Tektronix unveils 136-channel logic analyser

With 20ps (50GS/s) timing resolution and up 128Mb record length, the TLA7BC4 module is suitable for a range of embedded applications including DDR3-1600 and MIPI.

'Digital developers continue to build systems that manage and process greater amounts of data,' said Steve Witt, vice president, logic analyser product line, Tektronix.

'To debug and validate these systems, digital developers look to logic analysers to provide capabilities not found on any other tool.' The high performance of recent modules is partially due to enhancements in Magnivu technology.

The sampling resolution of 20ps in TLA7BBX and TLA7BC4 modules represents a significant improvement in timing resolution over previous Tektronix logic analysers.

This timing resolution allows designers to both troubleshoot difficult problems and verify tight timing margins across hundreds of channels.

The TLA7BC4 and TLA7BBX modules extend the performance of Icapture by 50 per cent to 3GHz.

Icapture enables the use of an external oscilloscope to view the analogue features of a signal using a single probing configuration for the logic analyser and oscilloscope.

In addition to being useful in the debug and validation process, many engineering characterisation teams have built test platforms around the combination of high-density Dmax probes and Icapture to selectively route analogue signals of choice to other test equipment.

In some cases, users have reported a 60-times throughput improvement over previous RF switch-based solutions.

The company has also announced the TLA7ACX modules that offer 2Mb of standard record length.

With today's high-speed buses and complex challenges, a minimum of 2Mb of record length is needed to effectively debug problems where the root cause and symptom are widely separated in time.

All Tektronix logic analysers offer 2Mb of memory standard.

Tektronix announced that it is removing the TLA7AAX and TLA7ABX modules from the product list and replacing them with TLA7ACX modules.

The TLA7ACX modules are offered in configurations of 68, 102, and 136 channels with state speed starting at 235MHz, which can optionally be increased to 450MHz.

Record length starts at 2Mb and can be increased to 8Mb, 32Mb, or 128Mb.