DSO6052A AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, DSO6052A Datasheet - Page 6

• Manufacturer Part Number: DSO6052A
• Description: OSCILLOSCOPE, 500MHZ, 2 CHANNEL, 4GSPS
• Manufacturer: AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES

Specifications of DSO6052A

• Scope Type: Digital Bench
• Scope Channels: 2 Analog
• Bandwidth: 500MHz
• Meter Display Type: XGA LCD
• Sampling Rate: 4GSPS
• Input Impedance: 1Mohm
• Rise Time: 700ps
• Input Voltage: 400V P-p
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: na

Why does a fast update rate matter?
While bandwidth, sample rate and memory depth are key criteria
for deciding which scope to purchase, an equally important char-
acteristic is update rate.
What is update rate?
Update rate is how many waveforms acquisitions per seconds
you scope can acquire, process, and display. Oscilloscope “dead-
time” is the time it takes for a scope to process and then display
an acquired waveform before re-arming it’s triggering for the next
acquisition. For traditional scopes, this time is often orders of
magnitude greater than acquisition time on fast time-per-division
settings.
If a glitch occurs during the scope’s dead-time, it won’t be
captured. The key to improving the probability of capturing a
signal anomaly during the scope acquisition time is to minimize
dead-time.
Oscilloscope vendors usually specify what their scope’s “best-
case” waveform update rates are. Some scope architectures
suffer from factors that can seriously degrade the “best-case”
update rates spec. Agilent’s 6000 Series architecture delivers the
world’s fastest update rate when using:
Why is update rate important?
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Update rates directly affect a scope probability of capturing and
displaying infrequent and random events. Slow update rates will
cause a scope to miss subtle or infrequent signal details.
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Responsiveness. If you rotate the timebase control, you ex-
pect the oscilloscope to respond immediately – not seconds
later after the scope fi nishes processing data.
Signal detail. Fast waveform update rates improve the
display quality of the waveform that you see on screen.
Certainty. Fast waveform update rates improve the scope’s
probability of capturing random and infrequent events.
• Analog channels
• Deep memory
• Analog and digital
• Serial decode
Improves probability of capturing
infrequent events
Improves instrument responsiveness
Improves scope display quality