Keysight N1000A DCA-X Wide-Bandwidth Oscilloscope

The Keysight N1000A DCA-X Wide-Bandwidth Oscilloscope is a high-performance sampling oscilloscope platform designed for analyzing ultra-high-speed electrical and optical signals. It supports signal measurements from 50 Mb/s up to 224 Gb/s, making it suitable for next-generation communication systems.

The N1000A serves as the mainframe of the DCA-X platform, allowing engineers to configure the system with a wide range of plug-in modules for optical, electrical, and TDR/TDT measurements. This modular design ensures flexibility and long-term scalability for advanced measurement environments.

With measurement bandwidths exceeding 100 GHz, extremely low jitter, and high timing accuracy, the N1000A enables precise analysis of high-speed digital and optical communication signals.

Key Features

• Ultra-wide measurement bandwidth
  Supports bandwidths greater than 100 GHz, enabling analysis of PAM4, high-speed serial links, and next-generation optical communication systems.
• Modular architecture
  The DCA-X system uses a mainframe and plug-in modules, allowing users to configure optical, electrical, and TDR measurement capabilities.
• Extremely low jitter performance
  Intrinsic jitter as low as 90 fs rms, enabling precise jitter and signal integrity measurements.
• High channel scalability
  Supports up to 16 electrical or optical channels for high-throughput testing environments.
• Advanced FlexDCA software
  Provides powerful analysis, measurement automation, and remote control capabilities for high-speed signal testing.

Key Specifications

Applications

Typical applications include:

• High-speed optical communication research

• Optical transceiver design and production testing

• High-speed ASIC and FPGA characterization

• Signal integrity and jitter analysis

• High-speed serial bus validation

• TDR/TDT and channel analysis of PCBs and cables