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Retr0idyesterday at 8:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

> I configured the oscilloscope to collect 100M samples at 1 TSPS

Typo? I didn't think we had sample rates anywhere near that high!


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nativeityesterday at 9:15 PM

> 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-...

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mkeeteryesterday at 11:13 PM

Not a typo, but you’re correct about the sample rate - with those settings, the scope was doing interpolation between samples.

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KK7NILyesterday at 8:29 PM

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.

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