The Oscilloscopes for
Digital System
Developers
Agilent Technologies
Infiniium 54830 Series Oscilloscopes
Contents
Features and Benefits 2
Options and Accessories 12
Performance Characteristics 18
Purchasing Alternatives 25
Ordering Information 26
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Combining the benefits of industry-leading MegaZoom deep
memory and mixed-signal oscilloscope models, Infiniium
makes it faster and easier than ever to see what's happening
in your high-speed digital or communications design.
View and Trigger on up to 4 Analog
and 16 Digital Channels
With the Agilent 54830D Series
of Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes
(MSOs), you can easily view the
complex relationships of your
analog and digital signals, as
well as the analog characteristics
of digital signals. If your
embedded designs include
complex digital buses such as
PCI or SDRAM, the 54830D
Series of MSOs allow you to
easily trigger on and view up to
20 time-aligned analog and digital
signals to isolate problems and
cycles of interest.
Industry-Leading Deep Memory with
Instant Response
With up to 128 Mpts of acquisition memory, the Agilent 54830
Series of MSOs and DSOs offers
superior resolution when capturing long, complex waveforms.
But a deep-memory scope doesn’t
have to be difficult to use.
Infiniium scopes from Agilent
utilize MegaZoom technology
through the full 128 Mpts for fast
waveform updates and responsive user input controls.
The Performance You Need
• 600 MHz to 1 GHz bandwidth
• 2+16-, 4+16-, 2- and 4-channel
models
• Up to 4 GSa/s
• Up to 4 Mpts memory standard;
up to 128 Mpts optional
• Advanced probing solutions
Award-Winning Scopes
Infiniium has received eight
industry awards to date, including
EDN’s “Innovation of the Year”
award (twice) and T&M World’s
“Best in Test.” Agilent is committed to breaking new ground and
providing tools that bring unique
value to our customers.
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“Everything is where you want it to
be. Readouts, knobs — they are easy
to see, easy to use.”
Matt Berger
Senior Engineering Technician
National Semiconductor
“Other scopes are hard to use, hard to
maneuver. With Infiniium, it’s easy to
find your way around when you’re
looking for advanced features.”
Norm Reed
Radar Systems Technologist
Canadian Department of
National Defense
“We use Infiniium to save large quantities of screen shots on our LAN —
then we pull them up immediately
over the network. It saves a lot of time
and a lot of hassle.”
Stu Nuffer
Senior Systems Engineer
LSI Logic
”Complex triggering has its place, but
sometimes I just want to capture
everything and look at it.”
Chuck Hill
Consultant
Alta Engineering
Here’s what engineers are saying about their Infiniium scopes.
Simple things are simple
Analog-like front panel provides
simple controls for basic functions — easy to find and easy
to use.
Easy access to advanced features
Familiar Windows®-based graphical user interface makes it easy
to navigate and access advanced
features.
Convenient communication and
data sharing
PC architecture with a standard
LAN interface makes it easy to
share your work and communicate your results.
Automatic deep memory with
instant response
With Infiniium’s MegaZoom deep
memory, you can easily make
long single-shot acquisitions and
search through your data with
instant response.
Powerful Mixed-Signal Triggering
No matter how complicated the
signals you’re dealing with, the
Infiniium MSO has a triggering
feature that can help you easily
untangle it. The Infiniium MSOs
provide you with the most complete triggering functionality
ever offered in an oscilloscope.
The 54830D Series Infiniium
MSOs come with powerful triggering capabilities across all
16 digital channels and all
available analog channels so you
can easily isolate and analyze
complex signals and interactions
in your mixed analog and
digital designs.
X-Ray Vision for Your FPGAs
The new N5397A FPGA Dynamic
Probe for the Infiniium MSO
enables its 16 digital channels
to capture and trigger on signals
inside of your Xilinx FPGA that
can then be correlated to external analog activity.
Seamless Integration of Analog and
Digital Channels
The Agilent 54830D Series
Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes uniquely combine the detailed signal
analysis of a high-performance
scope with the 16-channel timing
measurements of a logic analyzer,
plus the benefits of fast, usable,
and affordable MegaZoom
deep memory.
On one display you can have
both the analog circuit characteristics displayed on the 2 or
4 scope channels and the digital
signals displayed on the 16 logic
timing channels. Digital and
analog events are aligned in time
so you can easily relate cause and
effect in difficult mixed-signal
troubleshooting situations. The
analog and digital channels are
seamlessly integrated giving you
familiar scope-like controls of
both the analog and digital timing channels. And there is no
compromise on the scope side —
you just can treat all 18 or 20
channels the same.
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Verifying and analyzing your mixed-signal design
Here we see a data line and the clock
of a standard SDRAM isolated in a
write cycle. This was accomplished by
triggering with 4 digital channels and
1 analog channel of the 54833D MSO
when the SDRAM’s CS, CAS, and WE
lines are low, while RAS is high on the
rising edge of the clock. The second
analog channel is used for looking at the
analog characteristics of a data line.
The increased channels, deep memory,
and advanced triggering of an MSO can
help you debug today's complex designs
more efficiently than you could with a
DSO. Trying to do this with a traditional
2- or 4-channel DSO would be difficult
or impossible. The traditional option
for measuring a multi-channel system
would be to connect and configure a
logic analyzer with a DSO which can be
costly and time-consuming. Fortunately,
Agilent’s MSO fills this need without
the cost or frustration.
The 54830 Series Infiniium
scopes use advanced MegaZoom
technology so you get all the benefits of fast, automatic, affordable
deep memory. Due to its unique
ASIC architecture, this powerful
memory management system
called MegaZoom can quickly
display up to 128 million points
of continuous signal history
without the usual bottlenecks
and frustrating delays.
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Industry-leading deep memory up to 128 Mpts, without annoying delays
Instant Response
While first-generation deepmemory scopes update the
display slowly, Infiniium’s
MegaZoom memory management
system instantaneously updates
the display even with the deepest
memory. And deep memory is on
all the time — so you always have
the maximum available sample
rate and don’t undersample or
miss fast events. Discover problems you never found with your
first-generation deep-memory
scope.
Optimum Resolution
Get the insight you need to solve
your debugging challenges in a
fraction of the time it used to
take. Just press the Autoscale
key to automatically adjust the
sample rate to achieve the best
waveform resolution. Then, as
you change the horizontal scale
to display more time and view
your entire signal, MegaZoom
adds more memory to give you
the fastest sample rate and best
resolution possible. Now you
can automatically see events
as narrow as 250 ps without
using a special mode such as
peak detect.
Unprecedented Deep Memory
Every Infiniium 54830 Series with
MegaZoom is a deep-memory
oscilloscope with up to a standard
2 Mpts of memory on each channel. Now memory options are
available to configure your scope
with up to 128 Mpts to capture
the longest waveforms without
reducing sample rate.
By combining powerful features,
ease of use, and industry-leading
specifications, Infiniium scopes
help you find answers faster.
A simple, analog-like front
panel, Windows-based interface
to easily access advanced
features, and powerful connectivity make high-performance
capabilities of Infiniium usable.
See fast events — as fast as 250 ps —
without using special modes like peak
detect. Peak points are displayed in a
darker color than the waveform indicating more data points are available.
Just zoom in to see the event in detail.
Drag and drop markers with your
mouse or use the arrow keys.
Bus mode display allows quick readout
of digital channel value in hexa-decimal
representation at every transition.
See your signal more clearly with a
large (8.4-inch) high-resolution color
display. Infiniium's bright TFT display
with anti-glare coating lets you see the
details of your signal from all angles.
Store all your setups and results on
the ≥20 GB hard drive for future recall
or sharing via the LAN interface. Order
option 017 to make it removeable for
operation in secure environments.
Remote access with web-enabled
connectivity, e-mail on trigger, and
GPIB over LAN.
Windows®XP Pro based open
platform makes it easier than ever
to run Windows applications inside
f Infiniium.
Save all waveforms, including digital
and analog channels, that allows you
to store multiple waveforms in ASCII
file formats to a single file with a
single mouse click.
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Infiniium: “It’s like someone who sits down and
actually uses a scope designed this one.”
Steve Montgomery
Director of Engineering, Linx Technologies
Get fast answers to your questions
with the built-in information system.
Infiniium's task-oriented Setup Guide
provides step-by-step instructions for
several advanced measurements and
procedures.
Maximum sample rate and resolution
on every measurement. The scope
automatically adjusts memory depth
up to 128 Mpts as you use it, so you
get maximum sample rate and resolution on every measurement. You don't
even have to think about it.
Pick out anomalies easily with
intensity-graded persistence mode,
color-graded persistence, a colorful
visual representation of waveform
distribution.
QuickMeas+ gives you any four auto-
mated measurements with the push of
a button. You can also configure this
key to print/save screen shots, save
waveforms, or load a favorite setup.
With the E2699A My Infiniium
Software option, configure the
QuickMeas+ key to execute a custom
analysis executable program.
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Autoscale automatically sets deep
memory to the amount required up
to 128 Mpts for the maximum sample
rate and resolution. You never have to
set deep memory manually.
Segmented memory acquisition
mode captures bursting signals at
maximum sample rate without consuming memory during periods of
inactivity for very long periods of time.
A familiar interface makes simple
tasks simple. Infiniium's analog-like
front panel has a full set of controls
color coded to the LEDs, waveforms,
and measurements.
Easy access to advanced features
like math and FFTs is provided by the
Windows-based graphical user interface. This GUI also gives you unique
capabilities like drag-and-drop measurements and zooming, and offers a graphical equivalent to all front panel controls.
AutoProbe interface completely
configures your scope for use with
a wide range of passive, active and
differential probes.
10/100 Mbps LAN interface lets you
easily print waveforms on networked
printers, save your results on your
office PC, and share information
with others.
Roll mode display allows for
continuous scrolling capture of
slow analog signals
Hands-free operation with the
Infiniium VoiceControl option. Just
speak into the collar-mounted microphone to operate front-panel controls.
Label waveforms and add notes to
your screen captures — Infiniium's
keyboard makes it easy.
Built-in CD-ROM drive on the rear
panel allows you to update the system
software conveniently.
Zoom and search with instant
response. Zoom into your signal using
the horizontal scale knob and search
through your waveform with the position knob. Find your area of interest
quickly and easily.
4 analog and 16 digital channel
MSOs allow you to see up to 20 time-
aligned signals on your scope screen.
Also available in 2+16- , 2- and 4channel models.
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Infiniium: Helping you get the job done faster
Drag-and-Drop Measurements
It’s simple: drag an icon from the
measurement bar and drop it on
the cycle you want to measure.
You can make up to four measurements on your waveforms,
on up to four different cycles.
All the measurements appear at
the bottom of the display with
statistics and are color coded to
the channel you are measuring.
Scope measurements have never
been this powerful or this easy.
Dialog Boxes for Easy Setup
With Infiniium, you don’t need
to navigate through annoying
softkey menus. Dialog boxes
display all the choices you need
for measurement setups, all in
one place. Help is available for
each field, guiding you through
each step.
Bus Mode Display
Bus mode display on MSOs
allows quick and easy read-out
of hexa-decimal representation
of logic signals. Bus state mode
display allows the bus readout
to be updated only upon the
edge of the clock source you
select. Available only with
54830D Series MSOs.
Simple Zooming
Zooming with Infiniium’s graphical user interface is simple and
convenient. Just use the mouse
to draw a box around the area of
interest and click inside. Zoom
uses the full display so you get
meaningful vertical as well as
horizontal resolution gains. Use
multiple zoom boxes to see deep
inside your signal. Zooming
couldn’t be simpler or faster.
Segmented Memory
Acquisition Mode*
Are you trying to capture communications or radar signals
that are bursting in nature? The
new Segment Memory acquisition
mode allows you to capture the
short bursts at maximum sample
rate while not consuming memory
during the periods of inactivity.
* Standard feature with version A.03.70 system
software or higher, but only available on
54830B/31B/32B models with serial number
MY41003401 or greater, 54830D/31D/32D models
with MY42001701 or greater, or 54833A/33D
models with MY43000601 or greater.
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AutoMask and Mask Test
Mask testing is simplified with
AutoMask. Acquire a waveform,
define tolerance limits, and create
a test envelope. Mask testing provides a pass/fail comparison of an
incoming signal to the test envelope. Easily test your design’s conformance to industry standards
with the Communication Mask
Test Kit option.
Advanced Triggering
Advanced triggers are essential
when investigating known problems. Infiniium offers a full range
of advanced triggers to help
you isolate and capture the condition you need to characterize.
Advanced trigger setups are simplified by using intuitive dialog
boxes with descriptive graphics.
Color-Graded Persistence
with Histograms
By providing seven levels
of color grades for a visual
representation of waveform
distribution, color-graded
persistence makes it easy to
pick out signal anomalies and
see how often they occur.
Histograms quantify both noise
and jitter in your target system.
Infiniium: Simplifying tasks with easy access to advanced features
Intensity-Graded Persistence
The intensity-graded persistence
mode displays waveforms in the
seven levels of intensity grades,
enabling you to capture elusive
signal anomalies in complex
waveforms using user defined
decay time.
High/Low Pass Filter
Applies a real-time digital filter
to the source waveform that you
choose. This filtering feature
enhances your ability to examine
important signal components by
filtering out unwanted frequency
components.
QuickMeasure and Statistics
Instantly make four common
measurements on your signal,
with easy-to-read statistics, by
pressing the QuickMeas+ button
on the front of your Infiniium.
The measurements displayed can
be easily customized.
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