Launching into 2GHz market
14 December 2010
Tektronix has saved its most ‘significant announcement of the year’ to the final weeks of 2010.
The company has just launched its MSO/DPO5000 Series mixed signal oscilloscope platform that is primarily aimed at the embedded designer. These ‘scopes occupy the 350MHz to 2GHz sector of the market; a sector that fell between the company’s 4000 and 7000 series oscilloscopes.
The new MSO/ Series incorporates many of the popular features from the company’s high performance oscilloscopes, and features include FastAcq with a >250,000 wfm/s maximum waveform capture rate to discover elusive problems, FastFrame segmented memory acquisition and long record length to capture long time periods at high resolution.
In addition, it boasts extensive built-in tools for in-depth analysis of complex designs, and a Windows-based user interface for easy networking and intuitive operation.
The series features eight models ranging from 350MHz of analogue bandwidth and 5GS/s sample rates to 2GHz and 10GS/s for higher-end applications. Record length ranges from 12.5M up to 250M for in-depth analysis and debug. Each model has 4 analogue channels. The MSO models also offer 16 digital channels and built-in parallel bus trigger and decode functionality. In addition, the DPO models are field upgradeable to MSO models should customers need that capability in the future.
The MSO/DPO5000 Series offers critical tools for every stage of debug. DPX technology with FastAcq enables engineers to quickly see problems in their signal with one of the industry’s fastest acquisition rates up to 2GHz, then use over 350 trigger combinations to capture that event the first time. Extensive triggers for serial and parallel bus content enable fast validation of bus operation and make it possible for engineers to quickly track down system-level problems in embedded systems.
Providing industry best waveform navigation, the built-in Wave Inspector search capability can automatically look through an entire acquisition of up to 250Mpoints to find user-specified events and mark every occurrence for fast navigation to problem areas.
Over 50 automated measurements, plus advanced waveform math, histograms, statistics and other built-in analysis tools are available to analyse the signal and determine root cause of a problem or validate operation of the design.
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