LeCroy 6050A bandwidth expansions
Hey everyone.
I recently got a great deal on a 6050A 4chan el 5GS/s 500MHz scope and was looking into expanding the scope's bandwidth and sampling for 1GHz operation. The 1Ghz version of this series (6100a) also has 4 5GS/s channels, but it interweaves 2 channel samples to expand it to 10GS/s. Taking a look at the service manual, it appears that the front end is identical with only a few capacitor and resistor differences. Based on this I believe this may be feasible, however, the only information I can find on the configuration is a small EEPROM that appears to tell the FPGAs what scope it's a part of. There are some SPI breakouts for it so I could look and see if changing the info on that EEPROM would convert it but I'm not totally sure (maybe there is a software flag that will enable the 6100A features). If anyone has experience with this type of hacking I'd love some feedback and help with this project.