Playing with an oscilloscope you’ll (probably) never own

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Playing with an oscilloscope you’ll (probably) never own


We’ll have to admit that we were really jealous when [Shahriar] sent us a video he made, in which he casually explains how a $500,000 160GS/s 62GHz oscilloscope works and then starts playing with it.
Even if you’ll need to be quite (very) familiar with electronics to fully understand the oscilloscope inner workings, [Shahriar]‘s step by step explanation won’t leave you blocked in the middle of it.
In the first half of the video he uses the manufacturer’s documentation which contains the oscilloscope block diagrams, so you’ll also learn about:

  • timer interleaved Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs), which allows you to increase your input sampling rate by using several of them
  • phase-locked loops, which uses a reference clock to generate a much higher one
  • custom made dies and the materials used for high frequency electronic components
In the second half of the video [Shahriar] connects a pseudo random binary sequence generator and uses the oscilloscope to make several measurements that you’d typically want to know for high speed signals (jitters, eye quality factor…). He later makes a small experiment where he up-converts the frequency components of two random 3.12Gbit/s signals and tries to get each original signal back using the oscilloscope functions, making this part of the video a bit harder to keep up with.

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