LeCroy (www.lecroy.com) has unveiled the WavePro 725Zi-A, which is part of the WavePro 7 Zi family of oscilloscopes. This four channel oscilloscope offers a large 15.4-inch WXGA display, a bandwidth of 2.5 GHz and a maximum sampling rate of 20 GS/s.

The scope has the capability to locate unusual events in just a single capture. It can also scan for an event through various acquisitions over longer period of time, as well as offers more than 20 search modes such as rise time, frequency, duty cycle and runt. When an event is located, the scope highlights and displays a table showing the errors.

To help users understand the cause and debug the problem, WavePro 725Zi-A offers three views of jitter — time, statistical and frequency. Tracks allow users to view the time-correlated peaks of jitter, while histograms facilitate understanding of different statistical distributions. The FFT feature of the scope enable users to debug the main cause of high-circuit jitter.

The scope is integrated with X-Stream II technology, which is specifically designed for responsiveness and long memory operation. By eliminating the trade-offs between quick processing and long memory length, the scope can process high volume of information even when it is operating at numerous 100 Mpts waveforms. The architecture design of the scope is augmented with a high-speed serial data buses, a 64-bit OS, an Intel Core 2 Quad processor and up to 8 GB of RAM.

The WavePro 725Zi-A Digital Filter Software Package (WPZi-DFP2) allows users to employ Infinite or Finite Impulse Response filters, which eliminate unnecessary spectral components, such as noise, and improves the scope’s ability to examine important signal components. Users can select from a standard set of IIR or FIR filters or design their own filters.