Applications:
- Embedded Design and Debug
- Investigation of Transient Phenomena
- Power Measurements
- Video Design and Debug
- Spectral Analysis
- Automotive Electronics Design and Debug
- Manufacturing Test and Quality Control
- Electro-mechanical Design and Analysis
- Bio-medical Product Development
- Industrial Control
Feature-Rich Tools for Debugging Mixed Signal Designs
The Power to Solve Problems Quickly
The DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series digital phosphor
oscilloscopes (DPO) deliver the performance you need to visualize even
your most demanding signals. Bandwidths range from 100 MHz to 500 MHz,
and with all models offering a minimum of 5x over-sampling on all
channels and sin(x)/x interpolation standard, you can be confident that
even the fastest transient events will be captured and displayed
accurately. The standard 5M record length on all channels enables you to
capture long windows of signal activity while maintaining fine timing
resolution. The 50,000 wfm/s waveform capture rate maximizes the
probability of capturing elusive glitches and other infrequent events.
The DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series offers a variety of
analytical solutions including cursors, 29 automatic measurements,
statistics and waveform math. Despite a tiny footprint (only 5.4 in.
deep) and light weight (9 lbs.), the DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series offers
exceptional performance, a large 9 in. WVGA widescreen display and
knob-per-channel vertical controls.
Perform Serial Debug for Common Standards
Serial Triggering and Analysis
One of the most common applications requiring long record
length is serial data analysis in embedded system design. Embedded
systems are literally everywhere. They can contain many different types
of devices including microprocessors, microcontrollers, DSPs, RAM,
EPROMs, FPGAs, A/Ds, D/As and I/O. These various devices have
traditionally communicated with each other and the outside world using
wide parallel buses. Today, however, more and more embedded systems are
replacing these wide parallel buses with serial buses due to less board
space required, fewer pins, lower power, embedded clocks, differential
signaling for better noise immunity, and most importantly, lower cost.
While serial buses have a large number of benefits, they also present
significant challenges that their predecessors (parallel buses) did not.
Debugging bus and system problems can be more difficult, because it is
harder to isolate events of interest, and it is more difficult to
interpret what is displayed on the oscilloscope screen. The DPO2000 and
MSO2000 Series addresses these problems.
Bus Display - Provides a higher level, combined
view of the individual signals (clock, data, chip enable etc.) that make
up your bus, making it easy to identify where packets begin and end and
identifying sub-packet components such as address, data, identifier,
CRC, etc.
Serial Triggering - Trigger on packet content such
as start of packet, specific addresses, specific data content, unique
identifiers, etc., on the popular serial interfaces I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN,
and RS232/422/485/UART.
Bus Decoding - Tired of having to visually inspect
the waveform to count clocks, determine if each bit is a 1 or a 0,
combine bits into bytes and determine the hex value? Let the
oscilloscope do it for you! The oscilloscope can decode each packet on
the bus and display the value in hex, binary, decimal, or ASCII
(depending on the standard) in the bus waveform.
Packet Decode Table - In addition to seeing
decoded packet data on the bus waveform itself, you can view all
captured packets in a tabular view much like you would see on a logic
analyzer. Packets are time-stamped and listed consecutively with columns
for each component (Address, Data, etc.).
Search - Serial triggering is very useful for
isolating the event of interest, but once you’ve captured it and need to
analyze the surrounding data, what do you do? In the past, users had to
manually scroll through the waveform counting and converting bits and
looking for what caused the event. With the DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series,
you can have the oscilloscope search through the acquired data for
user-defined criteria including serial packet content. Each occurrence
is high-lighted by a search mark. Rapid navigation between marks is as
simple as pressing the Previous (?) and Next (?) buttons on the front
panel.
Designed to Make Your Work Easier
Wave Inspector® Navigation
Imagine trying to efficiently use the Internet if search
engines such as Google and Yahoo didn’t exist, web browser features such
as Favorites and Links didn’t exist, or Internet Service Providers like
AOL or MSN weren’t around. Now you know how most modern oscilloscope
users feel when trying to actually use the long record length in their
digital oscilloscope. Record length, one of the key specifications of an
oscilloscope, is the number of samples it can digitize and store in a
single acquisition. The longer the record length, the longer the time
window you can capture with high resolution (high sample rate). The
first digital oscilloscopes could capture and store only 500 points
which made it very difficult to acquire all relevant information around
the event being investigated. Over the years, oscilloscope vendors have
provided longer and longer record lengths to meet market demands for
long capture windows with high resolution to the point that most
mid-range oscilloscopes either come standard with, or can be optionally
upgraded to, multi-million-point record lengths. These million-point
record lengths often represent thousands of screens worth of signal
activity. While standard record lengths have increased greatly over the
years and can now satisfy the vast majority of applications in the
market-place, tools for effectively and efficiently viewing, navigating
and analyzing long record length acquisitions have been sorely neglected
until now. The DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series addresses the need for
working with long record lengths with the following innovative Wave
Inspector controls:
Zoom/Pan - A dedicated, two-tier front-panel knob
set provides intuitive control of both zooming and panning through
acquired records. The inner knob adjusts the zoom factor (or zoom
scale); turning it clockwise activates zoom and goes to progressively
higher zoom factors, while turning it counter-clockwise results in lower
zoom factors and eventually turning zoom off. The outer knob pans the
zoom box across the waveform to quickly get to the portion of the
waveform you are interested in. The outer knob also utilizes
force-feedback to determine how fast to pan on the waveform. The farther
you turn the outer knob, the faster the zoom box moves. Pan direction
is changed by simply turning the knob the other way. No longer do you
need to navigate through multiple menus to adjust your zoom view.
Play/Pause - A dedicated play/pause button on the
front panel scrolls the waveform across the display automatically while
you look for anomalies or an event of interest. Playback speed and
direction are controlled using the intuitive pan knob. Once again,
turning the knob further makes the waveform scroll faster and changing
direction is as simple as turning the knob the other way.
User Marks - See something interesting on your
waveform? Press the Set Mark button on the front panel to leave one or
more “bookmarks” on the waveform. Navigating between marks is as simple
as pressing the Previous (?) and Next (?) buttons on the front panel.
Search Marks - Don’t want to take the time to
inspect the entire acquisition to find the event you’re looking for? The
DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series features robust waveform search that allows
you to search through your long acquisition based on user-defined
criteria. All occurrences of the event are highlighted with search marks
and are easily navigated to, using the front panel's Previous (?) and
Next (?) buttons. Search types include edge, pulse width, runt, logic,
setup and hold, rise/fall time and I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN,
RS232/422/485/UART packet content.
PC Connectivity and USB Mass Storage
The DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series delivers an unprecedented
new level of USB plug ‘n’ play operation and PC connectivity. A USB port
on the front panel enables easy transfer of screenshots, instrument
settings, and waveform data in the palm of your hand. Also, a second USB
host port is on the rear of the instrument along with a USB device port
which can operate as a USBTMC device port for controlling the
oscilloscope remotely from a PC. An integrated 10/100 Ethernet port
enables easy connection to networks. Acquiring data and measurements
from the instrument is as simple as connecting a USB cable from the
oscilloscope to the PC. Provided applications include NI LabVIEW
SignalExpress™ Tektronix Edition, OpenChoice® Desktop and Microsoft
Excel and Word toolbars enabling fast and easy direct communication with
your Windows PC.
TekVPI® Probing
The TekVPI probe interface sets the standard for ease of
use in probing. TekVPI probes feature status indicators and controls, as
well as a probe menu button right on the comp box itself. This button
brings up a probe menu on the oscilloscope display with all relevant
settings and controls for the probe. The TekVPI interface utilizes a new
probe power management architecture enabling direct attachment of
current probes. Finally, TekVPI probes can be controlled remotely via
USB, GPIB or Ethernet, enabling more versatile solutions in ATE
environments.
Additonal Application Support
Video Design and Development
Many video engineers have remained loyal to analog
oscilloscopes, believing the intensity gradations on an analog display
are the only way to see certain video waveform details. The DPO2000 and
MSO2000 Series fast waveform capture rate, coupled with its
intensity-graded view of the signal, provides the same information-rich
display as an analog oscilloscope, but with much more detail and all the
benefits of digital scopes. With up to 500 MHz band-width, four inputs,
and a built-in 75O input termination, the DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series
provides ample performance for analog and digital video use.
Finally, the DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series video
functionality is further extended with the optional DPO3VID video
application module. DPO3VID provides the industry’s most complete suite
of HDTV and custom (non-standard) video triggers.
Digital Design and Debug
Today’s digital designs often require careful layout of
circuitry to guarantee consistent time alignment between clocks on
circuit boards. Small differences in delays caused by routing issues or
inconsistent propagation time across a circuit board can cause numerous
issues with the operation of digital functional blocks. The DPO2000 and
MSO2000 Series can assist in finding those small phase shifts that occur
between clocks as they migrate across a design. XY display of two
clocks can give a quick visual indication of a phase difference between
them. Frequency differences can also quickly be seen. This can be very
helpful when determining how effective clock multiplier or divider
networks are working.
The interoperability of the DPO2000 and MSO2000 Series
oscilloscope with the Tektronix TLA5000 Series logic analyzer made
possible by Tektronix’ Integrated View (iView™) feature enables digital
designers to solve signal integrity challenges and effectively debug and
verify their systems more quickly and easily. The iView feature fully
integrates the industry-leading performance and measurement accuracy of a
Tektronix oscilloscope with the multi-channel and powerful triggering
capabilities of a Tektronix logic analyzer. This integration allows
designers to view time-correlated digital and analog data in the same
display window, and isolate analog characteristics of digital signals
that are causing failures in their systems. No user calibration is
required. And, once set up, the iView feature is completely automated.
The result – an integrated tool set for digital design and
troubleshooting.