Video Design & Test

Do you design, manufacture or evaluate professional and consumer video products? Tektronix can help you with these critical needs:

  • Encoder and Multiplexer Design
  • 3G-SDI Components and Systems
  • HDMI compliance testing per CTS (Compliance Test Specification) V1.3c

Evaluating 3G-SDI Components and Systems

Product Description
TG700

Video Signal Generator with the HD3G7 module. Features:

  • Support for every 1080-line format described in SMPTE 425, including 4:4:4 and/or 12-bit sampling structures for both Level A and Level B mappings. Also includes the 2K formats used by digital cinema applications, and the Level B 2x1.5Gb/s formats that can be used for 3D television applications. Supports a total of 244 different Level A and B format combinations
  • Real-time parametric zone plate test signal
  • Embedded audio generator, with up to 32 independent channels for Level B formats, and including the A/V delay mode used with the AVD option of selected Tektronix waveform monitors and rasterizers
  • Timecode insertion in ancillary data space
  • User-defined ancillary data packet insertion, which can be used for testing Active Format Description (AFD) or Closed Captions, for example
WFM8300

Waveform Monitor for making 3G-SDI measurements. Features:

  • Perform automated eye amplitude, automated rise/fall time, automated overshoot/undershoot measurements, and provide jitter waveform display to view jitter related to line and field rates
  • Perform 3G-SDI eye pattern display, jitter measurements, and cable length measurements (Option PHY for WFM8300 or Option EYE for WFM8200)
  • Options PHY and EYE provide unique capabilities such as reporting jitter levels above 1 UI and providing various jitter filters from 10 Hz to 100 kHz for SD/HD/3G-SDI signals. An easy-to-interpret gauge provides direct readout for jitter measurements
  • Users can configure timing jitter and alignment jitter readouts to be displayed simultaneously to effectively isolate the sources of jitter
  • The SDI Status Display summarizes key signal parameters such as signal strength, cable loss, and estimated cable length measurements

Codec Design – Hardware and Software Testing

Product Description
MTX100B MPEG Generator to capture and play out the captured stream
MTS4EA Elementary Stream Analysis software, includes video extraction to a YUV file for use with PQA600
PQA600 Picture Quality Analyzer to capture and analyze both the reference and test files. Algorithm debug and performance optimization

Encoder and Multiplexer Design

Product Description
MTS4000 The MTS4000 MPEG Analyzer is ideal for the analysis and troubleshooting of audio/video and transport problems in 10G networks for fault isolation and root cause analysis. Cross-layer analysis of the video and audio quality includes real-time video and audio QoE analysis, Picture Quality Analysis, and advanced Elementary Stream analysis including H.264 intra profile and SVC support.
MTS4EA Elementary Stream Analysis software. Includes bitstream editor to quickly assess the impact of encoder configuration changes
MTM400A Diagnostic monitor for long term test environments
VQS1000 Video Quality Software application for single ended QoE analysis of video and audio content

Downloads:

Product Series

Understanding PQR, DMOS and PSNR Measurements

This application note covers these various measurement aspects and how to address quality issues during the transition.

 Picture Quality Analyzers

Picture Quality Measurement for Video Applications

This application note focuses on the issues video engineers face when developing and/or evaluating an algorithm, device or video signal path; and the objective picture quality measurement solutions Tektronix® provides to support those requirements.

 Picture Quality Analyzers

Objective Measurements and Subjective Assessments Application Note

By using the PQA500 video, content providers can evaluate the various compression and delivery formats to ensure the best possible picture quality of the program.

 Picture Quality Analyzers

High Definition Analog Component Measurement

Despite the benefits of digital signal processing, the final signal received by the customer is still converted to an analog signal for display on a picture monitor. With the proliferation of a wide variety of digital devices - set-top boxes, Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) players and PC cards - comes a wide range of video formats beside the standard composite output. It is therefore necessary to understand the requirements for measuring analog component High Definition (HD) signals in order to test the performance of these devices.

 Picture Quality Analyzers

A Guide to MPEG Fundamentals and Protocol Analysis

MPEG is one of the most popular audio/video compression techniques because it is not just a single standard. Instead, it is a range of standards suitable for different applications but based on similar principles. MPEG is an acronym for the Moving Picture Experts Group.

 MPEG Generator

A Guide to IPTV: The Technologies, the Challenges and How to Test IPTV

Despite the maturation of the enabling technologies, the deployment of IPTV services presents many technical implementation challenges. This Primer explores some of those challenges and how Test & Measurement equipment can be used to facilitate the design, rollout and management of IPTV networks and services.

 MPEG Software

HD and SD Analog Component Video Spatial Distortion Measurements with the VM6000

Requirements for Managing Display Formatting in Analog ComponentHD and SD Video Signals

 Picture Quality Analyzers

HD and SD Analog Component Video Jitter and Wander Measurements with the VM6000 Jitter & Wander

Requirements for Managing Jitter and Wander in Analog Component HD and SD Video Signals

 Picture Quality Analyzers

New Video Compression Standards: Meeting the Test Challenges

The purposes of this technical brief are to examine the trends in some of these markets; provide an overview of the new video compression standards designed to address the needs of these markets; and consider the test challenges of advanced video compression.
Product Series

HD and 3G-SDI Physical Layer Webinar

There has always been a quest to achieve the film look within digital video, and with that comes the challenge to achieve higher resolutions with greater dynamic range, along with bit-depth at higher data rates. Learn about the methods being deployed to transport this high-speed data around a facility. 34 minutes.

 WFM6000/7000

MPEG Timing and Synchronization Webinar

Whether your job is to design Encoders and Set Top Boxes (STBs), or to evaluate or integrate them, dealing effectively with timing concerns is essential. A Tektronix Buffer Analyzer can pinpoint the source of timing problems, and our webinar covering Program Clock Reference (PCR) issues and more explains timing principles and their impact on video quality.

 MPEG Software

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