Agilent Korea (CEO and President Yoon Deok-kwon) announced the launch of the industry's highest-performance mixed-signal oscilloscope (MSO) and the expansion of the Infiniium 90000 X-Series oscilloscope product family. This new product announcement includes not only six new mixed-signal oscilloscope models but also the addition of 13 GHz digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) and dynamic signal analyzer (DSA) models to the X-Series.

The newly introduced MSO models provide analog bandwidths ranging from 70 MHz to 33 GHz, operate 60% faster than existing high-performance MSOs with 20 GSA/s in a robustly integrated 8-channel digital configuration, and can acquire logic data with 10 GSA/s in a 16-channel configuration. Additionally, through 13 GHz DSO and DSA and MSO models, the Infiniium 90000 X-Series, featuring the industry's lowest noise and jitter measurement floors, can be introduced at a more affordable price.

"As system speeds increase, oscilloscope performance suitable for additional digital channels and analog scope bandwidth is becoming a critical factor in customers' measurement insights," said Agilent Korea. "By using Agilent's fastest MSO and true analog bandwidth of up to 33 GHz simultaneously, new technologies such as DDR4-3200 can be easily debugged and verified."

Unlike other companies' MSOs, the Agilent Infiniium 90000 X-Series MSO provides up to 400 megapoints of data capture memory per digital channel. This memory length is automatically adjusted to match the analog signal capture time within a maximum of 2 Gpts memory to compensate for the difference in sample rates between high-speed analog channels and digital mixed-signal oscilloscope channels, and can simultaneously capture specific signals that are difficult to measure over a long period of time as analog and digital type signals.

In addition, a special DDR trigger execution mode has been added to the new MSO to perform read/write separation and data eye alignment for very fast memory channels such as DDR3, which are equipped with complex signal analysis conditions, and users can add MSO functions at any time by providing an N2834A upgrade kit.

In addition, adding MSO creates 16 additional high-speed digital channels available for measurement, thereby securing the analog channels of the oscilloscope that were always in short supply for protocol error measurement. This enables the verification of analog signals while simultaneously confirming protocol compliance through protocol verification on digital channels in applications requiring multi-channel measurements, such as DDR.

In addition, MSO uses the same 90-pin connector as Agilent's logic analyzer, enabling the extensive use of probing accessories such as 17-channel differential/single-ended soft-touch connectorless probes, 17-channel differential/single-ended flying lead sets, 17-channel differential/single-ended Samtec connectors, and specialized DDR interposer probing technology.