Specifications

Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes — MSO5000, DPO5000 Series
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 s tep. Next, you must capture the
event of interest to identify root cause.
Accurately capturing any signal of interest begins w ith proper probing. The
MSO/DPO5000 Series includes four high-impedance low-capacitance
probes for accurate signal capture. The se industry-first high-impedance
passive voltage probes have less than 4 pF of capacitive loading to
minimize the effect of the probe o n your circuit's operation, offering the
performance of an active probe with the flexibility of a passive probe.
The MSO/DPO5000 Series provides a complete set of triggers – including
runt, glitch, width, timeout, transition, pattern, s tate, setup/hold violation,
serial packet, and parallel data – to help quickly find your event. Enhanced
Triggering reduces trigger jitter at the trigger point. In this mode, the trigger
point can be used as a measurement reference.
Finding the right characteristic of a complex si
gnal can require hours of
collecting and sort ing through thousands of acquisitions for the event of
interest. Defining a trigger that isolates the desired e ve nt and shows data
only when the event occurs speeds u p this process. The optional Visual
Trigger makes the identification of the desired waveform events quick an d
easy by scanning through all waveform acquisitions and comparing them to
on-screen areas (geometric shapes).
With u
p to a 250M point record length, you can capt ure many events of
interest, even thou sands of serial packets, in a single acquisition for further
analysis w hile maintaining high resolution to zoom in on fine signal details.
Investigate multiple segments of your waveform capture simultaneously
with MultiView Zoom™ to quickly compare events in real time. FastFrame™
Segmented Memory mode enables you to make efficient use of large
recor
ds by capturing many trigger even ts in a single record eliminating large
time gaps bet ween events of interest. View and measure the segments
individually or as an overlay.
Search – Re
sults of an advanced search for a runt pulse or a narrow glitch within a long
waveform r
ecord. Each instance of the runt or glitch is automatically marked for easy
reference
. Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing and
navigatin
g waveform data.
From triggering on specific packet content to automatic decode in multiple
data formats, the MSO/DPO5000 Series provides integrated support for a
broad range of serial buses – I
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C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, and USB.
The ability to decode up to 16 serial and/or parallel buses simultaneously
means you
gain insigh t into syste m-level problems quickly.
To further help troubleshoot system-level interactions in complex embedded
systems,
the MSO500 0 Series offers 16 digital channe ls in addition to
its analog channels. Since the digital channels are fully integrated into
the oscilloscope, you can trigger across all input channels, a utomatically
time co rrelating all analog, digital, an d serial signals. The MagniVu™
high-speed acquisition enables you to acquire fine signal detail (up to
60.6 ps resolut ion) around the trigger point for precision measurements.
MagniVu
is essential for making accurate timing measurements for setup
and hold, clock delay, signal skew, and glitch characterization.
Search
Finding
your event of interest in a long waveform record can be time
consuming without the right search tools. With t oday's record lengths
pushing beyond a million data points, locating your event can mean scrolling
through thousands of screens of signal activity.
The M SO/DPO50 00 Series offers the industry's most compreh ensive
search and wave form navigation with its innovative Wave Inspector
®
controls. These controls speed panning and zooming through your record.
With a unique force-feedback system, you can move from one end of your
record
to the other in just seconds. User marks allow you to ma rk any
location that you may want to reference later for further investigation. Or,
automatically search your record for criteria you define. Wave Inspector will
instantly search your entire record, including analog, digital, and bus data.
Along the way it will auto m atically mark every occurrence of your defined
event so you can quickly move between events. The standard Advanced
Search
and Mark capability of the MSO/DPO5000 Series can even search
for up to eight different events simultaneously and stop a live acquisition
when it fi nds an event of interest, saving even more time.
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