Multi-Format, Multi-Standard Waveform Rasterizers

WVR7100 • WVR7000 • WVR6100

The WVR7000 and WVR7100 are discontinued. The WVR6100 is still available

Features & Benefits

• WVR7000 and WVR7100 Support HD, SD, and Composite Video Formats
• The WVR6100 Supports SD and Composite Video Formats
• Optional Eye Pattern and Jitter Displays and Measurements for HD and/or SD-SDI Signals (available on WVR7100 and WVR6100)
• FlexVu™ XGA Output Provides Unique, Flexible Tiling for “Four Instruments in One” Capability with Crisp Displays, Intuitive User Interface, Backlit Buttons, and Online Help
• Exclusive Session Screens, Picture Bright-ups, Extensive Alarming, and Error Logging Screens for Content Status at a Glance
• Fully Digital Processing for Accurate, Repeatable, Drift-free Operation
• Patented Tektronix Timing Display Makes Facility Timing Easy
• Exclusive Tektronix Gamut Displays Help Ensure Compliant Content
• User-definable Safe Action and Safe Title Graticules Help Operators Easily Identify Incorrectly Positioned Video Content
• Closed Caption Decode and Display Capability Helps Operators Quickly Verify and Correct CC errors
• Flexible options for monitoring of audio formats include: Digital AES or Embedded Audio and Analog Audio. WVR6100 and WVR7100 include Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby E, and Decode and Monitoring (Including Metadata)
• Audio monitoring Displays Including Lissajous and Surround Sound Allow for Audio Signal Compliance Without the Need for an Additional Instrument
• A Variety of Remote Control Configurations for Complete Integration Flexibility
• Instrument Presets for Quick Recall of Commonly Used Configurations
• Digital Cursors for Precise Time, and Amplitude
• Optional Eye Pattern and Jitter Measurements (available on WVR7100 and WVR6100)
• Line Select with Field and Picture Bright-ups
• Extensive Alarming and Error Logging Screens

Applications

• Confidence Monitoring of High Definition (HD), Standard Definition (SD), and Composite Signals
• Compliance Checking in Distribution and Broadcast
• Content QA in Production and Post-Production

WVR6100

The WVR6100 comes standard with the SD monitoring capability, with the option to add Composite Analog Video monitoring capability. Available audio options offer support for monitoring digital audio (embedded and AES/EBU inputs), analog audio, and Dolby audio formats. Available measurement options offer in-depth digital data analysis and SDI signal measurements, such as Eye diagrams and jitter.

WVR7000

The latest addition to the Tektronix WVR family of rasterizers, the WVR7000 provides an ideal solution for basic monitoring needs of HD digital video. Its flexible architecture allows you to buy only those options that you need today with configurations that meet your budgetary requirements. WVR7000 supports HD monitoring applications with options to add SD and/or Composite Analog Video monitoring capabilities. Available audio options offer support for monitoring digital audio (embedded or AES/EBU inputs) and analog audio.

WVR7100

The WVR7100 offers high performance monitoring and measurement for applications involving HD digital video. It combines the video and audio monitoring capabilities available on the WVR7000. It also provides optional support for Dolby audio decode and monitoring (including Metadata) capabilities. WVR7100 offers two physical layer measurement options, EYE and PHY. Option EYE provides eye display, jitter readout and cable length measurement. Option PHY provides additional automated eye measurements and jitter waveform display.

Ideal for multi-format environments, the WVR6100 and the WVR7000 Series Video Monitoring Rasterizers offer the performance and flexibility needed for demanding video applications. With these instruments, users can now monitor HD, SD, and Analog Composite Video, as well as Audio Signals, all from a single, convenient 1 RU instrument.

Powerful Display Flexibility - FlexVu™ Display

To maximize application flexibility, a high-resolution, tiled display design lets users customize presentation of information for each operation they wish to perform. Waveform, Vector, Gamut, Audio (optional), Eye/Jitter (optional), Timing, Status and Picture displays can be combined with line select, gain and magnification in nearly unlimited combinations. These instruments offer a number of exclusive displays that speed and simplify the monitoring and measurement tasks, continuing the Tektronix tradition of measurement leadership.

Waveform Displays

A complete range of display options lets users choose between parade and overlay presentation of SDI signals in RGB, YPbPr, YRGB or pseudo-composite formats. Full horizontal timing flexibility is provided with 1Line, 2Line, 1Field and 2Field sweep modes, with or without magnification. Both fixed and variable vertical gain are offered, each with the outstanding accuracy and repeatability that comes from a fully digital design.

High-performance composite waveforms are available in the WVR7100, WVR7000, and WVR6100. Wide bandwidth and outstanding display quality combine to let users discern even the finest details. A variety of filtering options allows optimized presentation of information.

Vector Displays

The vector display is offered with selectable 75% and 100% targets. Each display automatically selects the appropriate graticule based on the input format.

The patented Tektronix Lightning display provides unique insight not available in traditional vector displays—allowing users to visualize both luma and chroma amplitudes, as well as quantify inter-channel timing.

Gamut Displays

The patented Tektronix Diamond and Split Diamond displays enable Colorists, Editors, and Operators to visualize whether the content is RGB Gamut-compliant with a single glance. Plus, they are designed to help isolate the Out-of-Gamut component just as easily.

For SDI component content that is destined for broadcast in composite systems, the unique Tektronix Arrowhead display can be used to monitor Composite Gamut compliance without the need for a separate encoder. Within this display, a separate upper and lower luma-only Gamut limit can be applied. The power of the FlexVu™ display lets users monitor the Diamond and Arrowhead displays simultaneously for complete confidence in content compliance throughout the delivery chain.

Each of these displays offers user-selectable Gamut thresholds so Operators can set monitoring limits appropriate to their specific operation. In addition, Gamut monitoring is fully integrated with the powerful alarm logging and reporting capability of the WVR7100, WVR7000, and WVR6100.

Picture Displays

For a qualitative view of the content, a full-color picture monitor display is offered, which can be displayed as a full-screen presentation, in a single tile, or in multiple tiles (up to four). This display is compatible with all input formats and features automatic adjustment for aspect ratio and number of active lines.

In addition to displaying the picture, the WVR7100, WVR7000, and WVR6100 can also display Safe Action and Safe Title graticules which help Editors and Operators easily identify incorrectly positioned video content. Besides the graticules defined by SMPTE RP218, ITU, and ARIB, two sets of totally flexible, user-definable graticules can also be chosen.

Every WVR7100, WVR7000. and WVR6100 can detect the presence of closed caption data that conforms to EIA608, EIA708 and ARIB standards. Various types of closed caption data as well as content advisory (V-Chip) information can also be decoded and displayed in the picture mode, providing operators with simple closed caption decoding and eliminating the need for a dedicated CC monitor, saving space and money.

Ancillary Data Support

The WVR7100, WVR7000, and WVR6100 improve efficiency in diagnosing problems with ancillary data conforming to ARIB STD-B35, STD-B37, STD-B39, TR-B22, and TR-B23 standards.

Analog, Digital (AES and Embedded), Dolby Digital, and Dolby E Audio Capabilities (Optional Capabilities)

A range of audio options, which can add comprehensive audio monitoring capabilities for both analog and digital audio, are available in the WVR7100, WVR7000, and WVR6100.

• Available on all models:
• Option DS monitors digital audio, both embedded and AES/EBU inputs.
• Option AD monitors analog audio formats and all the digital audio formats included in Option DS
• Available on the WVR6100 and WVR7100:
• Option DD monitors and decodes Dolby Digital audio (AC-3) plus the analog and digital audio formats included in Option AD
• Option DDE monitors and decodes Dolby E plus all the audio formats included in Option DD

Options DD and DDE automatically sense Dolby audio formats and place a status message in the appropriate audio bar, eliminating confusion about audio input formats. Dolby status displays offer in-depth review of decoded Dolby metadata. Options DD and DDE allow full Dolby signals to be decoded and output as an analog or digital signal.

All audio options have an audio bar display that can display up to six audio bars for analog inputs, up to eight audio bars on AES/EBU inputs and embedded audio sources, and up to ten audio bars when decoding Dolby Digital and Dolby E formats.

All audio options have an audio bar display that can display up to six audio bars for analog inputs, up to eight audio bars on AES/EBU inputs and embedded audio sources, and up to ten audio bars when decoding Dolby Digital and Dolby E formats.

The audio options provide user-selectable scales, meter ballistics and audio level indicators. “In-bar” messages show status and fault conditions for each monitored audio channel, reducing the likelihood of an undetected audio problem.

Audio phase displays include phase correlation meters, a flexible Lissajous display (for any pair of channels), and a multiple-channel “Surround Sound” display that shows audio levels (A-weighted or linear), total sound volume, phantom source locations, and the dominant sound position.

The Audio Session display shows audio error conditions (such as parity errors), highest true peak, and the number of detected, clips, mutes, over-levels, and silences. User-specified threshold values determine over-level and silence conditions and the duration a potential audio problem must persist before the instrument generates an alarm.

The audio options provide audio output monitoring of up to 8 analog or digital channels. This allows for embedded audio to be de-embedded from the SDI signal and output as discrete analog or digital signals. These outputs can be used for decoding of Dolby digital signals, including stereo down-mixes. Option DD provides selection for any two channel to be decoded and output. Options DDE provides full decode of Dolby Digital or E signals.

Eye Pattern and Jitter Displays and Measurements (Optional Capabilities)

With the purchase of Option EYE, the WVR7100 and WVR6100 can display Eye pattern in 3-Eye, 10-Eye (SD), 20-Eye (HD), one field, or two field sweep rate. Users can easily use the digital cursors to measure the amplitude, rise/fall time, and rise/fall overshoot of the Eye pattern. Option EYE also provides the most advanced Jitter level indicator that provides the unique capability of measuring jitter deviations beyond 1 UI and cable length measurements.

Option PHY provides all the capabilities of Option EYE plus the capability to display Jitter waveform in line or field sweep rate. Both Option EYE and Option PHY provide a selection of Timing Jitter, Alignment Jitter, and multiple high pass filters (10 Hz, 100 Hz, 1 kHz, 10 kHz, and 100 kHz) which help users to separate high and low frequencies jitter components.

With the Tektronix FlexVu™ display, the WVR7100 and WVR6100 are capable of monitoring Timing Jitter and Alignment Jitter together with Eye patterns in both 3-Eye and either 10-Eye (SD) or 20-Eye (HD) modes simultaneously in separate tiles. Various Jitter waveforms (Option PHY only), with different sweep rates and vertical scale magnifications, can also be displayed simultaneously. To enhance the ease of monitoring jitter, a color-coded Jitter meter, with a user-selectable threshold and numeric jitter values in UI and ns (or ps), is available with any of these Eye patterns or Jitter waveforms within the same tile.

Both Option EYE and Option PHY offer an SDI Status display. This display summarizes the SDI physical layer status including two color-coded Jitter meters (each with a different user-selectable filter) with respective numeric Jitter values, as well as source signal level, cable loss, and approximate cable length measurements based on the user-selected cable type. In addition to these measurements, Option PHY also includes automatically measured Eye amplitude, rise-time, and fall-time measurements in the SDI Status display and a jitter waveform display. Tektronix' physical layer measurement capabilities are the most advanced in a video rasterizer instrument.

Status Displays

The WVR7100, WVR7000, and WVR6100 offer a variety of displays designed to show status at a glance, in addition to the status bar continually displayed at the bottom of the screen. A comprehensive overview of the video content status is presented in the video session screen. Offering a time-based compilation of information, this screen is ideal for presenting evidence of compliance after content checking. Information on input format and session time is presented, along with statistics on Error Detection and Handling (EDH)/Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) errors and Gamut errors. Information is presented in errored seconds, errored fields and percentage of total fields—together providing a unique quantitative insight to content quality.

When one of the audio options is installed, an audio session screen is available. This screen records the highest true peak, Loudness (Leq), as well as the number of clips, overs, mutes, and silences during the session time.

An alarm status screen can also be displayed providing up-to-the-moment information on the state of each condition currently being monitored by the instrument.

To support unattended monitoring applications, as well as provide documentation for service level agreements, the system maintains a log of all monitored alarms, time-stamped with Vertical Interval Time Code (VITC), Longitudinal Time Code (LTC), Ancillary Time Code, and time of day references.

Timing Display

This intuitive display makes facility timing easy through a simple graphical representation which clearly shows the timing offsets between HD and SD signals relative to the reference.

The patented Tektronix Timing display presents a unique timing comparison between a digital (SD or HD) or analog composite signal and a house reference signal (composite or tri-level sync), thus eliminating the complexity in timing SD and HD signals. Timing differences are displayed numerically in terms of vertical lines and horizontal time in μsec relative to the house reference signal. A simple graphical display shows the relative timing of the input signal (the circle) versus the reference signal (the crosshair). When the two signals are properly timed, the circle changes from red to green color and is concentric with the crosshair.

Remote Access and Control

Powerful and flexible remote control features help users integrate these instruments into a variety of remote monitoring scenarios. The WVR7100, WVR7000, and WVR6100 can be remotely accessed and controlled through a variety of mechanisms: remote front panel, web interface, ground closure, and SNMP.

The remote front panel option (WVRRFP), with the same buttons and knobs configuration as the front panel on the instrument, allows operators to access and control the base unit from a distance of up to 100 ft, using a cable. Users can simultaneously control the WVR7100, WVR7000, and WVR6100 from the base unit and from the remote front panel.

Using the built-in 10/100Base-T Ethernet port, users can remotely control every major feature of the instrument and view the display, as well as download the alarm log and print the screen contents for easy record keeping through a regular web browser. This powerful application offers a variety of control options to suit individual preferences, and allows users to create and recall an unlimited number of instrument presets. With this capability, users can control remotely several WVR instruments from a single computer with a click of a mouse.

Where simplified interfacing is the dominant requirement, a ground-closure type remote interface provides access to an alarm signal output and instrument presets. The ground-closure interface is ideal for use in master control scenarios or in outside broadcast applications.