Tektronix Releases MSO3000 Series of Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes

By DE Editors

Tektronix, Inc. has announced the new MSO3000 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Series. The new series provides embedded system designers with the ability to visualize and analyze analog, digital and serial signals on a single instrument.

The MSO3000 Series has up to four analog and 16 digital channels, 100 to 500 MHz bandwidth, 5M record length and 2.5 GS/s analog sample rate for system debug. 

For mixed signal design and analysis, the MSO3000 Series provides 16 digital channels. These channels are integrated into the oscilloscope’s user interface, making it possible to solve mixed signal issues easily. The color-coded waveform display simplifies viewing of digital waveforms, displaying ones in green and zeros in blue.

The MSO3000 Series provides a set of features to speed debugging a new design.  Embedded system designers can discover intermittent problems with a 50,000 waveform per second capture rate and intensity-graded digital phosphor display technology. The designer can then capture signal anomalies and glitches with a set of triggers,  including parallel data and serial packet content. The trigger is applied across all input channels and automatically time correlates all analog,  digital, and serial signals. Wave Inspector controls enable automatic search across all analog, digital, serial, and parallel data signals for a specific event of interest.  Wave Inspector will automatically mark every instance of the event enabling rapid navigation between them. The designer can also analyze signals with 29 automated measurements, advanced waveform math, and specialized application support for serial bus analysis, power analysis and video debug.

For more information, visit Tektronix.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.