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by photon_rancher
728 days ago
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Realtime scopes exist at this bandwidth but are crazy expensive, and then they have frequency-stitching artifacts all over the fourier plane. (Because they use mixing techniques) Sampling systems are about $20k - 50k without probes in this bandwidth. Keysight DCA-M and picoscope have the best public prices, and exfo has an eye analyzer in that price range. There’s also DCA-X but nobody wants to pay 10k extra for a touchscreen. Unfortunately tek doesn’t make electrical sampling systems anymore, just optical. |
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All the other scopes on the market use time interleaving (time multiplexing) which has much better characteristics but requires that the ASICs have much higher Ft, which requires a significant capital investment.
Sampling scopes are not actually that much cheaper now a days, especially after you take into account the cost of the clock recovery device that you would need to build a proper eye with a sampling scope (I discussed this further in other parts of this thread).