Agilent Technologies has introduced four new high performance 100 MHz portable digital storage and mixed-signal oscilloscopes (DSOs/MSOs). With a realtime sample rate of 2 GSa/s on each channel and display update rate up to 40 times faster than competing models, the Agilent 6000 Series can now show critical events in complex waveforms, dramatically reducing design verification and debug time, according to local distributor, Concilium Technologies.
These additions to the 6000 Series also provide the industry with its first 4 channel MSO in the 100 MHz segment. They feature industry-leading waveform viewing and measurement insight for 8- and 16-bit embedded system designers in the aerospace/defence, automotive, communications and consumer electronics industries.
Exceptional waveform viewing is achieved with Agilent's MegaZoom III display technology. MegaZoom III provides users with realtime, high-resolution XGA waveform viewing with 256 levels of colour-intensity grades and memory depth up to a full 8 Meg points - Agilent claims this is 800 times more than competing models. The dynamic range in the Z-axis provides very high waveform-display quality.
Engineers face design problems that are increasingly digital in nature, more and faster signals, wider time spans and serial triggering. The portable 6000 series is thus optimised for waveform update rates and display resolution, plus it has the ability to add 16 logic-timing channels, significantly reducing debugging time.
As the complexity of embedded systems increases, hardware developers often need to isolate events of interest or view critical relationships on more than the limited number of channels available in traditional oscilloscopes. MSOs provide the integration of scope and logic-timing channels for time-aligned viewing and triggering across any or all input channels. Customers can order either a 2 or 4 channel MSO for their 100 MHz applications. Those who order a DSO 6000 Series can easily upgrade to an MSO configuration later.
Additionally, Agilent's FPGA dynamic probe for logic analysers, is fully supported by the MSO versions of the Agilent 6000 oscilloscopes. With the addition of the FPGA dynamic probe, embedded systems developers using Xilinx FPGAs in their hardware digital designs, have the ability to see inside their FPGA and correlate this internal view with events on their system with the MSO's scope and logic channels.
All Agilent 6000 Series oscilloscopes come standard with LAN, GPIB and USB interfaces as well as an additional front-panel USB port.
"The Agilent 6000 Series has been an unqualified success in the South African marketplace and the introduction of four new models in the range now provides even higher performance solutions at unbeatable prices, to a broader cross-section of designers, developers and maintainers," concludes Steve Alves, MD of Concilium Technologies.
For more information contact Steve Alves, Concilium Technologies, +27 (0)12 678 9200, [email protected]
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