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News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: DPO3000 series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 April 2008
Digital phosphor scopes support serial
design
The new DPO3000 provides triggering and decode support for the most popular serial buses used in embedded design applications.
Available now from Tektronix, the DPO3000 series of digital phosphor oscilloscopes (DPOs) are portable models that extend the advantages first introduced with the award-winning DPO/MSO 4000 series The new DPO3000 provides triggering and decode support for the most popular serial buses used in embedded design applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Increasingly, embedded system designs are replacing internal parallel buses with serial buses such as I2C, SPI and CAN.
On a serial bus, a single signal may include address, control, data, and clock information; the complexity presents significant debug challenges for design engineers.
The DPO3000 Series addresses these problems with the most complete set of tools for working with industry standard serial buses such as I2C, SPI, RS232/422/485/UART, CAN and LIN.
According to Bob Bluhm, Vice President and General Manager, Value Scope Product Line, Tektronix: "Through innovative features such as Wave Inspector and comprehensive support for the serial data standards most often used in embedded designs, the DPO3000 family of oscilloscopes will meet the pressing debug needs of design engineers".
"With many best-in-class features, the DPO3000 is ideal for engineers needing to more quickly and efficiently find elusive design problems and stay on their product development schedule".
Longer records are necessary for capturing meaningful serial data with high resolution, and allow engineers to spend less time adjusting triggers.
In response, the DPO3000 provides 5M deep memory as standard.
However, long records often represent thousands of screens worth of signal activity, making it challenging to quickly find information specific to a design problem.
The DPO3000 Series Wave Inspector makes simple and efficient work of extracting needed answers.
Wave Inspector provides a dedicated, two-tier front panel knob for intuitive control of zooming and panning.
A play/pause feature with adjustable speed enables customers to automatically scroll the waveform across the screen while they look for the event of interest.
Wave Inspector also provides the ability to search through an acquisition and automatically mark all occurrences of user-specified events, and navigate between them effortlessly.
With Wave Inspector, the DPO3000 provides easy-to-use tools to quickly find and solve difficult problems.
The DPO3000 oscilloscope family consists of six models, ranging from 100 to 500MHz.
All models provide 2.5Gsample/s sampling with better than 5x oversampling on all channels.
The 5M record length is standard on all channels enabling the capture of long time windows of signal activity with very high resolution.
Not only is the DPO3000 the most capable professional oscilloscope in its segment of the market, at only 137mm deep, it is also the shallowest - requiring less bench space than competing products - and weighs only 4kg for enhanced portability.
The DPO3000 also provides exceptional value with Wave Inspector, serial triggering, protocol decode, USB plug-and-play PC connectivity, a 9in WVGA display to show more detail in the horizontal axis to better see glitches and fine details that otherwise might be missed, and the smallest footprint in its class.
The new models also offer a USB host (thumb drive) on the front panel enabling easy transfer of screenshots, setups and waveform data to a PC.
All models include Ethernet and a USB device (TMC) port on the rear of the instrument that enables plug-and-play PC connectivity.
Additionally, all models provide the TekVPI probe interface that fosters communication between the DPO3000 and TekVPI probes.
A variety of TekVPI voltage and current probes are available.
The DPO3VID Video Application Module adds a comprehensive set of HDTV and custom video triggers.
This module, combined with built-in, selectable 75ohm termination, make the DPO3000 a great instrument for designs that incorporate modern video standards.
No other similar instrument provides both HDTV triggering and built-in 75ohm termination.
"The new DPO3000 is very close to an ideal instrument, offering ease of use, robust functionality, a great widescreen display, and is easy on the wallet", says Richard Lilley, Sr Engineering Manager Signal Processing, Harris Corporation-GCSD.
"With its serial data triggering and decode support plus Wave Inspector for easily finding information in long records, the DPO3000 is ideal for embedded systems engineers that need to troubleshoot mixed-signal design problems and validate device performance".
The new DPO3000 complements the recently introduced DPO4000 and MSO4000 Series, ranging from 100MHz to 1GHz bandwidths and providing the most complete and capable portable oscilloscope offering in the market for embedded systems engineers.
List prices range from Eur 3760 or GBP 2540 for a two-channel DPO3012 to Eur 9220 or GBP 6210 for a four-channel DPO3054.
All DPO3000 models are available for purchase and delivery.
NI LabView SignalExpress Tektronix Edition LE base version is included free of charge with the DPO3000 Series; users can upgrade to the NI LabView SignalExpress Tektronix Edition for a MSRP of Eur 842 or GBP 567 which includes more than 200 measurement acquisition, analysis, and reporting features for use with the DPO3000. Request a free brochure from Tektronix ...
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