When product designs were simple, and time-to-market not so critical,
designers could afford the days, or even weeks, necessary to assemble, program,
debug and characterize the various elements of a stimulus system and its
fixturing. As product design complexity and market pressures have increased,
however, designers of high-speed, high-performance circuits simply cannot afford
this expenditure in time.
Now there's a solution. With Tektronix HFS9000 Stimulus Systems we've taken
the features of a high-performance pulse generator, made them better and added
complete data generation capabilities as well. We've eliminated the need for a
switch matrix since we have data and timing on every pin. And the need for a
separate power supply is gone, as the HFS9000 has the ability to produce the DC
levels needed to drive logic lines directly. Finally, all these capabilities are
present on every pin simultaneously, so you get extremely flexible formatting.
Now you can set up a complete stimulus system in minutes, rather than hours or
days, and test products more thoroughly throughout the development cycle.
