Overview:
When measuring high-speed data signals with an oscilloscope, probing is critical for today's high-speed digital designer when debugging designs. While at low frequencies the probe used wasn't critical, many today will significantly impact your measurement. Designers need to consider all attributes of a probe – input impedance, bandwidth, flatness, connectivity, ergonomics, etc. when deciding which probe to use and how to best use it.
The presentation will present some of the common problems associated with high-speed active probing, and demonstrate some novel techniques for solving these probing problems. Issues such as physical connection resonances, making the physical connection without bandwidth loss, and flexibility in making connections, will be discussed.
Giveaway
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Who should view this webcast
R&D designers, engineers, and project managers working on high-speed digital designs; who spend a significant amount of time in the debug and validation phase dealing with jitter and signal integrity related problems in their designs.
Estimated Length: 1 hour
Presenter:
Mark Robinson, Sales Development Engineer, Digital Validation Division, Agilent Technologies
Mark Robinson has been with Agilent for 9 years, presently supporting high-performance oscilloscopes. Previously he was a microwave support engineer and a logic probe designer. Mark received his PhDEE from the University of Colorado and was employed by Motorola and IBM before coming to Agilent. At Motorola, Mark designed high-speed encryption electronics and at IBM Mark developed analog phone circuits. He has two achievement awards from IBM on transmission line design and high-density analog phone circuits. Mark also was an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, where he taught electromagnetics and circuits.
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