Depends upon what you need. If you want to make compliance diagrams, typically a full run can take 15min on say a Tek6804. We found that we needed to upgrade the memory to allow a fast acq, which shortened the time for test from 15min to about 5. KWE -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joel Brown Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 6:25 PM To: 'si-list' Subject: [SI-LIST] How much scope memory needed? We are looking into purchasing a high speed scope to do signal integrity measurements (eye diagrams) on SATA and PCI-Express signals. At 40 GS/s how much waveform memory would be needed to get a good eye diagram and make other useful measurements? Options from various manufacturers range from 1M to 200M. Thanks - Joel ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu