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Tektronix has introduced its new DPO70000 Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope (DPO) and DSA70000 Digital Serial Analyzer (DSA), which extend the real-time DPO performance platform recently introduced with the DPO7000. Included with the new series is high-end functionality found previously only on the TDS6000C, the world’s fastest multi-channel real-time oscilloscope. These new 4-GHz, 6-GH, and 8-GHz instruments are suitable for data acquisition, debug, validation and compliance testing.

The 4-GHz DPO70404, 6-GHz DPO70604 and 8-GHz DPO70804 instruments provide the bandwidth and performance to meet the needs for a broad range of high-speed digital design applications. The 4-GHz DSA70404, 6-GHz DSA70604 and 8-GHz DSA70804 models are suitable for the first generation of high-speed multi-lane and multi-layer serial bus applications. For example, the 8-GHz DSA70804 model captures the fifth harmonic of the highest frequency clock for these first generation high-speed serial standards—this is especially useful for compliance testing of buses up to 3.125 Gb/s,such as PCI-Express, SATA and XAUI.

With a sample rate of 25 GS/s on all four channels simultaneously, the new models are said to provide the fastest 4-channel sample rate performance of any oscilloscope available. User-selectable DSP for channel-to-channel and scope-to-scope matching ensures consistent results for multi-lane measurements. The DPO70804 and DSA70804 exhibit rise times of 35 picosecond (typical) and provide a jitter noise floor down to 400 femtosecond_rms (typical) for critical jitter measurements. Each DPO70000 model includes 10M memory standard per channel while the DSA70000 provides 20M standard per channel. All models include a 12.1-inch XGA display.
U.S. list prices for the 4-GHz DPO70404 begin at $44,000. DSA70000 Digital Serial Analyzer models begin at $49,500.