- Pico Technology expands its PicoScope 9400A sampling oscilloscope range to include four models covering bandwidths of 6 GHz, 16 GHz, 25 GHz, and 33 GHz.
- These modular oscilloscopes, housed in a compact enclosure, can be controlled from a PC via a USB connection.
The 33 GHz model stands out for its support for rise and fall times of less than 12 picoseconds, enabling the analysis of ultra-fast signals with the required accuracy.
All models in the range feature four channels. They digitize signals with 12-bit resolution at a sampling rate of up to 5 TS/s and offer jitter of less than 1.5 picoseconds RMS.
A clock recovery function is available as an option across the entire range of these modular oscilloscopes to generate a trigger from a received data signal when a separate trigger signal is not readily available.
These modular oscilloscopes are based on an architecture that their British manufacturer has dubbed SXRTO (Sampler-Extended Real-Time Oscilloscopes). This allows a complete image of the signal to be constructed by superimposing successive captures, similar to a sequential sampling oscilloscope. However, the SXRTO’s sampling is not synchronized with the input signal, so the captures are randomly positioned in time. Thanks to a standalone analog-to-digital converter and a trigger with a jitter of less than 1.5 ps (much more precise than the digital trigger of a conventional RTO, Pico Technology specifies), the SXRTO can achieve bandwidths comparable to those of a traditional sampling oscilloscope, while allowing data to be stored before and immediately after the trigger point. These modular oscilloscopes come with PicoSample 4 software for Windows, which offers signal visualization tools, as well as waveform measurement and analysis functions, including clock and data pulse measurements, and eye diagrams of RZ, NRZ, and PAM4 encoded data.
According to Pico Technology, these new oscilloscopes are particularly suited to semiconductor and materials research, broadband communications, and high-energy physics, where accurate waveform capture and signal integrity (SI) analysis are essential. Their compact design and PC control also facilitate their integration into automated test systems or shared lab environments.
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