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Powerful Waveform Capture and Analysis
At the core of the 3 Series MDO is a world-class oscilloscope, 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 provides you with fast insight into the real
operation of your device. Its fast waveform capture rate – greater than
280,000 wfms/s with FastAcq – gives you a high probability of quickly
seeing the infrequent problems common in digital systems: runt pulses,
glitches, timing issues, and more.
To further enhance the visibility of rarely occurring events, intensity grading
is used to indicate how often rare transients are occurring relative to normal
signal characteristics. There are four waveform palettes available in
FastAcq acquisition mode.
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.
The Spectral palette uses color-grading to indicate frequency of
occurrence with colder colors like blue indicating frequently occurring
events and hot colors like red indicating rarely occurring events.
The Normal palette uses the default channel color (like yellow for
channel one) along with gray-scale to indicate frequency of occurrence
where frequently occurring events are bright.
The Inverted palette uses the default channel color along with gray-
scale to indicate frequency of occurrence where rarely occurring events
are bright.
These color palettes quickly highlight the events that over time occur more
often or, in the case of infrequent anomalies, occur less often.
Infinite or variable persistence choices determine how long waveforms stay
on the display, helping you to determine how often an anomaly is occurring.
Digital phosphor technology with FastAcq enables greater than 280,000 wfms/s
waveform capture rate and real-time color-intensity grading.
Triggering
Discovering a device fault is only the first step. Next, you must capture the
event of interest to identify root cause. To enable this, the 3 Series MDO
contains over 125 trigger combinations providing a complete set of triggers
- including runt, logic, pulse width/glitch, setup and hold violation, serial
packet, and parallel data - to help quickly locate your event of interest. And
with up to a 10 M 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.
Over 125 trigger combinations make capturing your event of interest easy.
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