Agilent Technologies has unveiled the Infiniium 90000 X-Series oscilloscope family with real-time bandwidth of 32GHz. Ten new models range from 16GHz to 32GHz and are bandwidth upgradable. The accompanying probing system offers browsing to 30GHz with a full range of accessories rated to 28GHz and the ability to upgrade bandwidth in the future. In addition, the scopes offer more than 40 measurement-specific application packages including jitter, triggering, measurement, and analysis tools and full compliance certification test suites. Engineers working with high-energy physics, emerging wireline communication standards, and high-speed serial data links, such as USB, SAS, or PCI Express, use oscilloscopes to capture fast, single-shot events and to make critical measurements like jitter while ensuring compliance to industry standards for interoperability. With data rates in the next few years extending beyond 10Gbps, engineers need oscilloscopes that can deliver higher-bandwidth measurements. Agilent invested in a proprietary indium phosphide (InP) integrated circuit process to enable high-frequency capability while yielding a low noise floor and jitter measurement floor. Custom aluminum nitride packaging technology combines five InP chips in the front-end multichip module which incorporates unique noise shielding and heat dissipation techniques.
