Atec MSO4000 User Manual

Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes

MSO4000 Series, DPO4000 Series Data Sheet

Connectivity

USB 2.0 Host P
for Quick and Easy Data Storage, Printing, and Connecting a USB
Keyboard

USB 2.0 Device Port on Rear Panel for Easy Connection to a PC or
Direct Print

Integrated 10/100 Ethernet Port for Network Connection and Video Out
Port to Export the Oscilloscope Display to a Monitor or Projector

Optional Serial Triggering and Analysis

Automated Serial Triggering, Decode, and Search Options for I2C, SPI,
USB, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, RS-232/422/485/UART, and I

ort on the Front Panel and Two on the Rear Panel

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-compatible Printer

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S/LJ/RJ/TDM

Features & Benefits

Key Performance Specifications

1 GHz, 500 MHz, 350 MHz Bandwidth Models

4 Analog Channel Models

16 Digital Channels (MSO Series)

Up to 5 GS/s Sample Rate on All Channels

10 Megapoint Record Length on All Channels

>50,000 wfm/s M aximum Waveform Capture Rate

Suite of Advanced Triggers

Ease of Use Features

Wave Inspector®Controls provide Easy Navigation and Automated
Search of Waveform Data

29 Automated Measurements, Waveform Histograms, and FFT Analysis
for Simplified Waveform Analysis

TekVPI®Probe Interface supports Active, Differential, and Current
Probes for Automatic Scaling and Units

10.4 in. (264 mm) XGA Color Display

Small Footprint and Lightweight – Only 5.4 in. (137 mm) deep and 11 lb.
(5 kg)

Mixed Signal Design and Analysis (MSO Series)

Automated Triggering, Decode, and Search on Parallel Buses

Per-channel Threshold Settings

Multichannel Setup and Hold Triggering

MagniVu™ High-speed Acquisition Provides 60.6 ps Fine Timing
Resolution on Digital Channels

Optional Application Support

Power A na

HDTV and Custom Video Ana lysis

lysis

Feature-rich Tools for Debugging Mixed
Signal Designs

With the M
analyze up to 20 analog and digital signals with a single instrument to
quickly find and diagnose problems in complex designs. Bandwidths up to
1 GHz and a minimum of 5x oversampling on all channels ensure you have
the performance you need to see fast-changing signal details. To capture
long windows of signal activity while maintaining fine timing resolution, the
MSO/DPO
channels.

With Wav
serial and parallel bus analysis, and automated power analysis – the
MSO/DPO4000 Oscilloscope Series from Tektronix provides the feature-rich
tools you need to simplify and speed debug of your complex design.

SO/DPO4000 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Series, you can

4000 offers a deep record len gth of 10M po ints standard on all

e Inspector

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controls for rapid waveform navigation, automated

Data Sheet

Discover –
of capturi

Fast waveform capture rate - over 50,000 wfm/s - maximizes the probability

ng elusive glitches and other infrequent events.

Comprehensive Features Speed Every Stage
of Debug

The MSO/DPO4000 Series offers a robust set of features to speed every
stage of debugging your design – from quickly discovering an anomaly and
capturing it, to se arching your waveform record for the event and analyzing
its characteristics and your device’s behavior.

Discover

To debug a design problem, first you must know it exists. E very
design engineer spends time looking for problems in their design, a
time-consuming and frustrating task without the right debug tools.

The MSO/DPO4000 Series o ffers the industry’s most complete visualization
of signals, providing fast insight into the real operation of yo ur device. A
fast waveform capture rate - greater than 50,000 waveforms per second ­enables you to see glitches and other infrequent transients within seconds,

ing the true nature of device faults. A digital phosphor disp lay with

reveal
intensity grading shows the history of a signal’s activity by intensifying areas
of the signal that occur more frequently, providing a visual display of just
how often anomalies occur.

Capture – T
complete s
quickly ca

riggering on a specific transmit data packet going across an RS-232 bus. A

et of triggers, including triggers for specific serial packet content, ensures you

pture your event of interest.

Capture

Discovering a device fault is only the first step. Next, you must capture the
event of interest to identify root cause.

The MSO/DPO4000 Series provides a complete set of triggers - including
runt, logic, pulse width/glitch, setup/hold violation, serial packet, and parallel
data - to help quickly find your event. With up to a 10M point record length,
you can capture many events of interest, even thousands of serial packets,
in a single acquisition for further analysis while maintaining high resolution
to zoom in

on fine signal details.

From triggering on specific packet content to automatic decode in multiple

mats, the MSO/DPO4000 Series provides integrated support for

data for
the industry’s broadest range of serial buses – I
FlexRay, RS-232/422/485/UART, and I

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C, SPI, USB, CAN, LIN,

S/LJ/RJ/TDM. The ability to decode
up to four serial and/or parallel buses simultaneously means you gain
insight into system-level problems quickly.

To f urther help troubleshoot system-level interactions in complex embedded
systems, the MSO4000 Series offers 16 digital channels in addition to its
analog channels. Since the digital c hannels are fully integrated into the

scope, you can trigger across all input channels, automatically time

oscillo
correlating all analog, digital, and serial signals. The MagniVu™ high-speed
acquisition enables you to acquire fine signal detail (up to 60.6 ps
resolution) around the trigger point for precision measurements. MagniVu
is essential for making accurate timing measurements for setup and hold
measurements, clock delay, signal skew, and glitch characterization.

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Search–I2C decode showing results from a Wave Inspector search for Address value

50. Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing and navigating
waveform data.

Search

Finding your event of interest in a long waveform record can be time
consuming without the right search tools. With today’s record lengths
pushing beyond a million data points, locating your event can mean scrolling
through thousands of screens of signal activity.

The MSO/DPO4000 Series offers the industry’s m o st comprehensive
search and waveform navigation with its innovative Wave Inspector

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controls. These controls speed panning and zooming through your record.
With a unique force-feedback system, you can move from one end of your

o the other in just seconds. User marks allow you to mark any

record t
location that you may want to reference later for further investigation. Or,
automatically search your record for criteria you define. Wave Inspector
will instantly search your entire record, including analog, digital, and serial
bus data. Along the way it will automatically mark every occurrence of your
defined event so you can quickly move between events.

Analyze – W
(jitter) o
data. A com
performan

aveform histogram of a falling edge showing the distribution of edge position

ver time. Included are numeric measurements made on the waveform histogram

prehensive set of integrated analysis tools speeds verification of your design’s

ce.

Analyze

Verifying that your prototype’s performance m atches simulations and meets
the project’s design goals requires analyzing its behavior. Tasks can range
from simple checks of rise times and pulse widt hs to sophisticated power
loss analysis and investigation of noise sources.

The MSO/DPO4000 Series offers a compre hensive set of integrated
analysis tools including waveform- and screen-based cursors, 29
automated measurements, advanced waveform math including arbitrary

n editing, waveform histograms, FFT analysis, and trend plots for

equatio
visually determining how a measurement is changing over time. Specialized
application support for serial bus analysis, power supply design, and video
design and development is also available.

For extended analysis, National Instrument’s LabVIEW SignalExpress™
Tektronix Edition provides over 200 built-in functions including time and
frequency domain analysis, limit testing, data logging, and customizable
reports.

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Data Sheet

Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing, navigating, and
analyzing waveform data. Zip through your 10M point record by turning the outer pan
control (1). Get from the beginning to end in seconds. See something of interest and want
to see more details? Just turn the inner zoom control (2).

Wave Inspector®Navigation and Search

A 10M point record length represents thousands of screens of information.
The MSO/DPO4000 Series enables you to find your event in seconds with
Wave Inspector, the industry’s best tool for navigation and search.

Wave Inspector offers the following innovative controls:

Zoom/Pan

A dedicated, two-tier front-panel control provides intuitive c ontrol of both
zooming and panning. The inner control adjusts the zoom factor (or zoo m
scale); turning it clockwise activates zoom and goes to progressively higher
zoom factors, while turning it counterclockwise results in lowe r zoom factors
and eventually turning zoo m off. No longer do you need to navigate through

le menus to adjust your zoom view. The outer control pans the zoom

multip
box across the waveform to quickly get to the portion of waveform you are
interested in. The outer control also utilizes force feedback to determine
how fast to pan on the waveform. The farther you turn the oute r control, the
faster the zoom box moves. Pan direction is changed by simply turning the
control the other way.

Play/Pause

A dedicated Play/Pause front-panel button scrolls the waveform across the
display automatically while you look for anomalies or an event of int erest.
Playback speed and direction are controlled using the intuitive pan control.
Once again, turning the control further makes the waveform scroll faster and

ing direction is as simple as turning the control the other way.

chang

Search ste

Search step 2: Wave Inspector automatically searches through the record and marks each
event with a hollow white triangle. You can then use the Previous and Next buttons to
jump from one event to the next.

p 1: You define what you would like to find.

User Marks

Press the Set Mark front-panel button to place one or more marks on
the waveform. Navigating between marks is as simple as pressing the
Previous (←)andNext (→) buttons on the front panel.

Search Marks

The Search button allows you to automatically search through your lon g
acquisition looking for user-defined events. All occurrences of the event
are highlighted with search marks and are easily navigated to, using the
front-panel Previous (←) and Next (→) buttons. Search types include

, pulse width/glitch, runt, logic, setup and hold, rise/fall time parallel

edge
bus, and I

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I

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C, SPI, USB, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, RS-232/422/485/UART, and

S/LJ/RJ/TDM packet content.

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osphor technology enables greater than 50,000 wfm/s waveform capture rate

Digital ph

ime intensity grading on the MSO/DPO4000 Series.

and real-t

Digital Phosphor Technology

The MSO/DPO4000 Series’ digital phosphor technology provides you with
fast insight into the real operation of your device. Its fast waveform capture
rate - greater than 50,000 wfm/s - gives you a high probability of quickly
seeing the infrequent problems commo n in digital systems: runt pulses,
glitches, timing issues, and more.

Waveforms are superimposed with one another and waveform points that
occur more frequently are intensified . This quickly highlights the events

r time occur more often or, in the case of infrequent anomalies,

that ove
occur less often.

With the

MSO/DPO4000 Series, you can choose infinite persistence
or variable persistence, determining how long the previous waveform
acquisitions stay on-screen. This allows you to determine how often an
anomaly is occurring.

Mixed Signal Design and Analysis
(MSO Series)

The MSO4000 Series Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes provide 16 digital
channels. These channels are tightly integrated into the oscilloscope’s user

ace, simplifying operation and making it possible to solve mixed-signal

interf
issues easily.

The MSO Ser
time-corr

With the color-coded digital waveform display, groups are created by simply placing digital
channels t ogether on the screen, allowing the digital channels to be moved as a group.
You can set threshold values for each channel, enabling support for up to 16 different
logic families.

Colo

ies provides 16 integrated digital channels enabling you to view and analyze

elated analog and digital signals.

r-coded Digital Waveform Display

The MSO4000 Series has redefined the way you view digital waveforms.

ommon problem shared by both logic analyzers and mixed signal

One c
oscilloscopes is determining if data is a one or a zero when zo omed in far
enough that the digital trace stays flat all the way across the display. The
MSO4000 Series has color-coded digital tra ces, displaying ones in green
and zeros in blue.

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Data Sheet

White edges indicate additional information is available by zooming in. As shown here,
zooming in on the white edge reveals a hidden glitch.

The MagniVu high-resolution record provides 60.6 ps timing resolution, enabling you to
make critical timing measurements on your digital waveforms.

The multiple transition detection hardware of the MSO4000 Series will
show you a white edge on the display when the system detects multiple
transitions. White edges indicate that more information is available by
zooming in or acquiring at faster sampling rates. In most cases zooming in

veal the pulse that was not viewable with the previous settings. If the

will re
white edge is still present after zooming in as far as possible, this indicates
that increasing the sample rate on the next acquisition will reveal higher
frequency information than the previous settings could acquire.

The P6516 M
device.

SO probe offers two eight-channel pods to simplify connecting to your

The MSO4000 Series simplifies chan nel setup by allowing you to group
digital waveforms and enter waveform labels by using a USB keyboard.
By simply placing digital waveforms next to each other, they form a group.
Once a group is formed, you can position all the channels contained in that
group col

lectively. This greatly reduces the normal setup time associated

with positioning channels individually.

MagniVu™ High-speed Acquisition

Themaind

igital acquisition mode on the MSO4000 Series will capture up
to 10M points at 500 MS/s (2 ns resolution). In addition to the main record,
the MSO4000 provides an ultra high-resolution record called MagniVu which
acquires 10,000 points at up to 16.5 GS/s (60.6 ps resolution). Both main
and MagniVu waveforms are acquired on every trigger and can be switched
between in the display at any time, running or stopped. MagniVu provides

antly finer timing resolution than comparable MSOs on the market,

signific
instilling confidence when making critical timing measurements on digital
waveforms.

P6516 MSO Probe

This unique probe d esign offers two eight-channel pods. Each channel ends
with a probe tip featuring a recessed ground for simplified connection to the
device under test. The coax on the first channel of each pod is colored blue
making it easy to identify. The common ground uses an automotive-style
connector making it easy to create custom grounds for c onnecting to

ice under test. When connecting to square pins, the P6516 has

the dev
an adapter that attaches to the probe head extending the probe ground
flush with the probe tip so you can attach to a header. The P6516 offers
outstanding electrical characteristics, applying only 3 pF of loading.

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