Features & Benefits
- 350 MHz, 500 MHz, and 1 GHz
Bandwidth Models
- 4 Channels on all Models
- Up to
5 GS/s Sample Rate
- Up to 16 M Record Length
- 100,000
wfms/s Maximum Waveform Capture Rate
- MyScope™ Custom Control
Windows Enhance Productivity
- Right Mouse-click Menus for
Exceptional Efficiency
- OpenChoice® Platform with
Windows 2000 delivers Built-in Networking and Analysis
- Small
Footprint / Lightweight
- 10.4 in. Bright Display
- Standard Touch Screen on TDS5054B and TDS5104B
- Suite of
Advanced Triggers
- Communication Mask Testing
- Pass/Fail
Limit Testing
- Remote Viewing and Control
- E-mail
on Event
- CD-RW Drive
- Interoperability with Tektronix
Logic Analyzers
- GPIB Controller
Applications
- Digital Design and Debug
- Mask Testing for Telecomm/Datacomm/Video Standards
- Investigation of Transient Phenomena
- Power Measurements
- Video Design and Debug
- Spectral Analysis
- Automotive
Electronics
- Manufacturing Test
- Electromechanical
- Biomedical
- Industrial Control
The
World’s Easiest-to-Use Midrange Oscilloscope
MyScope: MyScope control windows are created using a simple,
visual drag-and-drop process.
MyScope: Once created, they are just like other control
windows in the instrument and are easily accessed from either the
menu or button bars.
MyScope™ Custom Control
Windows
The TDS5000B models offer a Tektronix-exclusive MyScope
customizable oscilloscope user interface. MyScope is a powerful feature
that allows you to build your own control windows with only the controls,
features, and capabilities that you care about and are important in
your job. Only with Tektronix oscilloscopes, can you pull all the
functionality you need from all the various parts of the oscilloscope
into one control window, effectively creating your own personalized
“toolbox” of oscilloscope features. No longer do you need to search
through menus for features or relearn how to drive the oscilloscope
after a break from the lab. MyScope control windows enable you to
spend your valuable time focused on the task at hand rather than navigating
menus on your oscilloscope. And creating these custom control windows
isn’t a long drawn-out or complex process. They are easily created
in a matter of minutes using a simple, visual, drag-and-drop process.
Once created, these custom control windows are easily accessed through
a dedicated MyScope button and menu selection on the oscilloscope
button/menu bar, just like any other control window. You can make
an unlimited number of custom control windows, enabling each person
who uses the oscilloscope, in a shared environment, to have their
own unique control window. Since the control windows are stored as
files on the hard drive, they can easily be transferred to other TDS5000B
Series oscilloscopes, or they can even be e-mailed to a coworker around
the world when the need arises. MyScope control windows will benefit
all oscilloscope users, from eliminating the ramp-up time that many
face when returning to the lab after not using an oscilloscope for
a while, to the power user who can now operate far more efficiently.
Everything you need is found in one control window rather than having
to constantly navigate through menu after menu to repeat similar tasks.
Right-clicks
The TDS5000B Series also enables a comprehensive
suite of right mouse-click menus to make simple things as they should
be – simple. Right-click menus are context sensitive, meaning the
choices presented in the menu depend on where you right-clicked the
mouse. This makes right-click menus extremely intuitive. Want to change
the cursor type? Right-click on a cursor or the cursor readouts. Want
to change the reference levels of an automatic measurement? Right-click
on the measurement. Want to change trigger parameters? Right-click
on the trigger readouts. Want to change a waveform’s color? Right-click
on the waveform handle. Virtually all objects on the oscilloscope
display have right-click menus associated with them that include all
the appropriate actions or features relative to those objects. There
are also right-click menus for regions of the display in addition
to just objects. For example, right-clicking in the main graticule
brings up a menu with choices such as Clear Data, Default Setup, Autoset,
Screen Captures, Save All Waveforms, and Add Screen Text, providing
single-click access to many of your most commonly performed tasks.
The customization and efficiency provided by MyScope control
windows and right-click menus make the TDS5000B models the world’s
easiest-to-use midrange oscilloscopes, enabling you to achieve levels
of productivity you wouldn’t have thought possible with your current
oscilloscope.
The Performance and Feature Set You Expect
Elusive Glitch. Fast waveform capture rate, enabled
by Tektronix proprietary DPX acquisition technology, maximizes the
probability of capturing elusive glitches and other infrequent events.
Performance
The TDS5000B Digital Phosphor
Oscilloscopes (DPO) deliver 350 MHz, 500 MHz, or 1 GHz bandwidth,
5 GS/s real-time sample rate, up to 16 M record length, and a suite
of advanced triggers, enabling you to capture and characterize even
your most demanding signals. DPOs provide unmatched insight into signal
behavior by displaying, storing, and analyzing complex signals in
real time using three dimensions of signal information: amplitude,
time, and distribution of amplitude over time. The TDS5000B DPO models,
enabled by Tektronix proprietary DPX® acquisition technology,
deliver greater than 100,000 waveforms per second capture rates. Some
oscilloscope vendors claim high waveform capture rates for short bursts
of time, but only DPOs, enabled by DPX technology, can deliver these
fast waveform capture rates on a sustained basis – saving minutes,
hours, or even days by quickly revealing the nature of faults so sophisticated
trigger modes can be applied to isolate them.
Advanced Waveform
Analysis
The TDS5000B models include a complete parametric
measurement system for signal characterization. Select from 53 automatic
measurements using a graphical palette that logically organizes measurements
into Amplitude, Time, Combination, Histogram, and Communications categories.
Gather further insight into your measurement results with statistical
data such as mean, min, max, standard deviation, and population. Waveform
cursors make it easy to measure trace-to-trace timing characteristics,
while cursors that link between YT and XY display modes make it easy
to investigate phase relationships and Safe Operating Area violations.
Define and apply math expressions to waveform data for on-screen results
in terms that you can use. Access common waveform math functions with
the touch of a button. Or, for advanced applications, create algebraic
expressions consisting of waveforms sources, math functions, measurement
values, scalars, and user-adjustable variables with an easy-to-use
calculator-style editor.
Applied measurement extensions can
be installed to enhance the TDS5000Bs’ capabilities. These software
applications build on the precision acquisition performance of the
TDS5000B Series to address the need for application-specific measurements
to quickly quantify device and system performance. Optional applications
include power measurement and analysis, jitter and timing analysis,
disk drive measurements, ANSI/ITU telecom pulse compliance, and Ethernet
compliance testing.
OpenChoice Architecture
The TDS5000B
Series includes open access to the MS Windows 2000 operating environment.
While the instrument remains a dedicated oscilloscope, the ability
to access the MS Windows desktop creates a powerful tool. Built-in
applications such as WordPad, Paint, and a Web browser allow you to
concurrently maintain lab notes while working with the instrument.
This saves time and eliminates error-prone steps associated with transporting
images for later report development. Other applications such as Microsoft
Word or Excel, MATLAB, and LabVIEW can be used with the instrument
to accomplish local documentation or signal analysis. Installation
of the oscilloscope on the LAN enables Web-based information browsing,
e-mail exchange, printing, and file sharing. Using the embedded PCI
bus, waveform data can be moved directly from acquisition to analysis
applications on the Windows desktop at much faster speeds than conventional
GPIB transfers.
In addition, the OpenChoice architecture provides
a comprehensive software infrastructure for faster, more versatile
operations. Data transfer programs, such as the Excel Toolbar, Word
Toolbar, and Report Generator are used to simplify analysis and documentation
on the Windows desktop or on external PCs. Implementation by Tektronix
of industry-standard protocols, such as TekVISA™ interface and ActiveX
Control, is included for using and enhancing Windows applications
for data analysis and documentation. These tools enhance your ability
to create custom software to automate multistep processes in waveform
collection and analysis with Visual BASIC, C, C++, MATLAB, LabVIEW,
LabWindows/CVI, and other common Application Development Environments
(ADE). Integration of the oscilloscope with external PCs and non-Windows
hosts is also supported by the TDS5000B Series software solutions.
Plug-and-Play and IVI instrument drivers are included to enable easy
communication with the oscilloscope using GPIB, Serial, and LAN connections
from programs running on the instrument or an external PC. Applications,
and other LAN resources, can connect directly over Ethernet using
the VXI 11.2 server included on the TDS5000B models.
OpenChoice Platform. Capturing data into Microsoft Excel
using the unique Excel Toolbar and then creating a custom report using
the Tektronix Report Generator.
The unparalleled
ease of use, coupled with the TDS5000B’s performance, OpenChoice platform,
and comprehensive feature set all in a compact benchtop package, provides
exceptional value.
Applications
The TDS5000B's performance
features make it ideal for a multitude of applications, such as digital
design and debug, power measurements, communications mask testing,
and video design.
Digital Design and Debug
Digital Design and Debug. Tektronix Integrated View (iView)
fully integrates the performance and measurement accuracy of a Tektronix
oscilloscope with the multichannel and powerful triggering capabilities
of a Tektronix logic analyzer in one display, allowing designers to
quickly verify and debug their designs.
The
interoperability of the TDS5000B oscilloscopes with the Tektronix
TLA5000 Series logic analyzer made possible by Tektronix Integrated
View (iView™) enables digital designers to solve signal integrity
challenges and effectively debug and verify their systems more quickly
and easily. The iView feature fully integrates the industry-leading
performance and measurement accuracy of a Tektronix oscilloscope with
the multichannel and powerful triggering capabilities of a Tektronix
logic analyzer. This integration allows designers to view time-correlated
digital and analog data in the same display window and isolate the
analog characteristics of the digital signals that are causing failures
in their systems.
The iView Wizard simplifies this integration
of the oscilloscope and logic analyzer by guiding the user through
setup and connection. No user calibration is required. And, once set
up, the iView feature is completely automated. The result – an integrated
tool set for digital design and troubleshooting.
Power Measurements
Power Measurements. Channel 1 (yellow, labeled Voltage)
shows the turn-off voltage on the FET of a switching power supply,
with current on Channel 2 (blue, labeled Current). The Math 1 waveform,
M1 (orange, labeled Power), is the instantaneous power resulting from
the multiplication of the voltage and current waveforms (Ch. 1 * Ch.
2). The Math 2 waveform, M2 (purple, labeled Energy), is the result
of a calculation of the integral of M1, a math-on-math operation of
the TDS5000B models. An energy measurement, located to the right of
the display, is a gated measurement made on M1 and includes statistics.
The TDS5000B's powerful and flexible measurements,
math, and math-on-math capabilities make them ideal solutions for
making power measurements, such as voltage, current, instantaneous
power, and energy for power device designers.
Communications
Mask Testing
Communication Mask Testing.
Testing an E1 signal against the mask specified by the standard.
Option SM provides a complete portfolio of masks
for verifying compliance to serial communications standards. Masks
are provided for electrical standards. Easily tailor mask testing
to your specific requirements using features such as one-button mask
autoset, autofit, user-adjustable mask margin tolerance, hit counting,
failure notifications, and built-in mask editing.
Video Design
Video Design. Illustration of triggering on an analog
HDTV tri-level sync signal and examining horizontal blanking interval.
Tektronix-exclusive DPX acquisition technology sets
the TDS5000B Series apart from competitive digital oscilloscopes,
enabling the capture of up to 100,000 waveforms per second for a live,
analog-like display. The TDS5000B models also support a wide variety
of video standards with dedicated triggers including NTSC, PAL, SECAM,
and analog HDTV. In addition, IRE and mV graticules can be selected
for easier measurements and visual inspection. All of this together
makes the TDS5000B Series an ideal tool for video design and development.