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Tektronix 6-Series 4-Channel 25GS/s 8GHz MSO Review, Teardown & Experiments (I)
Hugoneus:
In this episode Shahriar reviews the top-of-the-line Tektronix 6-Series Oscilloscope.
This 4-channel instrument offers 8-GHz of bandwidth at 25GS/s on all channel independently. Tektronix has made great strides in offering low-noise front-end custom ASICs combined with hardware digital down-conversion built into the core of the 6-Series. This enables advanced triggering across in both time and frequency domains as well as multi-domain correlated measurements.
This review is organized as follows:
00:06 – Introductions
01:42 – Instrument design, front and back panels
03:34 – Full acquisition board teardown, analysis and architecture
18:11 – PLL Experiment: Spectrum View, advanced triggering, PLL characterization and debugging
38:33 – Backplane Communication: Jitter analysis, eye diagrams, jitter composition, cross-talk
49:24 – Concluding remarks
You can watch the video here: [50 Minutes]
youtu.be/8WNuGUQStq8
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rsjsouza:
Shahriar, I can't wait to watch it. I did a test drive on the MDO3 and 4 series and was very underwhelmed by their very poor UI performance. Hopefully the "6" series performs better.
Hugoneus:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on July 28, 2020, 01:47:52 pm ---Shahriar, I can't wait to watch it. I did a test drive on the MDO3 and 4 series and was very underwhelmed by their very poor UI performance. Hopefully the "6" series performs better.
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The new 4, 5 and 6 series performances are in a whole other league. :)
Sighound36:
I would suggest unless they have made some serious improvident to the UI and other items on 6 series since March this year then you maybe still disappointed.
Was seriously underwhelmed by this scope both the Lecroy Wavepro and now the Keysight MXR are altogether a much better propositions imho. Pricing on this scope is very interesting as well.
As with all of these quality range scopes, in the flesh demonstrations is essential for a least 10 days if possible, if you can try and arrange a back to back demo with one of the others its quite illuminating.
Personally paid for my R&D scope so long term research and demo's are critical took around four months before settling.
Possible Shahriar with all his industry contacts could perform a head to head test session with the say the Tek 6 series MXR Keysight I would eagerly watch that review. Given the MXR ability and pricing, Tek and others have a big shake up coming.
0culus:
--- Quote from: Hugoneus on July 28, 2020, 01:59:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on July 28, 2020, 01:47:52 pm ---Shahriar, I can't wait to watch it. I did a test drive on the MDO3 and 4 series and was very underwhelmed by their very poor UI performance. Hopefully the "6" series performs better.
--- End quote ---
The new 4, 5 and 6 series performances are in a whole other league. :)
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Considering how bloody expensive the 3 series is when optioned, this is rather sad to hear. Makes me even less likely to purchase one, even though their salespeople won't leave me a lone now. ::)
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