Menlo Micro unveils high-performance fully integrated loopback solution
Menlo Microsystems has announced the release of its enhanced MM5622 DC-coupled high-speed loopback relay, called the MM5622-01NBX. The upgraded version of the MM5622 delivers improved high-speed performance at 80Gbps, enabling broader application coverage and increased performance margin for testing the latest high-speed digital interfaces.
The MM5622 system-in-package (SiP) solution fully integrates a driver, charge pump, and 12 high performance switch channels, offering significant board footprint reduction for production loopback test solutions. The MM5622 Ideal Switch supports the differential signal switching required for dozens of high-speed SerDes buses, now to 80Gbps data-rates, with significant improvements in RF return loss, phase matching, insertion loss and channel balancing. These enhancements enable vastly improved eye-diagram performance, essential for testing the high-speed digital interfaces on dozens of different high-performance system on chips (SoCs) for both wafer sort and final test solutions.
In addition to showcasing the newly released MM5622, Menlo Micro is also introducing its latest software tools created to facilitate the design of production load boards using their high-speed loopback relay products. The Ideal Switch® HSIO SignalFlow Studio is an interactive web-based tool that helps test engineers connect their DUT and ATE tester pins into one of the many selectable MM56xx high-speed loopback relay products. The tool highlights the possible connection paths, performance tradeoffs, and programming instructions, ensuring that test engineers are getting the optimal performance out of the device and reducing the risk of any connection errors in the board design.
