Agilent Technologies
6000 Series Oscilloscopes
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The new Agilent 6000 Series oscilloscopes deliver more powerful features
and higher performance than any other scopes in their price range.
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The performance and
problem-solving tools you need
to meet your mixed analog and
digital design challenges, today
and tomorrow
• A variety of models optimized to
meet your needs:
• 300 MHz, 500 MHz and
1 GHz bandwidth
• Up to 4 GSa/s sample rate
• Unique 2+16-channel,
4+16-channel mixed signal
oscilloscope (MSO) and 2- or
4-channel digital storage
oscilloscope (DSO) models
• Industry-leading performance:
• Standard 1 Mpts
MegaZoom III deep memory;
up to 8 Mpts optional
• High-definition XGA
(1024 x 768) color display
system with ultra-fast
real-time update rate of up
to 100,000 waveforms/sec
and 256 intensity levels
• Flexibility to upgrade a DSO
to an MSO at any time
• Full-scale connectivity –
Standard USB, LAN,
GPIB and XGA video output
• Powerful triggering including
analog HDTV, CAN, I2C, LIN,
SPI, and USB
• AutoProbe interface
• Built-in help system
Bring your toughest problems into
focus with the right combination of
features and performance
If you work with both analog
and digital circuitry, Agilent
Technologies 6000 Series
oscilloscopes can help you easily
see more signal activity in your
designs. The unique 2+16- or
4+16-channel mixed signal
oscilloscope (MSO) models and
the traditional 2- and 4-channel
digital storage oscilloscope (DSO)
models are optimized with the
capabilities you need for verifying
and debugging designs that
include embedded 8- or 16-bit
microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs,
ADCs, DACs, and transducers.
These scopes give you the tools
you need to solve your mixed
analog and digital engineering
challenges more easily.
Ideal for mixed analog and
digital signal analysis
The 6000 Series scopes combine
a suite of essential features that
are ideal for analyzing designs
with both analog and digital
components:
• 1 Mpts of Agilent’s third
generation MegaZoom III
deep memory captures long,
non-repeating signals and
maintains high sample rates,
allowing you to quickly
zoom in on areas of interest.
Optional 2 Mpts and 8 Mpts
memory lets you capture fast
and elusive signal problems
over even longer periods of
acquisition time.
• A revolutionary ultra-responsive,
high-definition color display
lets you see more signal details
than ever before. The 100,000
waveforms/sec of real-time
(sinx/x) waveform update rate
is more than 27 times faster
than that of a typical digital
scope in this class.
• Three standard interfaces:
high-speed USB2.0 device,
10/100 Base-T LAN (Ethernet),
and GPIB interfaces allow you
to easily save your waveform
data or images to your PC. You
can print the waveforms on a
connected printer or connect a
USB flash drive (or other USB
mass storage device) to the
USB 1.1 host port on the front
or the rear of the oscilloscope.
• Flexible triggering lets you
easily isolate and analyze the
complex signals and fault
conditions common in mixed
analog and digital designs. I2C,
CAN, LIN, USB, SPI and video,
including analog HDTV/EDTV,
triggering come standard.
• When your needs change, you
can upgrade your DSO6000
Series scope to an MSO with
the addition of a scope logic kit
that you can install yourself.
This combination of capabilities
is tailored to give you the
measurement power you need
to get your mixed analog and
digital job done faster.
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Selection guide
Figure 1. The 6000 Series family shown with 2+16-channel, 4+16-channel MSO and 2- and 4-channel DSO models.
Agilent focuses on developing products that help you do your job
better. Agilent’s 6000 Series scopes are optimized for your
measurement needs. Choose the one that’s right for your application
and your budget.
Selection guide
Maximum
Model Bandwidth sample rate Memory Channels
DSO6032A 300MHz 2GSa/s 2 scope
MSO6032A 300MHz 2GSa/s 2 scope + 16 logic
DSO6034A 300MHz 2GSa/s 4 scope
MSO6034A 300MHz 2GSa/s 4 scope + 16 logic
DSO6052A* 500MHz 4GSa/s 2 scope
MSO6052A* 500MHz 4GSa/s 2 scope + 16 logic
DSO6054A* 500MHz 4GSa/s 4 scope
MSO6054A* 500MHz 4GSa/s 4 scope + 16 logic
DSO6102A* 1GHz 4GSa/s 2 scope
MSO6102A* 1GHz 4GSa/s 2 scope + 16 logic
DSO6104A* 1GHz 4GSa/s 4 scope
MSO6104A* 1GHz 4GSa/s 4 scope + 16 logic
* Maximum sample rate and memory are achieved when 2 channels are interleaved.
MegaZoom III
1 Mpts standard,
2 Mpts and
8 Mpts optional
Agilent responded to customer
inputs and we are proud to present
these additional reasons to buy
the new Agilent 6000 Series.
New Agilent 6000 Series =
older Agilent 54640 Series PLUS
+ 4/4+16 channel models and
1 GHz models
+ 2x sampling rate (up to 4 GSa/s
scope and 2 GSa/s logic)
+ MSO-upgradeable DSOs
+ MegaZoom III deep memory
combining fast and deep
memory, new ultra-high
definition color LCD display
with XGA resolution and 256
levels of intensity
+ Faster waveform update rates
(100,000 waveforms/sec)
+ Standard analog HDTV/EDTV
and either edge triggering
+ Built-in front panel USB port
replaces floppy drive
+ Standard USB, LAN and GPIB
+ XGA video output
+ AutoProbe interface
+ 10 MHz reference clock in/out
+ Signal frequency feedthrough
+ 8-digit hardware frequency
counter (when using external
10 MHz reference input)
+ Lighter weight
All for comparable prices
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Selection guide (continued)
Easily see complex interactions with
2+16-channel or 4+16-channel
mixed signal oscilloscopes
(models MSO6000A)
The mixed signal oscilloscopes
(MSOs), with 2 or 4 scope
channels plus 16 logic channels,
uniquely combine the detailed
signal analysis of a scope
with the multi-channel timing
measurements of a logic analyzer.
They let you see the complex
interactions among your signals
on up to 20 channels at the same
time. No more guesswork and no
more poking around to see a few
channels at a time. These scopes
can easily conquer mixed analog
and digital debugging problems
that a traditional scope can’t
begin to address, because they let
you simultaneously test and
monitor the high-speed digital
control signals and the slower
analog signals in your design.
Figure 2. The 4+16-channel MSO allows
you to view up to 4 analog and 16 digital
signals on one instrument.
2- or 4-channel DSOs (model
DSO6000A) – scopes that can
grow with your needs
If your designs include heavy
analog content, the DSO6000A
will give you the number of
channels and measurement
power you need, including
MegaZoom III deep memory,
high-definition display, and
flexible triggering. Whether
you’re testing designs with four
inputs, such as anti-lock brakes,
or monitoring multiple outputs
of a power supply, the 4-channel
models help you perform your
debug and verification with ease.
If you don’t need 4 channels and
good value is a primary concern,
the 2-channel models bring you
all the benefits of MegaZoom III
deep memory, high-definition
display, and flexible triggering.
They give you an affordable
way to see long time periods
while maintaining a high sample
rate so you can see details in
your designs.
After-purchase upgrade options
You can expand the capabilities
of all 6000 models whenever you
choose. You can easily upgrade
your DSO to include the 16 timing
channel MSO capabilities or
choose a memory upgrade
option to 2 Mpts and 8 Mpts
for increasing the acquisition
memory depth on your scope
after purchase. The upgrade is
easy and affordable.
Try a new MSO6000A MSO
for yourself
There is no better way to
experience the superiority of
the new Agilent 6000 Series
scopes than seeing one in
action on your bench to
measure your signals
yourself. We can arrange
for you to try out a new
MSO6000A MSO. Contact
your nearest Agilent
sales office or visit the
MSO6000A home page at
www.agilent.com/find/
MSO6000. Contact Agilent
today to request an evaluation.
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Industry-leading performance
MegaZoom III deep memory
With many of today’s designs
containing a mix of signal
types and speeds, it’s often
critical to capture and compare
multiple cycles of digital signals
along with slower analog signals.
But doing so often requires an
instrument that can deliver more
resolution and memory than a
traditional DSO can provide.
Agilent pioneered the patented
MegaZoom approach beginning
with products introduced in 1996
and continued to improve it with
the 54600 Series introduced in
2000 and 2002. MegaZoom III as
implemented in the new 6000
Series products represents the
most advanced use of deep
memory and precision
displays ever.
With up to 8 Mpts of MegaZoom
III deep memory, now you can
finally correlate high-speed
digital control signals with slower
analog signals, capture infrequent
events and then quickly zoom in
on the details to narrow in on
problems. Unlike deep-memory
options on alternative scopes,
Agilent MegaZoom III is not a
special mode with sluggish
response. It’s always on, always
fast, and always there to help you
capture the most critical signals
with maximized sample rates.
The 6000 Series scopes are the
only deep-memory scopes in the
class that respond instantly to
your control inputs with a fast,
high-definition display. Compare
them to other scopes in this price
range – only the 6000 Series
provides deep memory at an
affordable price.
I. Most responsive deep memory
II. Highest definition color display
III. Fastest waveform update rate,
uncompromised
Five ways deep memory gives you
better insight into your design
1. Deep memory allows the scope
to maintain faster sample rates
(or shorter sampling intervals
between digitized points), even
at slow time base settings.
2. At a given time base setting,
deeper memory makes it
possible to capture signals with
finer resolution. And at a given
sample rate, it lets you capture
more time on your signals.
3. Deep memory helps you
find details buried in
complex signals.
4. Deep memory helps discover
anomalies in the absence of
precise triggering events.
5. Deep memory is particularly
valuable when you are dealing
with mixed analog and digital
designs where slow analog
events require long time spans
and fast digital control signals
require ability to maintain high
sample rate.
Figure 3. Motor drive signal start-up sequence with digital control signal triggering and various levels of zoom reveal “runt” pulse
using Agilent’s MSO6000A Series MSOs.
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Industry-leading performance (continued)
Revolutionary high-definition color
display helps you see subtle
details that most scopes can’t
show you
Combine MegaZoom III
deep memory with an ultra
high-definition color display
system, and you will see subtle
details that most scopes won’t
show you. The MegaZoom III deep
memory is mapped to 256 levels
of intensity on a display that has
industry-leading XGA resolution
(1024 x 768 lines) and phenomenal
waveform update rates of up to
100,000 waveforms per second in
the default real-time acquisition
mode – so you see a more realistic
representation of your signals.
With fast waveform update rates,
your scope has less dead time
between the acquisitions. Why
is it important to minimize
dead time? Capturing a random,
infrequent glitch can be difficult,
because you can’t predict when
the glitch will occur. If it occurs
during the scope’s dead time, you
will miss it. By minimizing the
dead time, you can improve the
probability of the glitch occurring
during the acquisition time.
With a real-time waveform update
rate of up to 100,000 waveforms
per second, there is less chance
to miss a narrow occasional
transient, less chance to miss
a glitch or distorted edge that
impacts circuit operation, and
less chance to miss all those
subtle details that can take
days or weeks to find with a
traditional digital scope.
Agilent’s 6000 Series scopes
provide the fastest waveform
update rates in their class and
you do not need to select special
operating modes that may entail
tradeoffs in performance and
functionality. And with the
MegaZoom III deep memory and
additional 16 logic channels
available in MSO models, finding
the root cause of intermittent
failures in your embedded design
becomes a much easier task.
Figure 5. 256 levels of display intensity gradation
shows characteristics of jitter, noise, and signal
anomalies on Agilent’s 6000 Series oscilloscope.
Figure 6. Waveform update rates in comparison using each scope’s
default real-time acquisition mode.
Figure 4. Slow update rate means long dead time when anomalies may be
missed. With 100,000 wvfms/sec update rate, dead time is minimized.
Acquisition time Dead time Acquisition time Dead time
Update Rate (Waveforms/Sec)
100000
10000
1000
100
10
0.1
1
1 ns/div
5 ns/div
20 ns/div
MSO6000
100 ns/div
Time base
TDS3000 WaveSurfer TDS5000
500 ns/div
2 µs/div
10 µs/div
50 µs/div
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Full-scale connectivity
Standard USB, Ethernet/LAN and
GPIB interfaces – choose the interface
you want to use
The 6000 Series scopes come
with standard USB 2.0 device,
10/100 Mbps LAN and GPIB
interfaces on the rear panel and
USB 1.1 host interfaces on the
front and rear panels.
• USB offers the quickest and
easiest connection scheme –
it’s perfect for benchtop use
and systems connection.
• LAN offers high-speed
connectivity over distances
and allows sharing of
instruments among multiple
PCs. Choose a local area
network (LAN) to filter out
unwanted LAN traffic and
speed up the I/O throughput,
or take advantage of the
remote capabilities and
distribute your test results
worldwide.
• GPIB has many years of proven
reliability for instrument
communication – a good choice
for use in existing GPIB-based
test systems.
Front-panel USB port
A built-in front-panel USB port
makes it easy for you to store
waveform data, screen images,
and scope setups to a USB
flash drive. You can store your
waveform images as BMP files
and your waveform data as CSV
files for easy import into other PC
applications. If you share your lab
equipment with others, you can
save your measurement setups and
traces to your own USB flash drive,
making it simple to reproduce
your every-day setups as well as
your advanced configurations.
Built-in XGA video output
allows you to connect to a large
external monitor or project your
screen image to a large wall screen
in classroom environments.
Free IntuiLink Data Capture software
simplifies PC connectivity
When you need to transfer images
and waveform data to your PC,
IntuiLink Data Capture lets you
focus more time on design issues
rather than on programming.
With the click of a button on the
Data Capture’s menu bar, you
can download data or transfer
a snapshot of an oscilloscope
bitmap screen directly to your
PC, or save the image as a bitmap
file. For more information on
IntuiLink Data Capture, visit
www.agilent.com/find/intuilink.
Logic analyzer/oscilloscope
time-correlation fixture (E5850A)
Easily make time-correlated
measurements between an
Agilent 1680, 1690 or 16900
Series logic analyzer and a
6000 Series oscilloscope. The
time-correlated logic analyzer
and 6000 Series oscilloscope
waveforms are integrated into a
single logic analyzer waveform
display for easy viewing and
analysis. You can also trigger
the 6000 Series oscilloscope
from the logic analyzer (or vice
versa), automatically de-skew
the waveforms and maintain
marker tracking between the
two instruments.
Figure 7. A built-in USB port makes it easy
to save and share your work and update
your system software quickly.
Figure 8. Agilent 6000 Series with an
external monitor attached.
Figure 9. Make time-correlated
measurements between an Agilent logic
analyzer and 6000 Series oscilloscope.
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Powerful triggering
Full-width pattern triggering
With mixed analog and digital
designs, sometimes it is hard to
trace an anomaly back to its root
cause unless you can trigger on it
and correlate it with other signals.
With the 6000 Series scopes,
triggering is no longer a hassle.
They come with flexible triggering
capabilities across all channels so
you can easily isolate and analyze
complex signals and interactions
common in your mixed analog
and digital designs. Trigger on
any combination of events across
all 4 scope and 16 logic channels.
Serial bus triggering
Agilent’s 6000 Series scopes
also allow you to trigger on the
industry’s most popular serial
bus standards. Don’t spend
your time sorting through
communication frames to find
the one of interest. Let Agilent
set up a serial bus trigger to sift
through the frames for you.
• I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit): The
full range of I2C triggering
includes start or stop condition,
missing acknowledge, restart,
EEPROM data read, address
and/or data frame, or
10-bit write.
• SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface):
SPI triggering lets you trigger
on user-definable framing,
number of bits per frame, as
well as particular data patterns.
• CAN (Controller Area Network):
CAN triggering synchronizes
to the start of a CAN frame
on any CAN high or CAN low
signal. Want to isolate and
trigger on a particular frame’s
content on a CAN serial bus?
• LIN (Local Interconnect Network):
Trigger on LIN sync break at
the beginning of a message
frame.
• USB (Universal Serial Bus):
USB is quickly becoming the
connection of choice for PC
peripherals. Make your testing
easy with start-of-packet
(SOP), end-of-packet (EOP),
reset complete (RC), enter
suspend, or exit suspend modes.
Instead of spending extra time
using conventional edge triggering
to capture and trace long streams
of serial bus data, let Agilent’s
serial bus triggering help you save
time by automatically finding the
right pattern from long streams of
serial data within your embedded
systems design.
Analog HDTV/EDTV triggering
Capturing and analyzing baseband
high-definition TV waveforms with
a scope has never been easier.
The 6000 Series supports analog
HDTV/EDTV triggering for
emerging standards like 1080i,
1080p, 720p and 480p as well as
standard video triggering on any
line within a field, all lines, all
fields, odd or even fields for
NTSC, SECAM, PAL and PAL-M
video signals.
Figure 10. MSOs provide
advanced pattern triggering
across all scope and logic
channels for quick isolation
of critical events.
Figure 11. Trigger on address
and/or data patterns within
an I
2
C frame.
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