Date: 21/10/2010

Digital and mixed signal oscilloscopes from Tektronix delivers sampling rates of 100 GS/s

Tektronix, Inc. has released the DPO/DSA/MSO70000C Series of digital and mixed signal oscilloscopes rated at 100 GS/s sampling rate performance. Tektronix says this world's best over-sampling performance in a high bandwidth oscilloscope delivers significant real-world benefits including more accurate signal integrity measurements for such high-speed serial standards as PCI Express Gen 3. Other enhancements include a new, faster compute platform and a more stable timebase, ideal for radar applications.

Oscilloscopes with bandwidth of greater than 4 GHz such as this are used in high-speed serial, wideband radar, fast optical communications systems, high-end embedded systems, and high-energy physics applications. The need of this scope as per Tektronix is to achieve precision in measurement which is important for quality and reliable design. The DPO/DSA/MSO70000C Series, with its 5x is designed to offer high precision.

"With few exceptions, the most important requirement for a high-performance oscilloscope is that it have a high sample rate that in turn leads to a lower noise floor and less jitter, thus providing a better performing instrument for signal integrity measurements," said Brian Reich, general manager, Performance Oscilloscopes, Tektronix. "The DPO/DSA/MSO70000C Series, with its 100 GS/s acquisition performance, gives our customers even more measurement margins that they can put to use today to increase their designs' performance levels and lower manufacturing costs."

Tektronix says along with a two-fold increase in sampling rate compared to the "B" Series it replaces, the DPO/DSA/MSO70000C Series features a faster compute platform. This new platform offers faster processing for longer data records such as jitter, noise, BER (bit error rate) measurements and statistics. Boot and application start up times are also significantly quicker.

"With the DPO/DSA/MSO70000C Series Tektronix delivers performance in all the right places where it will help us characterize designs with more speed and precision," said Mark Marlett, principal engineer at Xilinx, Inc. "With adequate oversampling, we get more data points in our measurement results to accurately understand rise time performance on fast signals. With the 70000 Series, we gain confidence using real data versus having to guess with lesser sampling rates."


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