HIGH BANDWIDTH OSCILLOSCOPE

摘要

A method for improving bandwidth of an oscilloscope involves, in preferred embodiments, use of frequency up-conversion and down-conversion techniques to achieve a system bandwidth that significantly exceeds the bandwidth attainable through interleaving alone. In an illustrative embodiment the technique involves separating an input signal into a high frequency content and a low frequency content, down-converting the high frequency content in the analog domain so that is may be processed by the oscilloscope's analog front end, digitizing the low frequency content and the down-converted high frequency content, and forming a digital representation of the received analog signal from the digitized low frequency content and high frequency content. In this manner preferred embodiment achieve the significant advantage that bandwidth may be enhanced beyond the limits associated with interleaving and the state of the art in amplifier and ADC design.