Euler Precision is getting ready to launch a crowdfunding marketing campaign for the eSAP-30, a battery-powered single-ended energetic probe able to 3GHz of bandwidth — focusing on quick transitions and knowledge streams in PCI Categorical, USB, and different high-speed buses.
“eSAP-30 is a high-performance, battery-powered oscilloscope energetic probe that is feature-packed and moveable. Designed for engineers, researchers, and technicians working with RF [Radio-Frequency], high-speed digital, or delicate analog electronics. eSAP-30 bridges the crucial hole between costly, brand-locked energetic probes and conventional passive probes,” declare Euler Precision’s Enrique Corpa Rios and Fábio Cadore Posser of the device they’ve created. “After a yr of intensive growth and over ten front-end design iterations, we have achieved our aim: an accessible, professional-grade device that doesn’t compromise efficiency or flexibility.”
The eSAP-30 is a 3GHz energetic probe powered by an inner, user-replaceable battery — and with upgradable open supply firmware. (📷: Euler Precision)
The one-ended probe is claimed to supply bandwidth from DC all the best way as much as 3GHz, with a ten:1 attenuation dropping down to five:1 and a diminished bandwidth when used with a 1MΩ front-end. The enter impedance is 1MΩ, with a capacitance below 3pF when used with MMCX equipment or below 1pF with a header tip on the tip. The enter voltage vary is ±25V, and there is a 50Ω MMCX connector for the output — good for any oscilloscope with a 50Ω or feed-through termination, the pair say, or with a 1MΩ front-end with diminished efficiency. Every little thing is held in an injection-molded polycarbonate case, together with a user-replaceable 18650 battery charged by way of a USB Sort-C connector that doubles as a firmware improve port.
“We imagine in longevity, transparency, and right-to-repair. To that finish, we’re dedicated to launch the design information for the eSAP-30 model of the probe upon the discharge of its successor,” Rios and Posser promise, although with out providing a timescale on when such a successor might seem. “It will embody schematics, board structure information, and case design information, empowering our prospects to take care of, restore, and prolong the lifetime of our instruments indefinitely. It was designed with repairability and longevity in thoughts, that includes a replaceable, commonplace 18650 lithium-ion battery and easy-to-service electronics by simply eradicating 4 screws.”
The corporate has promised to launch {hardware} design information when it launches the probe’s successor. (📷: Euler Precision)
The corporate has additionally promised that it’s going to launch the firmware supply code below an unspecified open supply license “to allow customization and growth of recent options,” together with design information for probe equipment.
Extra info is accessible on the mission’s Crowd Provide marketing campaign web page, the place events can signal as much as be notified when the crowdfunding marketing campaign goes stay.