Tektronix, the pioneer of the digital phosphor oscilloscope (DPO) has announced a new oscilloscope family that enhances its award-winning TDS3000 Series DPO. According to the company, the six new models in the TDS3000B Series offer more power and portability to engineers and technicians faced with testing dynamic, complex signals in environments ranging from design labs to television studios to field troubleshooting applications.
"Today's market conditions are forcing customers to buy the most product features within a tightly controlled budget. The TDS3000 brought the capability of the DPO to this price range - the features in the TDS3000B provide customers with a more powerful instrument than before at an affordable price," said Craig Overhage, Vice President, Instruments Business Unit, Tektronix. "By implementing new capabilities suggested by real-world users, the TDS3000B makes abnormal signal behaviour easier to see, improving mainstream design and shortening troubleshooting time."
Performance enhancements
The TDS3000B Series offers a host of new features aimed at users doing the hands-on work of electronic design, production, and maintenance. Among the most innovative of these is the new WaveAlert Waveform Anomaly Detection, which automatically detects anomalous waveforms. As a standard feature on every model in the TDS3000B Series, WaveAlert makes it easy to detect and take action against events that fall outside the normal repetitive patterns of waveform activity. Not only does it highlight the anomalous waveform, but it can also be programmed to beep, then stop acquisition and freeze the anomaly on the screen. It can be saved and a hardcopy printed. Tracking these 'stray' events can help engineers quickly identify problems in their designs.
Also new to the TDS3000B Series is the e*Scope web-based remote control capability which enables remote instrument control via Internet browser, as well as information sharing and monitoring. The TDS3000B is the first mid-priced oscilloscope with these networking features built in. The e*Scope web-based remote control feature facilitates contact with service technicians at distant customer sites, remote control by distributed engineering teams, and more. A built-in Ethernet connection is also provided as standard equipment on all models.
The TDS3000B Series is designed to accept up to four application modules at a time. FFT (TDS3FFT) and triggering (TDS3TRG) modules are standard on all models in the TDS3000B series and five optional modules are currently available including telecom masks (TDS3TMT), video (TDS3VID, TDS3SDI) and the newly developed advanced analysis and limit testing. The TDS3AAM Advanced Analysis Module delivers the extended math capability engineers need for analysing and characterising their digital designs. The TDS3LIM Limit Testing Module, offers fast verification that a circuit is operating within its intended parameters.
A new compact thermal printer, the TDS3PRT, is available that plugs into the back panel of the TDS3000B instruments. The printer provides a means of documenting measurement results in the field or wherever the oscilloscope is used.
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