Steady increase in the oscilloscope market increasingly competitive market
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The end of June this year, R & S has introduced two new product lines, and as a basis for access to the global oscilloscope market. Oscilloscope products had no R & S With this action, to further broaden its range of test and measurement business, the three pillars of the oscilloscope market, and therefore more of a strong competitor.
Steady growth in the oscilloscope market
As the electronics industry one of the most commonly used general-purpose equipment, the oscilloscope market has been steady growth for decades, with annual sales of 10 billion U.S. dollars. The data show that the current scope test market products in China, GM accounts for about 1 / 3 of market share, compared to before its market share increased. This further illustrates the oscilloscope in the overall test and measurement equipment products in the market position gradually.
With the oscilloscope needs of various industries and the corresponding performance of the continuous improvement of the continuous improvement of the oscilloscope in the entire test and measurement industry will become increasingly prominent role.
Digital Test Division Agilent Technologies Asia-Pacific marketing manager Du Jiwei said, most people think that the advent of the digital age, will lead to the logic analyzer market, which in fact led to greater popularity of the oscilloscope, embodied in the following areas:
First, FPGA (field programmable gate array) is widely used, even in ASIC design, often do first is to use FPGA prototypes, complex FPGA logic analyzer requires verification, but a large number of occasions can be a mixed signal oscilloscope .
Second, universal serial bus (microcontroller and programmable device), for reducing the size of electronic products, engineers tend to the original data on the parallel bus, serial form into one or two signal lines with to pass, all bus physical layer tests need to use the oscilloscope.
Third, that many analog circuit with the part, go to the digital circuit part to achieve, the original part of the test with a spectrum analyzer, and now use the oscilloscope or logic analyzer.
Fourth, the digital video has grown from DVI (Digital Video Interface) developed to the HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) and DisplayPort, mobile video technology is a MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface), which requires the oscilloscope to complete compliance testing; such as , MIPI has just been some companies, the test program has been launched. "Therefore, in the digital age, the scope is not only at work, and play a greater role, in some ways even beyond the traditional scope of the role." Du Jiwei said.
Perhaps because of the important role of the oscilloscope, which makes the R & S determination to win a share in this area. R & S China Chief Representative and General Manager Wu Ke said: "The scope of products is introduced in the R & S milestone, R & S field in the oscilloscope will take 10 years or even 15 years will be the location for world top three."
Technology trend to more
Oscilloscope technology development today, the world is basically a main U.S. companies. $ 1,000,000,000 in the oscilloscope market, including a variety of applications, so manufacturers have introduced a different scope to meet the needs of different occasions. And play a leading role in several major technology companies leading the continued development of the oscilloscope.
Du Jiwei told reporters that the future direction of the oscilloscope technology, often by several factors, including time to market pressures, technology maturity, industry demand, competition, peer interaction. In his view, the low-end oscilloscope price conscious, high-end oscilloscope performance-oriented, so the development trend of technology was not a single direction, but to several or more directions.
Rohde & Schwarz (R & S) Dr. Ma Zhigang China Limited scope summarizes the needs of people: the RF front-end performance, high precision digital sampling systems, high waveform capture rate, diversity and stability of the trigger system, more storage depth, more options and more user-friendly application.
Bandwidth of the oscilloscope is very important, Du Jiwei said that the high-end real-time oscilloscope, for example, that the maximum bandwidth of 32GHz bandwidth, Agilent 90000X Series oscilloscopes, the core technology is the pre-amplifier bandwidth of 32GHz analog bandwidth to do directly. This is because the Agilent has a proven InP semiconductor process technology, and RF microwave three-dimensional packaging technology, and solve the scattering material used in aluminum nitride chip set package of technical problems, but have not got such a high-technology companies must find other ways to enhance bandwidth.
Tektronix distribution business technology marketing manager for Greater China, Deng Jinhui in the "China Electronics News" interview, said, should also be scope to increase the number of channels to meet the needs of embedded design engineers, a trend, and mixed oscilloscope is the ideal solution. "Last October, Tektronix introduced the industry's first high-performance mixed signal oscilloscopes MSO70000, bandwidths up to 20GHz, it is also the world's fastest-growing mixed-signal oscilloscope." Deng Jinhui said.
An increasingly competitive
You can see, the entire bandwidth of the oscilloscope market, according to (application) to segment can be divided into high-end market (4GHz or more), mid-market (350MHz to 1GHz), low-end market (500MHz or less), and the definition of each company division is slightly different. Currently, major foreign companies in this area are Tektronix, Agilent, LeCroy, with new entrants into the R & S. Of course there are many local manufacturers, they have launched in the highest bandwidth currently 1GHz oscilloscope.
Deng Jinhui said, Tektronix now offers the perfect from the 40MHz ~ 20GHz oscilloscope series, to meet the market's most widely used applications. "You can see the end and low-end market by manufacturers who are more and more attention, because this market has enormous user base, from R & D, production-based education, open up great potential for everyone have their eyes on this cake, of course, also attracted some new companies to join. "Deng Jinhui concluded.
"In the end, Agilent Signal Integrity in its absolute advantage, and gradually expand the market share in terms of basically HDMI overwhelming advantage." Du Jiwei told reporters. From the application point of view, Agilent emphasized and rapid response capacity to expand its hardware, as well as R & D in circuit debugging, occasional failure to find advantages, in its non-Windows platforms (InfiniiVision series) oscilloscope, a unique technology enables waveform capture rate in deep storage conditions, can still be as high as 10 million waveforms per second. In the future new products, Agilent will further use of this core technology, extending more additional functions and expand the attractiveness of R & D customers. Customer base in the production, the small size of its unique LXI, no panels have a share of the oscilloscope, the current modular oscilloscope bandwidth is covered 13GHz.
Scope for new entrants into the field of R & S company with two products occupied part of the market, the RTO product line, bandwidth, 1GHz and 2GHz, located in high demand areas; RTM product range, bandwidth 500MHz, mainly used in communications electronics signal measurement areas to meet the research, schools, production, maintenance and other needs.
