SiGe technology gives real-time scopes 4-GHz bandwidth.(Product Announcement)

EDN, June, 2000 by Strassberg, Dan

IF DSOs--ESPECIALLY HIGH-END DSOs--matter to you, news of Tektronix's TDS7000 series should grab your attention. Tektronix used silicon-germanium (SiGe) IC technology in the top-of-the-line model's input amplifier and sampler to achieve a 5G-sample/ sec/channel acquisition rate and 4-GHz analog bandwidth. The bandwidth is unprecedented in a mass-produced, general-purpose scope.

The three members of the family feature acquisition memory as deep as 32M samples/sec when you devote all four channels' resources to one signal. They also include an open Microsoft Windows-based user interface. To access the operating system and run Word, Excel, or even certain games, you needn't modify the scope application or perform operations the vendor frowns upon. This...

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