Waverunner oscilloscope incorporates X-Stream II

The Waverunner Xi-A incorporates X-Stream II hardware architecture to increase acquisition and display speed; Triggerscan rare-event capture technology to improve debug and analysis; a Spectrum Analyser option to effectively debug in the frequency domain; and connectivity and control options with LXI (LAN Extension for Instrumentation) for automated test systems.

The black-and-silver industrial design incorporates a large, bright display and a space-efficient footprint, and is available on all models, ranging from 400MHz to 2GHz, with 10 GS/s sample rate and 25 Mpts memory.

The combination of Waverunner Xi with architecture advances provides the Waverunner Xi-A with a fast acquisition and responsive front panel.

The PC system in the Waverunner Xi-A features a new motherboard, augmented with an Intel Core2 Duo processor, faster RAM, and a faster hard drive.

This results in a 40-70 per cent speed improvement over competitive units in deep memory analysis, and serial data decoding.

The software improvements also incorporate key elements of X-Stream II architecture, providing preview and abort capabilities that permit the user instant control of the oscilloscope without any hold-off or delay.

Designed for long memory operation and responsiveness, X-Stream II technology enables high throughput of data.

This architecture uses variable waveform segment lengths to improve CPU cache memory efficiency, resulting in faster processing.

Triggerscan rare-event capture technology detects and captures more anomalies per second.

Triggerscan uses high-speed hardware to detect undesired behaviours, then captures and displays them in a persistence mode for additional analysis of glitches, runts, and timing anomalies.

A built-in trainer identifies normal signal behaviour and then constructs a large set of rare-event trigger setups that target abnormal behaviour.

Triggerscan captures only the signals of interest and provides answers in minutes instead of hours.

The Waverunner Xi-A Spectrum Analyser option allows customers to effectively debug in the frequency domain.

The option provides common controls of a spectrum analyser, allowing a user to navigate a signal by specifying centre frequency, span and resolution bandwidth.

The Spectrum Analyser option provides an additional feature to annotate peaks.

This feature allows the user to highlight a user-selectable number of peaks and illustrates the frequency and gain at the specific peaks, significantly reducing debug time.

LXI is based on the open standard LAN (Ethernet) for system inter-device communication, and has been widely accepted in the test-and-measurement industry.

LXI leverages the robust LAN standard by offering a low-cost solution that that is backward-compatible and supported by all computer platforms.

It also allows for automatic discovery, addressing, asset and network management, permitting engineers to build powerful, web-enabled test systems in less time.

In addition, all Waverunner Xi-A models are compatible with Lecroy's optional low-speed serial triggering and decode packages to help engineers quickly analyse I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232, CAN, LIN and Flexray protocols through the use of easy-to-read transparent overlays, search/zoom capabilities, and tabular displays.

A full set of analysis tools, including Wavescan, a search and analysis feature; Wavestream, a fast viewing mode; and Labnotebook, a tool for documentation and report generation, combine high performance and ease-of-use with the best tools for understanding and validating a design.

The Xi-A oscilloscopes are also hot-plug ready for Lecroy's 36-channel mixed signal oscilloscope.

The Waverunner MXi-A models (400MHz- 2GHz) go one step further and ship standard with a variety of analysis tools and application programs, such as Tracks, Histograms, long memory FFTs, user-defined functions, jitter and timing analysis, and are also compatible with mixed signal options, power device analysis, and a host of other applications.