Tektronix TLA6000 DATASHEET

Tektronix Logic Analyzers

TLA6000 Series Data Sheet

Features & Benefits

Comprehensive Set of Signal Integrity Tools that Allow You to Quickly
Isolate, Identify, and Debug Complex Signal Integrity Issues

Glitch Trigger and Storage – Allows you to trigger on and highlight

al signal integrity problems. Not only can the TLA6000 Series

potenti
trigger on the problem, but by highlighting suspected problems in
red, you will be able to easily determine which signals you need to
investigate further
iCapture – Route the suspected signal to the analog output of the
TLA6000 using the exclusive Tektronix iCapture feature. Th is

tes the need to double-probe with an oscilloscope probe,

elimina
reducing time to debug
iView – Time-correlated view of both logic analyzer and oscilloscope
data to trace the SI p roblem across the digital and analog domain

Performance and Ease of Use to Debug, Validate, and Optimize Digital
Systems

125 ps Resolution MagniVu™ Acquisition to Accurate ly See Signal
Relationshi
State Speed – Sample your fastest synchronous buses with clock
rates up to 800 MHz and data rates up to 1.25 Gb/s
15 in. Display, with Optional Touch Screen to See More of Your Data
and Navigate Efficiently through Your Data
3 Models w ith 68/102/136 Channels and Up to 128 Mb Record Length
offer Flexi
Drag-and-Drop Triggering – Simply drag any one of eight different
trigger types from a table onto the waveform and the TLA will
automatically set up the trigger conditions. Eliminates errors,
improves repeatability, and saves time
Drag-and-Drop Measurements – Simply drag an icon from the
measuremen
a table of results. Saves time, removes complexity, and reduces
measurement uncertainty

Analysis T

FPGA
DDR
A Broad Selection of Microprocessor and Bus Support
MIPI CSI and DSI Debug

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ble Solutions to Fit Any Budget

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ools for Debugging and Validating Today’s Digital Systems

Applications

Hardware Validation and Debug

Digital

Monitoring, Measurement, and Optimization of Digital Hardware
Performance

Embedded Software Integration, Debug, and Verification

Data Sheet

Efficiently Debug and Validate Your Digital
System at a Price You Will Like!

The affordable TLA6000 Series of logic analyzers offer the performance
needed to debug, validate, and optimize the functionality of your digital
system. The TLA6000 Series also provides a comprehensive set of signal
integrity deb

ug tools that allow you quickly isolate, identify, and characterize
elusive and hard-to-fin d problems. Add a broad range of support for today’s
applications, and you have the ideal tool to help you meet all of the debug
challenges of today’s digital designs.

The TLA6000 Series allows you to effectively validate and d ebug the
functionality of your digital designs:

Use the patented 8 GHz Mag niVu technology to accurately measure
timing relationships. The single, integrated acquisition architecture of the
TLA6000 Series eliminates the timing skew problems inherent in other
logic analyzer architectures

Capture on buses with clock rates up to 800 MHz and data rates up to

1.25 Gb/s

Buy the capability you need now and upgrade as your measurement
needs grow

Quickly isolate events through a simple and intuitive drag-and-drop
trigger setup

Easily summarize your design’s performance with sophisticated
drag-and-drop measurements such as frequency, period, pulse width,
duty cycle, and edge count

View data in a variety of time-correlated formats including waveform,
listing, graph, disassembly, source code, or compare

Find Tough Signal Integrity Problems

Today’s logic analyzers not only need to help troubleshoot functional issues
in your design, but also need to help find signal integrity problems caused
by crosst
help debug these problems, the TLA6000 Series includes a comprehensive
suite of signal debug tools.

These tools allow you to:

alk, termination mismatches, ground bounce, and other issu es. To

Use glitch trigger to monitor selected signals in your design and trigger
when a signal integrity problem is found on any one of these signals

Automatically tag any found signal integrity problems, allowing you to
quickly identify the signals of interest

Gain more insight into the problem using the exclusive iCapture
functionality to view both digital and analog data through a single probe

Use iView to see time-correlated digital and analog displays of you r
data, letting you track the signal integrity problem across both analog
and digital domains

TLA6000 Selection Guide

Characteristic

Channels
High-speed Timing
Maximum Timing

Sample Rate
(Quarter/Half/Full
channel)

Maximum State
Clock Rate
(Quarter/Half/Full
channel)

Maximum State
Data Rate
(Quarter/Half/Full
channel)

Maximum Record
Length

Analog Mux

Probing Options P6810 General-purpose probe with Option 1P – supports

TLA6202 TLA6203 TLA6204

68 102 136

8 GHz (125 ps) with 16 Kb record length

2GHz/1GHz/500MHz

450 MHz / 450 MHz / 235 MHz (standard)

625MHz/800MHz/450MHz(withOption45)

900 Mb/s / 470 Mb/s / 235 Mb/s (standard)

1.25 Gb/s / 900 Mb/s / 450 Mb/s (with Option 45)

2 Mb (standard)

8MbwithOption1S

32 Mb with Option 2S

128 Mb with Option 3S

4 fixed channels (standard)

Any signal (user selectable) may be routed to

4 output BNCs with Option AM

single-ended and differential signals

Mictor connections with Option 2P

P6960 D-Max probe with Option 3P

Characteristics

General

Characteristic Description

Number of Channels (All channels are acquired including clocks)

TLA6202

TLA6203

TLA6204

Channel grouping No limit to number of groups or number of

mp

Time Sta

Clocking/Acquisition
Modes

Expansion Capability The TLA6000 Series can be used as either a

68 channels

102 channels (4 are clock and 2 are qualifier
channels)

136 channels (4 are clock and 4 are qualifier
channels)

channels per group (all channels can be reused
in multiple groups)

51 bits a

Asynchronous/Synchronous 8 GHz MagniVu
high-speed timing is available simultaneous with
all modes

master or expansion mainframe in systems
consisting of up to 8 TLA6000/TLA7000
instruments. A TL708EX Instrument Hub
and Expander is required when connecting
3-8 instruments together using TekLink™ cables

(4 are clock channels)

t 125 ps resolution (3.25 days duration)

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PC Characteristics

Characteristi

Operating System Microsoft®Windows®XP Professional and

Processor

Chipset Intel®965GME

Memory

Sound Line In, Line Out, and Mic Out connectors

RemovableHardDrive

Optical Drive Internal 4.7 GB DVD±R/RW

External Display Port
Type

External Display
Resolution

Network Port

USB 2.0 Port Seven (7); three (3) in front and four (4) in rear

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Description

Multilingual User Interface Pack

2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500

1GBDDR2exp

3.5 in., ≥80 GB Serial ATA, 7200 RPM

One (1) DV
connect

Up to 1600×1200 noninterlaced at 32-bit color,
each for both primary and secondary displays

Two (2) 10/100/1000 LAN with RJ-45 connector

andable to 2 GB DDR memory

I-I (primary – digital and analog)

or and one (1) VGA connector

Integral Controls

Characteristic Description

Front-panel Display

Simultaneous Display
Capability

Panel

Front

TouchScreen AvailablewithOption18

Size: 15 in. (38.1 cm) diagonal
Type: Active-matrix color TFT LCD with backlight
Resolution: 1024×768

Both the front-panel and one external display can
be used simultaneously at 1024×768 resolution

General-purpose knob with dedicated hotkeys
and knobs for horizontal and vertical scaling and
scrolling

Integrated View (iView™) Capability

Characteristic Description

TLA Mainframe
Configuration
Requirements

er of Tektronix

Numb

illoscopes that can

Osc

onnected to a TLA

be C

tem

Sys

External Oscilloscopes
Supported

TLA Connections USB, Trigger In, Trigger Out, Clock Out

Oscilloscope
Connections

etup

S

Data Correlation After oscilloscope acquisition is complete, t he

Deskew The oscilloscope and TLA data is automatically

iView™ External
Oscilloscope Cable
Length

GPIB-iView (Opt. 1C) requires TLA Application
Software 5.0 or greater

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More than 100. For a complete listing of currently
supported oscilloscopes, please visit our website
http://www.tektronix.com/iview

GPIB, Trigger In, Trigger Out, Clock In (when
available) for the GPIB-iView cable (Opt. 1C)

iView™ external oscilloscope wizard automates
setup

data is automatically transferred to the TLA and
time correlated with the TLA acquisition data

deskewed and time correlated when using the
iView™ external oscilloscope cable

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Symbolic Support

Characteristi

Number of
Symbols/Ranges

Object File Formats
Supported

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Description

Unlimited (limited only by amount of virtual
memory available on TLA)

IEEE695, OMF 51, OMF 86, OMF 166,
OMF 286, OMF 386, COFF, Elf/Dwarf 1 and 2,
Elf/Stabs, TSF (If your software development
tools do not generate output in one of the
above formats, TSF, or the Tektronix symbol
file, a generic ASCII file format is supported.
The generic ASCII file format is documented
in the TLA User Manual). If a format is not
listed, please contact your local Tektronix
representative

External Instrumentation Interfaces

Characteristic Description

System Trigger Output

System Trigger Input Forces a system trigger (triggers all modules)

External Signal Output Can be used to drive external circuitry from a

External Signal Input Can be used to provide an external signal to

Asserted whenever a system trigger occurs
(TTL-compatible output, back-terminated into
50 Ω)

when asserted (adjustable threshold between

0.5 V and 1.5 V, edge sensitive, falling-edge
latched)

module’s trigger mechanism (TTL-compatible
output, back-terminated into 50 Ω)

arm or trigger any or all modules (adjustable
threshold between 0.5 V and 1.5 V, level
sensitive)

Power

Voltage Range/Frequency: 90-250 V AC at 45-66 Hz, 100-132 V AC at
360-440 Hz
Input Current: 7 A maximum at 90 V AC (70 A surge)
Power Consumption: 750 W maximum

Environmental

Characteristic Description

Temperature

Humidity

titude

Al

Safety UL3111-1, CSA1010.1, EN61010-1, IEC61010-1

Operating: +5 °C to +45 °C
Nonoperating: –20 °C to +60 °C

20% to 80%
Operating: ≤30 °C; 80% relative humidity (29 °C
maximum wet-bulb temperature)
Nonoperating: 8% to 80% (29 °C maximum
wet-bulb temperature)

Operating: –1,000 ft. to 10,000 ft. (–305 meters
to 3,050 meters)

Physical Characteristics

Dimensions

Height 295 11.6
Width 451 17.75
Depth 460 18.1

Weight kg lb.

Net 17.1 36.7
Shipping (Typical)

mm

30.1 66.7

in.

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