Sampling oscilloscope breaks measurement barriers

Said to be the only single-ended and differential clock recovery system covering all current and emerging serial data standards between 50Mbit/s and 12.6Gbit/s

Tektronix has introduced a modular sampling oscilloscope, the TDS8200.

The company also introduced the 82A04 phase reference module, which will enable design engineers to characterise and validate performance of leading-edge products.

The new oscilloscope can be configured to provide bandwidth to 70GHz, and is said to be the only single-ended and differential clock recovery system covering all current and emerging serial data standards between 50Mbit/s and 12.6Gbit/s.

The TDS8200 offers a claimed industry-best system jitter of less than 200 femtoseconds (RMS) at these data rates.

The TDS8200 enables designs with tighter tolerances to be achieved, thus reducing costs and increasing component performance.

Characterising serial data signals with embedded clocks has historically been a significant challenge.

Electrical signal standards such as Xaui at 3.125 Gbit/s and 2x Xaui at 6.25 Gbit/s require instruments that can acquire these complex signals at ultra-fast data rates and that can be used for precise characterisation.

Designs with limited jitter budgets and tight timing margins require the test equipment with the best signal fidelity and ability to provide accurate and repeatable results.

To handle differential signals, test equipment must be flexible enough to provide true differential acquisition and clock recovery across multiple data rates.

The new TDS8200 sampling oscilloscope meets these needs, says Tektronix.

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