LeCroy Introduces 4 - 30 GHz WaveMaster 8 Zi Series - World's Highest Bandwidth, Fastest Real-Time Oscilloscope

Chestnut Ridge, NY - LeCroy Corporation introduces the WaveMaster 8 Zi Series digital oscilloscopes, Serial Data Analyzers, and Disk Drive Analyzers that provides up to 30 GHz of bandwidth, 80 GS/s of sample rate, 512 Megapoints of analysis, and greater than 15 GHz edge triggering. With exceptional instrument responsiveness, 10-100 times faster analysis processing time, a large 15.3", 16:9 high-definition touch screen display (50% larger than 12.4" displays), the precision of Eye Doctor signal integrity tools, and both 50 ? / 1 M? input capability, the WaveMaster 8 Zi Series is the most versatile oscilloscope platform available. Features previously announced with the Zi platform, such as TriggerScan rare event capture, removable front panel, integrated second display, and fast LSIB external data transfer (up to 250 Mpts/s—25 to 50 times faster than any other method) are also available. The combination of performance, speed, precision, and capability provides engineers with deeper insight, faster debug, and more efficient validation.

LeCroy has designed the 8 Zi Series as a single hardware platform, supporting all eight models spanning from 4 to 30 GHz of bandwidth. This means engineers can leverage their investment and stay current with emerging high speed technologies and serial data standards by purchasing only the bandwidth needed for current designs, and upgrading to additional bandwidth as needs change. This is an especially attractive feature in lean economic times, particularly with upgrades available to 30 GHz of bandwidth, as companies seek to minimize capital investments.

The standard sample rate is 80 GS/s for 20 to 30 GHz bandwidths (40 GS/s on all 4 channels at reduced bandwidth). For 4 – 16 GHz bandwidths, the standard sample rate is 40 GS/s on all four channels with an option to increase the sampling rate to 80 GS/s on two channels. 10 Mpts/ch is provided, with memory options up to 256 Mpts/ch available. All memory is available at full record lengths for analysis processing. In 80 GS/s mode, memory can be interleaved to 512 Mpts/ch.

For serial data applications, eight new Serial Data Analyzer (SDA) models provide the same high bandwidth range (from 4 to 30 GHz), sample rate, and analysis memory capability (with 20 Mpts/ch standard), and are combined with LeCroy's powerful SDA II Serial Data Analysis tools and standard 3.125 Gb/s serial trigger to provide unmatched capability for implementing and debugging emerging, high speed serial data standards, such as PCIe 3.0 and USB 3.0.

Superior Serial Data Analysis
SDA 8 Zi Serial Data Analyzers are based on the WaveMaster 8 Zi Series oscilloscope and are equipped with double the standard memory to capture more unit intervals in the eye diagram. They include an enhanced high-speed serial pattern trigger that operates on up to 80 bit patterns and at speeds up to 3.125 Gb/s.

The expansive SDA II toolset includes superior jitter breakdown methodologies and more precise jitter breakdown tools to increase confidence in measurements, and offer more complete insight, faster than competitive tools. Eye diagram analysis can be accomplished 100 times faster than competitive tools ? nearly 1 million unit intervals of PCI Express can be captured, analyzed, and displayed in 3 seconds. Additional tools, such as IsoBER (which identifies lines of constant bit error rate) and Mask Violation Locator make it easy to understand complex problems. The Cable De-Embedding feature allows cable distortion effects to be removed to achieve more accurate timing and amplitude measurements on high-speed eye diagrams. Complete, simultaneous views of eye diagrams, time interval error, bathtub curves, jitter histograms, and other jitter breakdown analysis is standard in the new SDA 8 Zi analyzers.

LeCroy's advanced SDA II tools simplify the path to compliance testing by decreasing debug time and increasing the understanding of jitter through superior and more precise analysis of Rj+Dj breakdown. At the compliance stage, automated QualiPHY packages are available for a variety of established standards, such as PCIe, SAS, SATA, HDMI, DisplayPort, and XAUI.

Eye Doctor Adds Precision to Signal Integrity Measurements
LeCroy's Eye Doctor signal integrity tool set provides capability for cable and test fixture de-embedding, modeling of pre-emphasis and de-emphasis, serial data channel emulation, and serial data receiver equalization. It is now possible, within the oscilloscope environment and on full 256 Mpt record lengths, to compensate for or emulate signal path effects and serial data receiver equalization so as to precisely measure waveforms with the highest signal fidelity at any place in the test circuit under any test condition. With the launch of the WaveMaster 8 Zi, Eye Doctor is now available in a new, more streamlined and more easily accessible form.

Fast Throughput with X-Stream II Streaming Architecture
Designed for long memory operation and responsiveness X-Stream II technology enables high throughput of data—even when the oscilloscope is analyzing eight 256 Mpt waveforms. This architecture uses variable waveform segment lengths to improve CPU cache memory efficiency resulting in 10 to 20 times faster processing compared to other oscilloscopes. This eliminates the trade-offs between long memory length and quick processing. WaveMaster 8 Zi's proprietary architecture design is augmented with an Intel®Core™2 Quad processor, high-speed serial databuses, a 64-bit OS and up to 8 GB of processor RAM.

The WaveMaster 8 Zi Series offers as standard more measure, math, graphing, statistical, frequency analysis, mask testing, and other tools, as well as more ways to leverage the tools to get answers faster. SMART triggers are enhanced with the ability to sequence SMART and Edge triggers in up to a three trigger cascade arrangement to reduce the amount of time required to debug circuit and bus problems.

Integrated Second Display Provides More Insight
The advanced Zi oscilloscope platform provides more input, processing and analytical capability than any other oscilloscope available. The standard 15.3" display provides 50% more area to view acquisitions and analysis, compared to a 12.4" display. With the addition of the integrated second display, the viewing area triples. The integrated second display is identical to the main display and is conveniently aligned and attached above the main display. The oscilloscope grid may be split by the user between the two displays.

Disk Drive Analyzers
Based on the WaveMaster 8 Zi Series models, the DDA 8 Zi Series Disk Drive Analyzers are available in 16 and 25 GHz models and come equipped with 20 Mpts/ch acquisition memory. Dedicated disk drive measurements, trigger and zooming for failure analysis, and serial data measurement capability with a Disk Drive Analyzer user interface are also standard to address high capacity disk drive designs. Operate in either DDA or SDA mode to analyze the serial data links or the physical media behavior on a hard drive. All DDAs also include all capability included in SDAs (with the exception of the 3.125 Gb/s serial trigger).

SOURCE: LeCroy Corporation