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Fully-Integrated Optical Communications Test Platforms
18 March 2020 - Tektronix and Coherent Solutions announced an exclusive partnership agreement to provide fully-integrated optical communications platforms in support of the growing global demand for communications across the telecom, datacom, defense/aerospace, and semiconductor markets.
Differential WiFi Oscilloscopes with up to 16 Bit Resolution
16 March 2020 - TiePie engineering introduced two new members of the high resolution WiFiScope series oscilloscopes. The new WiFiScopes mark a new, innovative development of TiePie engineering: the first and industry’s only WiFi connected oscilloscopes with differential inputs. Available are two models with 4 channels: WiFiScope WS4 DIFF (50 MHz bandwidth) and WiFiScope WS6 DIFF (250 MHz bandwidth).
USB Oscilloscope: 8 analog + 16 digital Channels + flexible Resolution
24 February 2020 – Pico Technology announced the PicoScope 6000E Series FlexRes oscilloscopes, featuring 8 channels with 500 MHz bandwidth, 16 digital channels, and resolution of 8, 10 or 12 bits. The products work with PicoScope 6 application software, which takes full advantage of the latest PC performance and display capabilities, showing clean, crisp waveforms on screens of any size and resolution.
Rapid Validation of Timing Solutions in Wireless and High-Speed Design
10 February 2020 - Keysight Technologies and Silicon Labs announced a collaboration that streamlines the validation of timing solutions critical in the development of system-level designs for wireless communications, high-speed digital, medical imaging and automotive applications. The new solutions allows a quickly and cost-effectively characterization of the performance of clocks and oscillators.
Measuring Power Supply Noise Rejection in Oscillators
03 February 2020 – Epson and Rohde & Schwarz developed a test procedure for measuring power supply noise rejection to bring clarity and precision to real-world signal integrity design challenges. The companies demonstrated the procedure and summarized data from Epson’s SG3225EEN low noise differential crystal oscillator measured by the R&S FSWP phase noise analyzer from Rohde & Schwarz at DesignCon 2020 in January.
First Electrical Test Solution for USB4
30 January 2020 – Teledyne LeCroy announceed the QualiPHY USB4 Electrical Transmitter (Tx) and Receiver (Rx) Compliance Test Software (QPHY-USB4-TX-RX) for its LabMaster 10 Zi-A and WaveMaster/SDA 8 Zi-B oscilloscopes used in conjunction with Anritsu’s Signal Quality Analyzer-R (SQA-R) MP1900A BERT. This announcement follows Teledyne LeCroy’s shipment of the first (and only) USB4 Protocol Analyzer in September of 2019.
New Approach for Signal Integrity Debugging
27 January 2020 - A new approach helps development engineers gain more insight into the individual jitter components of their transmission interface. Now they can separate jitter into its random and deterministic components and view results flexibly for effective debugging. The Rohde & Schwarz decomposition algorithm uses a parametric signal model for accurate measurements and additional result representations.
Oscilloscope Basics |
10 Tips for selecting an Oscilloscope
The oscilloscope is one of the most important tools used in the design, repair and maintenance of electronics. Nevertheless the selection of the right type and configuration for your application is not an easy task. We listed some important points to consider.
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Precision Phase Noise Measurement Technique - Part 2
In the first part of this article a simple phase noise measurement technique with a resolution of 10 ps was explained. There are other techniques, which could enhance the performance of the measurement to sub-picoseconds. That is the subject of this article.
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