Big range from budget to bandwidth
25 June 2009
Agilent has launched a whole suite of new test products this spring, principally oscilloscopes, intended to meet customers’ requirements for functionality and affordability. New products include the lower budget 1000 series of DSOs, the 86100C digital communications analyser, latest additions to the InfiniVision 7000 Series mixed signal scopes along with its new generation 9000 series, and family of miniature passive probes. The spotlight really falls on either end of the oscilloscope range, the 1000 and 9000, as these two are totally new series to the Agilent portfolio.
The DSO 1000 is a new range of economy scopes that comprises six models starting at just over £700. They are available with two or four channels, and each comes in a package that is just 12.7 cm deep and weighs less than 3.4 kg. With up to 20 kpts of memory per channel, the 1000 Series allows engineers to use the full sample rate of the scope up to 8x longer than other scopes in its class
All 1000 Series oscilloscopes can display 23 automatic measurements – up to 21 simultaneously – including measurements from a built-in six-digit counter. They are also the only name-brand economy scopes with sequence mode capability to help find elusive problems. Engineers can record and replay up to 1,000 occurrences of a trigger for easy identification of glitches and other anomalies.
As an aid to productivity, the 1000 Series comes standard with go/no-go mask testing capability, which allows even inexperienced oscilloscope users to perform precise parametric tests. USB connections and IntuiLink connectivity software, which are standard features, make it easy to share and document measurement results.
Pride of place, however, goes to the 9000 Series, the eventually successor to the 800 series, which Agilent claims has both the broadest measurement capability (up to 4 GHz bandwidths for analogue) along with the biggest display (15 inch).
The Windows-based 9000 series is also claimed to be the first to offer integrated logic analysis channels and a protocol analyzer viewer for buses such as PCIe and USB. Having these as integrated features extends the scopes functionality and makes the test of complex designs easier.
Along with the analogue bandwidth, the Infinium 9000 claims the fastest integrated digital channels running at 2 GSa/s. This combination provides a rich set of mixed signal oscilloscope trigger conditions for more accurate analysis of timing relationships between control signals and data buses. There is also a broad suite of debug and compliance application software and the scopes can be customized with a number of software options. Supported application packages give engineers meaningful insight into common serial buses, FPGAs and RF measurements, and allow for rapid compliance testing to industry standards. 25 optional applications are available.
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