Modern PC hardware is real RF voodoo these days:
DDR5 runs at 5+ GHz, PCIe 5.0 runs at 16 GHz (!!), networking/SFPs running at 26+ GHz, often using advanced modulation like PAM4.
All of those ultra ...
Very few devices are capable of reporting these stats, though. Some Mellanox NICs can, some Ampere server CPUs can.
Why isn't there tooling to view/check the link budgets/eye diagrams on (for example) regular AMD CPUs?
I'm sure it exists, just hidden away under NDA.
Being able to measure, plot and alert with link budget values in a data center at scale (or even just a single home PC?) could be extremely helpful.
Why isn't there tooling to view/check the link budgets/eye diagrams on (for example) regular AMD CPUs?
I'm sure it exists, just hidden away under NDA.
Being able to measure, plot and alert with link budget values in a data center at scale (or even just a single home PC?) could be extremely helpful.
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