Agilent Infiniium 8000 Series Oscilloscopes with MegaZoom Deep Memory

The new Infiniium 8000 Series oscilloscopes offer designers the industry's first oscilloscope with deep memory, superior signal viewing and advanced analysis.

Four digital and mixed signal models combine the best in signal viewing with patented next-generation Megazoom technology. These oscilloscopes map the industry's deepest and most responsive memory to a high-definition display system that uncovers even the most subtle details in long, complex waveforms. Megazoom technology enables designers to capture analog and digital signals over long time spans, easily view critical events and perform robust signal analysis all with a single instrument. Several memory options are available and are affordably priced to meet your performance needs and fit within your budget.

Key Features and Specifications

• 600 MHz and 1 GHz bandwidth
  
• 4 GSa/s sample rate
• 4+16 channel mixed signal oscilloscope (MSO) models available
• Up to 128 Mpts of industry-leading deep memory
• High-definition color display system with XGA resolution and 256 levels of intensity
• High performance CPU system for faster processing
• LAN, GPIB, RS-232, Parallel, PS/2, USB 2.0 and Video all standard
  

Dramatically speed debug time with MSO models

As embedded designs continue to increase in complexity with integration of higher-speed digital buses such as SDRAM and PCI, along with 16- or 32-bit processors, it becomes increasingly important for engineers to have flexible test instrumentation at their fingertips. When you need to isolate events of interest or monitor critical relationships between multiple signals, you need an instrument that is capable of viewing and triggering on more than just two or four signals at a time.

Agilent's Infiniium MSOs tightly integrate 4 channels and 16 digital channels in the same acquisition system to provide time-correlated viewing and triggering across 20 channels. Since an MSO is first and foremost an oscilloscope, no trade-offs in scope functionality are made; the instrument retains the usability and the real-time waveform capture of an oscilloscope. MSOs reduce the need for expensive multi-box solutions and can dramatically speed debug time.

Up to 128 Mpts of industry-leading deep memory

Sample rate and memory depth go hand in hand. Deep memory in oscilloscopes sustains a high sample rate over longer time spans. With up to 128 Mpts of acquisition memory, the Infiniium 8000 Series offers superior resolution when capturing long, complex waveforms. Deep memory is critically important in embedded designs implementing slow analog with fast digital, serial buses, and RF communication.

Infiniium's segmented memory acquisition mode adds additional capability to deep memory acquisition when you are capturing bursted or packetized signals. With segmented memory, only the packets of interest are captured and stored into acquisition memory for viewing and analysis - no valuable memory is consumed during periods of inactivity between packets. Coupled with 128 Mpts of acquisition memory, 1000s of packets can be captured at the oscilloscope's maximum sample rate over seconds, or even days of time. With precise time-tags on each segment, segmented memory acquisition mode effectively provides gigabytes of acquisition memory in a single, high sample rate acquisition by efficiently utilizing the real acquisition memory it has.

Megazoom Technology enables ultra-fast waveform update rates

Responsiveness and waveform update rate slow down dramatically on traditional deep memory oscilloscopes when they capture longer memory records, making them difficult and frustrating to use. The Infiniium 8000 Series oscilloscopes feature patented Megazoom technology that provides the fastest waveform update rates, even when using the deepest memory records of up to 128 Mpts. At the heart of Megazoom technology is a custom ASIC built into the acquisition system that performs data acceleration from the ADC to waveform memory and display. With Megazoom, deep memory is always available and always fast, so you never have to think about manually turning it on and incurring reduced responsiveness.

Best-in-class waveform viewing

In addition to providing the fastest, most responsive deep memory, the Infiniium 8000 Series oscilloscopes feature best-in-class waveform viewing powered by next-generation Megazoom technology. This technology supports a high-resolution XGA display system and maps the industry's deepest memory to 256 levels of color intensity grades, delivering unmatched real-time insight into signal details. Megazoom's dynamic range in the Z-axis provides designers a third-dimensional view of subtle details never before seen in an analysis-based oscilloscope. Up to this point, responsive deep memory capture, waveform analysis and superior signal viewing have not coexisted./p>

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