Agilent Technologies
Infi niiVision 7000 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).
Wonder why? Agilent engineers developed the Infi niiVision 7000 Series 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 Infi niiVision 7000 Series oscilloscope—the industry’s best for signal viewing.
There is no better way to experience
the superiority of the Infi niiVision 7000
Series scopes than to see it.
Contact Agilent today to request an
evaluation.
Or visit:
www.agilent.com/fi nd/7000
The Infi niiVision 7000 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.
Scope Digital
Model Bandwidth Sample rate Memory channels channels Update rate
DSO7032A
DSO7034A
MSO7032A
MSO7034A
DSO7052A
DSO7054A
MSO7052A
MSO7054A
DSO7104A
MSO7104A
350 MHz
500 MHz
1 GHz
2 GSa/s
4 GSa/s
4 GSa/s
8 Mpts
8 Mpts
8 Mpts
2
4
2
4
2
4
2
4
4
16
16
16
Up to 100,000 deep-memory
waveforms per second, even with
deep memory, digital channels
and serial decode turned on.
Choose from ten Infi niiVision 7000 Series models. Agilent provides an easy 5-minute DSO-to-MSO upgrade kit for previously purchased
7000 Series DSOs.
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What gives the Infi niiVision 7000 Series the best signal visibility?
1. Biggest display
Oscilloscopes are visual tools and large, high-resolution screens make the product
Bigger displays have become increasingly important as general purpose scopes
better.
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 competitive
model.
2. Fastest architecture
See a display more representative of the actual signals under test than with any other
scope. The Infi niiVision 7000 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
Infi niiVision series delivers serial debug without compromising analog measurements.
Infi niiVision scopes incorporate acquisition memory, waveform processing, and display memory in an advanced .13m 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-specifi c problems.
(See pages 8-9 and 13-14 for more detail.)
Serial with hardware-accelerated decode
X I2C, SPI X RS-232/UART
X
CAN/LIN X FlexRay
O
Segmented memory
O
DSO/MSO offl ine analysis O Core-assisted FPGA debug
O
Power measurement
O
Secure environment
O
Vector signal analysis
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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 Infi niiVision 7000 Series scope
channels provide faster identifi cation 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 un-
comprimised update rate at 100,000 waveforms/sec
update rate, you’ll capture critical signal detail and
see infrequent events that traditional scopes miss.
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.
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.
Mixed signal trigger. Trigger across any
combination of analog and digital signals simulta-
neously. See precise analog measurements timed
with exact digital content, all in one box.
Applications for digital channels. Design-
ing with Altera or Xilinx FPGAs? Use the FPGA
dynamic
probe for rapid internal FPGA measurements.
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C, SPI, or RS-232? Use the analog or digital
Using I
signals from a 4-channel model to acquire and
decode these serial buses.
Serial: Hardware-accelerated decode and
trigger for 12C, SPI, RS-232, CAN, LIN and FlexRay
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Capture long streams of serial data and gain
fast insight into your problems. Agilent
7000 Series oscilloscopes provide the best
serial protocol capabilities in their class –
Serial bus triggering and decoding. Display
responsive, on-screen decode of serial bus traffi c.
Isolate specifi c events with pinpoint accuracy.
Show decode to validate serial bus activity in
real time.
Quickly fi nd infrequent errors. Hardware-ac-
celerated 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.
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 fi ltering sequential
data points and mapping the fi ltered results to
the display when operating at time base settings
greater than 10-µs/div.
Help is at your fi ngertips. 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
fi nd narrow glitches.
AutoProbe interface. Automatically sets
probe attenuation factors and provides power for
selected active probes, including the award-
winning 1130A 1.5-GHz Infi niiMax differential
active probe and 1156A 1.5-GHz single-ended
active probe systems.
Trig Out and Reference Clock In/Out. Pro-
vides 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 ac-
curate frequency measurements or to cross trigger
other instruments.
Autoscale. Displays all analog and digital active
signals, and automatically sets the vertical, hori-
zontal and trigger controls.
23 automatic measurements with QuickMeas.
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 trigger-
ing for standards like 1080i, 1080p, 720p and 480p
as well as standard video triggering on any line
within a fi eld, all lines, all fi elds and odd or even
fi elds 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.
Press and hold a key for instant help.
FFT allows you to view the spectral
content of this clock signal.
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.
Easy software upgrades. System software is
stored in fl ash ROM that can be upgraded from the
scope’s built-in USB port or LAN. You can fi nd the
latest system and IntuiLink software at:
www.agilent.com/fi nd/7000sw
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.
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” wave-
form update rates are. Some scope architectures suffer from factors that can
seriously degrade the “best-case” update rates spec.
architecture delivers the world’s fastest update rate when using:
Oscilloscope “dead-time” is the time it takes for
Agilent’s 7000 Series
Improves instrument responsiveness
O
Analog channels
O
Deep memory
O
Analog and digital
O
Serial decode
Why is update rate important?
Responsiveness. If you rotate the timebase control, you expect the
1.
oscilloscope to respond immediately – not seconds later after the scope
fi nishes processing data.
2.
Signal detail. Fast waveform update rates improve the display
quality of the waveform that you see on screen.
3.
Certainty. Fast waveform update rates improve the scope’s probability
of capturing random and infrequent events.
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.
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.
?
?
?
Tek MSO4104
O
Product data sheet: 35,000 waveforms per second,
O
Update rate = 18 waveforms per second with 10 Mpts and
digital channels turned on. Resulting measurement shown.
O
Probability of capturing the infrequent glitch = 0.09% after running
for 10 seconds.
O
Average time to capture just one glitch = 128 minutes.
Infrequent
signal activity
Critical
signal jitter
Agilent MSO7104A
O
Product data sheet: 100,000 waveforms per second.
O
Update rate = 95,000 waveforms per second with auto memory
and digital channels turned on. Resulting measurement shown.
O
Probability of capturing the infrequent glitch = 99% after running
for 10 seconds.
O
Average time to capture just one glitch = 1.5 seconds.
Memory*
Te k
Initial setup
Change timebase
Add digital channels
Increase memory setting
Turn on serial decode
*Agilent and LeCroy memory depth selection is automatic. Memory depth = display window times sample rate with up to 8 Mpts for Agilent and up to 10 Mpts for LeCroy.
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
41,000
2,700
125
35
0.2
Measured update rates
LeCroy WR 104Xi
27
27
27
27
25
Agilent MSO7104A
95,000
95,000
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 specifi cation 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 speci-
fi ed 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
View on-screen serial decode of an I2C packet.
Trigger on and decode RS-232/UART
transmission.
I2C/SPI serial trigger and decode (N5423A
or Option LSS on new scope purchases)
This application displays real-time time-aligned
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decode of I
celerated decode means the scope stays
responsive and fast.
C and SPI serial buses. Hardware-ac-
RS-232/UART serial decode and trigger (N5457A
or Option 232 on new scope purchases)
Does your design include RS-232 or another type
of UART? This application eliminates the need to
manually decode bus traffi c. 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.
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/fi nd/I
Display real-time time-aligned decode of transmit
and receive lines. The application also enables
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/fi nd/RS-232
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C-SPI
Trigger on and decode CAN serial packets.
See mixed signal measurements in a
FlexRay system using an MSO.
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.
FlexRay triggering and decode (N5432A or
Option FRS on new scope purchases)
FlexRay protocol is based on time-triggered and
deterministic architecture. Agilent’s FlexRay solu-
tion for the 7000 Series mixed signal oscilloscopes
offers a robust set of FlexRay frame, slot, and
error triggering, including the ability to trigger
on specifi c FlexRay communications qualifi ed on
base-cycle and cycle-repetition. This
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/fi nd/CAN-LIN
solution combines an Agilent 7000 Series mixed
signal oscilloscope (MSO) with an Agilent VPT
1000 vehicle protocol tester for FlexRay protocol
analyzer.
This application requires a 4-channel MSO.
For more information:
www.agilent.com/fi nd/fl exray
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Software applications
Debug and validate your FPGA designs
faster and more effectively with the FPGA
dynamic probe and an Agilent MSO.
Expand the capability of your scope with
89601A vector analysis software.
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,
Vector signal analysis software (89601A)
Expand the measurement capability of your scope
with the 89601A vector signal analysis software.
This advanced DSP based software takes the
digitized signal data provided by the scope and
provides FFT based spectrum analysis and wide
bandwidth digital modulation analysis for wire-
less communication signals like WCDMA and
cdma2000, and wireless networking signals like
TM
802.11 WiFi and 802.16 WiMax
.
easily measure a different set of internal signals
without changing your FPGA design.
For more information:
www.agilent.com/fi nd/7000-altera
www.agilent.com/fi nd/7000-xilinx
Take advantage of the super wide bandwidth of
your scope to capture and evaluate radar signals.
For more information:
www.agilent.com/fi nd/7000-vsa
Use segmented memory to optimize
available memory.
Use your scope to quickly make and
analyze power measurements.
Segmented memory (N5454A or Option SGM
on new scope purchases)
Segmented memory optimizes available memory
for data streams that have long dead times be-
tween 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
Power application (U1881A)
Need to make power measurements with your
scope? Agilent’s power application provides a
full suite of power measurements that run on
a PC connected to an Infi niiVision 7000 Series
oscilloscope. Make more accurate power supply
effi ciency measurements by using an U1880A
deskew fi xture to deskew your voltage and current
probes.
channels and serial decode, while highlighting the
current segment. Quickly move between segments
to view signal detail associated with a specifi c
segment.
For more information:
www.agilent.com/fi nd/segmented
For more information:
www.agilent.com/fi nd/power-app
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