TDS 520A, 524A, 540A, & 544A Service Manual
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Typical Characteristics
The tables in this subsection list the typical characteristics that describe the
TDS 520A, 524A, 540A, & 544A Digitizing Oscilloscopes.
Typical characteristics are described in terms of typical or average
performance. Typical characteristics are not warranted.
TableĂ1Ć13:ăTypical Characteristics Ċ Signal Acquisition System
Name
Description
Accuracy, Delta Time Measurement For singleĆshot acquisitions using singleĆshot sample acquisition
modes.
1
Time Measurement Error ≤ .15* Si + (25 ppm |Reading|) + (Time
Per Div B 1000)
Add 50 ps (typical) Channel Skew for 2 channel measurements.
Sample calculation:
To measure the width of a 65.5 ns pulse at 1 GS/sec sampling,
Time Measurement Error
≤ (0.15 × 1 ns) + (2.5 × 10
-5
)(65.5 ns) + (50 ns/divB1000)
≤ 0.15 ns + 0.002 ns + 0.05 ns
≤ 202 ps
Delay Between Channels, Full BandĆ
width, Equivalent Time
v250 ps for any two channels with equal volts/division and coupling
settings
Frequency Limit, Upper, 100 MHz
Bandwidth Limited
100 MHz
Frequency Limit, Upper, 20 MHz
Bandwidth Limited
20 MHz
Calculated Rise Time
2
Volts/Div Setting
5 mV/div-10 V/div
2 mV/div-4.98 mV/div
1 mV/div-1.99 mV/div
Rise Time
800 ps
1.2 ns
1.6 ns
Nonlinearity
<1 DL, differential; v1 DL, integral, independently based