CSA8000
The mainframes of the Tektronix TDS8000 / CSA8000 series are equivalent-time sampling oscilloscopes that accept sampling modules of the 80Exx or 80Cxx families, enabling electrical sampling up to 70 GHz, optical sampling in various wavelengths, and time-domain reflectrometry up to 50 GHz. Auxiliary modules of the 80Axx series extended the functionality to further special applications. With an iConnect dongle and a TDR module, the TDS8000 scopes are enabled to work as pulse based vector network analyzers.
The series was discontinued in 2023 with the DSA8300, until now the last and final iteration of electrical sampling scopes made by Tek.
Mainframes
Modules
Electrical sampling:
- 80E01 – 50 GHz bandwidth, one input channel
- 80E02 – 12.5 GHz bandwidth, two input channels
- 80E03 – 20 GHz bandwidth, two input channels
- 80E06 – 65 GHz bandwidth, one input channel
- 80E07 – 30 GHz bandwidth, two input channels
- 80E09 – 60 GHz bandwidth, two input channels
- 80E11 – 70 GHz bandwidth, two input channels (A single-channel version, the 80E11X1, was available briefly as a custom job)
TDR Samplers:
Optical Samplers:
Auxiliary modules:
TekProbe Sampling
With the introduction of the TDS8000 series, a special version of the TekProbe-L3 interface was created, the TekProbe-Sampling interface. Different to the previous "dumb" sampling plugins of the 'S-' or 'SD-' series, the sampling modules of the 80 series have more in common with TekProbe level 3 probes like the P7000 series probes. With their own internal microcontroller and intelligence, they feature a much more comprehensive set of calibration constants, compensation features and became even somewhat "hot-swap" capable within the DSA8300.
