10 Facts About SyntheSys Research

SyntheSys Research was a Silicon Valley test equipment company that existed from 1989 to 2010, located in Menlo Park, California.

SyntheSys Research was founded by Tom and Jim Waschura, with technical help from other ex-Ampex employees Rob Verity and Kirk Handley, and early marketing help from Bob Haya who was Tom and Jim's roommate.

SyntheSys Research patented key technologies used in modern signal integrity test; notably Error Location Analysis and statistically deep eye-diagramming integrated with BERT measurement called BERTScope.

SyntheSys Research was the first to combine Jitter sources in its test signal generators to permit popular Stressed-Eye testing.

SyntheSys Research developed many products over its 21-year span, including specialty products for disk-drive, television, high-definition television, optical, telecommunications, and computer applications.

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SyntheSys Research was incorporated as SyntheSys Research because DesignWare was not available for use.

SyntheSys Research moved to a small business park in Redwood City, California, where it resided for about a year before finally moving to Edison Technology Park in Menlo Park, California.

Many types of statistical processing algorithms were developed by SyntheSys Research, producing a comprehensive set of error location analysis tools.

In 2005, with the introduction of the BERTScope 12500-S, SyntheSys Research provided the first built-in stressed-eye sources that greatly assisted engineers in performing popular stressed-eye receiver testing.

In 2008, the largest maker of Oscilloscopes in the United States, Tektronix, of Beaverton, Oregon and SyntheSys Research signed an OEM agreement to sell the SyntheSys Research CR12500 clock-recovery instrument through Tektronix's sales channel.