Tektronix TDS7054, TDS7104 Reference manual

Reference

TDS7000 Series
Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes

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To Use the Front Panel

Y ou can use the dedicated, front-panel knobs and buttons to do the most common operations.

Turn INTENSITY to adjust waveform intensity.

Push

FastAcq to turn Fast Acquisition

on and off.

Push CURSORS to turn cursors on and off.

Push PRINT to make a hard copy .

DEFAULT SETUP to return settings to the

Push

default values.

Push

AUTOSET to quickly set the vertical,

horizontal, and trigger controls for a usable

display.

Use the multipurpose knobs to control

parameters selected from the screen interface.

Push a

FINE button to make small changes with

a multipurpose knob.

Turn the touch screen on and off.

Push

ZOOM to add a magnified graticule to the

display . Push the

HORIZ or VERT button to

select the axis that you want to magnify.

Use these knobs and buttons to set horizontal

SCALE and POSITION for the waveforms. Push

DELAY to turn on horizontal delay, and then use

POSITION to set the delay time. Adjust

RESOLUTION to change the number of acquired

points in the waveform.

Use these knobs and buttons to set the basic

trigger parameters. Push

ADVANCED to display

a menu of additional trigger functions.

Use these buttons to start and stop

acquisition or start a single acquisition

sequence. The ARM, READY, and TRIG’D

lights show the acquisition status.

Turn channel displays on and off. Adjust the

channel

POSITION and SCALE or change the input

termination with dedicated knobs and buttons.

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To Use the Screen Interface

Y ou can control all oscilloscope functions except the power switch using only the screen interface.

Touch here to
change to menu-bar

Choose the Toolbar

Touch a button in the toolbar to display a

control window at the bottom of the display.

Touch a screen control to change a setting.

Touch a numerical control to assign that control

to a multipurpose knob. Turn the multipurpose

knob to adjust the parameter value.

operation.

Or Choose the Menu Bar

Use some menu items to

display a control window at the

bottom or side of the display.

Use some menu items to

directly change settings.

Touch here to change to

toolbar operation.

Touch here to close a

control window.

More Operating Tips:

H Use the touch screen to control the oscilloscope when bench space is

unavailable, such as on a cart or in an equipment rack.

H Plug in a mouse and keyboard if you have the bench space to use them. Y ou can

plug in a USB mouse or keyboard anytime, even while the oscilloscope is
running.

H Use the menu bar to access PC-related functions such as, Page Setup, Export,

and Copy.

To Display a Waveform

Attach a probe to CH 1 and connect the probe

to your signal.

Push CH 1 if channel 1 is not

already displayed.

Push AUTOSET.

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Adjust VERTICAL and HORIZONTAL

POSITION

Adjust RESOLUTION to change the record

length and sample rate. Y ou can acquire

more samples in the waveform to see more

detail, or acquire fewer samples with a

and SCALE if necessary to

optimize the display.

faster update rate.

Recommended Probe

Accessories

4

5 6

Adjust INTENSITY to change the

brightness, vector fill, and display

persistence of acquired points.

P6139A Passive Probes for
general-purpose applications

P6243 and P6245 Active Probes or P6158
Low-C Probe for high-speed applications

P6247 and P6248 Differential Probes for
differential signals and low-noise applications

TCP202 Current Probe for
general-purpose applications

To See More Waveform Detail

Use Zoom

Push the ZOOM button to split the
screen and add a zoom graticule.

Push the HORIZ button or the VERT button to

select the axis you want to magnify in the zoom

graticule. Use the multipurpose knobs to adjust

scale and position of the magnified waveform.

Y ou can also set up a zoom graticule

from the screen interface. Touch and drag

across the segment of the waveform that

you want to see in greater detail.

Then select Zoom from the drop-down list to

magnify the highlighted waveform segment.

Use Horizontal Delay

Use the Zoom function to magnify an acquisition vertically, horizontally, or in both
waveform dimensions.
affect only the display , not the actual waveform that is acquired.

SCALE or POSITION changes you make to the Zoom graticule

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Main graticule Zoom graticule

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Use horizontal
the trigger location by a significant interval of time.

DELAY to acquire waveform detail in a region that is separated from

Push the front-panel DELAY button.

Adjust the delay time with the horizontal

POSITION control, or enter the delay time

in the control window.

Adjust the horizontal SCALE to acquire

the detail you need around the delay

expansion point.

Trigger point

Delay time

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Acquired waveform

Expansion point

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More Operating Tips:

H Y ou can use Zoom and Horizontal Delay together to magnify a delayed

acquisition.

H Toggle Horizontal Delay on and off to quickly compare signal details at two

different areas of interest, one near the trigger location and the other centered at
the delay time.

To Use Fast Acquisition

Turn Fast Acquisition on to acquire up to 200,000 waveforms per second.

Push the front-panel FastAcq button.

Or select

Adjust INTENSITY to optimize the intensity or

color grading for the signal you want to analyze.

Increasing intensity can make less-frequently

acquired points brighter in the display.

Fast Acquisitions in the

Horiz/Acq menu.

How DPOs Work

Unlike DSOs that have long dead times between

acquisitions, Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes

(DPOs) continuously acquire waveforms at rates

comparable to analog oscilloscopes. DPOs

continuously overlay the acquired information

into a three-dimensional database that is

updated on the display 30 times per second. For

each pixel in the display, the intensity (or color)

of the pixel is proportional to the number of

actual samples that the pixel represents.

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Analog Real Time sweeps

Digital Storage acquisitions

Digital Phosphor acquisitions

More Operating Tips:

H Choose one of the color grading palettes in the Display Colors control window to

see different sample densities represented in different colors.

H Turn

AutoBright on in the Display Appearance control window. When you use

AutoBright, the displayed waveforms remain visible even at low trigger repetition
rates.