LeCroy Announces Industry's Fastest Real-Time Oscilloscope

LeCroy Corporation introduces the SDA 18000, a true breakthrough in signal analysis that delivers the industry’s highest bandwidth—18 GHz—as well as the highest sampling rate (60 GS/s) and longest memory (up to 150 million points) combination available in a real-time test instrument. A real-time serial data analyzer based on the industry’s most advanced digital oscilloscope platform, the SDA 18000 brings all the power and analysis capability of LeCroy’s industry leading SDA family to electrical serial data signals that operate at the highest data rates currently in development.

LeCroy also announces the introduction of the SDA 9000, which offers many of the same performance benefits of the SDA 18000 for applications requiring only 9 GHz bandwidth.

The SDA 18000 has sufficient bandwidth to allow real-time measurements of the fastest serial data standards entering active development today, including 10 Gb/s Ethernet, and Fibre Channel 8.5. Previously, serial data measurements and jitter analysis of these signals could only be made with a sampling oscilloscope, a technique which has several limitations. Capturing the data stream in real time with multiple points per transition edge allows the SDA 18000 to recover the embedded clock and phase lock to it, for precise jitter measurements. Complete breakdown of jitter composition is possible, even with non-repeating or “live” data. Sampling at 60 GS/s assures excellent waveform capture fidelity and the 150 million point memory allows the capture of long serial data patterns, which is necessary to locate the sources of low frequency jitter modulation or spread spectrum clocked data.Engineers and technicians who would like to know more can visit the LeCroy web site at http://www.lecroy.com/ProductPress/FY06/050306.asp?news_id=857&menuid=40.

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