2.5-GHz Scope Breaks Performance Ground

April 14, 2003

The 54853A 2.5-GHz Infiniium oscilloscope provides four full-bandwidth 2-Gsample/s channels. Developed and produced by Agilent Technologies, the oscilloscope can capture four full-bandwidth, real-time single-ended and differential signals off a single trigger event. Its MegaZoom deep memory increases the amount of information that users can capture from events leading up to, and after, the specified trigger event.

"Customers can now purchase just the right amount of bandwidth for their applications. When combined with the 1131A innovative InfiniiMax active probe system, the oscilloscope offers unsurpassed performance, accuracy, and connectivity for the validation of new high-speed designs," says Ron Nersesian, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Design Validation Business.

Based on the Windows XP Pro open operating system, the scope is available now for $35,995. The 1131A active probes, also available now, range in price from $3850 to $5900.

Agilent Technologies
www.agilent.com
(800) 452-4844, ext. 7815

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About the Author

Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.