Digital Storage Oscilloscopes

Real-time oscilloscopes are now commonly called digital storage oscilloscopes (DSOs). Most oscilloscopes sold today are real-time scopes. Real-time scopes come in bandwidths that range from a few megahertz to tens of gigahertz.

Oscilloscopes are commonly used for

  • Testing, measuring and analyzing the characteristics of power conversion devices, circuits, and line-power harmonics.
  • Analyzing digital data signals in serial formats such as USB, SCSI, Ethernet, Serial ATA, Fiber Channel, FireWire, Rapid I/O, InfiniBand, Bluetooth and CAN Bus.
  • Characterizing and debugging signal jitters and noise in high bandwidths.
  • Testing data storage devices and performing clock timing and data stream analysis.
  • Detecting faults and variations and troubleshooting with measurement and analysis of parameters such as voltage, impedance, frequency, signal distortion, noise, timing, and more.

FemtoScope

More recently, if you needed an oscilloscope with a bandwidth of more than 5 GHz, you had to accept the need for significant financial costs. The FemtoScope models set a new price/performance ratio standard for gigahertz frequency USB oscilloscopes.

These single-, dual- or four-channel instruments, having a bandwidth of 5 or 16 GHz and triggering over the entire frequency range, provide the acquisition, display, measurement and analysis of complex waveforms in the range from picoseconds to hundreds of seconds.

Being a direct alternative to traditional benchtop oscilloscopes, these instruments are portable, and maybe even miniature, and, what is extremely important, they have an incomparably lower cost. Economical prices make the FemtoScope Series preferred for teaching basic scientific and engineering measurements at lab stations in schools and universities. Features normally only found on much higher priced scopes equip the FemtoScope Series to be a powerful choice for R&D applications.

  • 1, 2 or 4 channels configuration.
  • The industry’s widest 5 or 16 GHz USB oscilloscope bandwidths available to match your measurement application,
  • The industry’s lowest 1.5 ps rms typical intrinsic jitter for USB oscilloscope.
  • 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter with 500 MSa/s real time sampling rate per channel.
  • The industry’s highest equivalent time sampling rate up to 5 TSa/s for USB oscilloscope.
  • 10 ps/div fastest time base scale.
  • Up to 16 GHz trigger bandwidth enables capture and analysis wide-bandwidth complex signals.
  • Up to 11.3 Gb/s clock recovery trigger data rate.
  • Powerful SW and flexible, simple and intuitive user interface with built-in OnLine Help and demo training signals.
  • Color graded display, automatic measurements, eye diagrams, mask test, histograms, waveform mathematics, 7-digit built-in frequency counter, spectrum analysis with FFT, autoscale, store waveforms and setups.

The FemtoScope USB oscilloscopes utilize modern hardware to perform many of the functions that traditional digitizers do with software on the CPU.

Built as a single-board oscilloscope, they are controlled from a computer via USB interface. Acquisition Board includes ultra-wideband track-and-hold amplifiers, 12-bit ADCs with 500 MSa/s sampling rate, high-speed trigger circuity and timing interpolator with sub-picosecond resolution.

A state-of-the-art microprocessor, FPGA and precision clock oscillator provide structure flexibility, fast acquisition speed and effective interaction with PC.

More Information about features, SW downloads and spec sheets located in Eltesta Website.