Infiniium 8000 Series Oscilloscopes
1-GHz and 600-MHz Real-Time Oscilloscopes
with Integrated Digital Channels
Superior mixed-signal analysis and debug for
your applications
Data Sheet
Specifications
• 1 GHz and 600 MHz bandwidth
models
• MSO models with integrated
16 digital channels
• 4 GSa/s sample rate
• Up to 128 Mpts of MegaZoom
fastest, most responsive memory
• Standard touch screen with
high-definition XGA display
• Extensive application software
suite
• Unrivaled InfiniiMax active
probes and accessories
• Open Windows
®
XP Pro
operating system
• Now LXI class C
compliant
Key features
• Validate physical and protocol
layers of your I
2
C, SPI, CAN and
FlexRay communications buses
quickly
• Validate your DDR, USB,
Ethernet applications quickly
with automated compliance test
software
• Quickly debug your FPGA
designs (Xilinx and Altera) with
core-based debug software
capability
• User-defined function provides
seamless gateway to powerful
MATLAB
®
real-time analysis
functionality
• Find subtle glitches with
3-dimensional viewing (256-level
intensity display)
• Find errors faster using your
finger tip with Infiniiscan Zone
Qualify feature
• Find signal-integrity-based logic
errors with built-in state
decoding for serial, parallel and
wideband signals
• Analyze single-shot events and
wideband RF signals with
integrated wireless 89601A
vector signal analysis test
software
• Apply trend analysis techniques
with Chart Mode to see how
digital characteristics (i.e. ADC,
counter, address lines, etc.) vary
over time
• Maximize your tool investment
with segmented memory on your
analog and digital signals to
ensure you can capture events
widely spaced in time
• Debug your high-speed designs
with advanced jitter, clock
recovery and eye-diagram
analysis tools
Infiniium 8000 Series oscilloscopes
Model Bandwidth Channels Sample rate Standard memory Maximum memory
DSO8064A 600 MHz 4 analog 4 GSa/s 8 Mpts 128 Mpts
MSO8064A 600 MHz 4 analog + 16 logic 4 GSa/s 8 Mpts 128 Mpts
DSO8104A 1 GHz 4 analog 4 GSa/s 8 Mpts 128 Mpts
MSO8104A 1 GHz 4 analog + 16 logic 4 GSa/s 8 Mpts 128 Mpts
The Infiniium 8000 Series
oscilloscopes offer designers
the industry’s first oscilloscope
family with responsive deep
memory, superior signal viewing
and advanced analysis. The four
digital storage oscilloscopes
(DSOs) and mixed signal
oscilloscopes (MSOs) combine
the best in signal viewing with
patented next-generation
MegaZoom technology that
maps the industry’s deepest and
most responsive memory to a
high-definition display system
that uncovers even the most
subtle details in long, complex
waveforms. Next-generation
MegaZoom technology helps you
The Standard in General Purpose Lab Scopes
capture analog and digital signals
over long time spans, easily view
critical events, and perform
robust signal analysis all with
a single instrument. Several
memory options are available and
are affordably priced to meet
your performance needs and fit
within your budget.
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Infiniium Benefits
Dramatically speed debug time
with mixed signal oscilloscope
(MSO) models that integrate
16 digital channels
As embedded designs continue
to increase in complexity with
integration of higher-speed digital
buses such as SDRAM and PCI,
along with 16- or 32-bit processors,
it becomes increasingly important
for engineers to have flexible test
instrumentation at their
fingertips. When you need to
isolate events of interest or
monitor critical relationships
between multiple signals, you
need an instrument that is
capable of viewing and triggering
on more than just two or four
signals at a time.
Agilent’s Infiniium MSOs tightly
integrate 4 channels and 16
digital channels in the same
acquisition system to provide
time-correlated viewing and
triggering across 20 channels.
Since an MSO is first and
foremost an oscilloscope, no
trade-offs in scope functionality
are made; the instrument retains
the usability and the real-time
waveform capture of an
oscilloscope. MSOs reduce the
need for expensive multi-box
solutions and can dramatically
speed debug time.
MSO viewing and triggering
No matter how complicated the
signals you are dealing with,
the Infiniium MSO comes with
powerful viewing and triggering
capabilities to help you untangle
them. The Infiniium MSO can
trigger across all 16 digital
channels and four scope channels.
There are no limitations on the
combination of analog and digital
channels that can be used for
a particular pattern or state
trigger setting. This enables you
to easily isolate and analyze
complex interactions between
digital signals and analog content
in your design. Once your trigger
condition is set, seamlessly view
the cause-and-effect relationships
and make measurements across
all 20 channels.
MSO application
With more sophisticated memory
buses such as SDRAM being
deployed in embedded designs, it
is important to be able to isolate
a particular cycle of the memory
bus that may be causing a
problem. Isolating a SDRAM write
cycle requires triggering across
four digital channels when CS,
CAS, and WE signals are low and
RAS is high, along with one analog
channel on a rising edge of Clk.
You need a second analog channel
to capture a data bit of the
SDRAM bus that you suspect has
signal integrity problems. With
the write cycle isolated, you can
create an eye diagram of the data
bit with fast waveform update
rates and then you can make
worst-case setup and hold time
measurements to reveal
anomalies or glitches. Doing this
type of analysis with a traditional
two- or four-channel oscilloscope,
or with a two-box logic analyzer
and traditional oscilloscope,
would be difficult or impossible.
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Up to 128 Mpts fast deep memory
Sample rate and memory depth
go hand in hand. Deep memory
in oscilloscopes sustains a high
sample rate over longer time
spans. With up to 128 Mpts
of acquisition memory, the
Infiniium 8000 Series offers
superior resolution for capturing
long, complex waveforms. Deep
memory is critically important in
embedded designs implementing
slow analog with fast digital,
serial buses, and RF
communication.
Infiniium’s segmented memory
acquisition mode adds additional
capability to deep memory
acquisition when you are
capturing bursted or packetized
signals. With segmented memory,
only the packets of interest
are captured and stored into
acquisition memory for viewing
and analysis — no valuable
memory is consumed during
periods of inactivity between
packets. Coupled with 128 Mpts
of acquisition memory, thousands
of packets can be captured at the
oscilloscope’s maximum sample
rate over seconds or even days.
With precise time-tags on each
segment, segmented memory
acquisition mode effectively
provides gigabytes of
acquisition memory in a single,
high-sample-rate acquisition
by efficiently utilizing the real
acquisition memory it has.
Infiniium Benefits (continued)
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Infiniium Benefits (continued)
MegaZoom technology enables
ultra-fast waveform update rates
Responsiveness and waveform
update rate slow down
dramatically on traditional
deep-memory oscilloscopes
when they capture longer
memory records, making them
difficult and frustrating to use.
The Infiniium 8000 Series
oscilloscopes feature patented
MegaZoom technology that
provides the fastest waveform
update rates, even when using
the deepest memory records
up to 128 Mpts. At the heart of
MegaZoom technology is a custom
ASIC built into the acquisition
With the Infiniium 8000 Series, you can have it all — deepest memory acquisition
with fast waveform update rates, a high-definition display system, a powerful suite
of application solutions, and integrated mixed-signal analysis capabilities.
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system that performs data
acceleration from the ADC to
waveform memory and display.
With MegaZoom, deep memory
is always available and always
fast, so you never have to think
about manually turning it on and
incurring reduced responsiveness.
Next-generation MegaZoom
provides best-in-class
waveform viewing
In addition to providing the
fastest, most-responsive deep
memory, the Infiniium 8000
Series oscilloscopes feature
best-in-class waveform viewing
powered by next-generation
MegaZoom technology.
Next-generation MegaZoom
supports a high-resolution XGA
display system and maps up to
128 Mpts of memory to 256
levels of color intensity grades,
delivering unmatched real-time
insight into signal details.
Next-generation MegaZoom’s
dynamic range in the Z-axis
provides designers a
third-dimensional view of
subtle details never before seen
in an analysis-based oscilloscope.
Up to this point, responsive deep
memory capture, waveform
analysis, and superior signal
viewing have not coexisted.
Infiniium Features
DSO8064A/MSO8064A, DSO8104A/MSO8104A
InfiniiScan – next generation of
trigger capability
InfiniiScan makes triggering easy.
Just draw boxes with the Zone
Qualify trigger to track signal
behavior. InfiniiScan scans
through thousands of acquired
waveforms per second to help
you isolate anomalous signal
behaviors.
Chart mode feature
Chart mode applies trend
analysis techniques to see how
the digital output (ADC, counter,
address lines, etc.) vary over
time. This method is effective to
quickly find anomalies of the
digital signals. You can also apply
math operators such as “FFT” to
view the frequency domain of the
analog values.
Serial, parallel and wideband
signal decode
Whether you are working on
serial, parallel or wideband
signals, you can use the 8000
Powerful frequency and
modulation analysis
The 8000 Series provides superior
frequency domain analysis,
RF-signal demodulation and
extensive standard-specific
analysis coverage including
WiMAX™, WLAN, 3GPP, RFID and
UWB with the optional 89601A
Series VSA software. With digital
and wireless applications merging,
you can use the 8000 Series
one-box solution to validate the
time and frequency domains.
Series to decode your waveforms.
When you are working on parallel
waveforms, you can even
customize the bus states to be
displayed on the decode table.
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Extensive application software suite
The 8000 Series provides wide
application coverage for you to
quickly and easily verify your
designs. Application packages
include DDR, USB, Ethernet,
FlexRay, CAN, SPI, I2C, and FPGA
standards.
Infiniium Features (continued)
DSO8064A/MSO8064A, DSO8104A/MSO8104A
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
five measurements on your
waveforms, on up to five 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 hexadecimal 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 Infiniium
MSO models.
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.
Industry’s only segmented memory for
both analog and digital channels
The segment memory acquisition
mode allows you to capture short
bursts at maximum sample rate
while not consuming memory
during periods of inactivity. The
8000 is the industry’s only
oscilloscopes that support
segmented memory capture on
both analog and digital channels
so you can obtain critical and
correlated timing information
between them.
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Infiniium Features (continued)
DSO8064A/MSO8064A, DSO8104A/MSO8104A
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 you are 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.
High/low pass filter
This function 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 five 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.
Pseudo state
Convert digital timing waveforms
into state waveforms, specifying
the clock edge when your data is
valid. The MSO filters out all
invalid states leaving exclusively
valid states in the waveform
display.
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Infiniium Features (continued)
DSO8064A/MSO8064A, DSO8104A/MSO8104A
E-mail on trigger
Infiniium can automatically send
an e-mail with a screen image
of the display when the scope
triggers. You can have your
Infiniium send an e-mail to you or
a message to your cell phone then
control your scope from any
Java™-enabled Web browser with
Infiniium’s Web-enabled feature.
Web-enabled control
For distributed teams, simply set
up Infiniium on your LAN, and
up to three users can access it
from any Java-enabled Web
browser. No special software is
required. You can easily grab
screen shots for a report, or
troubleshoot designs from a
remote location.
Dual monitor support
Dual monitor mode allows you
to run third-party applications
on a large, external monitor with
up to XGA resolution (1024 x
768 pixels) while using the
scope’s built-in monitor for
waveform display.
Infiniium IVI-COM driver
For a higher-level of instrument
control, use the Infiniium
IVI-COM instrument driver in
your application. This IVI-COM
driver takes full advantage of
industry-accepted standards
and is compatible in application
development environments
such as Visual Studio® as well
as in test and measurement
development environments such
as Agilent VEE Pro and National
Instruments LabVIEW®. The
Infiniium IVI-COM Instrument
driver allows for easier use,
higher performance, and
instrument interchangeability
in your oscilloscope control
program. Download the Infiniium
IVI-COM driver for free from
Agilent Developer’s Network at
www.agilent.com/find/adn.
Windows XP Pro open system
Want to run Windows applications
inside your Infiniium scope? All
Infiniium 8000 Series scopes are
based on a Windows XP Pro open
platform that allows you to run
Windows applications inside
the Infiniium to add advanced
analysis and functionality to
the scope.
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Get fast answers to your questions
with the comprehensive built-in
information system. The task-oriented
setup guide provides step-by-step
instructions for several measurement
procedures.
QuickMeas+ key gives you any five
automated measurements with the
push of a button. You can also
configure this key to print/save screen
images among other functions.
Up to 128 Mpts of MegaZoom fast
deep memory sustains maximum
sample rates for the longest
time captures.
Remote access via Web browser or
programming environment with GPIB
commands over LAN allows you to
access your oscilloscope from any
networked PC.
E-mail-on-trigger allows you to leave
your oscilloscope, and when that
intermittent event is captured, Infiniium
sends you an e-mail that tells you
exactly when it happened with an
attached screen image.
10/100/1000 BaseT LAN interface
lets you easily print to network
printers, save files to network drives,
and control the oscilloscope remotely.
Label waveforms and add comments
to Infiniium’s display for thorough
documentation before saving
screen images.
Context-sensitive right-click menus
allow quick access to oscilloscope
settings, controls, and display
properties.
High-definition XGA color display
with 256 levels of intensity uncovers
subtle signal details that most
oscilloscopes won’t show
you…enabled by next-generation
MegaZoom technology.
Measurement markers can be easily
controlled via front-panel arrow keys
or dragging and dropping them with
the pointer.
Drag-and-drop measurements from
the measurement bar provide an
intuitive way to make a measurement
on a particular cycle of your waveform.
Touch screen display
comes standard for
mouse-free operation.
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Infiniium: “The Agilent 8000 Saries has already
become the most coveted scope on our lab”
Ole Moyer
Application Engineer, On Semiconductor
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