Digital phosphor technology

Digital phosphor technology provides you with fast insight into the real

operation of your device. Its fast waveform capture rate – greater than

50,000 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.

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.

Digital phosphor technology enables greater than 50,000 wfms/s waveform capture rate

and real-time intensity grading.

Accurate high-speed probing

The TPP Series probes, included standard with every MSO/DPO4000B

Series oscilloscope, provide up to 1 GHz of analog bandwidth, and less

than 4 pF of capacitive loading. The extremely low capacitive loading

minimizes adverse affects on your circuits and is more forgiving of longer

ground leads. And, since the probe bandwidth matches or exceeds your

oscilloscope bandwidth, you can see the high-frequency components in

your signal which is critical for high-speed applications. The TPP Series

passive voltage probes offer all the benefits of general-purpose probes like

high dynamic range, flexible connection options, and robust mechanical

design, while providing the performance of active probes. In addition, a low-

attenuation, 2X version of the TPP probes is available for measuring low

voltages. Unlike other low-attenuation passive probes, the TPP0502 has

high bandwidth (500 MHz) as well as low capacitive loading (12.7 pF).

Mixed signal design and analysis (MSO

series)

The MSO models provide 16 digital channels which are tightly integrated

into the oscilloscope's user interface. This simplifies operation and makes it

possible to solve mixed-signal issues easily.

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

This oscilloscope 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. Color-

coded digital traces display ones in green and zeros in blue.

The multiple transition detection hardware shows you a white edge on the

display when the system detects multiple transitions. White edges indicate

that more information is available by zooming in or acquiring at faster

sampling rates. In most cases zooming in will reveal the pulse that was not

viewable with the previous settings. If the white edge is still present after

zooming in as far as possible, this indicates that increasing the sample rate

on the next acquisition will reveal higher frequency information than the

previous settings could acquire.

Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes — MSO4000B, DPO4000B Series

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