Keysight Semiconductors

Pushing the boundaries of technology requires instantaneous bandwidth, spurious-free dynamic range, and signal fidelity beyond basic measurements. Keysight powers every performance product with custom MMICs*, designed in-house, and manufactured in our proprietary indium phosphide (InP) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) fab with custom ASIC* signal processing that ensure the industry’s fastest, most reliable measurements.

For over 50 years, Keysight has designed proprietary semiconductor ASIC and MMIC technologies that are specially customized for test and measurement equipment. Count on Keysight to accelerate your next innovation.

^{*Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) and Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)}

Photonic Systems Group at McGill University overcame test limitations in optoelectronic research using a Keysight 110 GHz UXR1104A oscilloscope and a Keysight M8199A arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). The UXR-Series includes revolutionary chipsets featuring a single 110 GHz four-channel Infiniium UXR that incorporates over 80 custom ASICs, 13 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), nine unique MMICs, and 38 thin films.

The UXR performs higher precision analysis with up to four channels of simultaneous 110 GHz of bandwidth, each concurrently sampling at a staggering 256 GSa/s with 10 bits of high-definition analog to digital converter (ADC) resolution. The UXR performs up to 100x faster for some measurements, enabled by a powerful new measurement acceleration ASIC and memory controller capable of 5 trillion integer operations per second (IOPS).

A semiconductor-maker implemented a new test for automotive Ethernet using Keysight Infiniium MXR-Series eight-channel real-time oscilloscopes and Ethernet Compliance application software to support rigorous and fast compliance tests for automotive Ethernet in its labs. The global semiconductor company provides chipsets and modules that enable secure connections and infrastructure for the implementation of a new 1 Gb/s automotive Ethernet test.

The Infiniium MXR-Series operates on six unique ASICs designed in both silicon germanium (SiGe) and silicon complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes. It uses a 100M+ gate CMOS signal processing ASIC from our UXR-Series oscilloscope to bring some of the same levels of fully integrated multi-function amplifier features and performance into a lower-cost, higher-density product. With custom silicon ASICs, we drive integration to deliver eight channels into one product. Each model incorporates a 10-bit ADC with a sample rate of 16 GSa/s available on all channels simultaneously. Our fully integrated low-noise front-end includes custom ICs, like the 130 nm BiCMOS ASIC that incorporate user-selectable analog filters and bandwidth upgrades via a software license.