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| USB 2.0 Compliance Testing with Infiniium Oscilloscopes - Application Note
This Application Note discusses the Agilent solution for the USB 2.0 test suite. The Agilent solution is the only one-box solution that uses the official USB-IF scripts for precompliance ans compliance testing.
Application Note 2013-05-10 |
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| Using Microwave Switches When Testing High Speed Serial Digital Interfaces - Application Note
Many high speed digital interfaces use multiple lanes to achieve their system's throughput requirements. Most issues associated with this can be resolved with a switching network.
Application Note 2013-05-07 |
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| Three Compelling Reasons for Deep Acquisition Memory
This app note discusses deep memory's value. While acquisition memory depth is often used as a primary purchase consideration, the associated benefits require additional thought to fully appreciate.
Application Note 2013-03-14 |
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| Evaluating Oscilloscope Fundamentals - Application Note
We will discuss oscilloscope applications and give you an overview of basic measurements and performance characteristics.
Application Note 2013-03-06 |
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| Evaluating Oscilloscope Sample Rates vs. Sampling Fidelity
Evaluating Oscilloscope Sample Rates vs. Sampling Fidelity: How to Make the Most Accurate Digital Measurements When you select an oscilloscope for accurate, high-speed digital measurements, sampling fidelity can often be more important than maximum sample rate.
Application Note 2012-11-11 |
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| Evaluating Oscilloscope Bandwidths for your Application
This application note provides some helpful hints on how to select an oscilloscope with the appropriate bandwidth for analog and digital applications.
Application Note 2012-11-08 |
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| Bandwidth and Rise Time Requirements for Making Accurate Oscilloscope Measurements
How much oscilloscope bandwidth do you need and how fast does the rise time need to be to measure your signals accurately?
Application Note 2012-08-17 |
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| Ten things to Consider when Selecting your Next Oscilloscope - Application Note
You rely on your oscilloscope every day, so selecting the right one to meet your needs is an important task. Comparing specs and features of scopes made by different manufacturers can be time-consuming and confusing. The concepts outlined here are intended to speed your selection process and help you avoid some common pitfalls. No matter who makes the scopes you are considering, carefully analyzing each one in relation to the 10 issues discussed here will help you evaluate the instruments objectively.
Application Note 2012-05-15 |
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| Understanding The Oscilloscope Jitter Specifi cation
Jitter is defined as the unwanted phase modulation of a digital signal, and is considered one of the most important specifications for measuring a device's quality.
Application Note 2011-09-30 |
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| Oscilloscopes and ENOB
For scopes with bandwidth in the GHz range, a quality metric involves characterizing the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using effective number of bits (ENOB). How important is ENOB?
Application Note 2011-08-08 |
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| Eight Hints for Better Scope Probing
Probing is critical to making quality oscilloscope measurements, and often the probe is the
fi rst link in the oscilloscope measurement chain.
Application Note 2011-05-24 |
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| Optimizing Oscilloscope Measurement Accuracy on High-Performance Systems with Agilent Active...
To keep high-speed devices supplied with data so they are not sitting idle, designers have been
inventing techniques to increase the bandwidth of external buses in order to move large amounts of
data between devices on circuit boards.
Application Note 2011-05-20 |
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| An Overview of the Electrical Validation of 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T
The technology used in these ports, commonly known as “LAN” or “NIC” ports, is usually one of the 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T standards or a combination of them.
Application Note 2011-01-11 |
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| Techniques to Achieve Bandwidths of More Than 16 GHz
Two oscilloscopes from different vendors may both say 20 GHz on the front label, but not all bandwidths are the same.
Application Note 2010-09-20 |
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| Four Channel 90000 X-Series > 20 GHz System
This application note describes the benefits of the four channel 90000 X-Series (> 20 GHz) system as well as how to configure the system and how to use the Tango MATLAB function.
Application Note 2010-09-01 |
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| Capturing the Fifth Harmonic: Tradeoffs Between Sampling and Real Time scopes
There is no simple way to decide how much oscilloscope bandwidth you will need. Scope vendors promote a “fifth harmonic” rule of thumb. They suggest you purchase a scope with sufficient bandwidth to capture the fifth harmonic of your signals.
Application Note 2009-02-20 |
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| Using Equalization Techniques on Your Infiniium 90000A Series Oscilloscope
A transmitter sends a serial signal over a transmission channel (examples: backplane, cable) to a receiver. As the signal rate increases, the channel the signal travels through distorts the signal at the receiver.
Application Note 2009-02-17 |
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| A Time-Saving Method for Analyzing Signal Integrity in DDR Memory Buses
This application note covers new tools and measurement techniques for characterizing and validating signal integrity of DDR (double data rate
synchronous dynamic random access memory) signals.
Application Note 2008-09-10 |
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| The Truth About The Fidelity of High Bandwidth Voltage Probes, AN 1404
An analysis of high-bandwidth voltage probes that reveals a fundamental tradeoff between fidelity and ease of use that exists with all high-bandwidth probes.
Application Note 2008-06-20 |
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| Demystifying Deep Memory Oscilloscopes
Let’s start with a simple question. In which of today’s technologies is only kBytes (kB) of memory
acceptable? The RAM capacity of your new
3GHz Pentium D computer? The storage capacity of your MP3 player? Your oscilloscope?
Application Note 2008-01-30 |
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| Integrated Debugging-A New Approach to Troubleshooting Your Designs with Real-Time Oscilloscopes
Traditional debugging can be time consuming and inefficient. With Agilent Infiniium oscilloscopes,
“integrated debugging” is a reality, and it leads you directly to the root cause of problems.
Application Note 2008-01-30 |
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| Using Clock Jitter Analysis to Reduce BER in Serial Data Applications
This Application Note emphasizes on the emerging techniques for reference clock jitter analysis from the perspective of oscillator physics, phase noise theory, and serial data technology.
Application Note 2006-12-01 |
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| Debugging USB 2.0: It's Not Just A Digital World (AN 1382-3)
Debugging USB 2.0 Systems
Application Note 2006-10-05 |
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| Analyzing Jitter Using Agilent EZJIT Plus Software
EZJIT Plus is an optional jitter analysis software package that supports Infiniium DSO80000 real-time oscilloscopes from Agilent Technologies, Inc., and it performs RJ/DJ analysis. EZJIT
Application Note 2005-09-15 |
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| Finding Sources of Jitter with Real-Time Jitter Analysis (AN 1448-2)
This application note describes how to use a real-time oscilloscope with jitter analysis, along with the stimulus-response techniques, to meet the critical time-correlation requirement to relate jitter trend measurement results to measured signals.
Application Note 2003-06-30 |
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