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High-Bandwidth Real-Time Digital Oscilloscopes
12 May 2025 - RIGOL Technologies launched its eighth-generation digital oscilloscope — the DS80000 Series Real-Time Digital Oscilloscopes. Featuring up to 13 GHz analog bandwidth and a 40 GSa/s sampling rate, this latest addition to RIGOL’s portfolio delivers powerful high-speed signal capture and analysis capabilities, providing engineers worldwide with a reliable tool for fault isolation and validation in high-speed designs.
New 4-channel 12-bit 350 MHzHz Digital Oscilloscope Series
08 May 2025 - Saelig Company has introduced the RIGOL MHO2000 series - the new generation of four-channel high-resolution, mixed signal digital oscilloscopes based on the Centaurus platform. It offers 12-bit resolution (up to 16-bit in high-res mode), bandwidths up to 350 MHz, 4 analog channels, and 16 digital channels for debugging with an optional probe. The 200MHz MHO2024 and the 350MHz MHO2034 oscilloscopes are designed with 2GSa/s sampling rate all channels at 12-bit vertical resolution, with a waveform capture rate of up to 1,000,000 wfms/s. Internal memory of up to 500 Mpts allows for drilling down to fine details in waveform captures. An integrated 2-channel 50MHz AWG is also optionally available.
10BASE-T1S Compliance and Trigger & Decode Solution
30 April 2025 - Rohde & Schwarz is accelerating the development of the new automotive Ethernet variant 10BASE-T1S by offering compliance and trigger & decode options. Rohde & Schwarz worked with Analog Devices (ADI) to use the R&S MXO 4 and 5 series oscilloscope with the R&S MXOx-K560 option to decode the 10BASE-T1S communication. The 10BASE-T1S Ethernet to Edge Bus, named E2B, from ADI provides a low complexity, high flexibility edge node implementation for automotive applications. The oscilloscope, renowned for its fast update rate and deep memory, is proficient in capturing, triggering and decoding packets quickly as well as capturing both the big picture and smallest details of electrical signals with unparalleled accuracy. It is also able to detect intermittent faults in the communication bus with fast acquisitions.
Pico Technology launched new Version of PicoScope Software
25 April 2025 - Pico Technology has released PicoScope 7.1.50 Test & Measurement – the latest stable version of the software. The software extends measurement capabilities for all PicoScope users and improves speed and responsiveness of the software in several areas through code optimization and core technology enhancements. Features previously deployed in Early Access versions of the software have now been promoted to “stable,” and bug fixes have been made where required.
224 Gb/s Sampling Oscilloscopes for optical Transceiver Testing
31 March 2025 - Keysight Technologies announced two new oscilloscopes for 1.6T optical transceiver testing: a single optical channel DCA-M and dual optical channel DCA-M Sampling Oscilloscopes. Designed to deliver the highest optical measurement sensitivity and integrated clock recovery up to 120 GBaud, the instruments specifically target the rigorous demands of 1.6T transceiver optical testing and manufacturing of next-generation optical interconnects for data centers AI clusters.
Isolated Probing Technology for Fast-Switching Power Devices
13 March 2025 - Keysight Technologies developed an optically isolated differential probing family dedicated to enhancing efficiency and performance testing of fast-switching devices such as wide bandgap GaN and SiC semiconductors. The new voltage probes will be displayed at Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) 2025 in Keysight’s booth (#829) along with Keysight’s MXR B and HD3 series of oscilloscopes.
10 Tips for selecting Oscilloscopes
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03 March 2025 - Oscilloscopes are among the most important tools for developers and engineers working in 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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- 25 GHz sampler-extended Real-time Oscilloscope
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Oscilloscope Probes – Vital Link in the Measurement Chain
Signal measurement results can only be as accurate as the test and measurement tools in use. As clock rates and edge speeds of today’s electronic circuits increase, probing becomes a critical piece of the measurement system – the component that comes in direct contact with your circuit. This article looks at voltage probing considerations for embedded system and digital design debugging applications.
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A simple method to verify the bandwidth of your probe
In oscilloscopes or oscilloscope probes, bandwidth is a measure of the width of a range of frequencies measured in Hertz. Specifically, bandwidth is specified as the frequency at which a sinusoidal input signal is attenuated to 70.7 percent of its original amplitude, also known as the -3 dB point. Most oscilloscope companies design the scope/probe response to be as flat as possible throughout its specified frequency range, and most customers simply rely on the specified bandwidth of the oscilloscope or oscilloscope probes, wondering if they are indeed getting the bandwidth performance at the probe tip. Now you can use these step-by-step instructions to simply measure and verify the bandwidth of your probe with an oscilloscope you may already have.