Tektronix has launched its new MSO4000 mixed signal oscilloscopes (MSO) family. The oscilloscopes combine three powerful capabilities – an advanced realtime oscilloscope and logic analyser, and the company’s Wave Inspector waveform search engine – into one small and lightweight portable device for embedded design and debug.
The MSO4000 provides a familiar oscilloscope front-panel and a good display, letting the engineer control everything intuitively but with only a fraction of the size and weight of other MSOs.
Debugging an embedded design often requires viewing analog signal phenomena and the interaction of digital control signals. In this mixed signal environment, engineers cannot accurately predict the types of problems that will be uncovered during development. They need a test instrument with the ability to acquire both analog and digital signals and display them time-correlated on a single display. With the MSO4000 oscilloscope and basic logic analyser capabilities are combined so that engineers can conveniently visualise and correlate analog and digital signals on a single instrument.
Performance
The MSO4000 oscilloscope family consists of four models ranging from 350 MHz to 1 GHz, with two or four analog channels and 16 digital channels to provide up to 20 time-correlated channels. The MSO4032 and MSO4034 provide bandwidth of 350 MHz on two and four analog channels respectively. The MSO4054 provides 500 MHz bandwidth across four analog channels and the MSO4104 offers 1 GHz bandwidth on the four analog channels. The MSO4104 provides 5 GS/s sampling on all channels while the other models provide 2,5 GS/s on all channels. All models come standard with 10M record length on all analog and digital channels.
The MSO4000 provides two methods for capturing digital waveform data. The main digital acquisition mode captures 10M points at 500 MS/s (2 ns resolution). The MSO4000 also provides MagniVu ultra high resolution signal acquisition technology that acquires 10 000 points at up to 16,5 GS/s (60,6 ps resolution). Both the main and MagniVu waveforms are acquired on every trigger and can be viewed at any time, running or stopped.
Ease of use
The MSO4000 offers the innovative Wave Inspector on all analog and digital channels, an unprecedented set of easy-to-use tools for discovery and efficient viewing, navigating, and analysing waveform data. Managing up to 20 channels, each with 10M record length, has been much simplified through automated waveform pan and zoom, user definable markers and intelligent search and find modes. All models provide a large 10,4 inch, XGA colour display, and at only 13,7 cm deep the MSO4000 is one of the shallowest on the market
The MSO4000 combines leading specifications, familiar operation, innovative troubleshooting capabilities, and comprehensive support for monitoring, triggering, and decoding parallel buses and the most common serial buses used in embedded design such as I²C, SPI, CAN, and RS232.
New digital probe
Along with these new oscilloscopes, Tektronix has also introduced the P6516 digital probe. This unique probe design offers two eight channel pods that can each probe parts up to 2,4 m apart, facilitating the reach to multiple areas on a board with a single probe.
For more information contact Roger du Buisson, Inala Distribution, +27 (0)11 206 8305, roger@inala.co.za
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