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cesarefyesterday at 11:01 PM0 repliesview on HN

The older Tektronix TDS540 series did this, but at much lower rates as was common in those days though. Internally there are differential feeds from the very beautiful hybrid ceramic input boards to 4 DACs, with some clever switching so that a single input can be sampled by all 4 DACs with a suitable offset to create 4x the sample rate when running with all 4 inputs.

The calibration procedure on the scope fiddles with the time alignment to get the different DACs correctly offset so that the combined signal is correct.

The hybrid ceramic input boards in their metal cases are a thing of beauty, fragile (don't ask how I know), but beautiful.