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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #25 on: October 12, 2023, 03:58:34 pm »
Kidneys still inside?

I assume the list price on their web site will be something in the region of "Contact us for a quotation"

I think will be more like "30-year loan" conditions like when buying a home.
 

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« Reply #26 on: October 12, 2023, 05:08:22 pm »
Atheistically looks pleasing. Black, with a green pinstripe and the general button layout, all looks nice.
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #27 on: October 12, 2023, 05:18:00 pm »
What's the fan noise like?
 

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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2023, 05:22:33 pm »
Atheistically looks pleasing. Black, with a green pinstripe and the general button layout, all looks nice.

How does it look religiously?
 
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #29 on: October 12, 2023, 05:43:32 pm »
Tv84 Kidneys are still in place, though the bank account looking a touch bleak :-DD

The scope is insanely fast, yet subtle with cavernously in depth abilities. The new SDAX app is simply the most complete serial data analysis suite by a significant margin, also intelligent to, lets those not so au fait with this type of measurement easily get to grips with the various aspects plus a really neat feature to assist you with the connection guide and formulae involved.

The scope also performs a lot of processing between specialised FPGA's and its serious PC computational power. So far, the firmware updates have been wrangling further performance by levering the best of both worlds on how to achieve the correct balance for each application. A lot more to come as well. I feel they are just scratching the surface imho.

The ability to have the digital channels views the PCIE power and control signal rails while viewing the serial data simultaneous along with say ac power V/I probes on the traditional probus II connections gives immense flexibility and insight into PCIE/USB4/Thunderbolt etc.

The Wavemaster 8000 HD isn't a particularly large unit or that heavy either. This is scope that means sheer insight with exceptionally accuracy with superb repeatability and confidence in your measurements.

This is a R&D/Debug and validation at the cutting edge, as Tv84 mentioned this comes at a price, for potential purchasers will be larger tech companies/Universities/specialist SME's that would consider this type of equipment along with the Keysight UXR.

A couple of nice features that many of us will be able to enjoy, the SDAX will be rolled on the next FW update due in the week or so, so if you have SDA III then you will have a few more toys in the toolbox (not all as you may not have 8Ghz plus, but hey its very welcomed.

Also due in the coming months the 'Jitkit' is being replaced with a brand-new app 'Clock X' so again those that have Jitkit will also benefit as well.

Realise this level of hardware is not something we would normally discuss unless in glib manner (We can all dream right!) Although I genuinely believe this is a real game changing device in a great many areas of research across multi disciplines.
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #30 on: October 12, 2023, 05:45:45 pm »
What's the fan noise like?

Given it's processing power and phyiscal depth STILL significantly quieter than an a MXR  8)
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #31 on: October 12, 2023, 06:04:32 pm »
Atheistically looks pleasing. Black, with a green pinstripe and the general button layout, all looks nice.

How does it look religiously?

Autocorrect : )... aesthetically.
 

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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #32 on: October 12, 2023, 06:05:40 pm »
I assume the list price on their web site will be something in the region of "Contact us for a quotation"

You won´t find any prices on their website, it´s always and for everything by request.

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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #33 on: October 12, 2023, 09:57:38 pm »
Well, when referring to pricing they always say " If ya gotta ask.." ::)
 

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« Reply #34 on: October 12, 2023, 10:04:55 pm »
Our last scopes from Lecroy, we had paid significantly less than other dealers, or we got for the same price various options for free.
We will never buy elsewhere again if we want a Lecroy.
The only thing that is annoying, you first have to fill out forms and explain what you want to do with it and what we actually make/manufacture. ;)

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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #35 on: October 12, 2023, 10:12:38 pm »
The only thing that is annoying, you first have to fill out forms and explain what you want to do with it and what we actually make/manufacture. ;)

Probably to make sure you're not going to send it to Iran or something.
 

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« Reply #36 on: October 12, 2023, 10:19:05 pm »
Exactly. ;)
I find that inconsistent.
RS-pro had a Lecroy in stock at the time, we had ordered simple and also received simple.
Then ordered directly from Lecroy and then the paperwork...

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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #37 on: October 12, 2023, 10:21:37 pm »
1:15:57 Hilarious expression from the Lecroy rep, when Shahriar mentions "LeCroy will gladly ship out 100GHz LabMaster10-100zi demo-units"


The look of sheer terror!  :-DD
Obviously you'd have to have a .GOV .EDU .CERN or @spacex.com in your email to even get a reply.
 

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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #38 on: October 12, 2023, 10:55:01 pm »
I think Martin72 would be interested in one of those. I volunteer to write some extremely sad and tear provoking story for a crowd funding platform.

Or we can all donate some kidneys and call it the EEVBLOG scope. For calibration we will need fresh kidneys every year. But, don't overthink too much because yesterday a monkey was shown in the news who lived two years on kidneys from a pig. The doctors said they've made significant progress. So it wont take long before the kidney prices of human origin will see a significant price drop.

I like the edges they've made around the table. Maybe it wanders around when the fans turn on.


Also, thou shall not forget to discuss the quality of the handle. But it seems they didn't put one on.
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #39 on: October 13, 2023, 08:11:15 am »
Yesterday I spent some time with Chestnut Ridges finest UK representatives Richard & Jeremy on the Teledyne Lecroy stand at the Engineering Design Show in the UK where they were showcasing the the Wavemaster 8000HD plus many other of the superb Lecroy products on display.

I must admit I was a little suprised when they felt it was inappropriate unit on demonsrtation to come back with us?  :-DD

Anway I have wait for our unit  :o a few images below of the beast in actaion with a new Leo Bodnar 30pS rise time device.

The model shown was an SDA8033 version with full 16 digital channels, four Probus II inputs (Upto 2Ghz), one aux out, one aux in, fast edge SMA plus four Proaxial new style interfaces for the higher bandwidth measurments. It was sporting 8GPts of memory and twenty I7 cores. this was was capable of 160GSs sample rate.

If you are wishing for the 320Ghz then you will require the 50Ghz+ architecture

In case you haven't guessed yet, it's wee bit impressively good!

Well, well... I would like to see the idle noise up to highest freq. resolution as the ENOB too.

While this would show how Siglent & Rigol is able in this regard as may LeCroy sets the new base performance.

Also nice to see, that the Bodnar 30pS switcher shows some under/overshoots :D

Hp

 

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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #40 on: October 13, 2023, 09:07:26 am »
Lets get a 65 Ghz power meter, a 26GHz spectrum analyzer and a 1GHz scope.
Nah, too much bench space, let's just get a 65GHz scope.
 
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #41 on: October 13, 2023, 09:55:34 am »
So it wont take long before the kidney prices of human origin will see a significant price drop.

Damn. We'll need to increase our crowd source pool!
 
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #42 on: October 13, 2023, 10:48:07 am »


Well, well... I would like to see the idle noise up to highest freq. resolution as the ENOB too.

While this would show how Siglent & Rigol is able in this regard as may LeCroy sets the new base performance.

Also nice to see, that the Bodnar 30pS switcher shows some under/overshoots :D

Hp

Your point on ENOB are well valid and will be valid against scopes in the same catagory where benchmarking would be of interest to any perspective purchaser agree entirely. I know this unit compares more than favorably against other highly regarded devices in this sector of the market. Would suggest these points will become clearer in the fullness of time.

If you are looking to capture much lower speed signals with higher precision then there are a number of 12 bit scopes from Rigol / Siglent and R&S now which perform very well indeed in the sub 1Ghz portion of the market. Producing consistant, repeatable low noise measurments itsn't just 12 ADC's it will be the  complete front end must be of matching arcitectural complimentry circurity as well imho

I missed Leo (Bodnar) by around thirty minutes, the joys of timing  :-DD the scope 33Ghz BW gives a rise time of 11pS I really didn't deleve to deep in that particular measurment, I just felt the forums users may appreciate looking at an incredabilly fast rising edge, as outside of The signal path I feel they not so common for many everyday EE folks.

Cost wise the Keysight UXR 25Ghz unit starts around $480K, I believe the WM8000HD 20Ghz starts around $270K in the USA
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #43 on: October 13, 2023, 02:38:25 pm »
If you are looking to capture much lower speed signals with higher precision then there are a number of 12 bit scopes from Rigol / Siglent and R&S now which perform very well indeed in the sub 1Ghz portion of the market.

This metrics as on Rigol DH04000 model:

DHO4000

Ultra-low noise floor at 18 μVrms

• 12-bit vertical resolution[1]
• 200/400/800 MHz
• Up to 4 GSa/s real-time sample rate
• Max. memory depth: 500 Mpts (optional)
Min. vertical sensitivity: 100 μV/div

so we will get about 20% noise on 100 uV resolution  :-DD

As I like to measure residual LDO switching noise on ADC / DAC as in xxMHz :phew:

As it comes into mind, WM, SDA (as 8 bit) requires some averaging otherwise noise very high
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #44 on: October 13, 2023, 03:33:37 pm »
The lowest noise I have recorded on a WS HD 200Mhz is between 27-29uV with an open port 50 Ohms and NO BW filter applied and 1mV VTB after a solid 40 minutes of warm up, the best I've seen on a 12 bit siglent is around 34uV using the same settings. The rigol requires a few tricks to achieve its printed specifications  including the use of a BW filter which is automatically set when you select the 500uV VTB from memory? As my father would say, they cheat fair  :-DD As with all things Gaelic , "Like the Murphy's, I'm not bitter"  8)

As I previously mentioned you are not going to purchase a Wavemaster HD or similar competitor to perform this type of measurment, you would select something more appropreiate for the task in hand. Hence why we use WavesurferHD's/Picotech/Siglent and Rigol 12 bit units in the main lab.

Many times now I have suggested on this forum that 12 bit affordability is now mainstream which is a good thing all round. More choice to more EE's who would really like more accuracy in their day to day abili to make sure their projects are producing the designed parameters etc.

They are more 12 bit units on the way next up will be R&S MX5 don't expect much change out of a starting point of 40K, that has 6 bits of SW filtering on top of the 12 bit ADC.

Exactly the same happened when 8 bits became the norm, although at that point no Rigol or Siglent.

People will gravitate to whatever platform / format works for them in a given set of applications. It's just our applications require more than 16Ghz of BW so like any company looking to expand its R&D facilities into 5/6G onwards these scopes & analysers will be an essential tool.

At home I use a Wavesurfer & Wavepro HD both very capable products as are Rigol/Siglent/Keysight and R&S.
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #45 on: October 13, 2023, 04:20:31 pm »
If you are looking to capture much lower speed signals with higher precision then there are a number of 12 bit scopes from Rigol / Siglent and R&S now which perform very well indeed in the sub 1Ghz portion of the market.

This metrics as on Rigol DH04000 model:

DHO4000

Ultra-low noise floor at 18 μVrms

• 12-bit vertical resolution[1]
• 200/400/800 MHz
• Up to 4 GSa/s real-time sample rate
• Max. memory depth: 500 Mpts (optional)
Min. vertical sensitivity: 100 μV/div

so we will get about 20% noise on 100 uV resolution  :-DD

As I like to measure residual LDO switching noise on ADC / DAC as in xxMHz :phew:

As it comes into mind, WM, SDA (as 8 bit) requires some averaging otherwise noise very high

What Rigol does well is writing datasheets that lists extremes without mentioning they are not at the same time.

18µV RMS is with both 20MHz BW limit and software filter that kicks in automatically at highest sensitivity..
100µV /div is software magnification. Best it can do is 1mV/div. It is in datasheet..

If I do the same on SDS2000X HD I get  13µV RMS on 1mV/div (so it is same input range as Rigol).
But that is with short time base. With 1ms/div I also get 18mV RMS. SDS2000X HD has real 500µV/div.

100MHz DHO800 that has fraction of bandwidth of DHO4000 has some 50-60µV RMS noise in full BW....
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #46 on: October 13, 2023, 05:40:38 pm »
I feel 2N3055  :-+ has illistrated the point very well here, if we take things on an EQUAL playing field the results will be more towards the REAL WORLD.

Early next year we will have one of these new scopes here so I will put it through its paces with our real world R&D projects and will produce a full MXR review for you chaps.

In that time the new R&S MX05 will be on the market as well, pretty sure Shahriar will be about half way through his review by now so that will be something else to your teeth into as well.

When you are this level my suggestions would say you are in an area of T&E where its all rather decent, its just which application (s) that will be the primary focus of your projects will dictate your TEA purchases from a business perspective imho
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Re: Teledyne Lecroy Brand New 65Ghz 12bit Monster Scope
« Reply #47 on: October 13, 2023, 06:48:31 pm »
If you are looking to capture much lower speed signals with higher precision then there are a number of 12 bit scopes from Rigol / Siglent and R&S now which perform very well indeed in the sub 1Ghz portion of the market.

This metrics as on Rigol DH04000 model:

DHO4000

Ultra-low noise floor at 18 μVrms

• 12-bit vertical resolution[1]
• 200/400/800 MHz
• Up to 4 GSa/s real-time sample rate
• Max. memory depth: 500 Mpts (optional)
Min. vertical sensitivity: 100 μV/div

so we will get about 20% noise on 100 uV resolution  :-DD

As I like to measure residual LDO switching noise on ADC / DAC as in xxMHz :phew:

As it comes into mind, WM, SDA (as 8 bit) requires some averaging otherwise noise very high


You post promted me to actually look at the real world noise floor of one of my personal scopes earlier:-

Teledyne's offcial specifications list the vertical noise for a 4Ghz wavepro @ 228uV 50Ohm open port full BW NO form of manipulation at all.

https://cdn.teledynelecroy.com/files/pdf/waveprohd-datasheet.pdf

Lecroy Wavepro 404HD 4Ghz BW, scope had been running for over hour (have been looking at some new clock supply boards) running full bandwidth/50 Ohm open ports/No ERES/No digital filtering/No averaging. 10GS/s sample rate 1uS HTB/1mV VTB/100Ks.

Below are the actual scope screen images 165pS rounded up. As you can see it comfortably exceeds it published figures of merit by at this point by over 25% of the spec sheet 228pS. In fact every Lecroy 12bit  scope I have owned has demonstrated this. No tricks, no filters etc just the real world performance of said device.
Final image with BW to 20Mhz and ERES to max,  32pS bit of a difference eh  :-DD


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