Incredible oscilloscope packs an Nvidia T1000 GPU, 12-core AMD EPYC CPU, 96GB RAM, and 1.6TB NVMe SSD — the 38Kg Tektronix DPO can run Windows 10 and features a 15.6-inch Full HD display
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A $308,000 scope with 8 synchronized 25 GHz channels and workstation-class guts shows how test gear is converging with general-purpose compute. If you build high-speed or RF systems, your debug bottleneck is shifting from hardware limits to how quickly your team can instrument and interpret this firehose.
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