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News Release from: LeCroy | Subject: M-Type oscilloscopes
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2008
Top-performance scopes come with full
set of tools
Two new instruments bring LeCroy's award-winning big-display/small-footprint 5Gsample/s sampling rate and form factor to 1GHz oscilloscopes.
LeCroy reckons its two new M-Type oscilloscopes provide the highest signal fidelity, the most complete measurement capability and the best raw performance in the 1GHz bandwidth segment Available in the popular WaveRunner and WaveSurfer product series, the M-Type products bring LeCroy's award-winning big-display/small-footprint 5Gsample/s sampling rate and form factor to 1GHz oscilloscopes
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Each oscilloscope comes standard with a full set of analysis tools including: WaveScan, an advanced search and analysis feature; WaveStream, a fast viewing Mode; and LabNotebook, a novel tool for documentation and report generation.
Whether looking at the frequency spectrum, analysing jitter or performing mixed signal measurements, the M-Type products combine high performance and ease of use with the best tools for understanding and validating a design.
M-Type oscilloscopes offer an excellent price/performance ratio and are available in two models.
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Priced at GBP 10,250, the LeCroy WaveRunner MXi is heralded as the most capable scope available in its class.
With a maximum sample rate of 10Gsample/s and with a standard 12.5Mpoint per channel of memory (interleaving to 25Mpoint per channel), the WaveRunner MXi, can be put to work using a wide variety of standard analysis tools and application programs, such as tracks, histograms, long memory FFTs, user-defined functions (set up in Matlab, MathCad etc), mixed signal options, power device analysis, jitter and timing analysis, and a host of other applications that ship standard in this oscilloscope.
The X-Stream architecture ensures that memory processing is performed effortlessly, without interfering with the scope's operation.
The WaveSurfer MXs offers 5Gsample/s on each channel with 10Mpoint memory per channel.
Priced at GBP 8250, it is the oscilloscope that emphasises strong fundamentals for lab and bench scope use.
Its advanced triggering helps an engineer find rare events and glitches, while the built in HDTV trigger speeds the design of new products.
It comes complete with a standard advanced maths package, including one million point FFTs.
"The M-Type oscilloscopes bring the advanced problem-solving abilities of the latest LeCroy oscilloscopes to engineers performing tasks ranging from everyday needs to advanced debug and analysis", says Dan Monopoli, Product Marketing Manager.
"The collection of tools, features and functions packed into this small 6in-deep instrument with large 10.4in touch screen make these truly unique oscilloscopes".
In addition all M-Type oscilloscopes are compatible with optional low-speed serial triggering and decode packages help engineers quickly analyse I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232, CAN, LIN and FlexRay protocols through the use of easy to read transparent overlays, search/zoom capabilities, and tabular displays.
M-Type oscilloscopes are also hot-plug ready for LeCroy's 36- channel mixed signal oscilloscope options.
Even the best trigger won't find all unusual events, and so a more powerful capability is needed.
WaveScan provides the ability to locate unusual events in a single capture, or scan for an event in many acquisitions over a long period of time.
Select from nearly 20 search modes (pulsewidth, frequency, rise time, runt, duty cycle etc), apply a search condition and begin scanning and inspecting unusual events.
In a single acquisition, WaveScan will identify the failure with a red box, and list the values in a table.
From there, a user can zoom to view, or apply additional analysis tools for complete debugging.
After tests are performed, LeCroy's M-Type oscilloscopes simply and easily document the results.
Saving all displayed waveforms, relevant settings, and screen images is all done with a single button press, eliminating the need to navigate multiple menus to save all these files independently.
LabNotebook also permits customising reports to fit into any design verification dataset.
Once a measurement is made, it's easy to document and share the information.
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