LeCroy SDA 740Zi-A Oscilloscope Offers 4 GHz Bandwidth

LeCroy (www.lecroy.com) helps users understand and characterize design with the release of its SDA 740Zi, a serial data analyzer based on WavePro 7 Zi-A Series.

The four channel oscilloscope offers 4GHz bandwidth and a sampling rate of up to 20 GS/s. It also comes with a large 15.4-inch WXGA Color Display.

With double the standard memory, the SDA 740Zi-A captures more unit intervals within the eye diagram. Unlike some solutions that provide problem notifications only, the SDA 740Zi-A helps users identify the problem, placing the project back on track.

Aside from LeCroy’s QualiPHY compliance test suite, it also comes with a debugging toolset that offers users with insight into eye and jitter analysis. Equipped with this insight, users can then confidently dig deeper and identify the main cause of the problem. Its Quick View function shows the TIE Track, Eye Diagram, Jitter histogram, Bathtub Curve, Jitter Spectrum and NQ-Scale.

Meanwhile, LeCroy’s X-Stream II Architecture not only provides fast update but the fastest eye interpretation as well.

With SDA 740Zi-A, Eye and Jitter Analysis starts with an interactive flow diagram user interface guiding the user intuitively through the set up of Jitter Measurements, Eye Measurements, or both.

It also feature an 80-bit Pattern Trigger as standard, while a High-speed Pattern Trigger is offered as an option.

Its 8b/10b serial decode option offers powerful search capability that allows the SDA 740Zi-A capture waveforms that will be searched for the symbol’s user defined sequences.

GW Instek GDS-3354 Oscilloscope with unique split screen feature

GW Instek (www.gwinstek.com) has introduced a four channel oscilloscope that offers a spilt screen feature to meet the demands of multi-window and multi-signal tests in research and manufacturing fields. With a record length of 25 k points, the GDS-3354 delivers a real-time sampling rate of five GSa/s and an equivalent time sampling rate of up to 100 GSa/s.

This 350 MHz oscilloscope also offers a rise time of 1ns and a vertical resolution of eight bits.

Its unique split screen feature enables each input channel to be independently operated with respective waveform display and setting. The vertical sensitivity, trigger selections and time base can be separately performed by each channel, while the waveform of every input signal can be displayed on the screen’s individual part. The almost four-DSO-in one feature is useful for applications that have to simultaneously view the details of multiple waveforms with varying characteristics. This eight-inch high resolution 800×600 LCD display offers a pleasant viewing environment to observe the details of complex signals.

Aside from edge trigger, the oscilloscope’s advanced trigger functions also include Pulse Width, Video, Rise Time and Fall Time, Delay by Time, Alternate, Delay by Event, Runt and Hold-off. Its VPO signal processing and display, high sampling rate and flexible trigger function all contribute to make the GDS-3354 a potent tool for waveform capture as well as display of different kinds of signals.

The oscilloscope’s Auto Range function automatically adjusts the vertical scale and/or the time base of the displayed waveform when the amplitude and/or frequency of the input signal change.

Meanwhile, the Zoom function of the oscilloscope offers dual display mode to simultaneously show the main waveform as well as the magnified portion of the zoomed-in waveform.

TDS3012C Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope values time and money

Tektronix (www.tek.com) has unveiled a 100 MHz oscilloscope that boasts efficient performance and affordable pricing. With a maximum real-time sampling rate of 1.25 GS/s, the TDS3012C features a record length of up to 10 kpoints and a vertical resolution of nine bits.

The oscilloscope seamlessly combines 3,600 wfms/s continuous waveform capture rate along with real-time intensity grading, enabling users to easily determine the problem. With high-speed waveform capture rates, time is saved by quickly revealing the nature of faults, allowing the applications of advanced triggers in order to isolate them.

Its real-time intensity grading aims to highlight details on the history of the signal’s activity, making it easier to identify the characteristics of the waveforms captured.

With the TDS3012C, the history stays even after stopping the acquisition — a feature lacking in other oscilloscopes.

The dual channel oscilloscope combines the unique digital real-time (DRT) sampling technology together with the sin(x)/x interpolation to accurately characterize a wider range of signal types on all channels.

Unlike other comparable oscilloscope, the sampling rate does not change when additional channels are turned on. This technology allows the capture of high-frequency information, like edge anomalies and glitches.

The TDS3012C oscilloscope also helps users reduce learning curve, with its time-efficient simple navigation and dedicated front-panel controls.

The oscilloscope also comes equipped with a USB host port that may be used to store and transfer measurement information with ease to a PC.

Agilent DSO91308A Infiniium Oscilloscope guarantees fast and reliable measurements

Agilent (www.agilent.com) has specifically engineered the DSO91308A Infiniium High-Performance Oscilloscope to meet even most demanding requirements by offering features that ensure reliable and fast measurements.

This eight channel oscilloscope offers 13 GHz bandwidth, eight-bit resolution and a maximum real-time sampling rate of 40 GS/s.

Inspired by the award winning Infiniium DSO90000A Series oscilloscopes, the DSO91308A is one of the most cost-saving, space-efficient, LXI-C compliant oscilloscope that offers unrivalled real-time measurement accuracy.

A digital CMOS integrated circuit serves as the memory as well as the acquisition controller component of the oscilloscope’s acquisition system. Designed to memorize and capture eight-bit digital data, it features a high-speed data demultiplexer and on-board memory.

Its InfiniiSim toolset allows users to seamlessly combine models and measurements to view simulated oscilloscope measurement results in any of the design’s location. With this tool, users can also easily acquire real-time oscilloscope data, import design models (transfer or s-parameter functions) and transform to the required measurement location.

Using the 89601A vector signal, users can expand the measurement capability of the DSO91308A oscilloscope. This DSP-based software conveniently takes the digitized signal data from the oscilloscope while displaying wide-bandwidth digital modulation analysis and FFT-based spectrum analysis for wireless communication signals like cdma2000 and WCDMA as well as wireless networking signals such as 802.16 WiMax and 802.11 WiFi.

The oscilloscope also features an EZJIT analysis software, which allows users to evaluate and characterize even the most commonly required jitter measurements such as N-cycle, cycle-cycle, time-interval, period, setup and hold time, error, measurement trending, histogram and jitter spectrum.

Oscilloscope Module Characterizes 10-Gb/s to 32-Gb/s Designs

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) introduced a precision waveform analyzer for design verification and validation of high-speed electrical communications systems and components.

The 86108B precision waveform analyzer has residual jitter below 50 femtoseconds, channel bandwidths to 50 GHz, and integrated clock recovery to 32 Gb/s. This new plug-in module is the latest addition to the Agilent 86100C/D DCA wide-bandwidth oscilloscope family.

This device is well-suited for testing IEEE 802.3ba (40-Gb/100-Gb Ethernet), Optical Internetworking Forum CEI 3.0, INCITS T-11 32G Fibre Channel and high-speed proprietary systems. The 86108B’s integrated precision timebase and clock recovery design, with typical residual jitter below 50 fs rms, enables it to minimize potential measurement problems.

Continuous data-rate coverage from 50 Mb/s to 32 Gb/s, peaking control and adjustable loop bandwidths to 20 MHz also allow the clock recovery circuit to provide a phase-locked-loop response for accurate device characterization.

The integrated instrumentation-grade clock recovery circuit allows the module to trigger directly from single-ended or differential data signals eliminating a separate trigger input. The module also integrates high-bandwidth pickoffs and phase-matched cables, which reduces setup complexity and maintains signal integrity.

An auxiliary clock-recovery input circuit lets you analyze extremely low-level signals, or signals that have been closed due to severe inter-symbol interference, by triggering the scope using a separate synchronous data (or clock) signal connected to the 86108B’s auxiliary CR input. The on-board phase detector enables a flexible and accurate technique to determine PLL bandwidth/peaking on devices with either clock or data inputs and outputs.

The cost of the system (an 86100D mainframe plus the 86108B module) is below comparable real-time or equivalent-time oscilloscope units. It is available with bandwidth options of 35 GHz and 50 GHz and clock recovery data-rate options of 16 Gb/s and 32 Gb/s. Both bandwidth and clock recovery options are upgradeable, so users can enhance their instruments as their designs warrant.

Agilent’s high-speed digital solutions offer a range of essential tools to help engineers design and simulate, analyze, debug and ensure compliant designs while cutting through the challenges of gigabit digital designs.

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Fluke 123 Industrial Scopemeter comes in rugged, drip proof case

Fluke (www.fluke.com) has released a 20 MHz oscilloscope that meets today’s need of simultaneously checking and measuring waveforms. Combining the functionality of an oscilloscope, a dual-input TrendPlot recorder and true-RMS digital multimeters in one compact package, the Fluke 123 Industrial Scopemeter features a rugged and drip proof case that assures users of long service life and reliable operation even in the harshest industrial environments.

Since it is battery operated, the oscilloscope effectively eliminates the need for main outlets. It also features a handheld format and weighs only 1.2 kg, making it easy to carry while fitting comfortably in the hands of the user.

With Connect-and-View automatic triggering, users need not worry of triggering as well as instrument setting, as the oscilloscope provides all the information on the screen.

Unlike traditional oscilloscopes that take measurements referenced to power line ground, the Fluke 123 does not run the risk of accidental ground short circuit as it can make floating measurements.

Its shielded test leads can take various measurements including waveform-, capacitance-, resistance- and meter-measurements. This enables users to save time in swapping or finding leads.

The Fluke 123 as well as its shielded test leads have been safety certified for 600 V CAT III industrial power systems. With the VPS40 probe, the oscilloscope can also measure up to 100 V CAT II, while its optically isolated USB interface or RS-232 allows the oscilloscope to be connected to a PC for analysis and documentation or to a printer for a direct print-out.

LeCroy HRO 64Zi oscilloscope offers unmatched signal fidelity

LeCroy (www.lecroy.com) has introduced one of the world’s lowest-noise and clearest oscilloscopes that offer 400 MHz bandwidth and a sampling rate of up to two GS/s — the HRO 64Zi.

To deliver unrivaled signal fidelity, the dual channel oscilloscope seamlessly combined the newly designed low-noise front ends with true 12-bit ADC. The oscilloscope offers a shocking contrast to conventional eight-bit oscilloscopes as it provides ultra-thin, crisp traces to blazing responsiveness and update speed.

It offers a powerful feature set that includes a vast array of application packages, a user interface for easy and quick navigation, advanced triggering to isolate events, lightning fast performance and a wide range of probing options.

The HRO 64Zi is specifically designed with a pristine signal acquisition that allows it to deliver unmatched signal fidelity and low noise. It features a huge offset as well as timebase delay adjustment enables easy amplifier and signal performance assessment and zooming on horizontal and vertical signal characteristics.

The oscilloscope’s WavePilot control area offers convenient control of Decode, Cursors, History, WaveScan, Spectrum and LabNotebook through their respective front panel function buttons.

Standard features of the oscilloscope include a powerful combination of 10 different SMART triggers and high bandwidth edge, measurement trigger, four stage cascade triggering and TriggerScan. These functions allow users to easily isolate problems and focus on the cause.

In addition, the HRO 64Zi features a large 12.1-inch high resolution WXGA display. Ideal for various signals that require long records and scrolling or zooming of results in a large block of data, the rotating display offers the best view of virtually all signal type.

Sixclear and Tektronix jointly develop LabVIEW oscilloscope video tutorials

Sixclear (www.sixclear.com), an Austin-based LabVIEW training and development firm, has collaborated with Tektronix (www.tek.com) to develop a video tutorial for programming Tektronix DPO/MSO/MDO 2000 or 4000 Series oscilloscopes in LabVIEW.

Released in 2011, the new MDO4000 Mixed Domain Oscilloscope Series features an integrated RF Spectrum Analyzer and is commonly utilized as a standalone test device that can be externally controlled by a computer running its programming environment.

“For 25 years, LabVIEW has been programmatically controlling test equipment like Tek’s new MDO4000 Series scope,” said Brian Spears, head of Sixclear’s video instruction.

“Quite commonly, we see LabVIEW automating an entire suite of devices at once, and when the new piece of equipment comes in, someone has to learn how to program and integrate it with the rest of the application.”

Although new users were informed that the oscilloscopes can be programmed easily with LabVIEW, the customers remain hesitant, noted Luke Graham, Consulting Account Manager at Tektronix.

“Having a video tutorial walk the user through the scope setup process and into programming some simple code is invaluable.”

Spears explained that the set of four tutorials walks a user first “through installation of the driver, explores the driver structure, looks over example programs, explains how the scope is recognized and configured with the NI-VISA driver.

Then it shows the users “how to configure and acquire single and multiple channels, demonstrates how to save waveforms and set up triggering, and finally how to acquire off the digital logic channels and the RF channel.”

The high-resolution video tutorial can be accessed for free at sixclear.com/tek.

GW Instek offers optimized operation interface in GDS-3352 oscilloscope

GW Instek (www.gwinstek.com) has unveiled a dual channel oscilloscope that offers optimized operation interface for observing screen captures. Featuring 350 MHz bandwidth, the GDS-3352 oscilloscope delivers a real-time sampling rate of up to five GSa/s, a maximum equivalent time sampling rate of 100 GSa/s, a rise time of 1 ns and a vertical resolution of eight bits.

Oscilloscopes can generally store huge amounts of waveform data even after longer periods of time. The GDS-3352 prevents users from selecting the wrong file from the numerous waveform files stored in the oscilloscope through its screen capture preview function. This allows users to view the waveform file without opening it, making the oscilloscope operation more convenient and efficient.

Offering an optional software upgrade as well as an additional feature built-in environment, the oscilloscope also allows users to install additional application software at its user site. This added flexibility makes the oscilloscope always up-to-date.

Users can easily capture data from the oscilloscope using the FreeWave remote monitoring software and its USB host port. The FreeWave enables users to save a screenshot as an image file (.jpg or .bmp), log waveform data (.csv) and record movie files (.wmv) in real time. Aside from recording and monitoring waveforms, FreeWave also allows users to view previously recorded waveforms.

The instrument settings of the oscilloscope can be configured easily, eliminating the need for users to learn complex command line syntax. The robust features and simple user interface of the FreeWave allows users to get the most out of the GDS-3352 with minimal effort.

GAO Tek A0110004 handheld digital oscilloscopes

GAO Tek Inc. (www.gaotek.com) has unveiled a series of handheld digital oscilloscopes that integrate a digital multimeter (DMM), digital oscilloscope (DSO) and a six bit digital frequency counter in a single package, the A0110004 series handheld digital storage oscilloscopes.

Ideal for technicians and engineers in troubleshooting during on-site inspection and performing complex measurements, the oscilloscopes feature bandwidths ranging between 1 GSa/s and 25 GSa/s. The A0110004 series handheld digital storage oscilloscopes is designed with 27 automatic measurement functions, and  offer various advanced triggering functions such as pulse, edge, alternative and video. In addition, the oscilloscopes can perform cursor tracking measurements and provide special recording, playback as well as storage functions.

Aside from the auto scale and mathematical functions, Gao Tek’s oscilloscopes also feature FFT spectrum analysis and automatic parameter measurements. They boast powerful shortcut keys and multifunctional dials, which enable users to save time during operation. Gao Tek has also equipped the oscilloscopes with automatic settings functions for faster set up.

The A0110004 series handheld digital storage oscilloscopes is part of the company’s Portable Digital Oscilloscopes portfolio, which includes a vast array of digital oscilloscopes with various bandwidths such as 60 MHz Dual Channel Portable Digital Oscilloscope. Also included in the line-up is a Potable Digital Oscilloscope with FFT that is usually used for circuit testing, electronic debugging, education and training, design and manufacture as well as automobile maintenance and testing.

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