TDR/TDT sampling oscilloscope capable to 12GHz

Designed for time-domain reflectometry (TDR) and time-domain transmission (TDT), the PicoScope 9211A TDR/TDT Sampling Oscilloscope provides a low-cost method of analyzing cables, connectors, circuit boards and IC packages. The PicoScope 9211A works by stimulating the device under test using its two independently programmable, 100ps rise-time step generators. It then uses its 12GHz sampling inputs to build up a picture from a sequence of reflected or transmitted pulses. The results can be displayed as volts, ohms or reflection coefficient against time or distance.

The PicoScope 9211A can also be used for mask limit testing of a wide range of communications standards including SONET/SDH, Fibre Channel, Ethernet, InfiniBand 2.5G and 5.0G, XAUI, ITU G.703, ANSI T1/102, RapidIO 1.25G and 3.125G, G.984.2, PCI Express 2.5G and 5.0G, and Serial ATA 1.5G and 3.0G. The instrument has three trigger inputs—a DC to 1GHz direct trigger, a 1GHz to 10GHz prescaled trigger and a 12.3Mbps to 2.7Gbps clock-recovery trigger—as well as a 10Gbps pattern sync trigger for averaging eye diagrams.

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