Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes
Tektronix 4000 Series Family • DPO4000 Series • MSO4000 Series
Tektronix 4000 Series Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes
The 4000 Series family includes the
DPO4000 Series and the MSO4000
Series. The DPO4000 Series Digital
Phosphor Oscilloscopes (DPOs) are the
first oscilloscopes to offer usable deep
memory on all channels, excellent
performance, serial trigger and analysis
options and all in the most compact form
factor in their class. The MSO4000 Series
Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes (MSOs)
provide all the features and benefits of
the DPO4000, but add 16 integrated
digital channels, enabling you to visualize
and correlate analog and digital signals
on a single instrument. This integration
extends triggering functionality across
all 20 channels providing pattern and
state triggering ideal for debugging
mixed analog and digital designs.
Designed to Make Your
Work Easier
As design complexity increases, you need
tools that help you find problems quickly.
Easy to Set Up and Use
The 4000 Series has a large 10.4 in.
XGA display and a clean front panel with
familiar knobs - all in a package that is
only 5.4 in. deep and weighs only 11 lbs.
With USB plug-and-play operation and
PC connectivity, acquiring data and
measurements from the instrument is
as simple as connecting a USB cable
from the oscilloscope to the PC.
Provided applications include National
Instruments SignalExpress
Edition, OpenChoice
™
Tektronix
®
Desktop and
Microsoft Excel and Word toolbars,
enabling fast and easy direct communication with your Windows PC. USB and
CompactFlash ports on the front panel
enable simple transfer of screenshots,
instrument settings and waveform data
in the palm of your hand. When it comes
to mixed signal design and debug, you
want your instrument to be intuitive so
you can start solving problems quickly.
The MSO4000 Series drives like an
oscilloscope, the tool you already know
how to use. You do not have to relearn
how to use the instrument every time
you turn it on.
Features & Benefits
Key Performance Specs
– 1 GHz, 500 MHz, 350 MHz
Bandwidth Models
– 2 or 4 Channel Digital
Phosphor Oscilloscopes
– 16 Digital Channels (MSO4000)
– Suite of Advanced Triggers
– Sample Rates Up to 5 GS/s
on All Channels
– 10 Megasample Record
Length on All Channels
– 35,000 wfm/s Maximum
Waveform Capture Rate
Ease of Use Features
– Wave Inspector®Controls
Provide Unprecedented
Efficiency in Waveform Analysis
– 10.4 in. (264 mm) XGA Color
Display
– Small Footprint and Light
Weight – Only 5.4 in. (137 mm)
deep and 11 lbs. (5 kg)
– USB and CompactFlash
on Front Panel for Quick
and Easy Storage
– Plug-and-Play PC Connectivity
Serial Triggering and Analysis
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C, SPI, CAN and RS-232 Serial
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Triggering and Analysis Options
Mixed Signal Design and
Analysis (MSO4000)
– Parallel Bus Display
– Logic Triggering
– MagniVu™60.6 ps Technology
Provides Finer Timing Resolution
– Per Channel Threshold Settings
– Multi-channel Setup and Hold
Triggering
– Next-generation Digital
Waveform Display
Applications
– Embedded Design and Debug
– Mixed Signal Design and Debug
– Investigation of Transient
Phenomena
– Power Measurements
– Video Design and Debug
– Automotive Electronics
Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes
Tektronix 4000 Series Family • DPO4000 Series • MSO4000 Series
Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing, navigating and
analyzing waveform data.
Wave Inspector®Navigation
Imagine trying to efficiently use the Internet
if search engines such as Google and
Yahoo didn’t exist, web browser features
such as Favorites and Links didn’t exist
or Internet Service Providers like AOL or
MSN weren’t around. Now you know
how most modern oscilloscope users
feel when trying to actually use the long
record length in their digital oscilloscope.
Record length, one of the key specifications of an oscilloscope, is the number
of samples it can digitize and store in a
single acquisition. The longer the record
length, the longer the time window you
can capture with high timing resolution
(high sample rate).
The first digital oscilloscopes could capture
and store only 500 points, which made it
very difficult to acquire all relevant information around the event being investigated. Over the years, oscilloscope
vendors have provided longer and longer
record lengths to meet market demands
for long capture windows with high
resolution, to the point that most midrange oscilloscopes either come standard
with, or can be optionally upgraded to,
multi-mega-point record lengths. These
mega-point record lengths often represent
thousands of screens worth of signal
activity. While standard record lengths
Wave Inspector controls.
have increased greatly over the years
and can now satisfy the vast majority
of applications in the marketplace, tools
for effectively and efficiently viewing,
navigating and analyzing long record
length acquisitions have been sorely
neglected until now.
The Tektronix 4000 Series redefines
expectations for working with long record
lengths with the following innovative
Wave Inspector controls:
Zoom/Pan – A dedicated, two-tier frontpanel knob provides intuitive control of
both zooming and panning. The inner
knob adjusts the zoom factor (or zoom
scale); turning it clockwise activates zoom
and goes to progressively higher zoom
factors, while turning it counter-clockwise
results in lower zoom factors and eventually turning zoom off. The outer knob
pans the zoom box across the waveform to quickly get to the portion of the
waveform you are interested in. The
outer knob also utilizes force-feedback
to determine how fast to pan on the
waveform. The farther you turn the outer
knob, the faster the zoom box moves.
Pan direction is changed by simply turning
the knob the other way. No longer do
you need to navigate through multiple
menus to adjust your zoom view.
P6516 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope probe.
Play/Pause – A dedicated play/pause
button on the front panel scrolls the
waveform across the display automatically
while you look for anomalies or an event
of interest. Playback speed and direction
are controlled using the intuitive pan knob.
Once again, turning the knob further
makes the waveform scroll faster and
changing direction is as simple as turning
the knob the other way.
User Marks – See something interesting
on your waveform? Press the Set Mark
button on the front panel to leave one
or more “bookmarks” on the waveform.
Navigating between marks is as simple as
pressing the Previous and Next buttons
on the front panel.
Search Marks – Don’t want to take the
time to inspect the entire acquisition to
find the event you’re looking for? The
4000 Series features a robust waveform
search feature that allows you to search
through your long acquisition based on
user-defined criteria. 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 edge,
pulse width, runt, logic, setup and hold,
rise/fall time and I
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C, SPI, RS-232 and
CAN packet content.
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P6516 MSO Probe
This unique probe design offers two
eight-channel pods. Each channel ends
with a new probe tip design that includes
a recessed ground for simplified connection to the device-under-test. This sleek
new probe simplifies the process of
connecting 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
connecting to the device-under-test.
When connecting to square pins, the
P6516 has 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.
The Power to Solve Problems
Quickly
The Performance and Feature Set
You Expect
The 4000 Series Digital Phosphor
Oscilloscopes (DPO) deliver the performance you need to visualize even your
most demanding signals. Bandwidths
range from 350 MHz to 1 GHz, and
with all models offering a minimum of
5x over-sampling on all channels and
sin(x)/x interpolation standard, you can be
confident that even the fastest transient
events will be captured and displayed
accurately. The standard 10 M record
length on all channels enables you to
capture long windows of signal activity
while maintaining fine timing resolution.
Tektronix 4000 Series Family • DPO4000 Series • MSO4000 Series
Multi-channel setup and hold triggering
highlighting multiple violations (MSO4000).
The 4000 Series offers a variety of
analytical solutions including cursors,
25 automatic measurements, statistics
and waveform math. Despite a tiny
footprint (only 5.4 in. deep) and light
weight (11 lbs.), the 4000 Series offers
exceptional performance, a large 10.4 in.
XGA display and knob-per-channel
vertical controls.
The TekVPI
™
probe interface sets the
standard for ease of use in probing.
TekVPI probes feature status indicators
and controls, as well as a probe menu
button right on the comp box itself. This
button brings up a probe menu on the
oscilloscope display with all relevant
settings and controls for the probe. The
TekVPI interface utilizes a new probe
power management architecture enabling
direct attachment of current probes
without requiring a separate, bulky power
supply. Finally, TekVPI probes can be
controlled remotely via USB, GPIB or
Ethernet, enabling more versatile solutions
in ATE environments.
Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes
Triggering on a specific data packet going
across an RS-232 bus. Bus waveform provides
decoded packet content displayed in ASCII.
MagniVu
The main digital acquisition mode on the
MSO4000 Series will capture up to 10 M
points at 500 MS/s (2 ns resolution). In
addition to the main record, the MSO4000
provides an ultra high resolution mode
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 at any time,
running or stopped. MagniVu provides
close to ten times finer timing resolution
than any other MSO on the market, instilling
confidence when making critical timing
measurements on digital waveforms.
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Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes
Tektronix 4000 Series Family • DPO4000 Series • MSO4000 Series
Serial Triggering and Analysis
One of the most common applications
requiring long record length is serial data
analysis in embedded system design.
Embedded systems are literally everywhere. They can contain many different
types of devices including microprocessors, microcontrollers, DSPs, RAM,
EPROMs, FPGAs, ADCs, DACs and
I/O. These various devices have traditionally communicated with each other
and the outside world using wide parallel
buses. Today, however, more and more
embedded systems are replacing these
wide parallel buses with serial buses due
to lower board space requirements, fewer
pins, lower power, embedded clocks,
differential signaling for better noise
immunity and most importantly, lower
cost. In addition, there’s a large supply of
off-the-shelf building block components
from reputable manufacturers, enabling
rapid design development.
While serial buses have a large number
of benefits, they also present significant
challenges that their predecessors
(parallel buses) did not face. They make
debugging bus and system problems
more difficult, it’s harder to isolate events
of interest, and it’s more difficult to interpret
what is displayed on the oscilloscope
screen. The 4000 Series addresses
these challenges and represents the
ultimate tool for engineers working with
low-speed serial buses such as I
SPI, RS-232 and CAN.
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C,
Bus Display – Provides a higher level,
combined view of the individual signals
(clock, data, chip enable, etc.), that make
up your bus, making it easy to identify
where packets begin and end and
identifying sub-packet components such
as address, data, identifier, CRC, etc.
Serial Triggering – Trigger on packet
content such as start of packet, specific
addresses, specific data content, unique
identifiers, etc., on popular low-speed
serial interfaces such as I
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C, SPI, RS-232
and CAN.
Bus Decoding – Tired of having to
visually inspect the waveform to count
clocks, determine if each bit is a 1 or a 0,
combine bits into bytes and determine
the hex value? Let the oscilloscope do
it for you! Once you’ve set up a bus, the
oscilloscope will decode each packet
on the bus, and display the value in
either hex, binary or ASCII (RS-232
only) in the bus waveform.
Event Table – In addition to seeing
decoded packet data on the bus waveform itself, you can view all captured
packets in a tabular view much like you
would see on a logic analyzer. Packets
are listed consecutively with columns for
each component (Address, Data, etc.).
Packet decode table showing decoded
Identifier, DLC, Data and CRC for every
CAN packet in a long acquisition.
Search – Serial triggering is very useful
for isolating the event of interest, but once
you’ve captured it and need to analyze
the surrounding data, what do you do?
In the past, you had to manually scroll
through the waveform, counting and
converting bits and looking for what
caused the event. With the 4000 Series,
you can have the oscilloscope search
through the acquired data for user-defined
criteria including serial packet content.
Each occurrence is highlighted by a
search mark. Rapid navigation between
marks is as simple as pressing the Prev
and Next buttons on the front panel.
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