30-GHz digital oscilloscope lets users design faster data links — LeCroy

30-GHz digital oscilloscope lets users design faster data links — LeCroy

The WaveMaster 830 Zi digital oscilloscope is the first to achieve a real-time bandwidth of 30 GHz, the highest real-time bandwidth available in the world. Introduced in January 2009, the scope held onto its leadership position throughout the year; competitors have not yet been able to come close to its bandwidth performance. The scope not only lets design engineers verify, test, and debug buses based on today’s highest-speed serial data standards, such as SAS/SATA 6, PCIe Gen3, HDMI 1.3, and USB 3.0, but it opens the door for even-higher-speed buses in the future.

The scope’s performance is made possible by a patented technology: Digital Bandwidth Interleaving. DBI uses RF hardware to down-convert high-frequency bands, pass them simultaneously with the lower-frequency bands through separate front-end amplifiers and ADCs, then recombine the high and low bands using DSP. The advantage of this method is that the front-end amplifiers are always operating comfortably in their rated frequency range, and there is no impact on electrical noise or signal fidelity.

Also worthy of note are the instrument’s exceptional responsiveness, 10 to 100 times faster processing throughput, large 15.3-in., 16:9 high-definition touchscreen display, and both 50-Ω / 1-MΩ input capability, all of which combine to provide deeper insight, faster debug, and more efficient validation.

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