R&S RTP high-performance oscilloscope

The high-performance R&S RTP oscilloscope family combines signal integrity with a high acquisition rate. In standard acquisition mode it can measure a million waveforms per second, which is said to make it more than a 1000 times faster than other oscilloscopes in its class. This helps users to find sporadic errors quickly.

The product compensates for transmission losses from the signal source to the oscilloscope (de-embedding) in real time, meaning the oscilloscope is still fast even with signal correction activated. Due to its digital trigger architecture, it can precisely trigger on compensated signals.

A further time-saving feature is hardware acceleration for a range of analysis functions. Mask tests, histograms and frequency domain analyses can be performed at high speed for fast results.

The device combines multiple instruments; 16 logic channels, four voltage channels and four current measurement channels are available in addition to the analog oscilloscope channels. It supports protocol analysis of serial bus interfaces and offers powerful spectrum and signal analysis functions. Due to its wide range of tools, users can test many different types of signals from complex circuits time-correlated with each other with just one T&M instrument and find related errors fast.

The oscilloscope addresses electronics developers in the wide-base market, particularly in the fields of aerospace and defence, automotive, industry and telecommunications. It is suitable for debugging electronic circuitries with different signals during development, including high-speed buses (USB, PCI Express, MIPI, etc), multichannel RF interfaces (radio or radar), DDR memory interfaces, complex power management units and even simple control and programming buses (I²C, SPI, etc). The product can test all applications where high-resolution signals need to be measured with a wide dynamic range and high sensitivity in the time and frequency domains.

The oscilloscope is compact, with a footprint up to 40% lower than conventional models. Due to the sophisticated cooling concept and the silent fans, the quiet instrument doesn’t disturb lab operations. If T&M requirements increase, the measurement bandwidth, memory depth and range of functions can easily be upgraded with hardware and software options. It is available as a 4, 6 or 8 GHz model.