In this episode Shahriar reviews the recently announced Tektronix (DPO718AX) Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope. With up to 125GS/s sampling rate, 25GHz bandwidth per channel & deep memory, the new Tektronix platform should make for some interesting teardown & experiments:
https://www.tek.com/en/products/oscilloscopes/7-series-dpo
This comprehensive review is organized as follows:
00:00:00 – Introductions & review outline
00:01:08 – Oscilloscope overview, interfaces & specifications
00:08:03 – Detailed teardown, architecture overview, chipsets, backplane, sub-systems
00:36:03 – FastFrame performance, deep-memory, pulse-capture, orthogonal averaging
00:46:53 – SignalVu, 10Gbe SFP+ interface, constellation demodulation, noise & dynamic range
01:00:51 – TekConnect, differential skew calibration capability
01:02:18 – QuietChannel modes, serial data analysis, SIM platform, eye diagrams & jitter
01:15:26 – Concluding remarks
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