Compact Powerful DSO With Inexpensive Price Tag Introduced by LeCroy

Chestnut Ridge, NY — May 1, 2000. LeCroy Corporation has utilized its rich oscilloscope design history to develop a truly full-featured digital oscilloscope designed with a compact housing and at a price never before seen in the marketplace. The new Literunner LP142 has LeCroy’s leading-edge chip technology to provide a new level of power, performance, and functionality to signal analysis in an instrument that is considerably smaller and less expensive than comparable oscilloscopes.

The Literunner LP142 takes advantage of LeCroy’s acquisition chip design capability, creating a powerful DSO that can conduct excellent signal analysis. The result is the first oscilloscope with powerful measurement ability that measures only 8.25" W x 7" H x 6.5" L, and weighs approximately six pounds. It features a built-in 3.5" floppy drive, a graphics printer, and an internal five-digit hardware frequency counter. With such features, portability, and affordability, the LP142 is the premier choice for both manufacturing and service applications.

"LeCroy has always been recognized for its leading-edge technology that allows complex signals to be accurately analyzed. We have taken this technology experience and combined it with an extremely compact housing to develop the Literunner," explained Dr. Michael Lauterbach, director of product development for LeCroy. "The result is an oscilloscope that is unrivaled in terms of features, functionality, portability, and affordability."

An added benefit to the Literunner is its bright, backlit, easy-to-read LCD display. Despite its small overall size, the LP142 features a 5.8" high-contrast screen with a waveform display area of 8-div (Y-axis x 10-div X-axis).

Extensive DSO experience is not needed to harness the true power of the LP142. The oscilloscope automatically sets up vertical/horizontal range and triggers for measuring repetitive signals. Its menu selection system is as easy as a turn of the function knob to select a menu item and a press of the button to set it. Invaluable to beginners is the Help Menu that explains various measurement functions in either English or any of four additional languages.

All the basic functions required for common measurements are provided automatically – 13 are standard – assuring quick, accurate results and improved efficiency. For example, unlike many of its competitors, the LP142 can automatically measure the time differential between signals, important when an engineer needs highly accurate timing measurements.

The Literunner LP142 has the performance that engineers have come to expect from LeCroy. It operates at a high-speed 500 MS/s sampling rate and 100 MHz frequency bandwidth, with 5x oversampling when viewing signals of up to 200 m s in duration. This is 10-40 times more power than many oscilloscopes in the same price range. The Literunner oscilloscope also has a long 100 kbytes/ch memory and convenient three-way data storage capability.

LeCroy has designed the Literunner oscilloscope with a wide selection of data storage and output interfaces. The oscilloscope has a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, PC card slot, built-in printer, RS-232C interface, external printer interface, and optional GPIB interface, offering the flexibility engineers need for a variety of applications.

• High accuracy – the vertical accuracy is within 2% and horizontal accuracy is 50 ppm (0.005%).
• Cursor measurement – two cursors (two vertical and two horizontal) allow engineers to measure voltage differential (D V), time differential (D t), frequency (1/D t), and voltage at time (V at t) of a specific waveform.
• Auto copy – Display or waveform data can be output automatically to a specified device (built-in printer, external printer, ATA card, or floppy disk).
• The Literunner LP142 also has the inherent advantages of a digital oscilloscope. These include a wide range of triggers, including event triggers (count/burst/extra/missing) and TV triggers (NTSC/PAL/SECAM); displaying input signal frequency in five digits for easier aliasing display analysis; and increased time resolution to 40 ps (equivalent to 25 GS/s).

LeCroy’s persistence is also standard with the Literunner oscilloscope. Persistence is an acquisition and display technology for viewing modulation effects, intermittence, and other signal features using either single triggers or repetitive acquisitions. An added bonus is the internal five-digit hardware frequency counter that, when activated, automatically and continuously displays the frequency of the input signal applied.

In addition to power cord, fuses, printer paper, and instruction and remote manuals, two SS-0130R probes are included with the Literunner digital oscilloscope.

LeCroy, a U.S. corporation established in 1964, designs and manufactures analog and digital storage oscilloscopes, signal sources, waveform digitizers, and high-energy physics instrumentation. Manufacturing facilities are located at corporate headquarters in Chestnut Ridge, NY. Direct sales and service offices are located throughout the United States, in all major European countries, and throughout Asia.

Contact: Dr. Michael Lauterbach, LeCroy (914) 578-6057