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News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: TLA715 and TLA721
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 July 2001
Top logic analyser gains multi-screen
capability
Tektronix has added important enhancements to its flagship platform for digital signal integrity testing: the TLA 700 Series logic analyser family.
Tektronix has added important enhancements to its flagship platform for digital signal integrity testing: the TLA 700 Series logic analyser family The new TLA715 and TLA721 mainframes add a multiple-monitor capability to the TLA700 Series logic analysers, dramatically increasing the available viewing area, improving productivity and speeding time to market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"With digital systems becoming more advanced and complex, we anticipated that designers would need to view large volumes of data on their instruments' screens.
Tektronix is committed to enabling our customers' innovation, which includes efficiently reading and interpreting an ever expanding set of signals and code content", said Craig Overhage, vice president, Instruments Business Unit, Tektronix: "The TLA715 and TLA721 mainframes' multi-monitor capability greatly expands the display area, allowing users to view multiple application windows simultaneously and quickly analyse more data traces and analogue waveforms for signal integrity measurements".
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The sheer number of traces on a logic analyser diagram is not the only obstacle to efficiently viewing and analysing data on a logic analyser display.
The software support tools used to debug processor applications are delivering information that is most meaningful when displayed concurrently with bus state data.
In addition, new advancements in logic analyser/oscilloscope interoperability have resulted in the analysis of analogue waveform traces on the logic analyser screen - yet another demand on display space.
The new TLA715 and TLA721 mainframes incorporate an Intel 733MHz Pentium III processor to increase computing speed, memory depth and performance.
Supporting the processor is a hard disk with up to 30Gbyte capacity and RAM capacity up to 512Mbyte.
The new processor and RAM speed up procedures ranging from postprocessing operations such as disassembly and search to launching and running third-party analysis applications.
These performance enhancements introduce support for up to four external monitors, with up to 1600 x 1200 resolution each.
The multi-monitor display gives the user several ways to view information.
It is possible to treat the multiple monitors as one continuous display, showing wide spans of acquisition time, or display multiple application windows simultaneously.
The TLA715 mainframe supports two double-width TLA700 Series acquisition modules, whereas the TLA721 supports five; this capability can be expanded with up to 10 TLA7XMs for a total of 60 modules.
Both models accept all existing TLA700 Series instrument modules, including logic analyser, digital oscilloscope and pattern generator modules.
Customers can also upgrade their existing TLA700 Series logic analysers, reaping the benefits of the latest enhancements while preserving their original investment. Request a free brochure from Tektronix ...
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