Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the expansion of its Infiniium 90000 X-Series oscilloscope family to include the high performance mixed-signal oscilloscope, or MSO. The expansion adds six new MSO models, as well as 13-GHz DSO and DSA models, to the X-Series. The tightly integrated digital channels of the new MSO models can function at 20 GSa/s in an eight-channel configuration, 60% faster than other high-performance MSOs, or at 10 GSa/s in a 16-channel configuration.

Agilent now offers MSOs ranging from 70 MHz to 33 GHz of analog bandwidth. The new 13-GHz DSO, DSA and MSO models give engineers access to the industry's lowest noise and jitter measurement floors of the Infiniium 90000 X-Series at an unprecedented low price. With the Agilent Infiniium 90000 X-Series, current and future customers who purchase DSO or DSA model oscilloscopes can upgrade to MSO functionality.

Most high-speed MSOs available at present come with fixed configurations that cannot be upgraded. Agilent's N2834A upgrades let users add MSO capability at any time. This capability, along with Agilent's existing bandwidth and memory upgrades, makes the X-Series one of the most flexible and expandable platforms on the market.

Unlike other MSOs, Agilent Infiniium 90000 X-Series MSOs have up to 400 million points of data capture behind each digital channel. To accommodate sample-rate differences between the high-speed analog channels and the digital MSO channels, this memory depth can be automatically sized with the analog trace length, including the full 2-Gpts memory available on Agilent oscilloscopes. This memory depth allows for fully time-correlated capture of elusive events that span a long time record.

The MSO uses the same 90-pin connector found on Agilent's logic analyzers. This allows access to a broad range of probing accessories including: 17-channel differential/single-ended soft touch connectorless probes; 17-channel differential/single-ended flying lead set; 17-channel differential/single-ended Samtec connector; Selected DDR interposer probing technologies.