Rohde & Schwarz

Sporadic errors cost valuable time during the development of new products. Debugging protocol-based buses is especially difficult and time-consuming because the communications pauses between the individual data packets can be very long.

Accurate ripple and noise measurements on power rails require a high-bandwidth oscilloscope and a dedicated probe to perform low-noise measurements and provide the offset capability to zoom in on top of the DC voltage. The R&S^®RT-ZPR20 power rail probe as well as the R&S^®RTE and the R&S^®RTO digital oscilloscopes are excellent tools for this measurements.

The new R&S RT-ZVC02/04 multichannel power probe can measure across large current and voltage ranges without having to switch ranges, making it possible to monitor the power consumption of chipsets, radio modules and wearables such as smartwatches. When used in combination with an R&S RTE or R&S RTO oscilloscope, the current drain can be clearly correlated with analog and digital control signals, enabling developers to optimize the battery life of such wearables and wireless devices early in the development cycle.

Rohde & Schwarz has introduced the R&S RT-ZPR20, extremely low-noise power rail probe with a bandwidth of 2 GHz