TSP #250 - Tektronix TriMode Active 10GHz (TDP7000) Probe/Tips Review, Teardown & Experiments

In this episode Shahriar takes a close look at the TDP7000 Series TriMode Probe and accompanying active probe tips.

https://www.tek.com/en/datasheet/trimode(tm)-probe-family-1

The review is organized as follows:

00:00 - Introductions 01:23 - TriMode principle of operation 02:37 - Using the 2.92mm/SMA 50-Ohm probe tip adapter, single-ended, differential, common-mode measurements 10:39 - Solder-in flexible probe tip, measurements of a PCI-E 2.5Gbps data stream, eye diagrams, jitter analysis 20:22 - Differential browser use-case, in-circuit synthesizer measurements, frequency domain analysis 25:47 - Detailed look at the flexible, solder-in probe tip, front-end design, integrated circuit reverse engineering 35:58 - Concluding remarks

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