Tektronix have announced the new MSO2000 Mixed Signal and DPO2000 Digital Phosphor oscilloscopes. These oscilloscopes are available from TekMark Australia .
The new series provides powerful tools to simplify the debug of mixed signal designs including Wave Inspector search and navigation tools, automatic decoding of serial data busses, FilterVu variable low pass filters to reduce unwanted noise from signals, in a portable package.
With bandwidths up to 200MHz, the MSO2000 and DPO2000 oscilloscope series is an addition to the MSO4000, DPO4000, and DPO3000 oscilloscope series models, which are suitable for engineers working on embedded system designs.
Electronic products, designed and produced now are embedded systems that may contain microprocessors, microcontrollers, DSPs, RAM, Flash, EEPROM’s, FPGAs, A/Ds, D/As, and other I/O. In recent years, embedded system designs have replaced parallel buses with serial data buses, such as I2C, SPI, RS-232, CAN and LIN.
On a serial bus, a single signal may include address, control, data, and clock information, which can cause debug problems for design engineers.
The MSO2000 and DPO2000 oscilloscope series address these problems with integrated serial data triggering, protocol decoding, and analysis capabilities in an entry-level oscilloscope.
In addition, the MSO2000 Mixed Signal oscilloscope provides the ability to time-correlate analogue and digital signals with up to 4 analogue and 16 digital channels, for troubleshooting the mixed signal portions of embedded systems.
The MSO2000 and DPO2000 oscilloscope series are suitable for embedded designers and educators teaching design principles.
According to Tektronix, the MSO2000 and DPO2000 oscilloscope series provide better performance, serial data debug for common standards, and compelling value.
These oscilloscopes are a part of the new-generation platform that includes the MSO4000, DPO4000 and DPO3000 series, providing engineers a continuum of options from 100 MHz to 1GHz.
The new models offer intuitive operation, measurement confidence, a portable package, and are suitable for engineers who want to efficiently test their designs.
The new Tektronix MSO2000/DPO2000 oscilloscope series can meet several needs, from design to manufacturing and from production repair to service. It combines the features of scope, logic analyser, and protocol analyser into an easy-to-use, portable package.
The MSO2000 and DPO2000 series of oscilloscopes consist of three models ranging from 100 MHz to 200 MHz, with two or four analogue channels, the Tektronix front-panel layout, serial triggering, protocol decode, USB plug-and-play PC connectivity and a seven inch widescreen bright TFT display.
The MSO2000 models also include 16 digital channels, providing up to 20 time-correlated channels to debug both analogue and digital data.
All models contain 1M points of record length on each channel and a 1 GS/s sampling rate on all channels, ensuring 5X over-sampling of the signal. Additionally, the new models provide 5,000 waveforms per second capture rate to aid discovery of transient events.
Unwanted noise can make debugging of intended signal attributes a difficult task. The new FilterVu variable low-pass filter provides a powerful tool to block unwanted noise from signals while still capturing glitches and other signal details up to the full bandwidth of the oscilloscope.
The MSO2000 and DPO2000 oscilloscope series simultaneously display the filtered waveform and high frequency details up to the full bandwidth of the oscilloscope.
According to Cypress Semiconductor, with FilterVu, they are able to filter out motor drive noise and clearly see the underlying digital signal characteristics. The feature is also useful for demodulating signals.
The MSO2000 and DPO2000 oscilloscope series include the Wave Inspector search engine on all analogue and digital channels, a set of easy-to-use tools to find events of interest in long records.
Wave Inspector also provides the ability to automatically search through an acquisition, mark all occurrences of a user-specified event and then navigate between the marks easily. With Wave Inspector navigation, the MSO2000 and DPO2000 oscilloscope series aid engineers to quickly find and solve difficult problems.
All models include a standard USB host port on the front of the instrument and USB device port on the rear of the instrument.
The front USB port supports a USB flash drive. The rear port is USBTMC compatible, which enables communication and control through a PC. The rear port is PictBridge certified for printing to PictBridge certified printers.