LeCroy unveils world’s fastest real-time oscilloscope

LeCroy Corporation (www.lecroy.com) has announced that its latest LabMaster 10 Zi oscilloscope seamlessly combines the industry’s first 36 GHz eight HP silicon-germanium (SiGe) chipset with LeCroy’s patented LabMaster Zi ChannelSync architecture and Digital Bandwidth Interleave (DBI) technology.

This allows the oscilloscope to deliver up to 60 GHz bandwidth, almost doubling the real-time bandwidth of other competitive manufacturers.

The LabMaster 10 Zi also offers breakthrough performance in “bandwidth density”, which refers to the number of synchronized high-bandwidth channels available. The LabMaster 10 Zi delivers ten times the bandwidth density of competitive solutions with up to ten channels at 60 GHz and up to twenty channels at 36 GHz.

“Our strategy has been to establish and leverage LeCroy’s reputation as the performance leader in the most demanding super-high-end segment of the oscilloscope market,” said Tom Reslewic, President and Chief Executive Officer of LeCroy.

“In that market, cutting edge products are sought for the world’s most demanding research and development applications. Our newly developed 36 GHz SiGe chipset, coupled with our unique and innovative DBI technology, allows us to make a significant performance leap with our new LabMaster 10 Zi series of real-time oscilloscopes.”

“The LabMaster 10 Zi catapults us past our competition in terms of bandwidth and channel-count,” added Reslewic.

“High-end oscilloscopes often achieve high bandwidth at the expense of channel-count. For example, the highest performing competitive oscilloscopes in the market today offer only two fully synchronized channels at approximately 32 GHz bandwidth. A single LabMaster 10 Zi module provides four channels at 36 GHz bandwidth and further provides the ability to link up to five modules to provide 20 fully synchronized high-bandwidth channels. LeCroy’s commitment to providing best-in-class high-end oscilloscope solutions is fully embodied in the new LabMaster 10 Zi.”