jitter tolerance test at 20G bugfix SJ frequency for TJ calibration starts at 50MHz bugfix Reports of short channel tests were missing the ShCh keyword in the report known issue Some DUTs may exit loopback during short channel tests and receiver sensitivity tests due to M8040A J-BERT pattern generator glitch information Updated CodeMeter Runtime to version 7.21a to fix vulnerabilities CVE-2021-20093 and CVE-2021-20094. 1.10.0.12 [available 2021-05-19] supported M8070B SW rev. 7.5.700.8 supported UXR0134A SW rev. 10.25.01302 supported DSAV334A SW rev. 06.60.00403 supported Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.4 for 5 Gb/s supported Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s new Concurrent BER testing new M8040A supports x2 data rates new Interactive LTSSM support for all data rates for M8020A and M8040A new Sequence files support multiblock new Flexible selection of the results to be exported into a workbook new Instrument Summary Table in exported workbooks modification LFPS Rx Detect Threshold changed --> DUT must not respond for 100mV (before we allowed it to respond) modification Inserted waiting time (1 second) between power on and restart for M8020A CDR workaround for manual training modification Warning message added if analyzer sequence contains an infinity loop. By default this behavior was forbidden by ValiFrame It is now necessary for the M8020A CDR bugfix bugfix The CDR of the M8020A no longer freezes if one lane gets out of loopback bugfix Too many blocking capacitors were displayed on diagrams bugfix Correction of wrong description of oscilloscope's channel connections bugfix If second output of BERT is used, trigger on SYS IN B bugfix The range of RJ and SJ set for Jtol test was changed to fit the M8040A limits bugfix Problem with export if no registry entry for Excel is found has been fixed known issue Some DUTs may exit loopback during short channel tests and receiver sensitivity tests due to M8040A J-BERT pattern generator glitch ======================================================================================================================= 1.0 [released 2020-04-03] ======================================================================================================================= 1.08 [available 2021-01-18] bugfix LFPS Test failed if calibration of 90mV resulted to something below 100mV for M8040A 1.07 [available 2020-11-20] bugfix LFPS sensitivity test fails and aborts with critical exception in some cases bugfix Wrong max spec value for LFPS t_repeat test 1.06 [available 2020-09-26] information Updated CodeMeter Runtime to version 7.10a to fix vulnerabilities CVE-2020-14513, CVE-2020-14519, CVE-2020-14509, CVE-2020-14517, CVE-2020-16233, and CVE-2020-14515 1.05 [available 2020-09-07] bugfix Updated wrong release date of 1.04 modification LFPS Compliance test result is clearer now, by introducing 'Dut Responded' column and by adding more descriptions modification Since compliance sensitivity test goes down to 90mV now, we should calibrate starting from 50mV 1.04 [available 2020-08-13] bugfix Trigger channels of Rx tests with Power on Reset training, for USB spec version 3.1 were switched bugfix Setup with a M8041A module and a M8051A module was not supported information Not tested online with M8051A + M8041A setup information Not tested with M8040A for Gen x2 1.03 [available 2020-07-14] bugfix Loopback training skipped during Jitter Tolerance tests bugfix Improvements to ValiframeRemote program and fix to avoid InvalidProgramException while running scripts 1.02 [available 2020-05-08] bugfix ValiFrame crashes if neither M8041A-UA3 nor M8041A-0A3 License is available on the BERT 1.01 [available 2020-04-27] bugfix System out of memory Exception during Jitter Tolerance Test on M8020A 1.00 [available 2020-04-03] modification Tested with M8070B FW rev: 6.7.500.6 modification Tested with Z-Series oscilloscope FW rev: 06.50.01004 modification Tested with UXR-Series oscilloscope FW rev: 10.11.05004 modification Tested with SigTest version 3.2.11.3 for 5 Gb/s modification Tested with SigTest version 4.0.23.2 for 10 Gb/s modification Support M8040A and M8020A. new Initial release for N5991 USB 3.2