HP54720D

A note from ASA

This scope is no longer being manufactured. However, this scope is supported by M1, and by using this scope together with M1 you will simultaneously extend the useful life of the scope and have available all the latest measurements and analysis tools.

"I've been fortunate to have been involved with Denali and its design team since the very beginning. I just can't begin to say enough about this magnificent instrument -- for seven years, it was the finest real-time oscilloscope available, even after it was discontinued. Think of this as the SR71 of oscilloscopes -- a no-compromise design that prioritized sheer performance above any other variable."     Mike Williams , President, Amherst Systems Associates, Inc.

When you only have one chance to make a measurement, the HP 54720D real-time oscilloscope provides the superior bandwidth, sample rate, flatness and accuracy you need to capture intermittent design problems. Whether it's early in the component evaluation phase or late in the debugging phase, you'll find this powerful oscilloscope to be indispensable for understanding intermittent, high-speed problems like crosstalk and ground bounce.

Capture and analyze glitches as narrow as < 500 ps, which can cause intermittent problems in a high-performance computer. Determine the effects of those glitches on your logic family's noise margin. Measure critical timing violations created by incorrect clock skews and propagation delays, without using a significant part of your timing margin in the measurement. Increase your confidence in finding metastable problems and their causes with high throughput and pretrigger acquisition.

Modularity - A Smart Choice

Because of the diversity of your tasks, you need a system that can be configured easily to obtain the most accurate answers for your applications. As technology evolves, the HP 54720D will evolve with your requirements, letting you customize the scope for today's and tomorrow's needs. The HP 54720D mainframe has 2-GHz bandwidth and 64k of memory per channel, and allows you to change its character through boards, software and plug-ins as your needs grow.

±30-ps Timing Accuracy

An innovative, new dual-slope trigger interpolator provides better time-interval measurements. The new interpolator improves equivalent-time resolution and correlates multiple single-shot events down to 1 ps for ±30-ps timing accuracy.

Performance - No Compromise!

The HP 54720D modular oscilloscope is the performance leader in measurement accuracy. Now capture, record and transfer your data dependably. Protect your data's integrity with nonvolatile memory. An 8-GSa/s sample rate assures you that the higher frequency harmonics of your signal will be accurately recorded. your measurements will be the most precise they can be with a timing resolution to 1 ps and with a timing accuracy of 30 ps, equivalent time, and 50 ps, real time. And, HP gives you a scope with unprecedented vertical accuracy - 1% vertical accuracy, an 8-bit A/D converter, low-noise amplifiers (300 µVrms), and 2-GHz bandwidth. the 64k memory depth per channel, combined with the 8-GSa/s sample rate, lets you capture high-speed signals to greater depths and higher fidelity than previously possible. Whether you are testing digital PC boards, components, integrated circuits or entire supercomputers, the HP 54720D scope is designed with the accuracy and throughput you need to get the job done quickly and correctly.