VerifEye™ (V200P) is the second generation of active testers for high speed HDMI cables incorporating RedMere’s chip technology. The cost-effective unit supports the high volume production of advanced active cable solutions.

The V200P is designed to measure the performance characteristics of the cable assembly and determine the compliant settings of the embedded silicon to meet the signal integrity requirements. It works by exercising the built-in test functionality in the chip and delivering a high performance, compliant cable. The final step is the permanent programming of these settings to the silicon. The resulting cable assembly has the performance characteristics of the IC matched to the attached bulk cable. All passing cables produce HDMI compliant eyes.

 VerfiEye ™ V200P supports two software modes:

1. Production Mode is used on the production floor to carry out at-speed testing of the active cable up to the speeds required to certify the cable.Typical test time for an active cable is 5 seconds, reported to the line operator through a simplified GUI. The unit also provides statistical analysis from the production line to support yield, reliability and quality improvements.
2. Lab Mode is used in cable assembly design and development. The advanced user interface allows cable designers to access and control the high-performance equaliser technology embedded in the device in-cable, recording and reporting cable performance. This allows cable designs to be tuned in a development environment prior to production.

Applications

• HDMI and DisplayPort cable test and optimization