Product category: Stand-Alone Instruments
News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: TLA7Axx
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 3 April 2002
Connectorless setup boosts speedy analyser
Tektronix reckons its latest logic analyser and probing products will enable engineers to test digital designs with unprecedented speed, increased accuracy and reduced cost.
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Tektronix reckons its latest logic analyser and probing products will enable engineers to test digital designs with unprecedented speed, increased accuracy and reduced cost. When troubleshooting and debugging a digital system, one of the first and most challenging tasks for an engineer is obtaining a clear signal to analyse. Until now, design engineers using a logic analyser were typically forced to install permanent connectors on their circuit boards in order to probe the system.
Also, to access both the analogue and digital characteristics of each signal, an increasing need as designs become faster and more complex, multiple connectors and probes were required.
Tektronix' revolutionary new connectorless probing system - a feature of six new TLA7Axx logic analyser modules that offer an industry-leading 8GHz timing acquisition rate - provides a solution more advanced than any other probing technology on the market.
The new probing system saves costs by eliminating the need for connectors, and enables engineers to access the signal directly.
At 0.7pF, the connectorless probing system exhibits the industry's lowest total capacitance, thereby increasing the quality of its signals.
And for the first time ever, users can obtain analogue and digital measurements (both timing and state) through a single probe.
"The world's fastest logic analyser combined with a breakthrough connectorless probing system will enable our customers to identify the cause of elusive digital signal integrity problems more quickly and accurately than ever before", said Craig Overhage, Vice President, Instruments Business, Tektronix, "Built with silicon germanium technology, the TLA7Axx modules are a new generation of logic analysers that speed the debug of today's cutting edge high-performance bus applications such as RapidIO".
Available in six modules, the TLA7Axx substantially improves the debug and verification of digital systems by providing unmatched measurement speed, flexibility and ease-of-use.
It is the world's first logic analyser to offer 8GHz (125ps) timing simultaneous with state acquisitions from 120 to 800MHz clock rate and up to 1.25Gbit/s datarate.
The TLA7Axx also features up to 2GHz deep timing and is available in 34, 68, 102 and 136 channel configurations.
680 channels can be achieved on a single timebase using merged modules.
The P6860 high-density probe for single-ended signals and the P6880 high-density probe for differential signals eliminate multiple connections to the system under test, saving setup time and sparing users the difficult chore of connecting separate logic analyser and oscilloscope probes to the same test point.
A third new probe, the P6810, is a general-purpose probe for both single-ended and differential signals and is compatible with conventional connectors.
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