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News Release from: TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments) | Subject: Tektronix iView system
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 January 2002
GHz sampling with logic analyser
triggering
A new system integrates/the operation of the Tektronix TLA family of logic analysers with various models of the Tektronix TDS range of digitising oscilloscopes
Now available from TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments), the Tektronix iView (Integrated View) system combines analogue and digital measurement by providing sampling in the gigahertz range with logic analyser triggering The new system integrates/the operation of the Tektronix TLA family of logic analysers with various models of the Tektronix TDS range of digitising oscilloscopes
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 5 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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