I am looking for very fast ram/fifo buffer ICs for a possible digital
oscilloscope project. Mainly, I am wondering what the fastest commonly
available RAM or FIFO is, and how fast it is. By doing a search on the web,
the fastest I could find was about 3.3 or 4 ns access time. This would
probably work, but I am just wondering what exists. Does anyone know what
DSOs do to capture data at >2GS/s ?? I thought possibly they might parallel
several 5ns FSRAMs and let one recover while writing to the next, etc.
There still is a limit to how much one could do this, thought, because the
data has to be placed at the pins of the ram for a certain amt. of time.

Thanks,

Sean


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| Sean Breheny                   |
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