Oscilloscopes add 18 or 36 logic channels
By Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 4/1/2007
LeCroy’s WaveRunner Xi and WaveSurfer Xs oscilloscopes now have options that add 18 or 36 logic channels—two more channels than most mixed-signal scopes. The extra channels let you view an 8-bit or 16-bit bus, a clock, and a read or write strobe.
The MS-500 and MS-250 options add different speed and memory depth to new or existing scopes. The MS-500 ($3990 for 18 channels) works with digital signals up to 500 MHz (sample rate of 2 Gsamples/s) with 50 Mpoints of memory per channel. You can double the number of channels with the MSO-DLS-36 option ($990), which will interleave the channels to provide 250 Msamples/s, 1 GHz, and 25 Mpoints per channel. The MS-250 ($2990) adds 18 channels with 1-Gsamples/s sample rate, 250-MHz maximum signal speed, and 10 Mpoints of memory per channel.
You can trigger an acquisition on any analog or digital channel. Trigger types include edge, glitch, width, pattern, qualified, interval, or dropout. LeCroy, www.lecroy.com.
