Tektronix announces a 'revolutionary' oscilloscope that provides engineers designing high-speed digital systems with advanced debug and analysis capabilities
Building on five decades of experience in the test and measurement of electronic signals, Tektronix says its technical leadership is, once again, at the forefront of innovation in the computer and communication industries.
The TDS6604 digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) - the world's fastest at 6 gigahertz (GHz) - is Tektronix' second generation, high-performance silicon germanium (SiGe) instrument.
With this introduction, Tektronix is poised to enable the transition from wide parallel bus architecture to narrow, point-to-point, serial bus architecture with gigabit data rates.
The TDS6604 gives customers the necessary performance to confront a higher level of signal integrity issues in next-generation digital designs along with a suite of tools to accelerate their products' development.
Implementing serial bus architecture made popular for more than two decades in the telecommunications industry, computer and data communication design engineers are increasingly challenged by faster signals, tighter timing tolerances and other signal integrity problems that arise from the analogue behavior of digital signals.
Featuring an unparalleled sample rate of 20 gigasamples per second (GS/s) on two channels simultaneously, Tektronix's new oscilloscope offers the latest evolution in enabling digital design engineers to rapidly and effectively pinpoint faults in emerging high-speed serial bus architectures such as InfiniBand, RapidIO, 3GIO,and HyperTransport.
"The TDS6604 - the worlds fastest oscilloscope, enables our customers to address their most demanding digital design challenges", said Colin Shepard, vice president, oscilloscope product line, Tektronix.
"Its 6GHz bandwidth eclipses the benchmark set over a year ago by the TDS7404, clearly affirming Tektronix' position as the market leader in high-performance oscilloscopes."
