Keysight Technologies Launches Advanced 14-bit Precision Oscilloscope for Universal Applications

• 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) oscilloscopes have more than four times the signal resolution and less than half the noise floor of other general-purpose oscilloscopes
  

• The instrument uses custom ASICs and deep memory architecture to provide fast and accurate measurements

• Provides the precision and accuracy needed to identify small amplitude and rare signal faults during design debug, accelerating time to market

Keysight Technologies has introduced the InfiniiVision HD3 Series of 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) oscilloscopes , which have more than four times the signal resolution of other general-purpose oscilloscopes and less than half the noise floor. The HD3 Series has been designed from the ground up with a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and deep memory architecture, enabling engineers to quickly detect and debug signal problems in a variety of applications.

Keysight Technologies' InfiniiVision HD3 Series is a 14-bit ADC oscilloscope that delivers four times the signal resolution and half the noise floor of other general-purpose oscilloscopes.

The design of equipment and components is becoming more and more complex, and the signals used are getting smaller and smaller. In order to ensure product quality and maximize product yield, engineers must troubleshoot the design by tracking multiple signals simultaneously to identify the smallest signal errors that characterize design flaws and hardware defects. Therefore, engineers need an oscilloscope that can exclude the influence of noise and measure tiny and rare signal faults to correct product problems.

Keysight's new HD3 Series oscilloscopes meet this challenge by providing digital designers and engineers with high vertical resolution through advanced 14-bit ADCs and an extremely low 50 µVRMS noise floor that enables detection of subtle signal anomalies. With bandwidths ranging from 200 MHz to 1 GHz, the HD3 Series oscilloscopes accelerate digital debug and reduce time to market:

• High-precision measurements – 14-bit ADC resolution and low noise floor, while maintaining a waveform update rate of 1.3 million times per second, enable all measurements to be debugged quickly and accurately.

• Built on New Technology - Utilizes a custom ASIC that provides engineers with high sampling rates and memory, lossless waveform update rates, high vertical resolution, and hardware-based features such as masks, zones, and serial decode under typical test conditions.

• Deep Memory – Capable of capturing long time spans at full sampling rate to obtain the desired measurement/analysis results.

• New Interface - A new user interface is provided to enable multiple features including full ADC and vertical resolution per channel, multiple bandwidth limiting options, HD mode support, and custom measurement thresholds.

• Comprehensive test automation - The "Fault Hunter" AI analysis software has been introduced, which can automatically capture abnormal signals such as glitches, short pulses, slow edges, etc. by learning test waveforms. Engineers can also use serial bus analysis software to achieve decoding and triggering of multiple serial buses.

• Instant Software Upgrades - Instant bandwidth, memory and functionality upgrades available through software licensing, enabling designers to purchase the options they need today and upgrade in the future as their designs evolve without having to return the instrument to the factory.

"We recognize that engineers need to make fast and precise measurements in a wide range of applications, so we built the InfiniiVision HD3 oscilloscope from the ground up to provide an extremely accurate general-purpose oscilloscope," said Robert Saponas, vice president and general manager of Keysight's Digital Photonics Center of Excellence. "Using custom ASICs, 14-bit ADCs and extremely low noise floor technology, the HD3 Series oscilloscopes provide the precision and accuracy needed to identify small amplitude and rare signal faults during design debug, accelerating time to market."