High-speed scopes

Tektronix has released the DPO70000B digital phosphor oscilloscope and DSA70000B digital serial analyser series.

The ‘B’ models are claimed to also provide the best vertical noise performance, flattest frequency response and greatest effective number of bits.

Adding to the Pinpoint trigger system, the models also provide the fast hardware-based pattern triggering for serial data bus speeds at rates up to 5 Gbps.

In addition, new upgrade options via the Tektronix SpeedBooster upgrade program enable ‘B’ series users to upgrade their bandwidth from 4 GHz to 6, 8, 12.5, 16 and ultimately to 20 GHz.

The oscilloscopes provide support on all channels simultaneously for high bandwidth, deep memory, fast sample rate and fast waveform capture rate.

The modules can be used to debug signals running up to 12 Gbps on each of four lanes, making them suitable for design engineers developing and testing multi-lane, high-speed serial data applications including PCI-Express 3, SATA 6 Gbps. SuperSpeed USB, HDMI, DisplayPort and ethernet.

The FastAcq acquisition mode provides a capture rate greater than 300,000 waveforms per second, delivering both insight into signal behaviour and in-depth analysis.

Signal integrity is ensured through end-to-end bandwidth from the probe tip to the oscilloscope using TriMode probes.

With these, users obtain full system bandwidth from the probe tip. Signal fidelity is achieved through a low-noise floor, flat frequency response, low jitter measurement floor and low trigger jitter.

Vertical noise performance has improved over previous models by 1 to 2 dB for all vertical settings.