Tektronix CSA803 Communications Signal Analyzer

The Tektronix CSA803 Communications Signal Analyzer offers high resolution and repeatability, 8.8 ps of rise-time, 200 kHz of test rate, single-ended and differential TDR and TDT, timing resolution to 0.01 ps, 8 bits of vertical resolution, statistical estimations, mechanized testing, and up to 50 GHz of data transmission. The CSA803 is ideal for semiconductor gadget testing, TDR characterization of circuit boards, IC packages, cables, and high speed digital communication estimations. This model acknowledges up to two, double channel SD series sampling heads and has a built-in trigger ability of up to 10 GHz through the pre-scaler. The CSA803 additionally performs telecom cover testing. Once the CSA counts the individual and total samples that fall in every one of the characterized masks, it is easy to characterize the masks for models testing, such as the FDDI pulse template or the SDH/SONET eye-pattern mask. This capacity can easily be reached out to other CCITT and ANSI guidelines which indicate pulse templates or eye-pattern masks.

The Tektronix CSA803 Oscilloscope is a graph-displaying gadget, which draws a graph of an electrical signal. In many applications, the graph indicates how signals change after some time: the vertical (Y) axis represents voltage and the horizontal (X) axis represents the time. The intensity or brightness of the display is called the Z axis.

This oscilloscope's simple graph can reveal to the user numerous things about a signal, including the time and voltage estimations of a signal, the recurrence of an oscillating signal, the "moving parts" of a circuit represented by the signal, the recurrence with which a specific bit of the signal is happening in respect to, etc.