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News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: TDS6000B Series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 April 2004
Top performance for 8GHz bandwidth
digital scopes
A new series of 8GHz bandwidth DSOs features industry-leading signal fidelity with unique Pinpoint triggering and four channels of concurrent high-resolution waveform capture.
A new series of 8GHz bandwidth DSOs features industry-leading signal fidelity with unique Pinpoint triggering, four channels of concurrent high-resolution waveform capture, and a new differential probing solution using IBM's 0.18um silicon-germanium (7HP SiGe) technology With rapidly increasing bit and clock rates in complex digital architectures, customers working with leading-edge applications such as XAUI, PCI-Express and Infiniband in the communications, computer and semiconductor industries are tasked with connecting, triggering, acquiring and analysing fast, multiple, complex, signals simultaneously
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Oct 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new Tektronix TDS6000B Series includes industry-leading features and performance at all stages of a customer's high-speed design and validation processes, including ultra-high bandwidth, the best signal fidelity, leading acquisition performance, broadest trigger features, and the most extensive range of optional analysis and compliance solutions.
The combination of the TDS6000B Series oscilloscope and the new 7HP SiGe P7380SMA differential probe offers design engineers the best performance and highest measurement accuracy available on the market today, giving them the tools they need to stay ahead of rapid technology advancements in today's competitive markets.
"The new TDS6000B Series DSOs raise the industry standard for signal capture and integrity", said Colin Shepard, Vice President, Oscilloscope Products, Tektronix.
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"Design engineers need the best tools and the most comprehensive test and measurement solutions available.
The TDS6000B Series delivers the highest performance solution for connecting, triggering, acquiring and analysing single-shot or repetitive high-speed signals on multiple channels to customers whose designs push technology limits and compete for fast delivery in the marketplace".
"Companies needing to stay abreast of market pressures for producing the latest technology need to have the most advanced tools", said Laurie Balch, Principal Analyst for Gartner Dataquest.
"For design engineers, oscilloscopes are a fundamental requirement for producing leading-edge electronics.
Customers understand that it is not only banner specifications but also the overall system capabilities and performance that lead to enhanced productivity.
It is a key requirement for leading-edge oscilloscopes to provide both top banner specifications and exceptional signal integrity and fidelity to meet the exacting requirements of high-end product design and test.
Oscilloscopes must quickly and reliably characterise, debug and analyse the fastest and most complex signals that drive today's technologies".
The TDS6000B Series consists of the TDS6804B and TDS6604B, featuring bandwidths of 8 and 6GHz, respectively.
With the TDS6804B, the user can select between 7GHz analogue bandwidth and an 8GHz digital signal processing (DSP) enhancement.
The bandwidth choice provides customers with both the high analogue bandwidth needed to capture today's high-speed signals as well as the magnitude and phase compensation of DSP needed to preserve the best signal amplitude and integrity at full sample rate.
Each model includes 20Gsample/s on all four channels, and up to 32Mbyte record concurrently on all four channels.
The combination of attributes across all channels in the TDS6804B enables rise-time measurements down to 35ps (20 to 80%) with DSP turned on and capturing 1.6ms time windows at full sample rate.
The TDS6000B Series is the only oscilloscope with up to 8GHz bandwidth via user-selectable DSP boost, combined with simultaneous 20Gsample/s and 32MByte record length on all channels.
The TDS6000B features a unique Pinpoint triggering feature using a dual A- and B-triggering system that allows over 1400 trigger combinations.
For customers who need to "zero in" on fault conditions in debug applications and specific waveform areas of interest for signal integrity and data acquisition applications, the new TDS6000B enables them to quickly isolate, capture and analyse events of interest using a unique dual triggering system that allows both A- and B-triggers to be mixed and qualified into almost any sequential logic combination.
The dual trigger combinations offered by the Tektronix TDS6000B Pinpoint triggering system give the user the ultimate flexibility in triggering on high-speed digital signals, enabling even the most elusive events to be captured.
Pinpoint triggering provides ultra-low trigger jitter (less than 1.5ps) and captures glitches less than 200ps wide for capturing events of interest with industry-leading accuracy.
It supports the full 7GHz analogue performance of the TDS6804B for all trigger modes, and it is the only triggering system that provides full capabilities and flexibility on both A- and B-triggers with high accuracy and at such high speed.
In addition to the A-trigger, some advanced oscilloscopes give the user flexibility to use B-triggering to capture an event of interest after a specified delay time or number of events.
However, in these systems the B-event could only be qualified by an edge trigger, and the oscilloscope would wait indefinitely for the B-event to occur.
With the dual triggering offered by Pinpoint triggering, both A- and B-events can be fully qualified with a suite of trigger types including edge, glitch, width, timeout, runt, transition, window, and setup/hold.
Pinpoint triggering provides the highest performance, broadest selection of trigger types and the most flexible range of choices, qualifiers and parameters, previously not available in any oscilloscope on the market.
The new P7380SMA active differential probe, the world's first 8GHz differential probe, is an active differential signal acquisition system designed specifically to bring the TDS6804B's full-bandwidth performance to the test point.
This entirely new probing platform is based on the latest silicon-germanium (7HP SiGe) process, and enables the capture of full acquisition performance on all channels, providing maximum signal fidelity with minimum loading.
This SiGe process incorporates a high-performance bipolar device optimised for high-speed or low-power applications.
"The P7380SMA probe from Tektronix is an excellent example of the commercial use of IBM's BiCMOS 0.18um silicon-germanium (7HP SiGe) technology", said James Doyle, Vice President, Foundry Manufacturing Services, IBM Technology Group.
"Tektronix has found that our SiGe technology is well suited for testing applications such as probes and scopes and provides a competitive advantage".
The P7380SMA is the first in a series of high-bandwidth differential input probes that will offer customers a range of solutions for next-generation product design, debug, and compliance testing.
Tektronix plans to deliver a new member of the P7300 differential active probe family in mid-2004 using the same 7HP SiGe ASIC that supports the full bandwidth of the oscilloscope and features convenient attachment to the device under test for multiple use cases. Request a free brochure from Tektronix ...
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