Articles Tagged with ''Oscilloscope''

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Check out this article from Mike Hertz that details specifically how The Track measurement operator on oscilloscopes can be used to identify timing issues.

Read on for a way to combine a BERT and an oscilloscope for actual-time error detection and characterization.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced the first oscilloscope with eight analog channels at 6 GHz and 16 simultaneous digital channels, enabling customers to reduce test bench and workflow complexity to achieve higher performance as well as accurate and repeatable multi-channel measurements in a single instrument. 

“There are two kinds of engineer, those who are building antennas on purpose and those who are not doing it on purpose.” Every oscilloscope ships with at least two 10x probes. They are ubiquitous in every lab. But they have a significant problem above 10 MHz, unless care is taken. In some cases, we can turn this problem into a feature.

Obtaining accurate measurement data requires either accurate knowledge and accounting for the probe and fixture influence OR calibration methodology to remove these effects prior to measurement.

Since an oscilloscope and phase noise analyzer observe jitter differently, obtaining the same value from both instruments can be challenging. This article presents a phase-noise based methodology that provides similar values as time-interval error jitter derived from an oscilloscope.

Eric Bogatin explores just how much better the sine wave is from a more expensive function generator compared to the lower cost units. He asks the question: Just how much bang do you get for your buck? Read on to see how he does it.