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Operating the Probe
Connecting to coaxial connectors
Connecting to coaxial connectors
You can use the Agilent E9638A to adapt the probe tip to a BNC connector. The
adapter and the BNC connector itself will add significant capacitance to the
probe load. You can generally assume (though not always) that a BNC connector
is intended to form a part of a transmission line terminated in 50
Ω
(the
characteristic impedance of BNC connectors is 50
Ω
). So, the best solution for
maintaining signal integrity is to terminate the line in 50
Ω
after the BNC
connector and a close as possible to the probe tip. That technique minimizes the
length of the unterminated stub past the termination. The following picture
shows the recommended configuration to achieve this.
Note
This configuration has not been characterized for target loading or logic analyzer
performance. Therefore no recommendations are being made or implied as to
the expected performance of this configuration.
BNC connector
BNC 50 Feedthrough
Termination Adapter
Ω
Probe Tip
BNC Connector
E9638A Probe Tip
to BNC Adapter
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