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Industry's first 13 GHz realtime oscilloscope and probing measurement system

17 November 2004 Electronics Technology

Agilent Technologies claims to have broken the double-digit bandwidth barrier with the introduction of the industry's first oscilloscope and probing measurement system with a maximum realtime bandwidth of 13 GHz and a maximum sample rate of 40 Gsps. The Agilent Infiniium DSO80000 Series oscilloscopes and the Agilent InfiniiMax II Series probing measurement systems include 10, 12 and 13 GHz versions.

The high performance level of these instruments is vital to engineers designing high-speed serial buses, RF and wireless products, and other ultra-high-speed electronics. Today's industry serial bus standards such as Fibre Channel, fully buffered DIMM (FBD), serial ATA (SATA), serial attached SCSI (SAS) and PCI Express have performance points that will reach into the 4 to 8 Gbps range soon. Proprietary high-speed serial buses can also have clock rates in the 4 to 8 Gbps range as well as edge speeds with rise-times faster than 50 ps (20 to 80%).

High-performance oscilloscopes are required to capture the frequency harmonics and make accurate and repeatable measurements on such high-speed signals. Previously, designers were limited by oscilloscopes with a maximum realtime analog bandwidth of 8 GHz. The 13 GHz realtime bandwidth of the DSO81304A offers over a 50% performance improvement versus previous products, says Agilent.



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