The WFM6120 offers performance monitoring and measurement capabilities for SD-SDI and Analog Composite Video formats.

The AD audio option available for WFM6120 offers monitoring for Analog and Digital Embedded or AES/EBU audio.

Available measurement options include eye/jitter (EYE or PHY), Video Data Analysis (DAT), and AV Delay measurement (AVD).

• Video Monitoring
  • 3G (3 Gb/s)
  • DL (Dual Link)
  • HD (High Definition SDI)
  • SD (Standard Definition SDI)
  • CPS (Composite Analog)
• Audio Monitoring
  • AD (AES, Embedded, and Analog)
  • DDE (Dolby Digital and Dolby E)
  • DPE (Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby E)
• Measurement and Analysis
  • JIT (Jitter for 3 Gb/s)
  • EYE, PHY (Physical Layer)
  • DAT (Data Analysis)
  • SIM (Simultaneous Inputs)
  • AVD (A/V Delay)

From Analog to Advanced Digital Video in One Platform

Ideal for multiformat environments, the Tektronix family of waveform monitors provides flexible options and field-installable upgrade kits to monitor diverse video types including 3G, Dual Link, SD/HD-SDI, and Composite Analog.

The WFM7020 and WFM7120 Option DL features SMPTE 372M compliant monitoring with 352M automatic format detection and selectable display of Alpha Channel. The latest WFM7x20 firmware includes monitoring for 2K Dual Link with XYZ Color Space on Option DL.

These instruments allow for monitoring of link A, B, or the combined input with a comprehensive set of displays and status report tools.

The Tektronix Timing display proves a valuable ally to maintain correct timing between links A and B.

To support the latest production trends for high-definition 1080p 50/59.94/60 content, WFM7120 and WFM7020 provide optional capabilities to monitor this 3 Gb/s format.

Option 3G for the WFM7120 and WFM7020 enables monitoring of SMPTE 425M Level A (directly mapped) and Level B (mapped from Dual Link) signals.

Monitoring display modes such as Waveform, Vector, Gamut, Timing, Data Analysis, Status, and Audio are available for the monitoring of 3 Gb/s and other formats.

Tektronix-exclusive Option JIT for WFM7120 provides jitter measurement for 3G video and includes a basic test-loop signal generator (with color bars and pathologic signals) to simplify quick verification tasks on 3G facilities.

Each WFM7x20 Series instrument supports any combination of video and audio format options, so the platform excels on multiformat environments and evolves with your needs to protect your investment.
 

Extended Digital Analysis Capabilities

The new ANC Data Inspector (available on Option DAT) provides an industry-leading solution to help broadcasters easily and accurately ensure that all required ANC data is present and correctly configured through an intuitive ANC data display.

In contrast to existing solutions, the ANC Data Inspector enables operators to easily and quickly ensure that the ANC data is present and free of errors. When errors are detected, engineers are quickly guided to a more detailed view of the data packet content for further analysis. With FlexVu each tile can display different CEA608/708 Closed Caption and individual Teletext subtitles or pages.

CaptureVu, standard on WFM7120 and WFM6120, captures the data of a video frame to recreate any trace display and analyze its digital structure. Captured data can be downloaded through the USB port or through the Ethernet port.

The Auxiliary Data Status display decodes Ancillary data such as Active Format Description (AFD), Video Index Aspect Ratio, WSS, and ARIB information.

Aux Data Status provides summary information on a variety of metadata such as CEA608 or CEA708 Closed Caption, Broadcast Flag/CGMS, Teletext, ARIB, Time Code, AFD (Active Format Description), Video Index Aspect Ratio, and Wide Screen Signalling.

Today there is a wide variety of metadata that provides information to a wide variety of equipment through the processing chain. Monitoring of this metadata is critical to ensure that the processing equipment correctly handles the signal. For instance, correct format of the AFD ensures that the aspect ratio on the display is correctly formatted and automatic graticule display is available for the picture display of the waveform monitor along with the binary data and text description.

Option DDE enables the display of VANC Dolby metadata. The SIM (Simultaneous Input) option allows simultaneous display of two inputs and is like having two instruments in one.
 

See and Solve with Tektronix Displays

Tektronix See and Solve displays simplify video monitoring tasks such as calibration, error detection, and content correction allowing users to detect errors at a glance and troubleshoot them efficiently.

Specialized session and status displays provide summarized, yet comprehensive reports of conditions and measurements of content parameters. The powerful Error Log is configurable and provides detailed reports for up to 10,000 events which can be downloaded using a web browser. Alarms can also activate ground closures  and SNMP traps, simplifying centralized monitoring of multiple programs.

The FlexVu four-tile display provides maximum flexibility to increase your productivity.

Unlike instruments with predetermined view combinations or limited choices, FlexVu lets you create a multiview display tailored to your specific needs and work practices.

Each tile can be configured to enable easy signal analysis such as multiple alarm and status screens, different Safe Area Graticules and cursors on each tile, and more.

Tektronix displays offer the sharpest CRT-like trace quality for clear waveform monitoring without pixelation distortions.

The patented Tektronix Diamond, Split Diamond, and Arrowhead gamut displays simplify the process of verifying gamut compliance.

The Diamond and Split Diamond displays help easily identify and correct RGB gamut errors in digital video signals. The Arrowhead display saves time in verifying composite gamut compliance on analog and digital video signals.

User-selectable gamut thresholds let you tailor these displays and the associated gamut alarms to your particular compliance standards. You can also select bright-up conditions to see the location of gamut errors on the picture display.

The picture display when used in the SIM (Simultaneous Input Mode) mode can simultaneously detect and decode CEA608/708 Closed Caption. Teletext subtitle pages can also be decoded in either 625 formats or using OP47 Ancillary data. Flexible Safe Area Graticules allow for quick placement of graphics, titles, or logos. Using FlexVu, users can see two or more pictures with different graticules.

CaptureVu, on the WFM7120 and WFM6120, allows the user to capture, store, and download the data of a video frame to recreate displays and compare the live signal to captured data for easy troubleshooting of intermittent errors or for analyzing fault conditions at remote sites.
 

Simultaneous Input Display Boosts Monitoring Versatility

Option SIM takes multiformat monitoring to a new level.

This capability helps operational staff quickly determine if a video quality problem existed in the input signal or arose in their facility. It lets engineering staffs quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve technical problems introduced by a piece of video equipment by quickly comparing the input and output signals at each point of a chain.

This feature is especially helpful when checking for transparency during format conversion.

FlexVu enables flexible and intuitive configuration of displays from two monitored inputs.

With WFM7120 Option SIM, you can display simultaneous fault detection, status reporting, alarm generation, and error logging. The SIM option is ideal for transmission monitoring of simultaneous HD and SD programs. The Black and Frozen frame alarm detect can be used to alert the operator to a problem in the transmission chain. These and other errors can automatically be logged in the error log and provided as a report.

The patented Tektronix Timing display can be used for each source to timeeach input relative to the reference or measure the timing between each input.

Audio and video signals can be displayed independently for each input.
 

Top Reliability on Physical Layer Measurements

Tektronix is the technological leader for eye/jitter measurement solutions. Option JIT enables jitter measurement for 3 Gb/s video with jitter waveforms and readings with alignment, timing, and filters from 10 Hz to 100 kHz. Options EYE and PHY provide unique capabilities such as reporting jitter levels above 1 UI and jitter filters from 10 Hz to 100 kHz for SD- and HD-SDI.

An easy-to-interpret gauge provides direct readout for jitter measurements. The user can configure timing and alignment readouts to be displayed simultaneously to effectively isolate the sources of jitter.

The SDI Signal Status display summarizes key signal parameters such as signal strength, cable loss, and estimated cable length measurements.

Additionally, Option PHY provides Tektronix-exclusive jitter waveform displays to view the jitter related to line and field rates.  This option automatically measures eye amplitude, rise/fall time, and overshoot/undershoot.

With FlexVu, you can simultaneously display timing and alignment jitter values, cable parameter measurements, and display different eye patterns to help quickly diagnose and resolve problems related to SDI timing jitter or cable attenuation. The Infinite Persistence mode of the waveform monitor can be used to more easily view the eye opening of the physical layer signal.
 

Loudness Monitoring

• Measure Loudness and true peaks per ITU-R BS.1770/1771 and ATSC RP A/85 recommendations
• Measure Loudness and true peaks of combination of discrete audio channels
• Measure Loudness of Dolby D, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby E audio channels
• Measure Loudness using infinite or short-term measurement techniques per ITU-R-BS.1770-1 specifications, and display both values simultaneously (user-selectable integration time in increment of seconds for short-term measurements)
• Start/Stop capability for the duration of the segment, showing infinite and short-term measurements
• Simultaneously display Dialnorm value from Dolby metadata and the measured Loudness value on the same display.
• Loudness measurement value in LKFS per ITU-R-BS.1770
• Loudness meter is available on the audio-level meter display

Trend Analysis Features

• Loudness Trend Chart with adjustable display window
• Storage of Loudness measurement values to USB or through Web UI

Monitoring Tools for Optimum Sound Quality

For precise audio measurements, the WFM Series provides high-quality digital filtering and oversampling fully compliant with ITU-R BS.1770 and 1771.

For easy monitoring, the WFM audio options provide format auto-detection and flexible mapping of audio inputs to analog or digital audio outputs for connection to external devices.

The Surround Sound* 1 display, the most comprehensive audio analyzer, provides intuitive graphical representation of the channels' interaction in a system. The Bars display provides indicators for faults, audio levels, and Dolby format information. The flexible Lissajous display allows the selection of any two audio channels.

Specialized audio displays provide deeper insight of the signal. The audio session display summarizes levels, faults, and number of active bits for each channel. The user can select from three loudness filters; flat, A-weighted, and RLB (BS.1770). These instruments also feature Audio Control Packet Data and Channel Status displays.

The Dolby Status display (in Option DDE) gives an in-depth view of integrated or VANC metadata and Dolby A/V timing and synchronization. User-configurable threshold for the Dolby E Guard Band timing measurement (WFM7120/7020 Option DDE): The user can monitor the Dolby E Guard Band timing and trigger alarms based on their specific guard band parameters.

Facility Timing Made Easy

Audio/Video synchronization is an important challenge in the processing of video materials.

Option AVD displays the A/V delay on a graphical bar indicator. The measurement readout gives facility engineers the tool to ensure system integrity and facilitate A/V delay compliance.

This option provides out-of-service measurement of A/V delay for analog or digital audio and video formats.

A TG700 is required to generate the SDI signal which contains the audio and video sequence that can be distributed through the system and measured by the waveform monitor.

The patented Tektronix Timing display makes facility timing easy through a simple graphical representation which shows the relative timing of the input signal and reference signal on an X-Y axis.

The Lightning display shows luma and chroma amplitudes and helps you verify component timing using a color bar header signal. The SCH Phase display helps quickly verify this critical timing parameter of composite analog video signals.