What's inside Tektronix's new MDO3000 Mixed Domain Oscilloscope?
Dave does a teardown and looks at the circuitry and how they can get such a cheap 3GHz RF spectrum analyser to work.
MDO4000 Teardown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9_JxRiuS5A
Datasheets:
HMC624 Digital RF Attenuator: https://www.hittite.com/content/documents/data_sheet/hmc624alp4.pdf
HMC311 InGaP HBT GAIN BLOCK https://www.hittite.com/content/documents/data_sheet/hmc311lp3.pdf
HMC429 VCO: https://www.hittite.com/content/documents/data_sheet/hmc429lp4.pdf
Lattice LFE3 FPGA: http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/225/Lattice%20-%20ECP3-270819.pdf
77725 LDO: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps77725.pdf
i.MX6 ARM Applications Processor: http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/fact_sheet/IMX6SRSFS.pdf
PECL Buffer: http://www.micrel.com/_PDF/HBW/sy10-100ep11u.pdf
ADF4360 VCO: http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/ADF4360-7.pdf
1Gb DDR2 SDRAM: https://www.micron.com/parts/dram/ddr2-sdram/mt47h64m16hr-25e
Secrets Behind the MDO Spectrum Analyser: http://www.tek.com/dl/48W-28882-2%20%20%20MDO%20Performance%20WP_.pdf
Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-587-tektronix-mdo3000-mixed-domain-oscilloscope-teardown/

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