Rohde & Schwarz’s RTO oscilloscopes can analyse one million waveforms per second. They also have the first digital trigger system to be implemented in an oscilloscope, which reduces trigger jitter.

The oscilloscopes will initially be available in two- and four-channel models with bandwidths of 1 and 2GHz and a maximum sampling rate of 10GS/s.

They capture signals at 10% of the acquisition cycle. An asic achieves real-time processing of the digital measurement values to produce the one million waveforms per second rate.

With the purely digital trigger architecture, the trigger and the captured data share a common signal path and a common time base. The result is low trigger jitter and exact assignment of the trigger to the signal. In addition, the digital trigger rearms immediately after a trigger event. There is no rearming delay so signal faults do not go undetected.

The single-core ADC operates at 10GS/s. The 8bit converter has more than seven effective bits to achieve high dynamic range. This reduces signal distortion and inherent noise.

The 26.4cm touch-screen uses semi-transparent dialogue boxes, movable measurement windows, configurable toolbar and preview icons with live waveforms.