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Feature-rich tools for debugging mixed
signal designs
With Wave Inspector
®
controls for rapid waveform navigation, automated
serial and parallel bus analysis, and automated power analysis – your
Tektronix oscilloscope provides the feature-rich tools you need to simplify
and speed debug of your complex design.
Comprehensive features speed every stage
of debug
These oscilloscopes offer 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 industry’s most complete visualization of signals provides 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.
Discover ‒ Fast waveform capture rate - over 50,000 wfm/s - maximizes the probability
of capturing elusive glitches and other infrequent events.
Capture
Discovering a device fault is only the first step. Next, you must capture the
event of interest to identify root cause.
The MSO/DPO3000 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 5 Mpoint 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/DPO3000 Series provides integrated support for the
industry’s broadest range of serial buses – I
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C, SPI, MIL-STD-1553, CAN,
LIN, FlexRay, RS-232/422/485/UART, and I
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S/LJ/RJ/TDM. The ability to
decode up to two 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 oscilloscope 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 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.
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.
Search
Finding your event of interest in a long waveform record can be time
consuming without the right search tools. With today’s record lengths
pushing beyond a million data points, locating your event can mean
scrolling through thousands of screens of signal activity.
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