Applications for SourceXpress® and AWG5200 series generators

The Tektronix LVDS Video signal generator plug-in enhances the capabilities of either the AWG5200 Series Arbitrary Waveform Generators or the SourceXpress® application software, adding the ability to easily create FPD-Link (Flat Panel Display Link) high-speed digital video interface waveforms to generate known-good signals, with the channel counts and data rates you need, to thoroughly test LVDS FPD-Link devices.

Key features

• Turns your AWG into an FPD-Link pattern generator.
• Import user-defined bitmap files and easily generate FPD-Link signaling, in the AWG’s native waveform format, to test your device.
• Supports 6 to 10 bits encoding.
• Supports user-defined: Sync, Blanking, Horizontal Front Porch (HFP), Horizontal Back Porch (HBP), Vertical Front Porch (VFP), Vertical Back Porch (VBP), Active Video.
• Supports JEIDA and VESA formatted packets.
• Offline Mode
  • Designed to also run on an external PC via the SourceXpress PC application, thereby reducing the time taken to synthesize large waveforms and leaving the instruments free for continued testing.
• Seamless transition between design and playback.
  • The easy to use graphical user interface integrates seamlessly with the user interfaces of the SourceXpress PC application and the Tektronix AWG70000 series and AWG5200 series generators.
• Designed for integration for automated test or manufacturing.
  • Programmatic Interface allows for integration into existing workflows.

Applications

Low voltage differential signaling (LVDS), or LVDS Video, is used in the FPD-Link, a high-speed digital video interface. The FPD-Link is used in applications such as:

• Flat Panel Display functional testing.
• Flat Panel Display manufacturing testing and servicing.

Requirements

• Plug-in installed with SourceXpress on PC:
  • SourceXpress software version 6.1 or greater
  • PC operating systems: Windows 7 (64 bit), Windows 8 (64 bit), Windows 10 (64 bit)
• Plug-in installed on compatible instruments:
  • AWG5200 Series, firmware version 6.1 or greater