Product category: Stand-Alone Instruments
News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: CSA7000 Series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 November 2001
Big band for
communications signal analysers
Tektronix has unveiled a new class of communications signal analysers: the CSA7000 Series
The flagship product in the range, the CSA7404, is the first and only real-time digital oscilloscope to specifically address the design of high-speed electrical and optical systems with data rates of up to 2.5Gbit/s. The series introduces additional integrated capabilities - an optical reference receiver, clock recovery and serial triggering - that are firsts in the industry and provide single-connection convenience and unprecedented versatility.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 November 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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With industry-leading 4GHz bandwidth and a 20Gsample/s sample rate, the CSA7404 meets bandwidth requirements for 2.5 Gbit/s measurements.
Breakthrough features, such as an integrated optical/electrical (O/E) convertor and a library of optical reference receiver (ORR) filters, provide the frequency response necessary for compliance testing.
This built-in combination eliminates the need to calibrate external O/E accessories.
Broad spectral response allows users to address long- and short-wavelength applications without reconfiguration.
Two other standard features, clock recovery and a 32bit serial trigger, are also integrated.
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Clock recovery extracts a clock from the user's serial data stream, providing single-connection convenience while producing a robust eye pattern for compliance testing.
The 32bit serial trigger provides a powerful new tool for navigating through serial data streams and isolating pattern-dependent effects.
The CSA7404 delivers unmatched versatility in compliance mask testing, allowing users to select from among optical and electrical standards, such as ANSI T1.102, ITU-T G.703, SDH/SONET, Fibre Channel, Ethernet, InfiniBand, USB, Serial ATA and IEEE 1394, at rates up to 2.5Gbit/s, without any hardware changes.
The second member of the new series, the CSA7154, gives customers who don't need the blazing performance of the CSA7404 an alternative model.
With the same integrated ORR, clock recovery, and serial trigger as the top-line model, the CSA7154 is still a feature-rich instrument.
This analyser's 1.5GHz electrical bandwidth and 20Gsample/s sample rate make it well suited for development and verification use at datarates up to 1.25Gbit/s.
With 1.5GHz bandwidth and 20Gsample/s sample rate, the TDS7154 digital phosphor oscilloscope (DPO) mirrors the electrical bandwidth of its sister CSA7154 analyser.
This expansion of the TDS7000 DPO family and introduction of the CSA7000 Series is complemented by new software options that deliver extensibility to both offerings.
Option Communication Pulse (CP2) adds communications pulse compliance measurements to the CSA7000 Series, as well as the TDS7000 Series digital phosphor oscilloscopes.
Option Serial Mask (SM) and Option Serial Trigger (ST) impart additional capabilities upon the TDS7000 Series DPOs.
Option SM provides serial mask testing and clock recovery features for electrical signals and addresses data rate from 1.5Mbit/s to 2.5Gbit/s; option ST provides serial triggering capability.
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