> I configured the oscilloscope to collect 100M samples at 1 TSPS
Typo? I didn't think we had sample rates anywhere near that high!
Not a typo, but you’re correct about the sample rate - with those settings, the scope was doing interpolation between samples.
A Keysight UXR can do one quarter of that, 256GS/s, but a Tektronix 6 series is limited to 25 GS/s iirc, so you're right.
> Random equivalent-time sampling takes advantage of the nature of a repetitive signal by using samples from several trigger events to digitally reconstruct the waveform. Since sampling occurs on both sides of the trigger point, pretrigger capability is very flexible. Because repetitive signals are being sampled, the bandwidth of an equivalent-time scope can far exceed its sample rate.
https://www.tek.com/en/documents/application-note/real-time-...