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Mixed Domain Oscilloscopes
1. Oscilloscope
At the core of the MDO4000C Series is a world-class oscil-
loscope, offering comprehensive tools that speed each stage
of debug – from quickly discovering anomalies and capturing
them, to searching your waveform record for events of interest
and analyzing their characteristics and your device’s behavior.
Digital Phosphor Technology with Fastacq
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High-Speed Waveform Capture
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.
Digital phosphor technology with FastAcq provides you with
fast insight into the real operation of your device. Its fast
waveform capture rate – greater than 340, 000 wfms/s – gives
you a high probability of quickly seeing the infrequent prob-
lems common in digital systems: runt pulses, glitches, timing
issues, and more.
Digital phosphor technology enables a greater than 340, 000 wfm/s waveform
capture rate and real-time intensity grading.
To further enhance the visibility of rarely occurring events,
intensity grading is used to indicate how often rare tran-
sients are occurring relative to normal signal characteristics.
There are four waveform palettes available in FastAcq acqui-
sition mode.
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The Temperature palette uses color-grading to indicate
frequency of occurrence with hot colors like red/yellow
indicating frequently occurring events and colder colors like
blue/green indicating rarely occurring events.
Typical Applications
Embedded Design
Discover and solve issues quickly by performing system
level debug on mixed signal embedded systems
including today’s most common serial bus and wireless
technologies.
Power Design
Make reliable and repeatable voltage, current, and
power measurements using automated power quality,
switching loss, harmonics, ripple, modulation, and safe
operating area measurements with the widest selection
of power probes in an affordable solution.
EMI Troubleshooting
Quickly track down the source of EMI in an embedded
system by determining which time domain signals may
be causing unwanted EMI. See in real-time the effects
time domain signals have on system EMI emissions.
Wireless Troubleshooting
Whether using Bluetooth, 802.11 Wi-Fi, ZigBee, or
some other wireless technology, the MDO4000C
enables viewing an entire system – analog, digital, and
RF, time- synchronized to understand its true behavior.
Capture an ultra-wide band in a single capture to view
interactions among multiple wireless technologies, or
to view an entire broadband frequency range from a
modern standard like 802.11/ad.
Education
Managing multiple instruments on a bench can be
troublesome. The MDO4000C eliminates the need to
manage multiple instruments by integrating six instru-
ment types into a single instrument. The integration
of a spectrum analyzer enables teaching of advanced
wireless technology course work while minimizing
the investment required. Full upgradability enables
adding functionality over time as needs change or
budgets allow.
Manufacturing Test and Troubleshooting
Size and space constraints can play havoc on a manu-
facturing floor. The unique 6-in-1 MDO4000C minimizes
rack or bench space by integrating multiple instruments
into one small package. Integration reduces cost asso-
ciated with utilizing multiple different instrument types in
manufacturing test or troubleshooting stations.