Atec Agilent-7000A User Manual

Agilent Technologies
InfiniiVision 7000A Series Oscilloscopes

Data Sheet

Engineered for the best signal visibility

If you haven’t purchased an Agilent scope lately,
why should you consider one now?

Agilent has been the fastest growing oscilloscope supplier since 1997

(source: Prima Data, 2007).

with advanced technology that will allow you to see more subtle signal detail and more
infrequent events than any other scope on the market. See the InfiniiVision 7000A Series
oscilloscope—the industry’s best for signal viewing.

Wonder why? Agilent engineers developed the InfiniiVision 7000A Series

There is no better way to experience
the superiority of the InfiniiVision 7000A
Series scopes than to see it.
Contact Agilent today to request an
evaluation.

Or visit:
www.agilent.com/find/7000A

The InfiniiVision 7000A Series offers bandwidths up to 1 GHz. Each model, equipped with a large 12.1” XGA LCD display, comes
in an whisper-quiet package that is just 6.5” deep and weighs only 13 pounds.

Model Bandwidth Sample rate Memory

DSO7012A

DSO7014A 4

MSO7012A 2

MSO7014A 4

DSO7032A

DSO7034A 4

MSO7032A 2

MSO7034A 4

DSO7052A

DSO7054A 4

MSO7052A 2 16

MSO7054A 4

DSO7104A

MSO7104A 16

100 MHz 2 GSa/s 8 Mpts

350 MHz 2 GSa/s 8 Mpts

500 MHz 4 GSa/s 8 Mpts

1 GHz 4 GSa/s 8 Mpts 4

Scope

channels

2

2

2

Digital

channels

16

16

Update rate

Up to 100,000 deep-memory

waveforms per second, even with

deep memory, digital channels

and serial decode turned on.

Choose from fourteen InfiniiVision 7000A Series models. Agilent provides an easy 5-minute DSO-to-MSO upgrade kit for previously
purchased 7000A Series DSOs.

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What gives the InfiniiVision 7000A Series the best signal visibility?

1. Biggest display

Oscilloscopes are visual tools and large, high-resolution screens make the prod­uct better.
scopes need more space to display digital and serial signals in addition to traditional
scope channels.

The increased display size helps you easily view up to 20 channels simultaneously
with serial protocol. At 12.1 inches the display is nearly 40% bigger than any competi-

tive model.

2. Fastest architecture

See a display more representative of the actual signals under test than with any other
scope. The InfiniiVision 7000A Series shows jitter, infrequent events, and subtle signal
detail that other scopes miss. Turn knobs and the instrument responds instantly and
effortlessly. Need to also view digital channels? The instrument stays responsive.
Decoding serial packets? Offering the industry’s only hardware-accelerated serial bus
decode, Agilent’s InfiniiVision series delivers serial debug without compromising analog
measurements.

Bigger displays have become increasingly important as general purpose

InfiniiVision scopes incorporate acquisition memory, waveform processing, and display memory in an advanced 0.13 µ
ASIC. This patented 3rd generation technology, known as MegaZoom III, delivers up to 100,000 waveforms (acquisitions)
per second with responsive deep memory always available.

3. Insightful applications

Customize your general purpose scope. A wide range of application packages provide meaningful insight into your application-specific
problems. (See pages 8-10 for more detail.)

Serial with hardware-accelerated decode

• I2C, SPI • Core-assisted FPGA debug • Secure environment

• CAN/LIN • Vector signal analysis • FlexRay

• RS-232/UART • Segmented memory • MIL-STD 1553

2

S • Mask testing

• I

• DSO/MSO ofine analysis • Power measurement

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Your design has analog, digital and serial signals ... shouldn’t your scope?

Analog: Up to 1 GHz bandwidth and up to
4 GSa/s sample rate

Digital: 16 digital timing channels with
mixed signal triggering

The InfiniiVision 7000A Series scope channels provide faster identification of your most
elusive problems –

Revolutionary high-resolution display.

Engineered with an XGA display and 256 levels of intensity grading, see a precise representation
of the analog characteristics of the signals you’re testing. Equipped with the industry’s fastest
uncompromised update rate at 100,000 waveforms/sec update rate, you’ll capture critical signal
detail and see infrequent events that traditional scopes miss

MegaZoom III technology.

MegaZoom III responsive deep memory captures long, non-repeating signals and maintains high

sample rates, allowing you to quickly zoom in on areas of interest. Sample rate and memory
depth go hand-in-hand. Deep memory in oscilloscopes sustains a high sample rate over longer
time spans.

Capture a mix of analog or digital signals. Compare multiple cycles of digital signals with
slower analog signals –

16 high-speed timing channels with up to 2 GSa/s deep memory.

Use the timing channels to evaluate control signal relationship. Or capture and view data
buses up to 16 bits wide. Trigger on and display individual signals or bus waveforms in hex

or binary.

Mixed signal trigger.
Trigger across any combination of analog and digital signals simultaneously. See precise ana­log measurements timed with exact digital content, all in one box.

Applications for digital channels. Designing with Altera or Xilinx FPGAs? Use the FPGA dy­namic probe for rapid internal FPGA measurements. Using I2C, SPI, or RS-232? Use the analog

or digital signals from a 4-channel model to acquire and decode these serial buses.

.

Serial: Hardware-accelerated decode and
trigger for I2C, I2S, SPI, RS-232, LIN, FlexRay,
and MIL-STD 1553

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Capture long streams of serial data and gain fast insight into your problems. Agilent
7000A Series oscilloscopes provide the best serial protocol capabilities in their class –
Serial bus triggering and decoding.

Display responsive, on-screen decode of serial bus traffic. Isolate specific events with pinpoint
accuracy. Show decode to validate serial bus activity in
real time.

Quickly find infrequent errors.
Hardware-accelerated decoding increases your probability of capturing elusive events. Agilent
oscilloscopes can help you catch that intermittent problem before it becomes an intermittent
customer complaint or quality concern.

Easily capture enough serial data to see all of the details.

Use deep memory to capture serial data stream over a long period of time.

Listing Display Window

Shows a tabular view of all captured packets that match on screen waveform data.

Other useful features

High resolution mode. Offers up to 12 bits

of vertical resolution in real-time, single-shot
mode. This is accomplished by serially
filtering sequential data points and
mapping the filtered results to the display
when operating at time base settings greater
than 10-μs/div.

Help is at your fingertips. An embedded help
system – available in 11 languages – gives
you quick answers if you don’t understand
a feature. Simply press and hold the corre­sponding front-panel key, and a screen pops

up to explain its function.

Waveform math with FFT. Analysis functions
include subtract, multiply, integrate, square

root, and differentiate, as well as fast Fourier
transforms (FFT).

Peak detect. 250 ps on 500-MHz and 1-GHz
models, 500 ps on 350-MHz models. Helps
you find narrow glitches.

AutoProbe interface. Automatically sets
probe attenuation factors and provides power
for selected active probes, including the

award-winning 1130A 1.5-GHz InniiMax

differential active probe and 1156A 1.5-GHz
single-ended active probe systems.

5-digit hardware counter. Measures fre­quency up to the bandwidth of the scope and
provides accurate and repeatable results. Can

be increased to 8 digits with an external 10

MHz reference.

Trig Out and Reference Clock In/Out. Pro­vides an easy way to synchronize your scope
to other instruments. Use the Trig Out port to
connect your scope to a frequency counter
for more accurate frequency measurements
or to cross trigger other instruments.

Autoscale. Displays all analog and digital
active signals, and automatically sets the
vertical, horizontal and trigger controls.

23 automatic measurements with statistics.

Get up to 4 simultaneous measurements with
5 additional statistics beyond the current
value. Fast update rate provides statisti­cal data for enabled measurements such

as mean, min, max, standard deviation and

count. Pressing [QuickMeas] brings up the
last four automated measurements selected.
Cursors automatically track the most recently
selected measurement.

Analog HDTV/EDTV trigger. The 7000 Series
comes standard with analog HDTV/EDTV
triggering for standards like 1080i, 1080p,
720p and 480p as well as standard video
triggering on any line within a field, all lines,
all fields and odd or even fields for NTSC,

SECAM, PAL and PAL-M video signals.

Bus mode display (on MSO models). Quick

and easy read-out of hexadecimal or binary
representation of logic signals.

Easy software upgrades. System software

is stored in ash ROM that can be upgraded
from the scope’s built-in USB port or LAN.
You can nd the latest system and IntuiLink

software at:

www.agilent.com/find/7000sw

Press and hold a key for instant help.

Measurement statistics allow you to
have confidence in your measurements.
Statistics can show that a measure­ment is not only correct at one moment,
but that it has stabilized and has a low
variance over time, giving it a higher
statistical validity.

Digital signals can be displayed
individually or as overlayed bus values.

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Why does a fast update rate matter?

While bandwidth, sample rate and memory depth are key criteria for
deciding which scope to purchase, an equally important characteristic

is update rate.

What is update rate?
Update rate is how many waveforms acquisitions per seconds you
scope can acquire, process, and display. Oscilloscope “dead-time” is
the time it takes for a scope to process and then display an acquired

waveform before re-arming it’s triggering for the next acquisition. For

traditional scopes, this time is often orders of magnitude greater than
acquisition time on fast time-per-division settings.

If a glitch occurs during the scope’s dead-time, it won’t be captured.
The key to improving the probability of capturing a signal anomaly
during the scope acquisition time is to minimize dead-time.

Oscilloscope vendors usually specify what their scope’s “best-case”
waveform update rates are. Some scope architectures suffer from
factors that can seriously degrade the “best-case” update rates spec.
Agilent’s 7000 Series architecture delivers the world’s fastest update

rate when using:

Improves instrument responsiveness

•

Why is update rate important?

1. Responsiveness. If you rotate the timebase control, you expect

2. Signal detail. Fast waveform update rates improve the display

3. Certainty. Fast waveform update rates improve the scope’s prob-

Update rates directly affect a scope probability of capturing and dis­playing infrequent and random events. Slow update rates will cause a
scope to miss subtle or infrequent signal details.

Analog channels

•

Deep memory

the oscilloscope to respond immediately – not seconds later after
the scope finishes processing data.

quality of the waveform that you see on screen.

ability of capturing random and infrequent events.

•

Analog and digital

•

Serial decode

Improves scope display quality

Improves probability of capturing

infrequent events

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How update rate affects signal visibility

Capturing random and infrequent events on an oscilloscope is all about statistical probabilities. The key to improving the probability of
capturing a signal anomaly is to minimize dead-time and take more pictures of the signal in a given timeframe. Here is an example with Tek
and Agilent scopes both connected to a target with a glitch that occurs 25 times per second.

?

?

signal activity

?

Tek MSO4104

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Product data sheet: 50,000 waveforms per second,

•

Update rate = 18 waveforms per second with 10 Mpts and

digital channels turned on. Resulting measurement shown.

•

Probability of capturing the infrequent glitch = 0.09% after

running for 10 seconds.

•

Average time to capture just one glitch = 128 minutes.

signal jitter

Infrequent

Critical

Agilent MSO7104A

•

Product data sheet: 100,000 waveforms per second.

•

Update rate = 95,000 waveforms per second with auto

memory and digital channels turned on. Resulting

measurement shown.

•

Probability of capturing the infrequent glitch = 99% after

running for 10 seconds.

•

Average time to capture just one glitch = 1.5 seconds.

Memory*

Tek

Initial setup

Change timebase

Add digital channels

Increase memory setting

Turn on serial decode

* Agilent and LeCroy memory depth selection was automatically selected. Memory depth = display window times sample rate with up to 8 Mpts for Agilent.

** Tek measurements taken with version 2.13 firmware.

10 Kpts

10 Kpts

10 Kpts

10 Mpts

10 Mpts

Timebase setting

20 ns/div

10 ns/div

20 ns/div

20 ns/div

20 ns/div

Scope settings

Digital Channels

-

-

On

On

On

Serial Decode

-

-

-

-

On

TEK MSO4104A**

55,000

2,700

125

35

0.2

Measured update rates

LeCroy WR 104Xi

27

27

27

27

25

Agilent MSO7104A

95,000

60,000

95,000

95,000

95,000

Seeing subtle signal detail and infrequent events requires a scope with fast waveform update rates. Don’t take a scope vendor’s banner waveform
update rate specification at face value. Test it yourself. It’s actually pretty easy to characterize a scope’s update rate. Run a moderately fast signal
(e.g. 50 Mhz) into a scope channel. Measure the scope’s average trigger output signal frequency. This is your scope’s update rate for the specified
timebase setting. Test the update rate of the scope under various setup conditions. Setup conditions that Agilent suggests varying include timebase
range, memory depth, and number of channels, including analog, digital, as well as channels assigned for serial decoding.

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Software applications

Mask testing (N5455A or Option LMT)

Agilent’s mask test option (Option LMT or N5455A) for InniiVision Series oscilloscopes pro­vides a fast and easy way to test your signals to specied standards, and uncover unexpected

signal anomalies, such as glitches. Mask testing on other oscilloscopes is based on software­intensive processing technology, which tends to be slow. Agilent’s InfiniiVision scopes can
perform up to 100,000 real-time waveform pass/fail tests per second. This provides testing
throughput significantly faster than other mask test solutions, making valid pass/fail statistics
available almost instantly.

Mask testing uncovers an infrequent
signal anomaly.

Use segmented memory to optimize
available memory.

For more information:

www.agilent.com/find/masktest

Segmented memory (N5454A or Option SGM on new scope purchases)

Segmented memory optimizes available memory for data streams that have long dead times

between activity. The application excels at analyzing signal activity associated with laser

pulses, serial buses, and bursty signals such as radar. View an overlay of all signal segments,
including MSO channels and serial decode, while highlighting the current segment. Quickly
move between segments to view signal detail associated with a specific segment.

For more information:

www.agilent.com/find/segmented

I2C/SPI serial trigger and decode (N5423A or Option LSS on new scope purchases)

This application displays real-time time-aligned decode of I2C and SPI serial buses. Hardware­accelerated decode means the scope stays responsive and fast.

This application requires a 4-channel DSO or 4-channel MSO and can use any combination of
the scope or logic acquisition channels.

View on-screen serial decode of an I2C packet.

Trigger on and decode RS-232/UART
transmission.

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For more information:

www.agilent.com/find/I

RS-232/UART serial decode and trigger (N5457A or Option 232 on new scope purchases)

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C-SPI

Does your design include RS-232 or another type of UART? This application eliminates the

need to manually decode bus traffic. Using data captured on the scope or logic channels, the

application lets you easily view the information sent over a RS-232 or other UART serial bus.

Display real-time time-aligned decode of transmit and receive lines. The application also en-

ables triggering on RS-232/UART conditions.

This application requires a 4-channel DSO or 4-channel MSO and can use any combination of

the scope or logic acquisition channels.

For more information:

www.agilent.com/find/RS-232

Software applications

Trigger on and decode CAN serial packets.

CAN/LIN triggering and decode (N5424A or Option AMS on new scope purchases)

Trigger on and decode serially transmitted data based on CAN and LIN protocols. This ap­plication not only provides triggering on complex serial signals, but it also provides unique

hardware-accelerated capabilities. Hardware-accelerated triggering and decode means the
scope stays responsive and fast

This application requires a 4-channel DSO or 4-channel MSO and can use any combination of
scope or logic acquisition channels.

For more information: www.agilent.com/find/CAN-LIN.

FlexRay Measurements (N5432C or Option FLX on new scope purchases)

Trigger on and time-correlate FlexRay communication with physical layer signals. With
Agilent’s unique hardware-accelerated decoding, it provides the fastest decode update
rates in the industry while the scope remains responsive and fast. Also included with this

option is FlexRay eye-diagram mask testing and physical layer conformance test solution.

This application requires a 4-channel DSO or 4-channel MSO and can use any combina­tion of scope or logic acquisition channels.

Time-correlated display of the FlexRay
physical layer signal with protocol
decoding.

On-screen serial decode of an SPI packet

Time-correlated display of the MIL-STD 1553
physical layer signal with protocol decoding.

For more information: www.agilent/find/flexray

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S triggering and decode(Option SND or N5468A)

I

Find and debug intermittent errors and signal integrity problems faster on I2S audio
protocol devices. This application offers powerful triggering and our unique hardware­accelerated decode and lister window so you can more easily find errors you could miss
using other serial bus decode tools.

This application requires a 4 channel DSO or MSO model

For more information: www.agilent.com/find/I2S

MIL-STD 1553 Serial Trigger and Decode (N5469A or Option 553 on new scope purchase)

This application provides integrated MIL-STD 1553 serial bus triggering, hardware-based
decoding, and eye-diagram mask testing to help you debug and characterize the
electrical/physical layer of MIL-STD 1553 serial buses faster than with traditional
“bit-counting” methods.

This application requires a 4-channel DSO or 4-channel MSO and can use any combina­tion of scope of logic acquisition channels

For more information: www.agilent.com/find/1553

Debug and validate your FPGA designs
faster and more effectively with the FPGA
dynamic probe and an Agilent MSO.

FPGA dynamic probe application (N5406A for Xilinx, N5434A for Altera)

Give your MSO internal FPGA visibility. Agilent’s MSO FPGA dynamic probe provides internal
FPGA visibility and quick instrument setup using an innovative core-assisted debug approach.

Measurement tasks that previously took hours can be done in a few mouse clicks. In a few

seconds, easily measure a different set of internal signals without changing your FPGA design.

For more information:

www.agilent.com/find/7000-altera

www.agilent.com/find/7000-xilinx

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