Oscilloscope reaches landmark speed

The InfiniiScan Plus enables 150ps hardware-event identification and 75ps software-event identification.

Agilent Technologies has broken the one billion acquisition samples (1Gsample) barrier for the first time in a high-performance oscilloscope.

The new Agilent Infiniium 90000A series not only offers the world's deepest acquisition memory depth, but it also offers the world's first hardware/software integrated triggering system, InfiniiScan Plus.

The InfiniiScan Plus enables 150ps hardware-event identification and 75ps software-event identification.

The ultra-deep memory options in the Infiniium oscilloscope are able to capture 25ms of time, at 40 Gsample/s, on all four channels simultaneously.

This is a 6x increase over other oscilloscopes in the same class.

Powered by Infiniium data accelerator technology, deep memory captures provide the industry's fastest data offload, with rapid access to offline analysis.

Both the DSO and DSA models are capable of more than 150,000 measurements per second and modes supporting over 300,000 triggers per second.

Jay Alexander, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's oscilloscopes business said "The Infiniium 90000A series enables our customers to analyse and debug cutting-edge, high-speed digital and RF technologies that require the best signal integrity, the longest memory depth and deep analysis capability".

The InfiniiScan Plus event identification system is based on the world's fastest hardware trigger system.

This new trigger system can identify glitches faster than 250ps.

The Infiniium 90000A will offer the only three-level trigger system, combining multiple hardware triggers with the InfiniiScan software, providing virtually infinite trigger combinations for any debug situation.

It is also the only scope above 4GHz bandwidth that offers standard analogue high-definition TV triggers to address the emerging HDTV market.

Agilent provides investment protection with the industry's only upgradeable bandwidth for real-time oscilloscopes, upgradeable memory options and the industry's only application server licensing for oscilloscopes.

The series of oscilloscopes includes 2.5, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 13GHz models with memory options of 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1Gsamples.

"At NVIDIA, we are always pushing the envelope with regard to process technology and developing new interface standards", said Bill Simms, Manager of Mixed Signal Design Validation at NVIDIA.

"To analyse these interfaces, we require oscilloscopes to have high bandwidth, deep capture memory and fast data processing".

"The Agilent DSA90000A oscilloscope helps us to not only capture large amounts of data, but also to process that data record in a much shorter time".

"This improves our development time and shortens our time to market".

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