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LeCroy is a provider of oscilloscopes, protocol analyzer

Protocol analyzer

A "Protocol analyzer" is a tool used to capture and analyze signals and data traffic over a communication channel. Such a channel differs from a local computer bus to a satellite link, that provides a means of communication using a standard communication protocol...

s and related test and measurement solutions that enable engineers to design and test electronic devices of all types.

Oscilloscopes are test instruments used by engineers to measure and analyze electronic signals. Protocol analyzer

Protocol analyzer

s are tools used by designers and engineers to generate and monitor traffic over high speed serial data interfaces, including USB 3.0, USB2.0, Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

, PCI Express

PCI Express

PCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards...

, Serial ATA

Serial ATA

Serial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...

, Serial Attached SCSI

Serial Attached SCSI

Serial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...

(SAS), Wireless USB

Wireless USB

Wireless USB is a short-range, high-bandwidth wireless radio communication protocol created by the . Wireless USB is sometimes abbreviated as "WUSB", although the USB Implementers Forum discourages this practice and instead prefers to call the technology "Certified Wireless USB" to distinguish it...

and others.

LeCroy oscilloscopes range in bandwidth from 60 MHz to 45 GHz real-time and up to 100 GHz sampling. LeCroy currently offers both the fastest sampling and real-time oscilloscopes available.

History

LeCroy was founded in 1964 by Walter LeCroy and began by making High Energy Physics test equipment for labs such as Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory , is a United States national laboratory located in Upton, New York on Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base...

, DESY

DESY

The DESY is the biggest German research center for particle physics, with sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen....

, SLAC

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the U.S...

, and later Fermilab

Fermilab

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics...

, TJNAF, CERN

CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...

and KEK

KEK

, known as KEK, is a national organization whose purpose is to operate the largest particle physics laboratory in Japan, which is situated in Tsukuba of Ibaraki prefecture. Established in 1997. The term "KEK" is also used to refer to the laboratory itself, which employs approximately 900 employees...

. In 1985 the company entered the digital oscilloscope market, and in 2001 it discontinued its physics test equipment division.

The company was privately held until its public offering in 1995.

Location and Facilities

LeCroy is based in Chestnut Ridge, New York

Chestnut Ridge, New York

Chestnut Ridge is a village in the Town of Ramapo Rockland County, New York, United States located north of the state of New Jersey; east of Monsey; south of Spring Valley and west of Nanuet. The population was 7,829 at the 2000 census....

, and has sales, service and development teams in the US, Europe and Asia. LeCroy products are used in the design of semiconductors, computers, consumer electronics, and more. The company reported annual revenues of $160 million in fiscal year 2008.

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