Tektronix has announced the new MSO3000 mixed-signal oscilloscope series, providing embedded system designers with the ability to visualise and analyse analog, digital and serial signals on a single instrument.
The MSO3000 series offers a mix of performance and price with up to four analog and 16 digital channels, 100 to 500 MHz bandwidth, 5 million record length and 2,5 GSps analog sample rate for system debug. With this new addition to the MSO/DPO family, Tektronix now offers a complete range of performance options from 100 MHz to 1 GHz.
The scope’s digital channels are tightly integrated into its user interface, simplifying operation and making it possible to solve mixed signal issues easily. The colour-coded waveform display simplifies viewing of digital waveforms, displaying ones in green and zeros in blue. This makes it easy to recognise the logic state of a signal without having to scroll to a transition.
Digital waveforms can be grouped and labelled to reduce setup time. MagniVu high-speed acquisition provides confidence when making critical timing measurements on digital waveforms with the acquisition of 10 000 points at up to 8,25 GSps (121,2 ps resolution), providing fine timing resolution and capturing narrow glitches.
Embedded system designers can discover intermittent problems with a 50 000 waveform per second capture rate and intensity-graded digital phosphor display technology. The user can then capture signal anomalies and glitches with a complete set of triggers, including parallel data and serial packet content. The trigger is applied across all input channels and automatically time correlates all analog, digital and serial signals. Wave Inspector controls enable automatic search across all analog, digital, serial and parallel data signals for a specific event of interest. Wave Inspector will automatically mark every instance of the event, enabling rapid navigation between them. Finally, the designer can quickly analyse signals with 29 automated measurements, advanced waveform math and specialised application support for serial bus analysis, power analysis and video debug.
For serial bus applications, a single signal often includes address, control, data and clock information. This can make isolating events of interest difficult. The new oscilloscopes offer a robust set of tools for debugging serial buses with automatic trigger, decode and search for I²C, SPI, RS232/422/485/UART, CAN, LIN and I²S/LJ/RJ/TDM standards.
Additional application support packages automate power measurements and perform HDTV and custom video analysis. To meet the need for longer battery life devices and for green solutions that consume less power, power-supply designers can analyse power quality, switching loss, harmonics, safe operating area (SOA), modulation, ripple and slew rate (di/dt, dv/dt) to comply with national and regional power quality standards.
With oscilloscope’s fast waveform capture rate and intensity-graded signal view, video engineers can see video signal detail and access standard features such as IRE and mV graticules, holdoff by fields, video polarity, and an Autoset smart enough to detect video signals. The optional DPO3VID application module provides a complete suite of HDTV and custom video triggers.
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