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Test equipment leader Tektronix has introduced a new range of Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes (DPOs). Dubbed the DPO7000 series, they are based upon new hardware that eliminates the trade-offs between sample rate, record length and waveform capture rate.

"All digital oscilloscopes have had to make difficult design trade-offs to keep pace with the latest technologies," said Colin Shepard, Vice President, Performance Oscilloscopes, Tektronix. "With the real-time DPO7000, Tektronix has eliminated these trades-offs and is able to provide full real-time performance, deep memory, and fast waveform capture rate."

The 500 MHz DPO7054, 1 GHz DPO7104, and 2.5 GHz DPO7254 models share a new generation platform that makes broad use of IBM7HP silicon germanium (SiGe) technology.

The DPO7254 provides sample rates of 10 GS/sec on four channels, with 4X real-time oversampling on four channels simultaneously and up to 16X on one channel, wile the DPO7054 and DPO7104 support 40X oversampling on one channel and 10X on four channels simultaneously. The DPO7054 and DPO7104 support deep record lengths to 200M while the DPO7254 supports 400M.