By Jit Lim, February 10, 2010
A solid understanding of the basics can help with accurate jitter characterization. Here’s what you need to know to get on track.
By Staff, February 09, 2010
Handyprobe HP3 USB oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, voltmeter, and data logger capable of measuring voltages from 200 mV full scale up to 800 Vdc/566 Vac with a 10-bit resolution and a sampling rate to 100 Msamples/s
By David Maliniak, October 23, 2009
When combined with today's high-bandwidth scopes, active test probes can make a world of difference in capturing serial data streams. This Engineering Essentials article covers the basics of active probes and how they attach to DUTs.
By David Maliniak, October 23, 2009
Choosing a probe requires care. But even more care is required when using modern active test probes, which cannot be tossed casually into toolboxes. Here are some guidelines for caring for those expensive instruments.
By Shasta Thomas, March 26, 2009
Many industrial and control applications use analog current loops as the physical link for measurements and actuator control. Here's a loop-calibration circuit with high output impedance and wide 4-to-90-V compliance range.
By David Maliniak, March 19, 2009
To address the needs relative to DDR3 design and integration, Agilent is offering a comprehensive DDR3 protocol test package that will span probes and slot interposers, a high-speed logic analysis module, and compliance and analysis software tools. At the
By David Maliniak, February 24, 2009
Along with this proliferation of PCI Express technology comes an increased need for tools with which to verify compliance to the standard. Even though a given device may be compliant, that device’s behavior will vary depending on the implementation, and e
By David Maliniak, January 20, 2009
Building on last year’s WavePro 7 Zi series of oscilloscopes, LeCroy has now launched a followup. The WaveMaster 8 Zi series of digital oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers, and disk-drive analyzer are, according to LeCroy, the market’s widest in bandwidt
By David Maliniak, January 06, 2009
The L4532A two-channel and L4534A four-channel digitizers sport LXI connectivity, sampling up to 20 Msamples/s, and a robust ±250-V front end.
By Staff, October 08, 2008
Tailored for use with the company's PETracer PCI Express protocol analyzers, the Interposer Advanced Mezzanine Card promises to ease the analysis of traffic between AMC modules and their respective host systems by decreasing probing setup times. The
By Staff, October 08, 2008
Groomed as a replacement probe for high-frequency oscilloscopes, the Model CT3288RA 500-MHz, 10x fixed passive voltage probe is fully compatible with Tektronix, Agilent, and other high-end oscilloscopes having an input impedance of 1 MW, shunted by an
By Staff, October 08, 2008
Recommended for HDMI Compliance Test Specification (CTS) version 1.3b testing, the Model 5915 rise time filters specifically perform HDMI cable and sink DUT compliance testing. Also known as transition time converters, the filters are used at the