Top 10 Most Popular Customer Downloads

Our customers know Tektronix has some of the highest quality technical content in the industry. With over 20,000 items in our premium content library, it is likely you can find answers on our website to whatever questions you have. We have created this list of our most popular downloaded content exclusively for our website customers.

1. XYZs of Oscilloscopes Primer

   This recently updated 60-page XYZs of Oscilloscopes Primer provides a good tutorial for understanding oscilloscope basics and operation. It explains fundamental concepts including the importance of signal integrity, how an oscilloscope works, how to interpret waveform measurements and more. Get your new copy now!

2. Fundamentals of Signal Integrity Primer

   The purpose of this primer is to provide some insight into signal integrity-related problems in digital systems, and to describe their causes, characteristics, effects, and solutions.

3. ABCs of Probes Primer

   Probes are vital to oscilloscope measurements and critical to measurement quality. This 48-page ABCs of Probes Primer explains everything you should know about probes -- from the different types of probes and their benefits to selecting the right probe for your application, advanced probing techniques and more.

4. Fundamentals of Floating Measurements and Isolated Input Oscilloscopes

   This guide will provide you with a fundamental glossary of power measurement terms, explain the different options available for making floating measurements, and highlight the advantages and trade-offs of each option.

5. Fundamentals of Real-Time Spectrum Analysis Primer

   This primer describes how real-time spectrum analyzers work and provides a basic understanding of how it can be used to solve many measurement problems associated with modern RF signals.

6. Fundamentals of the MDO4000 Series Mixed Domain Oscilloscope

   In this application note, learn how a Mixed Domain Oscilloscope (MDO) offers time-correlated analog, digital, and RF signal acquisition for a complete system view.

7. Debugging a Mixed Signal Embedded Design with a Tektronix Mixed Signal Oscilloscope

   This application note walks you through the debug of a mixed signal design with the Tektronix MSO Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Series.

8. Debugging Serial Buses in Embedded System Designs

   This application note shows you how to quickly and efficiently debug today’s serial buses with the powerful trigger, decode, and search capabilities of the MSO/DPO Series.

9. Understanding and Characterizing Timing Jitter Primer

   Timing jitter is the unwelcome companion of all electrical systems that use voltage transitions to represent timing information. This paper focuses primarily on jitter in electrical systems.

10. Tektronix Oscilloscope Accessories Selection Guide

    This guide will help you select the right probes and accessories for your Oscilloscope.