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Re:A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory by tverbeure on Monday May 05, 2025 @02:21PM (#43897885)
The ICs are a solved problem, but hobbyists like me designing their own USB3 capable PCB is a different story. Whether or not having a high BW scope would be helpful to detect signal integrity issue is not clear to me: measuring these kind of signal is an art in itself.
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Re:A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory by topspin on Monday May 05, 2025 @09:09PM (#43900940)
"Whether or not having a high BW scope would be helpful to detect signal integrity issue is not clear to me"

Indeed. Even if you have an instrument, and the skill to operate it and produced a meaningful result that reveals some problem, that doesn't spell out a solution. It may help, but high frequency is subtle.

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