Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes
MSO2000B Series, DPO2000B Series Datasheet
Key features
Wave Inspector controls provide easy navigation and automated
search of waveform data
FilterVu
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variable low-pass filter allows for removal of unwanted signal
noise while still capturing high-frequency events
29 automated measurements, and FFT analysis for simplified waveform
analysis
TekVPI probe interface supports active, differential, and current probes
for automatic scaling and units
7 in. (180 mm) wide-screen TFT-LCD color display
Small footprint and lightweight - only 5.3 in. (134 mm) deep and 7 lb.
14 oz. (3.6 kg)
Offering up to 200 MHz bandwidth and 1 GS/s sample rate, the MSO/
DPO2000B Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Series from Tektronix delivers
advanced debug features at an entry-level price. Quickly find and diagnose
problems in complex designs with up to 20 channels for analyzing analog
and digital signals. With a deep record length of 1 Mpoints standard on all
channels, the MSO/DPO2000B lets you capture long windows of signal
activity while maintaining fine timing resolution.
Five-year warranty
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Connectivity
USB 2.0 host port on the front panel for quick and easy data storage
USB 2.0 device port on rear panel for easy connection to a PC or direct
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printing to a PictBridge -compatible printer
Optional 10/100 Ethernet port for network connection and video-out port
to export the oscilloscope display to a monitor or projector
Key performance specifications
200, 100, 70 MHz bandwidth models
2 and 4 analog channel models
16 digital channels (MSO series)
1 GS/s sample rate on all channels
1 megapoint record length on all channels
5,000 wfm/s maximum waveform capture rate
Suite of advanced triggers
Optional serial triggering and analysis
Automated serial triggering, decode, and search options for I
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C, SPI,
CAN, LIN, and RS-232/422/485/UART
Datasheet
Feature-rich tools for debugging mixed signal
designs
Simplify and speed up debugging your complex design with feature-rich
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tools including Wave Inspector controls for rapid waveform navigation and
automated serial and parallel bus analysis.
From triggering on specific packet content to automatic decode in multiple
data formats, the MSO/DPO2000B Series provides integrated support for a
broad range of serial buses - I
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C, SPI, CAN, LIN, and RS-232/422/485/
UART. The ability to decode up to two serial and/or parallel buses
simultaneously means you gain insight into system-level problems quickly.
To further help troubleshoot system-level interactions in complex embedded
systems, the MSO2000B Series offers 16 digital channels in addition to its
analog channels. Since the digital channels are fully integrated into the
oscilloscope, you can trigger across all input channels, automatically time-
correlating all analog, digital, and serial signals.
Comprehensive features speed every stage of
debug
The MSO/DPO2000B Series offers a robust set of features to speed every
stage of debugging your design - from quickly discovering an anomaly and
capturing it, to searching your waveform record for the event and analyzing
its characteristics and your device's behavior.
Discover
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.
The MSO/DPO2000B Series offers complete visualization of signals,
providing fast insight into the real operation of your device. A waveform
capture rate of 5,000 waveforms per second enables you to see glitches
and other infrequent transients quickly, revealing the true nature of device
faults. A digital phosphor display with intensity grading shows the history of
a signal's activity by intensifying areas of the signal that occur more
frequently, providing a visual display of just how often anomalies occur.
Capture - Triggering on a specific transmit data packet going across an RS-232 bus. A
complete set of triggers, including triggers for specific serial packet content, ensures you
quickly capture your event of interest.
Search
Finding your event of interest in a long waveform record can be time
consuming without the right search tools. With today's record lengths
pushing to a million data points, locating your event can mean scrolling
through thousands of screens of signal activity.
The MSO/DPO2000B Series offers the industry's most comprehensive
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search and waveform navigation with its innovative Wave Inspector
controls. These controls speed panning and zooming through your record.
A unique force-feedback system lets you move from one end of your record
to the other in just seconds. You can mark any location you may want to
reference later for further investigation, and automatically search the record
using criteria that you define. Wave Inspector will instantly search your
entire record, including analog, digital, and serial bus data. Along the way, it
will automatically mark every occurrence of your defined event so you can
quickly move between events.
Discover - A waveform capture rate of 5,000 wfm/s maximizes the probability of capturing
elusive glitches and other infrequent events.
Capture
Discovering a device fault is only the first step. Next, you must capture the
event of interest to identify root cause.
The MSO/DPO2000B Series provides a complete set of triggers - including
runt, logic, pulse width/glitch, setup/hold violation, serial packet, and parallel
data - to help quickly find your event. With up to a 1 Mpoint 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.
Search - I
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C decode showing results from a Wave Inspector search for Address value
50. Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing and navigating
waveform data.
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Analyze
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 MSO/DPO2000B Series offers a comprehensive set of integrated
analysis tools including waveform- and screen-based cursors, 29 automated
measurements, and FFT analysis. Specialized application support for serial
bus analysis is also available.
Play/pause
A dedicated
play/pause
front-panel button 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 control.
Once again, turning the control further makes the waveform scroll faster and
changing direction is as simple as turning the control the other way.
Analyze - FFT analysis of a pulsed signal. A comprehensive set of integrated analysis
tools speeds verification of your design's performance.
Wave Inspector
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navigation and search
A 1 M point record length represents thousands of screens of information.
The MSO/DPO2000B Series enables you to search through it all and find
your event in seconds with Wave Inspector, the industry's best tool for
navigation and search.
Wave Inspector offers the following innovative controls:
Wave Inspector controls provide unprecedented efficiency in viewing, navigating, and
analyzing waveform data. Zip through your 1 Mpoint record by turning the outer pan
control (1). Get from the beginning to end in seconds. See something of interest and
want to see more details? Just turn the inner zoom control (2).
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.
Zoom/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.
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, runt, logic, setup and hold, rise/fall time parallel bus, and
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Datasheet
Search step 1: You define what you would like to find.
Digital phosphor technology enables a 5,000 wfm/s waveform capture rate and real-time
intensity grading on the MSO/DPO2000B Series.
Mixed signal design and analysis (MSO
series)
The MSO2000B Series Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes provide 16 digital
channels. These channels are tightly integrated into the oscilloscope's user
interface, simplifying operation and making it possible to solve mixed-signal
issues easily.
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.
Digital phosphor technology
The MSO/DPO2000B Series' digital phosphor technology provides you with
fast insight into the real operation of your device. Its waveform capture rate
of 5,000 wfm/s gives you a high probability of quickly seeing the infrequent
problems common in digital systems: runt pulses, glitches, timing issues,
and more.
Waveforms are superimposed with one another and waveform points that
occur more frequently are intensified. This quickly highlights the events that
over time occur more often or, in the case of infrequent anomalies, occur
less often.
With the MSO/DPO2000B Series, you can choose infinite persistence or
variable persistence, determining how long the previous waveform
acquisitions stay on-screen. This allows you to determine how often an
anomaly is occurring.
The MSO Series provides 16 integrated digital channels enabling you to view and
analyze time-correlated analog and digital signals.
Color-coded digital waveform display
The MSO2000B Series has redefined the way you view digital waveforms.
One common problem shared by both logic analyzers and mixed-signal
oscilloscopes is determining if data is a one or a zero when zoomed in far
enough that the digital trace stays flat all the way across the display. The
MSO2000B Series has color-coded digital traces, displaying ones in green
and zeros in blue.
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P6316 MSO probe
This unique probe design offers two eight-channel pods, simplifying the
process of connecting to the device-under-test. When connecting to square
pins, the P6316 can connect directly to 8×2 square pin headers spaced on
tenth-inch centers. When more attachment flexibility is required, you can
use the included flying lead sets and grabbers to clip onto surface mount
devices or test points. The P6316 offers outstanding electrical
characteristics applying only 8 pF of capacitive loading with 101 kΩ input
impedance.
With the color-coded digital waveform display, groups are created by simply placing
digital channels together on the screen, allowing the digital channels to be moved as a
group. You can set threshold values for each pod of eight channels, enabling support for
up to two different logic families.
The P6316 MSO probe offers two eight-channel pods to simplify connecting to your
device.
FilterVu
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variable low-pass filter
White edges indicate additional information is available by acquiring at a higher sample
rate.
The multiple transition detection hardware of the MSO2000B Series will
show you a white edge on the display when the system detects multiple
transitions. This acts as a visual reminder that increasing the sample rate on
the next acquisition will reveal higher frequency information than your
previous settings could acquire.
The MSO2000B Series simplifies channel setup by allowing you to group
digital waveforms and enter waveform labels by using a USB keyboard. By
simply placing digital waveforms next to each other, they form a group.
Once a group is formed, you can position all the channels contained in that
group collectively. This greatly reduces the normal setup time associated
with positioning channels individually.
Tired of being limited to a 20 MHz bandwidth filter in your oscilloscope?
Simply turn on FilterVu and adjust the variable low-pass noise filter. Unlike
other variable low-pass filters, FilterVu filters out the unwanted noise from
your signal while still capturing glitches and other signal details up to the full
bandwidth of the oscilloscope. It does this by showing two waveforms: a
waveform that can be filtered (foreground waveform) and a glitch capture
waveform (background waveform).
The filtered waveform uses a variable low-pass filter to block out noise,
yielding a cleaner waveform to more precisely locate signal edges and
amplitude levels. The result is improved confidence in you cursor
measurements and cleaner documentation of important signal attributes.
When the noise filter is adjusted to the lowest available noise-cutoff
frequency, no more than 1% of high-frequency content that could cause the
oscilloscope to alias will pass through the filter.
The glitch capture waveform shows signal details up to the full bandwidth of
the oscilloscope. The oscilloscope captures pulses as narrow as 5 ns, using
peak-detect min/max sampling, protecting you from missing unexpected
glitches or other high-frequency events.
FilterVu is ideal for repetitive, nonrepetitive, and single-shot events.
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