Product category: Stand-Alone Instruments
News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: TLA5000 Series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 August 2003

High-speed analysers for
the cost conscious

A new generation of logic analysers offers higher timing resolution, deeper memory timing and faster state acquisition than any other instrument on the market at a comparable price point

The basic building blocks for digital systems - programmable logic, microcontrollers, memory devices etc - have become increasingly advanced, with datarates of up to 400Mbit/s and setup/hold times down to 350ps. As a result, digital designers and debug engineers are challenged with measuring digital signal timing on increasingly faster signals.

Today's slowest signals often have extremely fast edges, creating a need for high-speed logic analysis when debugging and validating digital systems.

Tektronix' TLA5000 Series logic analysers feature 500ps (2GHz)/32Mbit deep memory timing simultaneous with 125ps MagniVu acquisition, giving cost-conscious designers a superior test instrument for performing hardware timing analysis and ensuring proper operation and specification adherence of digital systems.

"While our customers dealing with single-bus applications and tighter budgets may not need the modularity or multiple bus correlation capabilities found in the TLA700 Series, their applications include measuring digital signal timing on increasingly faster signals, requiring high-speed logic analysis", said David Bennett, General Manager, Logic Analysers, Tektronix.

"The TLA5000 Series features the same industry-leading timing specifications as our highest performance TLA700 Series logic analysers, at a more affordable price point.

Built-in features include the EasySetup wizard which accelerates time-to-data by allowing the logic analyser to do the setup for the user".

The TLA5000 Series features high timing resolution and powerful triggering capabilities to debug fast glitches, and it is the only instrument in its class with the ability to capture narrow setup/hold violations.

The memory depth of the instruments enables designers to capture high-speed timing problems over long periods of time.

Users will have the ability to trace the real-time system behaviour of fast buses with fast state acquisition, analysis and display.

And state and timing acquisition are performed simultaneously through a single probe.

The TLA5000 Series includes four monolithic logic analysers - TLA5201, TLA5202, TLA5203, TLA5204 - ranging from 34 to 136 channels.

All models provide 500ps (2GHz) deep memory timing on quarter channels, 1ns deep memory timing on half channels, and 2ns to 50ms deep memory timing on all channels, simultaneously with 125ps MagniVu acquisition The instruments offer 235MHz state acquisition and up to 32Mbit memory depth.

The instruments include iView (integrated view) capability to view, trigger on and characterise not only digital, but also analogue characteristics of signals.

This allows designers to integrate a TLA5000 Series logic analyser with the performance or value they need from more than 40 TDS oscilloscope models, ranging from the high-performance Tektronix TDS6000 and TDS7000 Series, to the midrange TDS5000 Series, to the Tektronix 1000, 2000 and 3000B value oscilloscope Series.

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