New lowest-noise oscilloscope
Agilent Technologies has released the Agilent Infiniium 80000B Series with superior signal integrity and probing, redefining signal integrity performance and investment protection for multi-gigahertz-bandwidth oscilloscopes.
The 80000B Series is the industry's lowest-noise oscilloscope and is the industry's only bandwidth-upgradeable series.
"Agilent not only delivers industry-leading oscilloscope performance, but also uses its extensive technology base to provide superior signal integrity and probing and analysis software for the designer's specific application," said David Churchill, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Design Validation Division.
"In addition, Agilent is redefining the investment paradigm for multi-gigahertz oscilloscopes by offering the industry's only bandwidth-upgradeable series of oscilloscopes."
Superior signal integrity comes from Agilent's RF design expertise, proprietary packaging technologies and unique CMOS ADC architecture. This is shown by the extremely low noise floor of the oscilloscopes.
The higher the bandwidth of an oscilloscope, the more subject it is to increased intrinsic noise. Higher levels of intrinsic noise will degrade every measurement the oscilloscope makes.
The oscilloscope that makes the best measurement will not be the one with the higher bandwidth but the one with sufficient bandwidth that has the lowest intrinsic noise floor.
Each model of the Infiniium 80000B series offers the industry's lowest noise floor at its particular bandwidth.
Additional signal integrity advantages of the series include the industry's lowest jitter measurement floor, lowest trigger jitter, and flattest frequency response.
The ultra-high-speed digital electronics market and related RF electronics market are rapidly changing. Signal rates of popular industry standards range from a few hundred megahertz to multi-gigahertz, such as USB 2.0 at 480 megabits per second, PCI Express at 2.5 gigabits per second, and fully buffered DIMM (FBD) at 4.8 gigabits per second.
Rise-times of each key standard range from a few hundred picoseconds to faster than 50 picoseconds. An oscilloscope suitable for this year's application may not have sufficient performance for next year's application.
The unique bandwidth upgradeability of the Infiniium 80000B Series allows engineers to select the appropriate bandwidth needed for their particular application today, then upgrade oscilloscope performance as the next project moves on to more advanced technology.
Agilent's award-winning Infiniium oscilloscopes have been further enhanced via the addition of a touch-screen, an XGA resolution display, a front-panel USB port, and a higher-performance CPU system for even faster display and measurement execution.
The Infiniium 80000B Series incorporates next-generation MegaZoom technology pioneered in Agilent's recently announced Infiniium 8000A Series and the Agilent 6000A Series oscilloscopes.
MegaZoom's 256 levels of intensity grading clearly identifies waveform anomalies that were previously invisible with earlier-model oscilloscopes. MegaZoom is always active and is not a limited oscilloscope mode.
Using the Infiniium 80000B with the Agilent InfiniiMax probing system, offering the industry's largest selection of high-speed probes, electronic designers can configure a probing system that gives unmatched performance with unrivaled usability.
Infiniium application software is available for the Infiniium 80000B Series. There are 23 application packages vital to engineers designing high-speed serial buses, RF and wireless products, and other ultra-high-speed electronics. Agilent InfiniiScan, the industry's first event identification software, is now part of the selection that includes second-generation jitter analysis, serial data analysis with 8b/10b decoding, and compliance test packages for standards such as USB 2.0, PCI Express, Ethernet, DVI, HDMI, Fibre Channel, FBD, DDR and SATA, and SAS. Agilent is committed to offering the industry's largest selection of application software.
26-May-2006