Extended sampling oscilloscope range add to professional, low-cost series

Saelig Company has launched four new members of Pico Technology's PicoScope 9300 family of sampling oscilloscopes. With up to 25GHz bandwidth, the PicoScope 9300 series meets telecommunications and digital applications of 10Gb/s and higher, microwave applications up to 25GHz, and timing applications with a resolution down to 64fs. New models succeed the preceding 9200 Series 12GHz models, with significantly improved specifications at lower prices. The 9301-15 gives the advantages of two channels at 15GHz bandwidth and a prescaled trigger to 14GHz. The 9301-15 gives a 16-bit sampling rate of 1MS/s for fast-update eye-diagrams, histogramming, persisted traces, and statistical analysis. Its equivalent sampling rate extends to 15TS/s with a time resolution of just 64fs. The 9302 15 version includes a Clock Recovery trigger to 11.3Gb/s, with RMS jitter typically down to 1.0ps + 1% of data interval. For single-ended Time Domain Transmission and Time Domain Reflection measurements, the 9311-15 version is a meaningful upgrade to its predecessor model 9211 for cable, component, PCB impedance, backplane, transmission characterisation, and network analysis. And at 20GHz, the Model 9311-20 supports fully-differential and deskewable TDR/TDT measurements. All 9300 models can be paired with the PG900 standalone fast pulse generators to achieve similar TDR/TDT capability. The 9300 family is also compatible with the company’s low-invasive PicoConnect 900 passive probes, capable of probing signals to 9GHz or 18Gb/s without interrupting downstream functionality. Pico Technology has also created the 25GHz Model 9302-25 which adds 11.3Gb/s clock recovery. This supports 5th harmonic assessments at data rates to 10Gb/s, and16Gb/s at the 3rd harmonic when a clock or sub-clock is available.