Tektronix expands oscilloscope range

Tektronix has announced the MSO2000 mixed signal and DPO2000 digital phosphor oscilloscopes.

With bandwidths up to 200MHz, the oscilloscopes complement the existing MSO4000, DPO4000 and DPO3000 models for engineers working on embedded system designs.

Virtually every electronic product designed and produced today is an embedded system and may contain microprocessors, microcontrollers, DSPs, RAM, Flash, Eeprom's, FPGAs, A/Ds, D/As and other I/O.

In recent years, embedded system designs have replaced parallel buses with serial data buses such as I2C, SPI, RS-232, CAN and LIN.

On a serial bus, a single signal may include address, control, data and clock information; the complexity of which presents significant debug challenges for design engineers.

The MSO2000 and DPO2000 address these problems with integrated serial data triggering, protocol decoding and analysis capabilities.

The MSO2000 provides the ability to time-correlate analogue and digital signals with up to four analogue and 16 digital channels, for troubleshooting the mixed signal portions of embedded systems.

The MSO2000 and DPO2000 are suitable for embedded designers and educators teaching design principles.

Both the MSO2000 and DPO2000 series consists of three models ranging from 100MHz to 200MHz, with two or four analogue channels, a front-panel layout, serial triggering, protocol decode, USB plug-and-play PC connectivity, a 7in widescreen TFT display and a three-year warranty.

The MSO2000 models also include 16 digital channels, providing up to 20 time-correlated channels to debug both analogue and digital data.

All models contain 1M points of record length on each channel and a 1GS/s sampling rate on all channels, ensuring at least 5x over-sampling of the signal.

Additionally, the models provide 5,000 waveforms per second capture rate to aid discovery of transient events.

Unwanted noise can make debugging of intended signal attributes a difficult task.

The Filtervu variable low-pass filter provides a tool to block unwanted noise from signals, while still capturing glitches and other signal details up to the full bandwidth of the oscilloscope.

The MSO2000 and DPO2000 series can simultaneously display the filtered waveform and high-frequency details up to the full bandwidth of the oscilloscope.

The MSO2000 and DPO2000 series include the Wave Inspector search engine on all analogue and digital channels, a set of tools that finds events of interest in long records.

Wave Inspector also provides the ability to automatically search through an acquisition and mark all occurrences of a user-specified event then navigate between the marks.

With Wave Inspector navigation, the MSO2000 and DPO2000 series help engineers to quickly find and solve difficult problems.

All models include standard a USB host port on the front of the instrument and USB device port on the rear of the instrument.

The front USB port supports a USB flash drive.

The rear port is USBTMC compatible, which enables communication and control via a PC.

The rear port also enables printing to Pictbridge certified printers.

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