Now with Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope
Models and MegaZoom
Deep Memory
Contents
Features and Benefits 2
Options and Accessories 12
Performance Characteristics 17
Purchasing Alternatives 24
Ordering Information 25
Agilent Technologies
Infiniium 54800 Series Oscilloscopes
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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.
Now with mixed-signal oscilloscope models, Infiniium makes
it faster and easier than ever to see what's happening in your
high-speed, mixed-signal design.
The performance you need
• 600 MHz to 2.25 GHz bandwidth
• 2+16-, 4+16-, 2- and 4-channel
models
• Up to 8 GSa/s
• Up to 4 Mpts memory standard; up
to 16 Mpts, optional
• Advanced probing solutions
View up to 4 analog and 16
digital channels
With the addition of the new
Agilent 54830D Series of MixedSignal 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 designs include
16- to 32-bit embedded systems
with both analog and digital
components, the 54830D Series
of MSOs can help you easily
trigger on and view up to 20
time-aligned analog and digital
signals.
Instant Response, Optimum
Resolution
A deep-memory scope doesn’t
have to be difficult to use.
Infiniium scopes from Agilent
Technologies can simplify your
debugging tasks and help you
easily discover intermittent
problems in your design
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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.
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
Try a New Infiniium
MSO for Yourself
If you plan to purchase a new
scope in the near future, we can
arrange for you to try our new
Infiniium MSO. Contact your
nearest Agilent sales office or
visit the Infiniium home page at
www.agilent.com/find/Infiniium
for more information.
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 16 million
points of continuous signal history without the usual bottlenecks
and frustrating delays.
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Deep memory without annoying delays
Instant Response
While first-generation deep-memory 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 firstgeneration 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 see events
as narrow as 250 ps without using
a special mode such as peak
detect.
Affordable Deep Memory
Every Infiniium with MegaZoom
is a deep-memory oscilloscope
with up to a standard 2 Mpts
of memory on each channel.
Memory options to 8 Mpts on
each channel are available and
cost up to 60 percent less than
the price of first-generation
deep memory oscilloscopes.
Infiniiums are affordable enough
that all of your scopes can be
deep-memory models.
By combining powerful features,
ease of use, and the right specifications, Infiniium scopes help
you find answers faster. A simple, analog-like front panel,
Windows-based interface, and
powerful connectivity capabilities make high-performance features accessible and uncomplicated-all with the performance
and features you need for
today’s demanding jobs.
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 10-GB hard drive for future recall
or sharing via the LAN interface.
Remote access with web-enabled
connectivity, e-mail on trigger, and
GPIB over LAN.
Windows®XP Pro based open
platform.
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
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 for
the maximum sample rate and resolution. You never have to set deep memory manually.
120 MB LS-120 SuperDisk floppy drive
makes it easy to save your work (to
super floppies or standard 3.5-inch
disks) and update your system software.
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.
3 year standard warranty protects
your investment.
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.
Single Sweep sets the deepest memory
available, so you capture your entire
waveform with the best resolution
available. Never undersample again.
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
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.
Windows XP Pro Open System
Want to run Windows applications inside your Infiniium
scope? Yes you can. All Infiniium
54830 Series scopes are now
based on Windows XP Pro open
platform that allows you to run
Windows applications inside the
scope with improved reliability
and productivity.
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.
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.
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.
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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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