LeCroy model 9304A oscilloscope |
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| Founded | 1964 |
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| Founder(s) | Walter LeCroy |
| Headquarters | Chestnut Ridge, New York |
LeCroy is a provider of oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers 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 analyzers 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, PCI Express, Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Wireless USB 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.[1][2]
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LeCroy was founded in 1964 by Walter LeCroy and began by making High Energy Physics test equipment for labs such as Brookhaven National Laboratory, DESY, SLAC, and later Fermilab, TJNAF, CERN and KEK. 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.[3]
LeCroy is based in Chestnut Ridge, New York, 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.