Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes
MSO3000 Series, DPO3000 Series Data Sheet
Connectivity
USB 2.0 Host Port on both the Front Panel and Rear Panel for Quick and
Easy Data Storage, Printing, and Connecting a USB Keyboard
USB 2.0 Device Port on Rear Panel for Easy Connection to a PC or
Direct Printing to a PictBridge
®
-compatible Printer
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet Port for Network Connection and Video Out
Port to Export the Oscilloscope Display to a Monitor or Projector
Optional Serial Triggering and Analysis
Automated Serial Triggering, Decode, and Search Options for I
2
C, SPI,
CAN, LIN, RS-232/422/485/UART, and I
2
S/LJ/RJ/TDM
Mixed Signal Design and Analysis (MSO Series)
Features & Benefits
Key Performance Specifications
500, 300, 100 MHz Bandwidth Models
2 and 4 Analog Channel Models
16 Digital Channels (MSO Series)
2.5 GS/s Sample Rate on All Channels
5 Megapoint Record Length on All Channels
>50,000 wfm/s Maximum Waveform Capture Rate
Suite of Advanced Triggers
Automated Triggering, Decode, and Search on Parallel Buses
Multichannel Setup and Hold Triggering
MagniVu™ High-speed Acquisition Provides 121.2 ps Fine Timing
Resolution on Digital Channels
Optional Application Support
Power Analysis
HDTV and Custom Video Analysis
Feature-rich Tools for Debugging Mixed
Signal Designs
With the MSO/DPO3000 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Series, you can
analyze up to 20 analog and digital signals with a single instrument to
quickly
find
and diagnose problems in complex designs. Bandwidths up
to 500 MHz and a minimum of 5X oversampling on all channels ensure
you have the performance you need for many of today's mainstream
applications. To capture long windows of signal activity while maintaining
fine
timing resolution, the MSO/DPO3000 offers a deep record length of
5 Mpoints standard on all channels.
With Wave Inspector
®
controls for rapid waveform navigation, automated
serial and parallel bus analysis, and automated power analysis – the
MSO/DPO3000 Oscilloscope Series from Tektronix provides the feature-rich
tools you need to simplify and speed debug of your complex design.
Ease of Use Features
Wave Inspector
®
Controls provide Easy Navigation and Automated
Search of Waveform Data
29 Automated Measurements, and FFT Analysis for Simplified
Waveform Analysis
TekVPI
®
Probe Interface Supports Active, Differential, and Current
Probes for Automatic Scaling and Units
9 in. (229 mm) WVGA Widescreen Color Display
Small Footprint and Lightweight – Only 5.8 in. (147 mm) deep and 9 lb.
(4 kg)
Data Sheet
Discover – Fast waveform capture rate - over 50,000 wfm/s - maximizes the probability
of capturing elusive glitches and other infrequent events.
Capture – Triggering on a specific transmit data packet going across an RS-232 bus. A
complete set of triggers, including triggers for specific serial packet content, ensures you
quickly capture your event of interest.
Comprehensive Features Speed Every Stage
of Debug
The MSO/DPO3000 Series offers a robust set of features to speed every
stage of debugging your design – from quickly discovering an anomaly and
capturing it, to searching your waveform record for the event and analyzing
its characteristics and your device’s behavior.
Discover
To debug a design problem,
first
you must know it exists. Every
design engineer spends time looking for problems in their design, a
time-consuming and frustrating task without the right debug tools.
The MSO/DPO3000 Series offers the industry’s most complete visualization
of signals, providing fast insight into the real operation of your device. A
fast waveform capture rate – greater than 50,000 waveforms per second –
enables you to see glitches and other infrequent transients within seconds,
revealing the true nature of device faults. A digital phosphor display with
intensity grading shows the history of a signal’s activity by intensifying areas
of the signal that occur more frequently, providing a visual display of just
how often anomalies occur.
Capture
Discovering a device fault is only the
first
step. Next, you must capture the
event of interest to identify root cause.
The MSO/DPO3000 Series provides a complete set of triggers – including
runt, logic, pulse width/glitch, setup/hold violation, serial packet, and parallel
data – to help quickly
find
your event. With up to a 5 Mpoint record length,
you can capture many events of interest, even thousands of serial packets,
in a single acquisition for further analysis while maintaining high resolution
to zoom in on
fine
signal details.
From triggering on specific packet content to automatic decode in multiple
data formats, the MSO/DPO3000 Series provides integrated support
for the industry’s broadest range of serial buses – I
2
C, SPI, CAN, LIN,
RS-232/422/485/UART, and I
2
S/LJ/RJ/TDM. The ability to decode up to
two serial and/or parallel buses simultaneously means you gain insight into
system-level problems quickly.
To further help troubleshoot system-level interactions in complex embedded
systems, the MSO3000 Series offers 16 digital channels in addition to
its analog channels. Since the digital channels are fully integrated into
the oscilloscope, you can trigger across all input channels, automatically
time-correlating all analog, digital, and serial signals. The MagniVu™
high-speed acquisition enables you to acquire
fine
signal detail (up to
121.2 ps resolution) around the trigger point for precision measurements.
MagniVu is essential for making accurate timing measurements for
setup and hold measurements, clock delay, signal skew, and glitch
characterization.
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Search – I
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C decode showing results from a Wave Inspector search for Address value
50. Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing and navigating
waveform data.
Analyze – FFT analysis of a pulsed signal. A comprehensive set of integrated analysis
tools speeds verification of your design’s performance.
Search
Finding your event of interest in a long waveform record can be time
consuming without the right search tools. With today’s record lengths
pushing beyond a million data points, locating your event can mean scrolling
through thousands of screens of signal activity.
The MSO/DPO3000 Series offers the industry’s most comprehensive
search and waveform navigation with its innovative Wave Inspector
®
controls. These controls speed panning and zooming through your record.
With a unique force-feedback system, you can move from one end of your
record to the other in just seconds. User marks allow you to mark any
location that you may want to reference later for further investigation. Or,
automatically search your record for criteria you define. Wave Inspector
will instantly search your entire record, including analog, digital, and serial
bus data. Along the way it will automatically mark every occurrence of your
defined event so you can quickly move between events.
Analyze
Verifying that your prototype’s performance matches simulations and meets
the project’s design goals requires analyzing its behavior. Tasks can range
from simple checks of rise times and pulse widths to sophisticated power
loss analysis and investigation of noise sources.
The MSO/DPO3000 Series offers a comprehensive set of integrated
analysis tools including waveform- and screen-based cursors, 29
automated measurements, advanced waveform math including arbitrary
equation editing, FFT analysis, and trend plots for visually determining
how a measurement is changing over time. Specialized application
support for serial bus analysis, power supply design, and video design and
development is also available.
For extended analysis, National Instrument’s LabVIEW SignalExpress™
Tektronix Edition provides over 200 built-in functions including time and
frequency domain analysis, limit testing, data logging, and customizable
reports.
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Data Sheet
Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing, navigating, and
analyzing waveform data. Zip through your 5 Mpoint record by turning the outer pan
control (1). Get from the beginning to end in seconds. See something of interest and want
to see more details? Just turn the inner zoom control (2).
Search step 1: You define what you would like to
find.
Wave Inspector
®
Navigation and Search
A 5 Mpoint record length represents thousands of screens of information.
The MSO/DPO3000 Series enables you to
find
your event in seconds with
Wave Inspector, the industry’s best tool for navigation and search.
Wave Inspector offers the following innovative controls:
Zoom/Pan
A dedicated, two-tier front-panel control provides intuitive control of both
zooming and panning. The inner control adjusts the zoom factor (or zoom
scale); turning it clockwise activates zoom and goes to progressively higher
zoom factors, while turning it counterclockwise results in lower zoom factors
and eventually turning zoom off. No longer do you need to navigate through
multiple menus to adjust your zoom view. The outer control pans the zoom
box across the waveform to quickly get to the portion of waveform you are
interested in. The outer control also utilizes force-feedback to determine
how fast to pan on the waveform. The farther you turn the outer control, the
faster the zoom box moves. Pan direction is changed by simply turning the
control the other way.
Search step 2: Wave Inspector automatically searches through the record and marks each
event with a hollow white triangle. You can then use the
Previous
and
Next
buttons to
jump from one event to the next.
User Marks
Press the
Set Mark
front-panel button to place one or more marks on
the waveform. Navigating between marks is as simple as pressing the
Previous
(←) and
Next
(→) buttons on the front panel.
Search Marks
The
Search
button allows you to automatically search through your long
acquisition looking for user-defined events. All occurrences of the event
are highlighted with search marks and are easily navigated to, using the
front-panel
Previous
(←) and
Next
(→) buttons. Search types include
edge, pulse width/glitch, runt, logic, setup and hold, rise/fall time parallel
bus, and I
2
C, SPI, CAN, LIN, RS-232/422/485/UART, and I
2
S/LJ/RJ/TDM
packet content.
Play/Pause
A dedicated
Play/Pause
front-panel button scrolls the waveform across the
display automatically while you look for anomalies or an event of interest.
Playback speed and direction are controlled using the intuitive pan control.
Once again, turning the control further makes the waveform scroll faster and
changing direction is as simple as turning the control the other way.
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Digital phosphor technology enables greater than 50,000 wfm/s waveform capture rate
and real-time intensity grading on the MSO/DPO3000 Series.
The MSO Series provides 16 integrated digital channels enabling you to view and analyze
time-correlated analog and digital signals.
Digital Phosphor Technology
The MSO/DPO3000 Series’ digital phosphor technology provides you with
fast insight into the real operation of your device. Its fast waveform capture
rate – greater than 50,000 wfm/s – gives you a high probability of quickly
seeing the infrequent problems common in digital systems: runt pulses,
glitches, timing issues, and more.
Waveforms are superimposed with one another and waveform points that
occur more frequently are intensified. This quickly highlights the events
that over time occur more often or, in the case of infrequent anomalies,
occur less often.
With the MSO/DPO3000 Series, you can choose infinite persistence
or variable persistence, determining how long the previous waveform
acquisitions stay on-screen. This allows you to determine how often an
anomaly is occurring.
With the color-coded digital waveform display, groups are created by simply placing digital
channels together on the screen, allowing the digital channels to be moved as a group.
You can set threshold values for each pod of eight channels, enabling support for up to
two different logic families.
Mixed Signal Design and Analysis
(MSO Series)
The MSO3000 Series Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes provide 16 digital
channels. These channels are tightly integrated into the oscilloscope's user
interface, simplifying operation and making it possible to solve mixed-signal
issues easily.
Color-coded Digital Waveform Display
The MSO3000 Series has redefined the way you view digital waveforms.
One common problem shared by both logic analyzers and mixed-signal
oscilloscopes is determining if data is a one or a zero when zoomed in far
enough that the digital trace stays
flat
all the way across the display. The
MSO3000 Series has color-coded digital traces, displaying ones in green
and zeros in blue.
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