JP2020043481A - Pattern generation device, pattern generation method, error rate measurement device, and error rate measurement method - Google Patents

Abstract

To make it possible to visually grasp a pattern generation method.SOLUTION: A pattern generation device 2 for generating a multi-level modulation signal of four or more values in a pattern corresponding to various transmission standards, includes: display means 15 for displaying a setting screen 15a for selecting and setting a pattern of a multi-level modulation signal corresponding to a desired standard from a pattern list; and control means 14 for controlling display of a circuit diagram on a transmitting side or a receiving side in accordance with the standard of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a pattern generation device, a pattern generation method, an error rate measurement device, and an error rate measurement method for generating a multilevel modulated signal of four or more values of a desired pattern defined by a standard organization or a standard name in various transmission standards. .

  In standards such as 100G and 400G defined by the IEEE, transmission using a PAM4 signal, instead of the conventional transmission using a PAM2 (NRZ) signal, is specified in order to respond to an extremely high bit rate.

  For example, as shown in Patent Document 1 below, a PAM4 signal is generated by generating a most significant bit string signal MSB and a least significant bit string signal LSB using two signal sources and then adding these signals to obtain a value of 0 (00). , 1 (01), 2 (10), and 3 (11).

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  By the way, since the conventional PAM2 signal has only one signal source, the pattern generating circuit has no complexity. However, for a PAM4 signal requiring two signal sources, the generation circuit may be complicated.

  More specifically, in the pattern of the PAM4 signal, (1) a gray coder (Gray coder) ... a circuit for converting to 0 (00), 1 (01), 2 (11), 3 (10), and (2) a pre coder (Pre Coder) )... A circuit that takes the difference from the immediately preceding output and outputs the remainder obtained by dividing by 4. (3) Logical inversion... In many cases, the signal passes through a circuit that inverts 0/1 Logic of the two signal sources MSB / LSB. At this time, unless it is known in what order the circuits are processed, the intended pattern is not output, and the intended measurement cannot be performed.

  However, in the conventional device, it was not possible to visually grasp the pattern generation method. For this reason, in order to grasp the pattern generation method, it was necessary to actually check the standard document. Moreover, in the conventional apparatus, it is not possible to determine which circuit has passed by using only the name of the pattern, and there is a risk that an extra circuit may be passed in the subsequent stage. For example, when a pattern that has passed only through the gray coder is passed through the circuit of the gray coder again, the pattern returns to its original state, resulting in meaningless processing.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides a pattern generation device, a pattern generation method, an error rate measurement device, and an error rate measurement method that can visually grasp a pattern generation method. It is intended to be.

In order to achieve the above object, a pattern generating device according to claim 1 of the present invention is a pattern generating device 2 that generates a multi-level modulated signal of four or more values by a pattern corresponding to various transmission standards,
Display means 15 for displaying a setting screen 15a for selecting and setting a pattern of the multi-level modulation signal corresponding to a desired standard from a pattern list;
And a control unit for displaying and controlling a circuit configuration diagram on the transmission side or the reception side according to the standard of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen.

The pattern generator according to claim 2 is the pattern generator according to claim 1,
The control means 14 determines whether the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a conforms to the standard or not, and controls the display of the result of the determination.

The pattern generator according to claim 3 is the pattern generator according to claim 1 or 2,
The control means 14 controls the display of a brief description of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a.

A pattern generation method according to claim 4, which is a pattern generation method for generating a multilevel modulated signal having four or more values by a pattern corresponding to various transmission standards,
Displaying a setting screen 15a for selecting and setting a pattern of the multi-level modulation signal corresponding to a desired standard from a pattern list;
Controlling the display of the circuit configuration on the transmitting side or the receiving side according to the standard of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pattern generation method according to the fourth aspect.
The method includes a step of judging conformity / non-conformity of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a with the standard, and displaying and controlling the result of the judgment.

The pattern generating method according to claim 6 is the pattern generating method according to claim 4 or 5,
The method includes a step of displaying and controlling a brief description of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a.

An error rate measurement device according to claim 7 is a pattern generation device 2 according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
An error detection device for measuring a bit error rate by receiving a signal from the device under test in accordance with the input of the multi-level modulation signal generated by the pattern generating device to the device under test W .

An error rate measurement method according to claim 8, wherein a multilevel modulation signal generated by the pattern generation method according to any one of claims 4 to 6 is input to a device under test W;
Receiving a signal from the device under test in response to the input of the multi-level modulation signal to the device under test and measuring an error rate.

  According to the present invention, since a circuit configuration diagram in which the generation procedure of a pattern set and set is made into a circuit block according to a standard is displayed, a method of generating a pattern can be visually grasped by displaying the circuit configuration diagram. . In addition, since the pattern generation method can be understood at a glance, it is possible to easily determine the cause of the error-free state when measuring the bit error rate against the user's device under test. Then, it is possible to measure the bit error rate by using a multilevel modulation signal based on a pattern corresponding to a desired standard organization or standard name.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an error rate measurement device including a pattern generation device according to the present invention. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen displaying a circuit block diagram on the transmission side when a pattern conforming to a standard is selected and set. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen displaying a circuit block diagram on the transmission side when a pattern that does not conform to the standard is selected and set. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen displaying a circuit block diagram on a receiving side when a pattern conforming to a standard is selected and set. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow from generation of a PAM4 signal having a pattern corresponding to a standard to measurement of a bit error rate.

  Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  The present invention relates to a pattern generating apparatus and a pattern generating method for generating a multilevel modulated signal of four or more values based on a known pattern input to a device under test (DUT) as a test signal, and a test signal for the signal under test The present invention relates to an error rate measuring device and an error rate measuring method for receiving a signal from a device under test in response to an input of a signal and measuring a bit error rate (BER).

  Hereinafter, in the present embodiment, a case will be described as an example in which a PAM4 signal is generated as a multilevel modulated signal having four or more values to measure the bit error rate.

  As shown in FIG. 1, an error rate measuring device 1 according to the present embodiment is schematically configured to include a pattern generating device 2 on a transmitting side and an error detecting device 3 on a receiving side. A PAM4 signal having a desired pattern specified by the pattern generator 2 is generated by the pattern generator 2, and the generated PAM4 signal is transmitted to the device under test W as a test signal. A signal from the device under test W accompanying the transmission of the test signal And measures the bit error rate.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the pattern generation device 2 includes a setting unit 11, a signal generation unit 12, a storage unit 13, a control unit 14, and a display unit 15.

  The setting unit 11 functions as a user interface for performing “standards group”, “standard name”, and “pattern” on the display screen of the display unit 15 in order to select and set a PAM4 signal pattern corresponding to the standard.

  For example, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, three items 21, 22, and 23 of “standard organization”, “standard name”, and “pattern” are displayed on the pattern selection screen 15 a of the display unit 15. Then, when item 21 of “standards organization” is selected, a list of standard organizations is displayed below this item 21 in a pull-down menu. When an item 22 of “standard name” is selected, a list of standard names is displayed below this item 22 in a pull-down menu. Then, after selecting a desired standard organization or standard name from the list of "standard organizations" or "standard names", selecting item 23 of "pattern" corresponds to "standard organization" or "standard name". Only the selected pattern is displayed as a pattern list under the item “pattern” 23 as a pull-down menu, and a desired pattern is selected and set from the pull-down menu.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the setting unit 11 displays the setting of the specific circuit in the circuit configuration diagram 24 (24A, 24B) based on the generation procedure of the selected and set pattern on the display screen of the display unit 15 (setting It also functions as a user interface for performing on the screen 15a).

  For example, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, when a pattern of the PAM4 signal corresponding to the standard is selected and set on the setting screen 15a of the display means 15, a circuit necessary to generate the selected and set pattern is provided. A circuit configuration diagram 24 (24A) in which circuit blocks are formed according to the standard generation procedure is displayed.

  2 and 3, the circuit configuration includes an oscillator 24a, a division circuit 24b, a PRBS logic inversion circuit 24c for MSB and LSB, a gray coder 24d, a precoder 24e, a logic inversion circuit 24f for MSB and LSB, a bit shift circuit 24g, and an addition circuit 24h. FIG. 24A is constructed. Further, the specific circuit of FIG. 24 (for example, “ON / OFF” of the MSB and LSB PRBS logic inversion circuit 24c of FIG. 2 and “POS (through) / NEG (inversion)” of the MSB and LSB logic inversion circuit 24f) , "ON / OFF" of the gray coder 24d, "ON / OFF" of the precoder 24e, the shift amount of the bit shift circuit 24g, etc.) can be appropriately set as necessary.

  The signal generating means 12 generates a PAM4 signal of the pattern selected and set by the setting means 11 in the circuit configuration diagram 24 of the selected and set pattern. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, when “standard organization”: IEEE, “standard name”: IEEE802.3 bs / cd, and “pattern”: PRBS13Q are selected and set, the signal generation unit 12 selects the selected “ "Pattern": Circuit Configuration of PRBS 13Q A PAM4 signal is generated in FIG.

  The storage unit 13 constructs, for a plurality of types of patterns of the PAM4 signal that can be generated by the pattern generation device 2, information in which each pattern is associated with a standard organization or a standard name, and a circuit configuration diagram 24 of a selected and set pattern. And circuit information necessary for the operation.

  The control means 14 performs overall control of each unit when performing various measurements including generation of a PAM4 signal of a desired pattern and a bit error rate specified by a standard organization or a standard name in various transmission standards, and a display control means 14a And standard conformity determining means 14b.

  The display control means 14a displays on the display screen a setting screen 15a for selecting and setting the pattern of the PAM4 signal generated by the signal generation means 12.

  The display control means 14a, as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, is a circuit configuration diagram 24A on the transmission side in which the generation procedure of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a is made into a circuit block in accordance with the standard, A procedure for comparing the expected value of the set pattern with data from the outside (including the device under test W) is circuit-blocked in accordance with the standard. A circuit configuration diagram 24B on the receiving side is selectively displayed on a display screen (setting screen 15a). indicate. The switching between the circuit diagram 24A on the transmission side and the circuit diagram 24B on the reception side is performed by, for example, an operation of selecting the transmission screen tab 15b or the reception screen tab 15c on the setting screen 15a.

  The display control means 14a displays a brief description of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a on a display screen (setting screen 15a) in a desired language.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the display control means 14a displays the conformity / nonconformity determination result 26 by the standard conformity determination means 14b on a display screen (setting screen 15a).

  The display control unit 14 a controls display of various setting screens and measurement screens related to measurement on the display screen of the display unit 15 in addition to the display control described above.

  The standard conformity determining means 14b determines whether the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a conforms to the standard.

  The display means 15 is constituted by, for example, a display such as a liquid crystal provided in the apparatus main body, and displays, for example, a setting screen 15a shown in FIGS. 2 to 4 under the control of the display control means 14a.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 2 to FIG. 4, the display unit 15 displays the outline description 25 of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a in a desired language according to the user and the use environment (setting screen 15a). To be displayed.

  Under the control of the display control unit 14a, the display unit 15 displays various settings screens, a compliance test (test for whether the DUT W conforms to the standard), a bit error rate measurement screen, and the like, in addition to the above-described display. indicate.

  When the PAM4 signal is input to the device under test W as a test signal of a known pattern from the pattern generator 2 described above, the error detection device 3 receives the signal from the device under test W accompanying the input of the PAM4 signal, and Measure the error rate.

  Next, a method of generating a PAM4 signal of a desired pattern and measuring a bit error rate in the above-described error rate measurement device 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, a pattern corresponding to a desired standard is selectively set on the setting screen 15a of the display means 15 (ST1).

  Next, when a pattern corresponding to a desired standard is selected and set on the setting screen 15a, a circuit configuration diagram 24A on the transmission side in which the generation procedure of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a is made into a circuit block according to the standard, or A circuit configuration diagram 24B on the receiving side is displayed in which the procedure for comparing the expected value of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a with data from the outside (including the device under test W) is made into a circuit block according to the standard (ST2). .

  Then, the PAM4 signal of the pattern set and set is generated by the signal generation means 12 and transmitted to the device under test W (ST3).

  Then, the error detection device 3 receives the signal from the device under test W accompanying the transmission of the PAM4 signal from the signal generation means 12 of the pattern generation device 2, and measures the bit error rate (ST4).

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Next, a specific example in which a desired pattern is selected from the pattern list on the setting screen 15a of the display unit 15 and set will be described.

  When selecting and setting “PRBS13Q” as a desired pattern, as shown in FIG. 2, “IEEE” is selected from a list of standard organizations displayed in a pull-down menu below the item 21 of “standard organizations” on the setting screen 15a. Select ". Further, “IEEE802.3bs / cd” is selected from a list of standard names displayed in a pull-down menu below the item 22 of “standard name”. Further, “PRBS13Q” is selected from a pattern list displayed in a pull-down menu under the item “pattern” 23, and a pattern is set.

  When “PRBS13Q” is selected and set as a desired pattern, a circuit necessary for generating the selected and set pattern “PRBS13Q” is set to a standard in a state where a transmission-side screen tab 15b (not shown) is selected. The circuit configuration diagram 24A, which is made into a circuit block according to the generation procedure, is displayed on the setting screen 15a. In the example of FIG. 2, the circuit configuration diagram 24A includes an oscillator 24a, a division circuit 24b, a PRBS logic inversion circuit 24c, a gray coder 24d, a precoder 24e, a logic inversion circuit 24f, a bit shift circuit 24g, and an addition circuit 24h. The MSB and LSB PRBS logic inversion circuits 24c, which are the specific circuits in the circuit configuration diagram 24A, are "OFF", the gray coder 24d is "ON", the precoder 24e is "OFF", and the MSB and LSB logic inversion circuits 24f are " OFF ", and the shift amount of the bit shift circuit 24g is" 0 ". With this, the user sees the circuit configuration diagram 24A, and on the transmitting side, generates a PRBS13 pattern from the oscillator 24a, divides it into MSB / LSB by the dividing circuit 24b, passes through the gray coder 24d, and adds by the adding circuit 24h. It is understood that the output is performed. As a result, since the PRBS13Q pattern is known to have already been gray-coded, the user does not need to perform additional gray-coding.

  Further, on the setting screen 15a, an outline description of the pattern “PRBS13Q” selected and set is displayed. Then, in the setting screen 15a of FIG. 2, the precoder 24e of the circuit configuration diagram 24A is "OFF", but it can be seen from the outline description of the pattern "PRBS13Q" that it is optional depending on the standard. That is, the user can confirm that the precoder 24e should be turned on as necessary.

  Further, it is determined whether the pattern “PRBS13Q” selected and set conforms to the standard, and the result is displayed on the setting screen 15a. In the example of FIG. 2, conformance to the standard (Conformance to Standard) is determined to be “Conformed”, and it is displayed that the selected and set pattern “PRBS13Q” is a pattern conforming to the standard.

  On the other hand, when it is determined that the selected and set pattern “PRBS13Q” does not conform to the standard, as shown in FIG. 3, conformance to the standard (Conformance to Standard) is determined to be “Non-conformed”. Thus, it can be seen at a glance that the pattern “PRBS13Q” selected and set does not conform to the standard.

  Further, in a state where the receiving screen tab 15c (not shown) of the setting screen 15a is selected, as shown in FIG. 4, the expected value of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a and the external (including the DUT W). FIG. 24B shows a circuit configuration diagram 24B on the receiving side in which the procedure for comparing the data with the data from the receiver is made into a circuit block according to the standard.

  In the example of FIG. 4, the circuit configuration diagram 24B includes an oscillator 24a, a division circuit 24b, an inversion circuit 24c, a gray coder 24d, a precoder 24e, a PAM4 decoder 24i, a logic inversion circuit 24j of MSB and LSB, and an error detector 24k. . Then, the MSB and LSB inverting circuit 24c, which is the specific circuit of FIG. 24B, is "OFF", the gray coder 24d is "ON", the precoder 24e is "OFF", and the logical inverting circuit 24j of the MSB and LSB is "OFF". It has become. Thus, the user can see from the circuit configuration diagram 24B that the receiving side generates an expected value and performs comparison with the incoming data.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, a circuit configuration diagram on the transmitting side is displayed in which the generation procedure of a pattern selected and set is circuit-blocked according to the standard. Can be visually grasped. Also, when a signal is received by the error detection device, the procedure for comparing the expected value of the pattern selected and set with data from the outside (including the device under test W) is made into a circuit block according to the standard, and the circuit configuration on the receiving side is made. Since the figure is displayed, it can be understood at a glance that the pattern of the expected value is generated and directly compared with the incoming signal.

  Then, by displaying the circuit configuration diagram of the transmission side and the reception side according to the standard according to the selected and set pattern, the generation method of the pattern can be understood at a glance, so that the bit error rate can be reduced against the DUT by the user. When performing the measurement, it is possible to easily determine the cause of the error-free state. Then, it is possible to measure the bit error rate by using a multilevel modulation signal based on a pattern corresponding to a desired standard organization or standard name.

  Further, when a pattern corresponding to a desired standard organization or standard name is selected and set on the setting screen, a description of a desired language indicating an outline of the selected and set pattern is displayed. It is possible to recognize whether the pattern refers to the pattern or what kind of pattern it is.

  As described above, the best mode of the pattern generating apparatus, the pattern generating method, the error rate measuring apparatus, and the error rate measuring method according to the present invention have been described, but the present invention is not limited by the description and the drawings according to this mode. That is, other forms, examples, operation techniques, and the like made by those skilled in the art based on this form are all included in the scope of the present invention.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 error rate measuring device 2 pattern generating device 3 error detecting device 11 setting means 12 signal generating means 13 storage means 14 control means 14a display control means 14b standard conformity determination means 15 display means 15a setting screen 15b transmission side tab 15c reception side tab 21 Standards organization items 22 Standard name items 23 Pattern items W DUT

In order to achieve the above object, a pattern generating device according to claim 1 of the present invention is a pattern generating device 2 that generates a multi-level modulated signal of four or more values by a pattern corresponding to various transmission standards,
Display means 15 for displaying a setting screen 15a for selecting and setting a pattern of the multi-level modulation signal corresponding to a desired standard from a pattern list;
Controlling the display of the circuit configuration on the transmitting side or the receiving side according to the standard of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen, and determining whether or not the pattern selected and set on the setting screen conforms to the standard. Control means 14 for controlling display of the determination result .

The pattern generator according to claim 2 is the pattern generator according to claim 1 ,
The control means 14 controls the display of a brief description of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a.

A pattern generation method according to claim 3 , which is a pattern generation method for generating a multilevel modulated signal having four or more values by a pattern corresponding to various transmission standards,
Displaying a setting screen 15a for selecting and setting a pattern of the multi-level modulation signal corresponding to a desired standard from a pattern list;
A step of controlling the display of a circuit configuration diagram on the transmission side or the reception side according to the standard of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen ,
Determining whether the pattern selected and set on the setting screen conforms to the standard, and controlling the display of the result of the determination .

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the pattern generation method of the third aspect ,
The method includes a step of displaying and controlling a brief description of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen 15a.

An error rate measurement device according to claim 5 is a pattern generation device 2 according to claim 1 or 2 ,
An error detection device for measuring a bit error rate by receiving a signal from the device under test in accordance with the input of the multi-level modulation signal generated by the pattern generating device to the device under test W .

An error rate measuring method according to claim 6 is a step of inputting a multilevel modulated signal generated by the pattern generating method according to claim 3 or 4 to a device under test W;
Receiving a signal from the device under test in response to the input of the multi-level modulation signal to the device under test and measuring an error rate.

Claims (8)

A pattern generator (2) for generating a multilevel modulated signal of four or more values according to a pattern corresponding to various transmission standards,
Display means (15) for displaying a setting screen (15a) for selecting and setting a pattern of the multilevel modulation signal corresponding to a desired standard from a pattern list;
A control unit (14) for controlling display of a circuit configuration diagram on a transmission side or a reception side according to a standard of a pattern selected and set on the setting screen. The pattern according to claim 1, wherein the control means (14) determines whether the pattern selected and set on the setting screen (15a) conforms to or does not conform to the standard, and controls the display of the result of the determination. Generator. 3. The pattern generator according to claim 1, wherein the control means (14) controls display of a brief description of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen (15a). A pattern generating method for generating a multi-level modulated signal of four or more values by a pattern corresponding to various transmission standards,
Displaying a setting screen (15a) for selecting and setting a pattern of the multi-level modulation signal corresponding to a desired standard from a pattern list;
Controlling the display of the circuit diagram on the transmission side or the reception side according to the standard of the pattern selected and set on the setting screen. 5. The pattern generation method according to claim 4, further comprising the step of determining whether the pattern selected and set on the setting screen (15a) conforms to the standard, and controlling the display of the result of the determination. The pattern generation method according to claim 4, further comprising a step of controlling display of a brief description of a pattern selected and set on the setting screen (15 a). A pattern generation device (2) according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
An error detection device (3) for measuring a bit error rate by receiving a signal from the device under test when the multi-level modulation signal generated by the pattern generator is input to the device under test (W) An error rate measurement device characterized by the above-mentioned. Inputting a multilevel modulation signal generated by the pattern generation method according to any one of claims 4 to 6 to a device under test (W);
Receiving a signal from the device under test accompanying the input of the multi-level modulation signal to the device under test and measuring an error rate.

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