Sifos Technologies PhyView PVA-3000 User Manual

PVA-3000 Reference Manual
December 2, 2019 Sifos Technologies
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5. PHY Performance Test Suite
5.1. Overview
The PHY Performance Test Suite adds powerful, fully automated physical layer testing and reporting to the PhyView
Analyzer. With minimal setup, intervention, and expertise, it enables robust analysis and characterization of many
10/100/1000BaseT ports.
Physical layer defect coverage and defect localization features offered by the PHY Performance Test Suite include:
 Link Capabilities (rates, modes, connections…)
 Transmitter Performance (output power, spectral distortion, residual distortion…)
 Interface Characteristics (return loss, crosstalk)
 Receiver Performance (responses to normal and abnormal link conditions)
The PHY Performance Test Suite includes three basic elements:
1. Individual automated tests that can be run stand-alone or sequenced automatically
10. An automated sequencer to sequence one or more tests across one or more test ports
11. An automated spreadsheet pop-up report with colorful graphics and annotations that rapidly flag problem
areas
The remainder of this section will focus on the individual automated tests included in the PHY Performance Test Suite
and the automated standard reporting available when tests are sequenced. The automated sequencer was addressed
earlier in Sections 0 and 4.16.
The PHY Performance Test Suite consists of the following sequence-able automated tests:
 DUT Link Capabilities Test
 100BaseTx Transmitter Test
 1000BaseT Transmitter and Interface Test
 10BaseT Receiver Test
 100BaseTx Receiver Test
 1000BaseT Receiver Test
Separately, the PHY Performance Test Suite adds the following specialized automated testing and reporting for Power
Sourcing Equipment (PSE’s):
 PSE DC Magnetic Unbalance Response Test
The PHY Performance Test Suite is an optional feature of the PhyView Analyzer, enabled with an instrument specific
license code. This feature may be enabled during original factory setup, if initially purchased with the instrument, or
through the installation of a feature key code purchased at a later time.
The PHY Tests tab menu in PVA Interactive will only be enabled if the instrument is licensed for the PHY
Performance Suite feature. PowerShell PSA commands described in Section 4.16 are similarly enabled only for
instruments with this license.
Contact Sifos Technologies for further information regarding enabling this feature.
5.2. Link Capabilities Test
The pva_caps test evaluates the various auto negotiation advertisements from the DUT, and then attempts to establish
and qualify links with the DUT using advertised modes as well as different connection polarities (MDI/MDI-X).
The following auto-negotiation processes are analyzed:
 Auto-Negotiation advertising and acknowledging
 Link Rate and Duplex modes
 Connection Modes (MDI, MDI-X)
 Gigabit Timing Modes (MASTER, SLAVE)
 Link-Up Timing per Link Mode
 Fault Indications

Sifos Technologies PhyView PVA-3000 Specifications

General

Brand	Sifos Technologies
Model	PhyView PVA-3000
Category	Measuring Instruments
Language	English