Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes

Features & Benefits

Key Performance Specifications

• 2 GHz, 1 GHz, 500 MHz, and 350 MHz Bandwidth Models
• Up to 10 GS/s Real-time Sample Rate on One or Two Channels and up to 5 GS/s on All Four Channels
• Up to 250 Megapoint Record Length with MultiView Zoom™
• >250,000 wfms/s Maximum Waveform Capture Rate with FastAcq™
• FastFrame™ Segmented Memory Acquisition Mode with >310,000 Waveforms per Second Capture Rate
• Standard 10 MΩ Passive Voltage Probes with Less than 4 pF Capacitive Loading and 500 MHz or 1 GHz Analog Bandwidth
• 16 Digital Channels (MSO Series)
• User-selectable Bandwidth Limit Filters for Better Low-frequency Measurement Accuracy
• Suite of Advanced Triggers, with Optional Visual Trigger

Ease-of-Use Features

• Wave Inspector^® Controls provide Easy Navigation and Automated Search of Waveform Data
• MyScope^® Custom Control Windows and Right Mouse Click Menus for Exceptional Efficiency
• 53 Automated Measurements, Waveform Histograms, and FFT Analysis for Simplified Waveform Analysis
• TekVPI^® Probe Interface supports Active, Differential, and Current Probes for Automatic Scaling and Units
• 10.4 in. (264 mm) Bright XGA Display with Touch Screen
• Small Footprint and Lightweight – Only 8.12 in. (206 mm) Deep and Less than 15 lb. (6.7 kg)

Connectivity

• Two USB 2.0 Host Ports on the Front Panel and Four on the Rear Panel for Quick and Easy Data Storage, Printing, and Connecting USB Peripherals
• USB Device Port on the Rear Panel for Easy Connection to a PC or GPIB Control with an Adapter
• Integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet Port for Network Connection and Video Out Port to Export the Oscilloscope Display to a Monitor or Projector
• Microsoft^® Windows 7 64-bit Operating System for Easy Connectivity and Integration into Your Environment
• LXI Class C Compliant

Mixed Signal Design and Analysis (MSO Series)

• Automated Triggering, Decode, and Search on Parallel Buses
• Per-channel Threshold Settings
• MagniVu™ High-speed Acquisition provides 60.6 ps Fine Timing Resolution on Digital Channels

Optional Serial Triggering and Analysis

• Automated Serial Triggering, Decode, and Search Options for I²C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, and USB
• Automated Serial Decode and Vehicle Network Monitoring of CAN and LIN

Optional Technology Specific Analysis

• Software Solutions provide Built-in Domain Expertise for Ethernet and USB 2.0 Compliance Testing, Jitter, Timing, Eye Diagrams, Power, DDR Memory Bus Analysis, and Wideband RF
• Limit and Mask Testing provide Quick Insight into Signal Characteristics

Feature-rich Tools for Debugging Mixed Signal Designs

With the MSO/DPO5000 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Series, you can analyze up to 20 analog and digital signals with a single instrument to quickly find and diagnose problems in complex designs. Bandwidths up to 2 GHz and sample rates up to 10 GS/s ensure you have the performance you need to see fast-changing signal details. To capture long windows of signal activity while maintaining fine timing resolution, the MSO/DPO5000 Series offers a deep record length of up to 12.5M points standard on all channels and an optional record length of up to 250M points on two channels.

With Wave Inspector^® controls for rapid waveform navigation, and more than 10 optional software and analysis packages for common technologies and in-depth analysis tasks, the MSO/DPO5000 Series from Tektronix provides the feature-rich tools you need to simplify and speed debug of your complex design.

Comprehensive Features Speed Every Stage of Debug

The MSO/DPO5000 Series offers 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

Discover – Fast waveform capture rate - over 250,000 wfm/s - maximizes the probability of capturing elusive glitches and other infrequent events.

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 MSO/DPO5000 Series offers the industry's most complete visualization of signals, providing fast insight into the real operation of your device. Tektronix proprietary FastAcq™ technology delivers a fast waveform capture – greater than 250,000 waveforms per second – that enables you to see glitches and other infrequent transients within seconds, revealing the true nature of device faults. A digital phosphor display with color intensity grading shows the history of a signal's activity by using color to identify areas of the signal that occur more frequently, providing a visual display of just how often anomalies occur.

Capture

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.

Discovering a device fault is only the first step. Next, you must capture the event of interest to identify root cause.

Accurately capturing any signal of interest begins with proper probing. The MSO/DPO5000 Series includes four high-impedance low-capacitance probes for accurate signal capture. These industry-first high-impedance passive voltage probes have less than 4 pF of capacitive loading to minimize the effect of the probe on 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, state, 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 signal can require hours of collecting and sorting through thousands of acquisitions for the event of interest. Defining a trigger that isolates the desired event and shows data only when the event occurs speeds up this process. The optional Visual Trigger makes the identification of the desired waveform events quick and easy by scanning through all waveform acquisitions and comparing them to on-screen areas (geometric shapes).

With up to a 250M point 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. 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 records by capturing many trigger events in a single record eliminating large time gaps between events of interest. View and measure the segments individually or as an overlay.

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 – I²C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, and USB. The ability to decode up to 16 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 MSO5000 Series 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 (up to 60.6 ps resolution) 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

Search – Results of an advanced search for a runt pulse or a narrow glitch within a long waveform record. Each instance of the runt or glitch is automatically marked for easy reference. Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing and navigating waveform data.

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.

The MSO/DPO5000 Series offers the industry's most comprehensive search and waveform 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 mark 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 automatically 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 finds an event of interest, saving even more time.

Analyze

Analyze – Waveform histogram of a falling edge showing the distribution of edge position (jitter) over time. Included are numeric measurements made on the waveform histogram data. A comprehensive set of integrated analysis tools speeds verification of your design's performance.

Verifying that your prototype's performance matches simulations and meets the project's design goals requires analyzing its behavior. Tasks can range from simple checks of rise times and pulse widths to sophisticated power loss analysis, characterization of system clocks, and investigation of noise sources. The MSO/DPO5000 Series offers a comprehensive set of integrated analysis tools including waveform- and screen-based cursors, 53 automated measurements, advanced waveform math including arbitrary equation editing, waveform histograms, and FFT analysis.

Every MSO/DPO5000 Series oscilloscope includes the DPOJET Essentials jitter and eye pattern analysis software package, extending the oscilloscope's measurement capabilities to make measurements over contiguous clock and data cycles in a single-shot real-time acquisition. This enables measurement of key jitter and timing analysis parameters such as Time Interval Error and Phase Noise to help characterize possible system timing issues. Analysis tools such as plots for time trends and histograms quickly show how timing parameters change over time, and spectrum analysis quickly shows the precise frequency and amplitude of jitter and modulation sources.

Specialized application support for serial bus debug and compliance test, jitter and eye pattern analysis, power supply design, limit and mask testing, DDR memory bus analysis, and wideband RF is also available.

Wave Inspector^® Navigation and Advanced Search and Mark

Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing, navigating, and analyzing waveform data. Zip through your long record by turning the outer pan control (1). Get from the beginning to end in seconds. See something of interest and want to see more details? Just turn the inner zoom control (2).

A 12.5M point standard record length represents thousands of screens of information. The MSO/DPO5000 Series enables you to find your event in seconds with Wave Inspector, the industry's best tool for navigation and search.

 

Wave Inspector offers the following innovative controls:

 

Zoom/Pan

A dedicated, two-tier front-panel control provides intuitive control of both zooming and panning. The inner control adjusts the zoom factor (or zoom scale); turning it clockwise activates zoom and goes to progressively higher zoom factors, while turning it counterclockwise results in lower zoom factors and eventually turns zoom off. No longer do you need to navigate through multiple menus to adjust your zoom view. The outer control pans the zoom box across the waveform to quickly get to the portion you are interested in. The outer control also utilizes force feedback to determine how fast to pan on the waveform. The farther you turn the outer control, the faster the zoom box moves. Pan direction is changed by simply turning the control the other way.

Play/Pause

Search step 1: You define what you would like to find.


Search step 2: Wave Inspector automatically searches through the record and marks each event with a solid colored triangle. You can then use the Previous and Next buttons to jump from one event to the next.

A dedicated Play/Pause front-panel button scrolls the waveform across the display automatically while you look for anomalies or an event of interest. Playback speed and direction are controlled using the intuitive pan control. Once again, turning the control further makes the waveform scroll faster and changing direction is as simple as turning the control the other way.

User Marks

Press the Set/Clear front-panel button to place one or more marks on the waveform. Navigating between marks is as simple as pressing the Previous (←) and Next (→) buttons on the front panel.

Search Marks

The Search button allows you to automatically search through your long acquisition looking for user-defined events. All occurrences of the event are highlighted with search marks and are easily navigated to, using the front-panel Previous (←) and Next (→) buttons. Search types include edge, glitch, width, timeout, runt, pattern, state, setup and hold, transition, and window.

Digital Phosphor Technology

Digital phosphor technology enables greater than 250,000 wfm/s waveform capture rate and real-time color grading on the MSO/DPO5000 Series.

The MSO/DPO5000 Series' digital phosphor technology provides you with fast insight into the real operation of your device. Its fast waveform capture rate – greater than 250,000 wfm/s – gives you a high probability of quickly seeing the infrequent problems common in digital systems: runt pulses, glitches, timing issues, and more.

Waveforms are superimposed with one another and waveform points are color coded by frequency of occurrence. This quickly highlights the events that occur more often over time or, in the case of infrequent anomalies, occur less often.

With the MSO/DPO5000 Series, you can choose infinite persistence or variable persistence, determining how long the previous waveform acquisitions stay on-screen. This allows you to determine how often an anomaly is occurring.

Accurate High-speed Probing

The TPP Series probes, included standard with every MSO/DPO5000 Series oscilloscope, provide up to 1 GHz of analog bandwidth, and less than 4 pF of capacitive loading. The extremely low capacitive loading minimizes adverse affects on your circuits and is more forgiving of longer ground leads. And with the probe's wide bandwidth, you can see the high-frequency components in your signal, which is critical for high-speed applications. The TPP Series passive voltage probes offer all the benefits of general-purpose probes like high dynamic range, flexible connection options, and robust mechanical design, while providing the performance of active probes.

Mixed Signal Design and Analysis(MSO Series)

The MSO5000 Series mixed-signal oscilloscopes provide 16 digital channels. These channels are tightly integrated into the oscilloscope's user interface, simplifying operation and making it possible to solve mixed-signal issues easily.

Color-coded Digital Waveform Display

With the color-coded digital waveform display, low values are shown in blue and high values are shown in green, enabling instant understanding of the bus value whether transitions are visible or not. You can set threshold values for each channel, enabling support for up to 16 different logic families.

The MSO5000 Series has redefined the way you view digital waveforms. One common problem with other mixed-signal oscilloscopes is determining if data is a one or a zero when zoomed in far enough that the digital trace stays flat all the way across the display. To avoid this problem, the MSO5000 Series has color-coded digital traces, displaying ones in green and zeros in blue.

The multiple transition detection hardware of the MSO5000 Series will show you when the system detects more than one transition. This indicates that more information is available by zooming in or acquiring at faster sampling rates. In most cases zooming in will reveal a glitch that was not viewable with the previous settings.

MagniVu™ High-speed Acquisition

The MagniVu high-resolution record provides 60.6 ps timing resolution, enabling you to make critical timing measurements on your digital waveforms.

The main digital acquisition mode on the MSO5000 Series will capture up to 40M points at 500 MS/s (2 ns resolution). In addition to the main record, the MSO5000 provides an ultra high-resolution record called MagniVu which acquires 10,000 points at up to 16.5 GS/s (60.6 ps resolution). Both the main and MagniVu waveforms are acquired on every trigger and either can be displayed at any time, running or stopped. MagniVu provides significantly finer timing resolution than comparable mixed-signal oscilloscopes on the market, instilling confidence when making critical timing measurements on digital waveforms.

P6616 MSO Probe

The P6616 MSO probe offers two eight-channel pods to simplify connecting to your device.

This unique probe design offers two eight-channel pods. Each channel ends with a probe tip featuring a recessed ground for simplified connection to the device under test. The coax on the first channel of each pod is colored blue making it easy to identify. The common ground uses an automotive-style connector making it easy to create custom grounds for connecting to your device. When connecting to square pins, the P6616 has an adapter that attaches to the probe head, extending the probe ground flush with the probe tip so you can attach to a header. The P6616 offers outstanding electrical characteristics, having only 3 pF of capacitive loading, a 100 kΩ input resistance, and capable of acquiring toggle rates as fast as 500 MHz and pulses as short as 1 ns in duration.

Visual Trigger (Optional)

Eye Diagram triggering using optional Visual Trigger.

The Visual Trigger option adds an additional dimension to the standard trigger system that provides an intuitive method of triggering based on shapes in the oscilloscope’s graticule. It enables the user to define shapes on the oscilloscope’s display that qualify trigger events for the incoming signals. Areas can be created using a variety of shapes including triangles, rectangles, hexagons, or trapezoids to fit the area to the particular trigger behavior desired. Once shapes are created on the oscilloscope’s display, they can be positioned and/or re-sized dynamically while the oscilloscope is in Run mode to create ideal trigger conditions. Visual Trigger can be combined with the standard triggers and act as a Boolean logic qualifier for the “A” and “B” events.

Serial Triggering and Analysis (Optional)

Triggering on a specific OUT Token packet on a USB full-speed serial bus. A bus waveform provides decoded packet content including Start, Sync, PID, Address, End Point, CRC, Data values, and Stop.

On a serial bus, a single signal often includes address, control, data, and clock information. This can make isolating events of interest difficult. The MSO/DPO5000 Series offers a robust set of tools for debugging serial buses with automatic trigger and decode on I²C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, and USB serial buses.

Serial Triggering

Trigger on packet content such as start of packet, specific addresses, specific data content, unique identifiers, etc. on popular serial interfaces such as I²C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, and USB.

Bus Display

Provides a higher-level, combined view of the individual signals (clock, data, chip enable, etc.) that make up your bus, making it easy to identify where packets begin and end and identifying subpacket components such as address, data, identifier, CRC, etc.

Bus Decoding

Packet View display of decoded RS-232 messages.

Tired of having to visually inspect the waveform to count clocks, determine if each bit is a 1 or a 0, combine bits into bytes, and determine the hex value? Let the oscilloscope do it for you! Once you've set up a bus, the MSO/DPO5000 Series will decode each packet on the bus, and display the value in hex, binary, decimal (USB only) or ASCII (USB and RS-232/422/485/UART only) in the bus waveform.

Event Table Display

Event table showing decoded serial packet data in a long acquisition.

In addition to seeing decoded packet data on the bus waveform itself, you can view all captured packets in a tabular view much like you would see in a software listing. Packets are time stamped and listed consecutively with columns for each component (Address, Data, etc.).

Bus Searching

Serial triggering is very useful for isolating the event of interest, but once you’ve captured it and need to analyze the surrounding data, what do you do? In the past, users had to manually scroll through the waveform counting and converting bits and looking for what caused the event. With the MSO/DPO5000 Series, you can have the oscilloscope automatically search through the acquired data for user-defined criteria including serial packet content. Each occurrence is highlighted by a search mark. Rapid navigation between marks is as simple as pressing the Previous (←) and Next (→) buttons on the front panel.

CAN and LIN Timing and Protocol Decode Software (Optional)

CAN and LIN Timing and Protocol Decode.

The optional CAN/LIN serial analysis software package (Option VNM) enables you to ensure seamless and reliable operation of a CAN or LIN network. The software measures oscillator tolerances on CAN buses, and simultaneously decodes CAN and LIN messages.

Serial Bus Compliance Test (Optional)

USB 2.0 Compliance Testing.

Software packages for automated compliance test are available for Ethernet 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX (Option ET3), and USB 2.0 (Option USB) physical-layer devices. These software packages enable you to conduct testing using the standard's specified compliance tests.

Power Analysis (Optional)

Switching Loss measurements. Automated power measurements enable quick and accurate analysis of common power parameters.

The optional power analysis software package (Option PWR) enables quick and accurate analysis of power quality, switching loss, harmonics, magnetic measurements, safe operating area (SOA), modulation, ripple, and slew rate (di/dt, dv/dt). Automated, repeatable power measurements are available with a touch of a button; no external PC or complex software setup is required. The package includes a report generation tool to create customizable, detailed reports to document your measurement results.

Advanced Analysis, Jitter, Timing, and Eye Diagram Measurements (Optional)

Advanced Analysis, Jitter, Eye Diagram, and Timing measurements.

The optional DPOJET Advanced software package (Option DJA) offers extended capabilities, providing a complete suite of analysis tools for insight into jitter and timing as well as other signal quality issues. DPOJET Advanced adds advanced tools such as Rj/Dj separation, eye diagram masks, and Pass/Fail limits for conformance testing. The innovative one-touch wizard makes setup for jitter measurements easy. DPOJET Advanced is also a measurement framework that works in conjunction with standards-specific compliance test packages for applications such as DDR memory and USB.

Limit and Mask Testing (Optional)

Mask testing an OC-12 signal, capturing any violations of the mask.

The optional limit test (Option LT) and mask test (Option MTM) software packages are useful for long-term signal monitoring, characterizing signals during design, and testing on a production line. The limit test software compares a tested signal to a known good or "golden" version of the same signal with user-defined vertical and horizontal tolerances. The mask test software includes a robust set of masks for telecommunications and computer standards for easily checking compliance to a standard. Additionally, custom masks can be created and used for characterizing signals. With both software packages you can tailor a test to your specific requirements by defining test duration in a number of waveforms, setting a violation threshold that must be met before considering a test a failure, counting hits along with statistical information, and setting actions upon violations, test failure, and test complete. Whether specifying a limit template or a mask, conducting pass/fail tests in search of waveform anomalies such as glitches has never been easier.

DDR Memory Bus Analysis (Optional)

The optional DDR memory analysis software package (Option DDRA) automatically identifies DDR1, DDR2, LP-DDR1, and LP-DDR2 Reads and Writes and makes JEDEC conformance measurements with Pass/Fail results on all edges in every Read and Write burst, perfect for debugging and troubleshooting DDR memory buses. Also provided are common measurements of clock, address, and control signals. Used in conjunction with DPOJET (Option DJA), Option DDRA is the fastest way to debug complex memory signaling issues.

Vector Signal Analysis (Optional)

SignalVu™ enables detailed analysis in multiple domains.

The optional SignalVu™ vector signal analysis packages (Options SVE, SVM, SVP, and SVT) easily validate wideband designs and characterize wideband spectral events. By combining the signal analysis engine of Tektronix real-time spectrum analyzers with the wide bandwidth acquisition of Tektronix digital oscilloscopes, you can now evaluate complex baseband signals directly on your oscilloscope. You get the functionality of a vector signal analyzer, a spectrum analyzer, and the powerful trigger capabilities of a digital oscilloscope – all in a single package. Whether your design validation needs include wideband radar, high data-rate satellite links, or frequency-hopping communications, SignalVu™ vector signal analysis software can speed your time-to-insight by showing you time-variant behavior of these wideband signals.

Designed to Make Your Work Easier

Large, High-resolution Display

The MSO/DPO5000 Series features a 10.4 in. (264 mm) XGA color display with an integrated touch screen for seeing intricate signal details.

Dedicated Front-panel Controls

Per-channel vertical controls provide simple and intuitive operation. No longer do you need to share one set of vertical controls across all four channels.

Connectivity

Two USB 2.0 host ports on the front panel enable easy transfer of screenshots, instrument settings, and waveform data to a USB flash drive. The rear panel contains four additional USB 2.0 host ports and a USB device port for controlling the oscilloscope remotely from a PC or for connecting USB peripherals. An integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet port enables easy connection to networks and a Video Out port allows the oscilloscope display to be exported to an external monitor or projector. PS-2 ports for keyboard and mouse are included for security-conscious applications that require the USB ports to be disabled. A standard removable hard disk drive makes customizing settings for different users easy as well as enables use in secure environments.

Compact Form Factor

The MSO/DPO5000 Series' compact form factor frees up valuable space on your bench.

A compact, portable form factor allows the MSO/DPO5000 Series to be easily moved between labs and, with a depth of just 8.12 in. (206 mm), it saves you valuable space on your test bench. Additionally the 5U rack height makes the MSO/DPO5000 Series an ideal choice for ATE applications where rack space is limited.

TekVPI^® Probe Interface

TekVPI probe interface simplifies connecting your probes to the oscilloscope.

The TekVPI probe interface sets the standard for ease of use in probing. TekVPI probes feature status indicators and controls, as well as a probe menu button right on the probe itself. This button brings up a probe menu on the oscilloscope display with all relevant settings and controls for the probe. The TekVPI interface enables direct attachment of a current probe without requiring a separate power supply. TekVPI probes can be controlled remotely through USB, GPIB, or Ethernet, enabling more versatile solutions in ATE environments.

MyScope^® Custom Control Window

MyScope custom control windows are created with a simple drag-and-drop process enabling each user to have a unique interface.

Easily create your own personalized "toolbox" of oscilloscope features 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 menu selection on the oscilloscope. This is ideal in a shared resource environment where each person can have their own custom control interface suited to their particular use. MyScope control windows benefit all oscilloscope users, eliminating the ramp-up time that many face when returning to the lab after not using an oscilloscope for a while, and enabling power users to be far more efficient.

Floating Licenses

Floating licenses offer an alternative method to manage your Tektronix asset. Floating licenses allow license-key enabled options to be easily moved among all your MSO/DPO5000, DPO7000, and DPO/DSA/MSO70000 Series of Tektronix oscilloscopes. Floating licenses are available for many license-key enabled options. To order a floating version of an option license add “DPOFL-“ prefix to the option name. (e.g. DPOFL-ET3)

Check www.tektronix.com for additional information about floating license options.

Remote Operation and Extended Analysis

Capture data into Microsoft Excel using the unique Excel toolbar, and create custom reports using the Word toolbar.

There are many ways to connect to your MSO/DPO5000 Series oscilloscope to conduct extended analysis. The first makes use of the Windows Remote Desktop capability – connect directly to your oscilloscope and operate the user interface remotely through the built-in Remote Desktop. A second way to connect is through Tektronix OpenChoice^® software which makes use of the fast embedded bus, transferring waveform data directly from acquisition to analysis applications on the Windows desktop at much faster speeds than conventional GPIB transfers. Industry-standard protocols, such as TekVISA™ interface and ActiveX controls are included for using and enhancing Windows applications for data analysis and documentation. IVI-COM instrument drivers are included to enable easy communication with the oscilloscope using GPIB, serial data, and LAN connections from programs running on the instrument or an external PC. Or, use the Software Developer's Kit (SDK) to help 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). Microsoft^® Excel and Word toolbars are included to simplify data capture and transfer directly to these programs running on the Windows desktop. A third way to connect to your oscilloscope is through NI LabVIEW SignalExpress Tektronix Edition, enabling you to instantly acquire, generate, analyze, compare, import, and save measurement data and signals using an intuitive drag-and-drop user interface that does not require any programming.