Atec Tektronix-MSO4000 Series - Manual (Page 2)

Data Sheet
Discover – Fast waveform capture rate - over 50,000 wfm/s - maximizes the probability
of capturing elusive glitches and other infrequent events.
Comprehensive Features Speed Every Stage
of Debug
The MSO/DPO4000 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/DPO4000 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 – 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.
Capture
Discovering a device fault is only the first step. Next, you must capture the
event of interest to identify root cause.
The MSO/DPO4000 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 10M point 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/DPO4000 Series provides integrated support for
the industry’s broadest range of serial buses – I
2 C, SPI, USB, CAN, LIN,
FlexRay, RS-232/422/485/UART, and I 2 S/LJ/RJ/TDM. The ability to decode
up to four 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 MSO4000 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 60.6 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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