LeCroy (www.lecroy.com) has introduced an oscilloscope from the WavePro 7 Zi Series that offers a bandwidth of 1.5 GHz and a real-time sampling rate of 10 GS/s — the WavePro 715Zi-A oscilloscope.

Aside from its large 15.4-inch WXGA color display, this four channel oscilloscope provides users with a choice between its 50 ohm and one Mohm input capability.

The scope has finally made long acquisition memory easy to use, as its X-Stream II architecture supports zooming, capturing, measuring and analyzing various waveforms at 256 Mpts deep. It also offers the powerful blend of high bandwidth Edge and 10 SMART triggers which enables users to quickly isolate the problem and focus on the cause. Unlike most SMART triggers, which allow triggering on pulse widths as small as 200 ps, the scope’s high-speed serial trigger allows triggering on a maximum of 2.7 Gb/s.

Specifically developed for long memory operation and responsiveness, the scope’s X-Stream II technology provides high throughput of data even when performing several 100 Mpts waveforms. This is achieved by eliminating the trade-offs between quick processing and long memory length. The scope’s proprietary architecture design has been augmented by a high-speed serial data buses, Intel Core two Quad processor, 64-bit OS and a maximum of eight GB of RAM.

Its specialized timing parameters measure cycle-cycle, period, width, half-period and jitter on various signals. Users can utilize the three views of jitter — time, statistical and frequency — to understand the main cause and to debug the problems, while the histogram helps users understand the statistical distributions. The tracks provide a way to show the time-correlated peaks of jitter, as well as compare it to other signals. The scope’s FFT function easily debugs the root cause of jitters.