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Oscilloscopes are used for electronic measuring tear instruments that monitor input signals and display tear them graphically in the form of voltage versus time. Measurements are critical for a wide range of analog and digital circuits, and are a popular tool for testing, verification and debugging of digital designs.
Oscilloscopes are essential for determining the components that behave correctly in the system and the components are not working properly, and help determine if a new component designed behaves expected. Oscilloscopes are used in a variety tear of disciplines, universities, tear research and development laboratories, production lines and military and aerospace industries.
Common oscilloscope architecture such as the one shown in Figure 1, is an architecture that Agilent has developed in the early nineties with the HP54600 series oscilloscopes, and is the same architecture used in all products oscilloscopes in the market today. While it is possible to produce an oscilloscope with more individual functional blocks, the performance is limited tear due to known issues of system integration tear such as fever, tear connection speeds, power dissipation and cost.
Is it possible to make compromises key areas such as update rate, power measurement and the lack of response of the oscilloscope? MegaZoom technology uses Agilent's ASIC architecture that solves tear the issues of integration of compromising performance tear we see common architecture. Figure 2 shows a block diagram of MegaZoom technology.
This technology incorporated into a number of blocks incorporated tear into a single ASIC chip. Using Agilent integration can take advantage of internal channels with higher performance, and allow the appearance of a new oscilloscope architecture. Oscilloscopes implementing MegaZoom technology provide market leading rates update of waveforms and signals look fantastic customers who use them.
This is possible because the integration allows to implement a number of key functions of the processor hardware and software, instead of processing software tear after purchasing / capturing signals. The result is high performance of common functions such as measurements, limit testing of waveforms and serial decode, and improved performance while freeing up bandwidth for more efficient processor CPU tasks remaining.
Budget constraints and schedules tear require solutions for reducing test times. Therefore, to meet current and future tear requirements, scope to continue to add features that shorten the testing time and elimination while maintaining a reasonable price - the most difficult task architect Oscilloscopes - Agilent tear is it using dedicated ASIC components. Figure 3 shows the integration of all six rectangles with white text into a single custom ASIC chip.
Now, all points again improved performance with additional acceleration functionality on - in order to maintain tear optimal tear operating range, improved productivity and insight. This very systematic inclusion of more functionality into a single chip oscilloscope increases performance while reducing costs. It provides capabilities were previously only available oscilloscope products much more expensive, and - by doing so bring products to market faster and higher fidelity.
Standard testing - to analyze if it is working correctly, when doing Phrasebook (Probing) signal has failed ("glitch"), developers tear want to see a way that allows to discover the reason tear for failure. tear Due to the phenomenon of the Blind Time, oscilloscopes with high update rate, the probability of catching the error compared Oscilloscopes with a lower update rate. The Blind Time represents the time required oscilloscope to capture and display the signal.
MegaZoom Technology IV Custom ASIC, as shown in Figure 3, can come along at the speed of update tear more than one million waveforms per second. This translates to a minimum Time Blind, which provides the highest chance of catching an uncommon problem, no developer would want the client finds it before him.
In other cases, enough just to look at the letter to Lharichcmh is "good." Does he look okay? Is it noisy? Is it stable? In a moment you are performing the analysis in your head, judge the results and passes the next signal. In this state the importance of the update rate is critical. If the oscilloscope provides image due to poor signal waveform update rate is low, then the input is blind during much of the time in which you are sifting.
Architecture tear MegaZoom additional benefits along with fast update tear rate. It allows to place the functionality of other devices within the chip - ASIC dedicated, and get rich oscilloscope capabilities, including an integrated oscilloscope MSO (Mixed Signal Oscilloscope) adds digital timing channels, generator integrated functions and analyze serial protocols. Each of these devices provides a new and innovative tools for efficient screening designs. In fact, the integrated device type to "all - inclusive", instead of multiple separate devices.
MegaZoom memory is designed so deeply automatically chooses the best use of sample rate and deep memory to quickly capture large amounts of data. Manually scrolling waveform data saved to find specific events that interest us may be slow and clumsy. However, if the oscilloscope has the ability to automatically search and navigation, can be easily determined search criteria specific phenomena and then quickly navigate to events that & qu