Mixed Domain Oscilloscopes
MDO3000 Series Datasheet
Logic Analyzer (Optional)
16 digital channels
10 M record length on all channels
121.2 ps timing resolution
Protocol Analyzer (Optional)
Serial bus support for I
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C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, USB 2.0,
CAN, LIN, FlexRay, MIL-STD-1553, and Audio standards
Digital Voltmeter (Free with product registration)
4-digit AC RMS, DC, and AC+DC RMS voltage measurements
5-digit frequency measurements
Key features
Today's integrated designs need an oscilloscope that is just as integrated -
such as the MDO3000 Mixed Domain Oscilloscope (MDO) Series. It is the
ultimate 6-in-1 integrated oscilloscope that includes an integrated spectrum
analyzer, arbitrary function generator, logic analyzer, protocol analyzer, and
digital voltmeter/counter. The MDO3000 is completely customizable and
fully upgradeable. Add the instruments and performance you need now - or
later.
FastAcq
™
high-speed waveform capture rate finds elusive signal
anomalies quickly
Wave Inspector
®
Controls provide easy navigation and automated
search of waveform data
33 automated measurements and waveform histograms for simplified
waveform analysis
TekVPI
®
probe interface directly supports active, differential, and
current probes for automatic scaling and units
9 in. (229 mm) WVGA widescreen color display
Small footprint and lightweight – Only 5.8 in. (147 mm) deep and 9.2 lb.
(4.2 kg)
Spectral Analysis
Dedicated front-panel controls for commonly performed tasks
Automated peak markers identify frequency and amplitude of
spectrum peaks
Manual markers enable non-peak measurements
Trace types include: Normal, Average, Max Hold, and Min Hold
Spectrogram display enables easy observation and insight into
slowly changing RF phenomena
Automated measurements include: Channel Power, Adjacent
Channel Power Ratio (ACPR), and Occupied Bandwidth (OBW)
Arbitrary Function Generation
Generate predefined signals to quickly simulate missing devices in
designs
Capture signals on analog or digital inputs, transfer to the arbitrary
edit memory, and replicate out from the AFG
Add noise to any signal to easily perform margin testing
Key performance specifications
Oscilloscope
2 and 4 analog channel models
1 GHz, 500 MHz, 350 MHz, 200 MHz, 100 MHz bandwidth models
Bandwidth is upgradable (up to 1 GHz)
Up to 5 GS/s sample rate
10 M record length on all channels
>280,000 wfm/s maximum waveform capture rate
Standard passive voltage probes with 3.9 pF capacitive loading
and 1 GHz, 500 MHz, or 250 MHz analog bandwidth
Spectrum Analyzer
Frequency range
Standard: 9 kHz - oscilloscope bandwidth
Optional: 9 kHz - 3 GHz
Ultra-wide capture bandwidth up to 3 GHz
Arbitrary Function Generator (Optional)
13 predefined waveform types
50 MHz waveform generation
128 k arbitrary generator record length
250 MS/s arbitrary generator sample rate
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Oscilloscope
At the core of the MDO3000 Series is a world-class oscilloscope, offering
comprehensive tools that speed each stage of debug – from quickly
discovering anomalies and capturing them, to searching your waveform
record for events of interest and analyzing their characteristics and your
device’s behavior.
Mixed signal design and analysis
Automated triggering, decode, and search on parallel buses
Multichannel setup and hold triggering
MagniVu
™
high-speed acquisition provides 121.2 ps fine timing
resolution on digital channels
Protocol Analysis
Trigger, decode and automatically search on packet-level content
on most common embedded design serial bus standards.
Export protocol decode tables for use in documenting results
Digital Voltmeter and Frequency Counter
Quickly validate voltage or frequency measurements at a glance
Graphical readout provides information on stability of the
measurement
Fully upgradeable
Add functionality, increase bandwidth or spectrum analyzer
frequency range over time as your needs change or budget allows
Digital phosphor technology with FastAcq
™
high-
speed waveform capture
To debug a design problem, first you must know it exists. Every design
engineer spends time looking for problems in their design, a time-
consuming and frustrating task without the right debug tools.
Digital phosphor technology provides you with fast insight into the real
operation of your device. Its fast waveform capture rate – greater than
280,000 wfm/s with FastAcq – gives you a high probability of quickly seeing
the infrequent problems common in digital systems: runt pulses, glitches,
timing issues, and more.
To further enhance the visibility of rarely occurring events, intensity grading
is used to indicate how often rare transients are occurring relative to normal
signal characteristics. There are four waveform palettes available in
FastAcq acquisition mode.
The
Temperature palette
uses color-grading to indicate frequency of
occurrence with hot colors like red/yellow indicating frequently
occurring events and colder colors like blue/green indicating rarely
occurring events.
The
Spectral palette
uses color-grading to indicate frequency of
occurrence with colder colors like blue indicating frequently occurring
events and hot colors like red indicating rarely occurring events.
The
Normal palette
uses the default channel color (like yellow for
channel one) along with gray-scale to indicate frequency of occurrence
where frequently occurring events are bright.
The
Inverted palette
uses the default channel color along with gray-
scale to indicate frequency of occurrence where rarely occurring events
are bright.
These color palettes quickly highlight the events that over time occur more
often or, in the case of infrequent anomalies, occur less often.
Infinite or variable persistence choices determine how long waveforms stay
on the display, helping you to determine how often an anomaly is occurring.
Optional application support
Power analysis
Limit and mask testing
Need more performance?
Need more input frequency range on the spectrum analyzer?
Need to analyze analog, digital, and RF simultaneously?
Need more record length or a larger display?
Consider the MDO4000B Series oscilloscopes
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► 3 GHz and 6 GHz integrated spectrum analyzers
► Simultaneous acquisition of analog, digital and RF
► 20 M record length
► 10.4 inch XGA display
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Digital phosphor technology with FastAcq enables greater than 280,000 wfms/s
waveform capture rate and real-time color-intensity grading.
Triggering
Discovering a device fault is only the first step. Next, you must capture the
event of interest to identify root cause. To enable this, the MDO3000
contains over 125 trigger combinations providing a complete set of triggers
- including runt, logic, pulse width/glitch, setup and hold violation, serial
packet, and parallel data - to help quickly locate your event of interest. And
with up to a 10 M record length, you can capture many events of interest,
even thousands of serial packets, in a single acquisition for further analysis
while maintaining high resolution to zoom in on fine signal details.
Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing, navigating, and
analyzing waveform data. Zip through your long record by turning the outer pan control
(1). Get details from the beginning to end in seconds. See something of interest and want
to see more details? Just turn the inner zoom control (2).
Zoom and pan
A dedicated, two-tier front-panel control provides intuitive control of both
zooming and panning. The inner control adjusts the zoom factor (or zoom
scale); turning it clockwise activates zoom and goes to progressively higher
zoom factors, while turning it counterclockwise results in lower zoom
factors and eventually turning zoom off. No longer do you need to navigate
through multiple menus to adjust your zoom view. The outer control pans
the zoom box across the waveform to quickly get to the portion of waveform
you are interested in. The outer control also utilizes force-feedback to
determine how fast to pan on the waveform. The farther you turn the outer
control, the faster the zoom box moves. Pan direction is changed by simply
turning the control the other way.
User marks
Press the
Set Mark
front-panel button to place one or more marks on the
waveform. Navigating between marks is as simple as pressing the
Previous
(←) and
Next
(→) buttons on the front panel.
Over 125 trigger combinations make capturing your event of interest easy.
Wave Inspector
®
waveform navigation and automated
search
With long record lengths, a single acquisition can include thousands of
screens of waveform data. Wave Inspector
®
, the industry’s best tool for
waveform navigation and automated search, enables you to find events of
interest in seconds.
Search marks
The
Search
button allows you to automatically search through your long
acquisition looking for user-defined events. 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/glitch, timeout, runt, logic, setup and hold, rise/fall time, parallel
bus, and I
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C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, USB 2.0, CAN, LIN, FlexRay,
MIL-STD-1553, and Audio packet content. A search mark table provides a
tabular view of the events found during the automated search. Each event
is shown with a time stamp, making timing measurements between events
easy.
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Waveform analysis
Verifying that your prototype’s performance matches simulations and meets
the project’s design goals requires analyzing its behavior. Tasks can range
from simple checks of rise times and pulse widths to sophisticated power
loss analysis and investigation of noise sources.
The oscilloscope offers a comprehensive set of integrated analysis tools
including waveform- and screen-based cursors, automated measurements,
advanced waveform math including arbitrary equation editing, FFT
analysis, waveform histograms, and trend plots for visually determining how
a measurement is changing over time.
Search step 1: You define what you would like to find.
Automated measurement readouts provide repeatable, statistical views of waveform
characteristics.
Search step 2: Wave Inspector automatically searches through the record and marks
each event with a hollow white triangle. You can then use the Previous and Next buttons
to jump from one event to the next.
Each measurement has help text and graphics associated with it that help explain how
the measurement is made.
Search step 3: The Search Mark table provides a tabular view of each of the events
found by the automated search. Each event is shown with a time stamp making timing
measurements between events easy.
Waveform histograms show visually how waveforms vary over time.
Horizontal waveform histograms are especially useful for gaining insight
into how much jitter is on a clock signal, and what the distribution of that
jitter is. Vertical histograms are especially useful for gaining insight into how
much noise is on a signal, and what the distribution of that noise is.
Measurements taken on a waveform histogram provide analytical
information about the distribution of a waveform histogram, providing
insight into just how broad a distribution is, the amount of standard
deviation, the mean value, etc.
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Waveform histogram of a rising edge showing the distribution of edge position (jitter) over
time. Included are numeric measurements made on the waveform histogram data.
Viewing an NTSC full color bar signal image. Video picture mode contains automatic
contrast and brightness settings as well as manual controls.
Video design and development
Many video engineers have remained loyal to analog oscilloscopes,
believing the intensity gradations on an analog display are the only way to
see certain video waveform details. The fast waveform capture rate of the
MDO3000, coupled with its intensity-graded view of the signal, provides the
same information-rich display as an analog oscilloscope, but with much
more detail and all the benefits of digital scopes.
Standard features such as IRE and mV graticules, holdoff by fields, video
polarity, HDTV and custom (nonstandard) video triggers, and an Autoset
smart enough to detect video signals, make these the easiest to use
oscilloscopes on the market for video applications. And with high
bandwidth, four analog inputs, and a built-in 75 Ω input termination (not
available on 1 GHz models), the oscilloscope provides ample performance
for analog and digital video use. There is even a video picture mode
enabling you to see the picture of the video signal you are viewing – for
NTSC and PAL signals.
Power analysis (optional)
Ever increasing consumer demands for longer battery-life devices and for
green solutions that consume less power require power-supply designers to
characterize and minimize switching losses to improve efficiency. In
addition, the supply’s power levels, output purity, and harmonic feedback
into the power line must be characterized to comply with national and
regional power quality standards. Historically, making these and many
other power measurements on an oscilloscope has been a long, manual,
and tedious process. The MDO3000’s optional power analysis tools greatly
simplify these tasks, enabling quick, repeatable and accurate analysis of
power quality, switching loss, harmonics, safe operating area (SOA),
modulation, ripple, and slew rate (di/dt, dv/dt). Completely integrated into
the oscilloscope, the power analysis tools provide automated, repeatable
power measurements with a touch of a button.
Power Quality measurement table. Automated power measurements enable quick and
accurate analysis of common power parameters.
Viewing an NTSC video signal. Notice the intensity-graded view provided by the
MDO3000's ability to represent time, amplitude, and distribution over time.
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