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, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, RS-232/422/485/UART,
MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet, and USB 2.0
- Automated Serial
Analysis Options for MIPI® D-PHY DSI-1 and CSI-2,
8b/10b, and PCI Express
Optional Technology Specific
Analysis
- Software Solutions provide Built-in
Domain Expertise for Ethernet, MOST, 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, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, RS-232/422/485/UART, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet,
and USB 2.0. 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, custom MATLAB and .NET math plug-in analysis
functions, 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 effects 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.
In addition, a low-attenuation (2X) version of the TPP probes is available
for measuring low voltages. Unlike other low-attenuation passive probes,
the TPP0502 has high input resistance and high bandwidth (500 MHz)
as well as low (12.7 pF) capacitive loading, providing superior
fidelity and signal-to-noise performance.
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, trapezoids, and user-specified shapes 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, CAN, LIN, FlexRay,
RS-232/422/485/UART, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet, and USB 2.0, and
decode for 8b/10b, PCI Express, and MIPI D-PHY DSI-1 and CSI-2 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, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, RS-232/422/485/UART, MIL-STD-1553,
Ethernet, and USB 2.0.
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.
Serial
Bus Compliance Test (Optional)
USB 2.0 Compliance Testing.
Software packages for automated compliance test
are available for Ethernet 10BASE-T, 10BASE-Te, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T
(Option ET3), MOST50 and MOST150 electrical (Option MOST),
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-DDR, 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, SVA,
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.