Scope boosts high-speed interface validation
Keysight’s XR8 real-time oscilloscope accelerates high-speed interface debug and compliance validation with powerful parallel, multicore analysis. A newly designed frontend ASIC combined with an integrated 12-bit ADC and DSP engine preserves signal integrity, enhances timing accuracy, and delivers consistent, repeatable measurements across high-speed serial, memory, and mixed-signal designs.
Powered by Infiniium 2026 software, the XR8 streamlines workflows with flexible waveform windows and productivity tools including drag-and-drop functionality and an integrated SCPI recorder. Intrinsic jitter as low as 13 fs rms and noise below 130 µV at 8-GHz bandwidth maintain compliance margin for high-speed interfaces including USB4v2, DisplayPort 2.1, and DDR5. The integrated ADC/DSP engine increases acquisition, analysis, and reporting throughput by up to 3×, helping engineers complete high-speed interface validation faster and more efficiently.
The XR8’s redesigned mechanical architecture reduces power consumption, improves thermal efficiency, and minimizes acoustic noise in a compact footprint. This smaller, quieter platform can be deployed in space-constrained labs or positioned closer to the device under test for stable, low-noise operation.
For more information about the XR8 4-channel, 8-GHz to 33-GHz bandwidth oscilloscope, click the product page link below.
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