Keysight Infiniium UXR series of oscilloscopes breaks new ground

Source: Keysight Technologies website. A UXR series
real-time Infiniium oscilloscope.

Keysight Technologies, a technology company that helps enterprises and service providers accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, has announced the new Infiniium UXR series.

As the demand for faster and more data continues, digital speeds increase and consequently, margins decrease. Test equipment has struggled to keep up. These are the only oscilloscopes to support terabit research with real-time bandwidth up to 110 GHz, sample rates of (256 GSa/s) and exceptional signal integrity, Keysight says.

"If we don't evolve with you as you evolve your technology, you won't be able to test your technology," noted Brigham Asay, Director of Strategic Planning, Keysight Internet Infrastructure Group in his keynote at the Keysight Measurement Forum 2018 in Singapore.

He said the new oscilloscopes have the "world's best signal fidelity and high bandwidth". "There's no other piece of equipment that goes that fast in the market," he said.

The Keysight Infiniium UXR series offers advanced capabilities that enable researchers to accelerate time to market with PAM-4*, 5G, and optical solutions, by ensuring signals are clearer, eye diagrams are open, and results are accurate. In addition, when paired with Keysight’s new up to 110GHz Optical Modulation Analyzer front end and the VSA-based** optical modulation software, the Keysight Infiniium UXR series turn into an end-to-end solution for optical research.

The Keysight Infiniium UXR series provides:

• Ten-bit resolution and industry leading signal integrity enables customers to experience superior effective number of bits (ENOB) during characterisation of progressively complex modulation standards,

• Four full-bandwidth channels to reduce timing error when working with dual-polarisation coherent modulation,

• Full self-calibration which ensures ongoing measurement accuracy while eliminating the need to take the unit out of service,

• A chipset based on a Keysight-proprietary Indium Phosphide (InP) process that enables exceptionally wide bandwidth and an extremely low noise floor. The noise floor refers to the smallest measurement that can be taken reliably. The lower the noise floor, the more sensitive the equipment.

“The Infiniium UXR Series enables development teams to gain an extraordinary advantage in the race to beat their competition to market,” said Ron Nersesian, Keysight President and CEO.

“Only Keysight has the expertise to deliver a system that moves multiple performance points ahead simultaneously. The 110GHz bandwidth, low noise floor and jitter, enables the acceleration of new designs in high-speed digital, optical research, wideband wireless, and beyond.”

*PAM-4, or pulse amplitude modulation with four amplitude levels, provides a better way to manage large volumes of bandwidth. It is typically used for optical links in data centres.

**Keysight's VSA software handles vector signal analysis.