Infiniium 90008 series low-profile oscilloscope/digitisers

Agilent has expanded its digital storage oscilloscope and digitiser portfolio with three new low-profile models in the Infiniium 90008 series.

These hybrid instruments are claimed to offer the highest channel density available in ultra-high-performance oscilloscope/digitisers, with eight channels that deliver digitising rates of 40 GSa/s and bandwidths from 8 to 13 GHz - all in a 7U-high package.

Engineers and scientists working in high-energy physics or radar rely on the ultra-high-speed digitising capability of high-performance oscilloscopes to make accurate measurements on single shot phenomena.

This 90008 series, with twice the channel density of traditional oscilloscopes, allows researchers to use the instruments individually or combine multiple units to deploy systems with hundreds of channels of measurement capability.

Benefits of the series include: low noise floor at 40 GSa/s. Full-bandwidth probing solutions and accurate de-embedding and equalisation capabilities ensure accuracy for bandwidths of 13 GHz and below; fast offload speeds and compatibility with industry-standard computation packages: users may offload data for custom analysis on their PCs using an optional high-speed PCIe bus card to transfer data at sustained rates up to 150 MBps; dual onboard PCs and off-the-shelf software: each eight-channel module has two PCs that run application software and provide standard I/O functionality. In addition, custom IDA (Infiniium data accelerator) hardware on the acquisition boards speeds measurements requiring filtering and maths algorithms. Up to 1 Gpt of memory per channel supports long time-capture.