Oscilloscope's Real-Time Processing Hardware Enables Fast, Accurate Measurements

July 8, 2022

The R&S RTP high-performance oscilloscope combines high-class signal integrity with a fast acquisition rate. A customized front-end ASIC and real-time processing hardware helps deliver rapid-fire, highly accurate measurements.

Alix Paultre

Related To: Electronic Design

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The R&S RTP high-performance oscilloscope from Rohde & Schwarz combines high-class signal integrity with a fast acquisition rate. A customized front-end ASIC and real-time processing hardware enable quick, highly accurate measurements in a compact form factor.

Front-end components offer an expandable oscilloscope platform from 4 to 16 GHz. Dedicated acquisition and processing ASICs make possible an acquisition and processing rate of 750,000 waveforms/s. The 3 Gpoints/channel allow for long acquisition periods. The high-precision digital trigger can catch the smallest signal anomalies and operate with hardware-based clock data recovery (CDR) on embedded clock signals at an industry-leading data rate of 16 Gb/s, according to R&S.

The R&S RTP is presented as the first oscilloscope that compensates impairment of signal contacting in real-time while maintaining a high acquisition rate. Hardware-based compensation filters are configured with user-applied S-parameters. The real-time math module, directly after the compensation filters, makes it possible to trigger even on de-embedded differential and common-mode signals.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.