| Navigation and Search | |
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Tektronix MSO/DPO2000B Series ✔ Wave Inspector® Pan/Zoom controls make easy work of scrolling through long records ✔ Play/Pause button scrolls the waveform across the screen automatically ✔ Search/Mark controls enable you to search for events of interest, mark them, then navigate through the record markby-mark  |
Rigol MSO/DS2000A Series ✗ No search and mark functions to find events of interest and mark them ✗ Cannot automatically play the waveform in zoom mode ✗ Lack of search/mark. User has to go through record length manually to find events of interest |
| Serial Triggering and Decode | |
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Tektronix MSO/DPO2000B Series ✔ 2 and 4 analog channels (16 digital channels on MSO) available for serial inputs ✔ Optional serial bus support: I2C, SPI, RS232, CAN, LIN ✔ 2 buses available for decoding I2C, SPI, RS232, CAN, LIN ✔ Wave Inspector® automatically searches for and marks userdefined events on packet content.  |
Rigol MSO/DS2000A Series ✗ Only 2 analog channels (16 digital channels on MSO) available for serial inputs. ✗ Optional serial: I2C, SPI, RS232 & CAN ✔ 2 buses for decoding I2C, SPI, RS232 & CAN ✗ No serial search offered. |
| Advanced Probe Interface | |
Tektronix MSO/DPO2000B Series: TekVPI probe interface ✔ Enables direct connection to current probes (including ac/dc), differential probes, and single-ended active probes. ✔ Enables simpler deskewing of probes |
Rigol MSO/DS2000A Series: traditional low cost probe interface ✗ Cannot connect to current probes or active probes directly ✗ No automated deskew |
| MSO Series Mixed Signal Debug | |
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Tektronix MSO2000B Series ✔ View up to 4 analog, 16 digital, and 2 bus waveforms, all time-correlated. ✔ Define parallel or serial buses. ✔ Logical highs are identified in Green and lows in Blue. ✔ Group waveforms and threshold settings  |
Rigol MSO/DS2000A Series ✗ View up to 2 analog, 16 digital, and 2 bus waveforms, all time-correlated ✔ Define parallel or serial buses. |
| Noise Filter | |
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Tektronix MSO/DPO2000B Series ✔ FilterVu™ - Adjustable low-pass noise filter Filters out the unwanted noise while still capturing glitches and signal details up to the full bandwidth of the oscilloscope. Display 2 waveforms: a waveform that can be filtered and a glitch captured waveform  |
Rigol MSO/DS2000A Series ✗ Fixed 20MHz bandwidth limit filter. Useful high frequency signal could be filtered out. |