BEAVERTON, Ore., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tektronix, Inc.,
the world's leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced
that lab testing has shown that its next generation performance
oscilloscopes – due for availability in 2014 – will deliver
real-time bandwidth of 70 GHz, with significant upside potential.
The new oscilloscope platform will deliver the performance and
signal fidelity needed for applications such as 400 Gbps and 1 Tbps
optical communications and fourth generation serial data
communications. Tektronix also announced an investment program that
will give customers a cost-effective migration path to the new
platform.
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The extraordinary gain in bandwidth performance, with improved
signal fidelity, is due in part to the development by Tektronix
engineers of a patent pending signal processing architecture called
Asynchronous Time Interleaving. The new real-time oscilloscope
platform will also include a number of other enhancements and
refinements to improve overall performance and measurement
precision.
"With these latest innovations, Tektronix is continuing to push
the envelope on what can be achieved in high-fidelity, high-speed
data acquisition systems," said Kevin
Ilcisin, chief technology officer, Tektronix. "The
development of the industry's first production-ready Asynchronous
Time Interleaving architecture is a significant breakthrough that
will improve signal-to-noise ratio beyond the frequency
interleaving approach used by competing oscilloscope vendors."
The limitation of frequency interleaving approaches lies in how
the various frequency ranges are added together to reconstruct the
final waveform, a step which compromises noise performance. In
traditional frequency interleaving, each analog-to-digital
converter (ADC) in the signal acquisition system only sees part of
the input spectrum. With Tektronix' new Asynchronous Time
Interleaving technology, all ADCs see the full spectrum with full
signal path symmetry. This offers the performance gains available
from interleaved architectures while preserving signal
fidelity.
Investment Protection
Over the past decade, Tektronix
has consistently anticipated the proper levels of bandwidth support
for the leading serial standards, and is an active participant in
such bodies as the IEEE Society, PCI-SIG, SATA-IO and USB-IF.
The Tektronix Performance Oscilloscope Investment Protection
Program provides customers with a cost-effective migration path to
higher-performance oscilloscopes as their needs evolve. If
interested, customers are urged to contact their Tektronix Account
Manager to discuss future migration plans.
Wondering what else Tektronix is up to? Check out the
Tektronix Bandwidth Banter blog and stay up to date on the latest
news from Tektronix on Twitter and Facebook.
About Tektronix
For more than sixty-five years,
engineers have turned to Tektronix for test, measurement and
monitoring solutions to solve design challenges, improve
productivity and dramatically reduce time to market. Tektronix is a
leading supplier of test equipment for engineers focused on
electronic design, manufacturing, and advanced technology
development. Headquartered in Beaverton,
Oregon, Tektronix serves customers worldwide and offers
award-winning service and support. Stay on the leading edge at
www.tektronix.com.
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