

^ 'A Guide to the Tektronix 2430-series Digititizing Storage Oscilloscopes'.Įxternal links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tektronix.Your chance to get Bass House Projects Collection is finally back…and now you can get it for nearly 50% off!.^ 'A Guide to Tektronix 2000 Series Oscilloscopes'.^ 'The Tektronix 547 Oscilloscope - Magic in the Box'.Many Tektronix instruments, including the 2430-series oscilloscopes, are available with GPIB interface cards. Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI) took the command structures defined in IEEE 488.2 and created a single, comprehensive programming command set that is used with any SCPI instrument. ANSI/IEEE 488.2-1987 strengthened the original standard by defining precisely how controllers and instruments communicate. Today, the name General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) is more widely used than HP-IB. It was later accepted as IEEE Standard 488-1975, and has evolved to ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.1-1987. Because of its high transfer rate at the time (nominally 1 Mbytes/s), this interface bus quickly gained popularity.

In 1965, Hewlett-Packard designed the Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus ( HP-IB ) to connect their line of programmable instruments to their computers. The 7S14 dual trace delayed sweep sampler ($5,235 in 1983) was a complete 1 GHz sampler that did not use any S-series sampling heads. The 7S12 could also perform as a sampling scope with a sampling head and a trigger recognizer head (S-53). The 7S12 TDR/Sampler ($3,390 in 1983) was a double-wide time domain reflectometry plug in it needed both a sampling head (such as the S-6 30 ps risetime 11.5 GHz pass through sampler, $2,295 in 1983) and a pulse generator (such as the S-52 25 ps risetime tunnel diode generator, $1,655 in 1983). The 7T11 could trigger on a 1 GHz signal or it could synchronize to a 1 GHz to 12.4 GHz input.

The 7S11 would work in combination with the 7T11 ($4,460 in 1983) or 7T11A sampling sweep units as a time base. The S-1 sampling head ($1,160 in 1983) had a 1 GHz bandwidth the S-4 sampling head ($2,665) had a 25 ps risetime 12.4 GHz bandwidth traveling-wave sampler. The 7S11 sampling unit ($1,780) was intended for a mainframe's vertical axis slot it would take an S-series head, and that head would determine the bandwidth. (The S-series sampling heads were used in the Tektronix 560-series sampling plug ins such as the 3S2, 3S5, 3S6). The series also had some sampling technology plug ins, and many plug ins of this group used the S-series sampling and pulse generator heads.
