Tektronix 'Scopes Reach 70GHz

BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Tektronix, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced that lab testing has shown that its next generation performance oscilloscopes – due for availability in 2014 – will deliver real-time bandwidth of 70 GHz, with significant upside potential. The new oscilloscope platform will deliver the performance and signal fidelity needed for applications such as 400 Gbps and 1 Tbps optical communications and fourth generation serial data communications. Tektronix also announced an investment program that will give customers a cost-effective migration path to the new platform.The extraordinary gain in bandwidth performance, with improved signal fidelity, is due in part to the development by Tektronix engineers of a patent pending signal processing architecture called Asynchronous Time Interleaving. The new real-time oscilloscope platform will also include a number of other enhancements and refinements to improve overall performance and measurement precision.“With these latest innovations, Tektronix is continuing to push the envelope on what can be achieved in high-fidelity, high-speed data acquisition systems,” said Kevin Ilcisin, chief technology officer, Tektronix. “The development of the industry’s first production-ready Asynchronous Time Interleaving architecture is a significant breakthrough that will improve signal-to-noise ratio beyond the frequency interleaving approach used by competing oscilloscope vendors.” Tektronix Inc.