DDR3 TestScript™

DDR3 is the newest ASA release in our line of TestScripts for standards compliance testing. We have clicked this TestScript™ together in M1's ScriptBuilder™ utility and it is now available to all of our customers at no cost.

Download DDR3.zip

The most important aspect of M1's DDR3 TestScript is that now customers who use oscilloscopes from any of the major manufacturers... Agilent, Tektronix, LeCroy and Yokogawa scopes, can all begin DDR3 testing today. A second critical benefit delivered by the M1 product is correlation because engineers can now use an analysis engine that is identical no matter whose scope they are using. Manufacturer-to-manufacturer variation that you see among the products from the scope companies is eliminated by the use of M1's common "analysis engine". Further organizational efficiencies are contributed by still other commonalities such as a common data format, a common interface, and a common automation standard.

While comparing M1's solution with Agilent's existing solution, ASA President Mike Williams noted "We gave them a little good-natured ribbing about forgetting who was first last year on DDR2, but full credit and sincere congratulations to the Agilent guys for getting there first on DDR3. One point to note.. if you add the costs of everything you need to run their DDR3 up, it comes out to about $16k in round numbers. If you add up the costs of everything you need to get into M1, it varies from $1k to $8k in round numbers depending on your scope. Interestingly, since this applies to the version of M1 we make for Agilent (E2690B, Agilent M1 Oscilloscope Tools), it means that Agilent now has two DDR3 compliance test solutions they can offer their customers at two very different price points. I think it would be a valuable exercise for the customer to look carefully at all of the other things they get with M1 for a lot less money."

Actually, if a customer is purchasing a new oscilloscope, they may be eligible to receive a no-cost M1-OT license through ASA’s Cirrus Program, which means that for some customers, the total cost to begin DDR3 testing would be zero.

This release is beneficial to scope users across the board. Here is some information on how it stacks up to solutions from the scope manufacturers: