Tektronix DPO7254C

With the DPO7000C Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope Series, you can analyze analog and serial bus signals with a single instrument to quickly find and diagnose problems in complex designs. Bandwidths up to 3.5 GHz and sample rates up to 40 GS/s ensure you have the performance you need to see fast-changing signal details. To capture long windows of signal activity while maintaining fine timing resolution, the DPO7000C Series offers a deep record length of up to 12.5M points standard on all channels and an optional record length of up to 500M points on two channels.

With Advanced Search and Mark and MultiView Zoom™ features for rapid waveform navigation, and more than 15 optional software and analysis packages for common technologies and in-depth analysis tasks, the DPO7000C Series from Tektronix provides the feature-rich tools you need to simplify and speed debug of your complex design.

• 3.5 GHz, 2.5 GHz, 1 GHz, and 500 MHz Bandwidth Models
• Up to 40 GS/s Real-time Sample Rate on One or Two Channels and up to 10 GS/s on All Four Channels
• Up to 500 Megapoint Record Length with MultiView Zoom™
• >250,000 wfms/s Maximum Waveform Capture Rate with FastAcq™
• FastFrame™ Segmented Memory Acquisition Mode with >310,000 Waveforms per Second Capture Rate
• User-selectable Bandwidth Limit Filters for Better Low-frequency Measurement Accuracy
• Pinpoint® Triggering provides the Most Flexible and Highest Performance Triggering, with over 1400 Combinations to Address Virtually Any Triggering Situation
• Advanced Search and Mark to Find Specific Events in the Entire Waveform
• MyScope® Custom Control Windows and Right Mouse Click Menus for Exceptional Efficiency
• 53 Automated Measurements, Waveform Histograms, and FFT Analysis for Simplified Waveform Analysis
• TekVPI® Probe Interface supports Active, Differential, and Current Probes for Automatic Scaling and Units
• 12.1 inches (307 mm) Bright XGA Display with Touch Screen
• USB Host Ports on the Front and Side Panels for Quick and Easy Data Storage, Printing, and Connecting USB Peripherals
• Integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet Port for Network Connection and Video Out Port to Export the Oscilloscope Display to a Monitor or Projector
• Microsoft® Windows 7 64-bit Operating System for Easy Connectivity and Integration into Your Environment
• LXI Class C Compliant
• Optional Serial Triggering and Analysis
  • Automated Serial Triggering and Decode Options for I2C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, and USB 2.0
  • Automated Serial Analysis for MIPI® D-PHY DSI-1 and CSI-2
  • Automated Serial Decode and Vehicle Network Monitoring of CAN and LIN
  • Clock Recovery from Serial Data Streams
  • 64-bit NRZ Serial Pattern Trigger for Isolation of Pattern-dependent Effects up to 1.25 Gb/s
• Optional Technology Specific Analysis
  • Software Solutions provide Built-in Domain Expertise for MIPI® D-PHY, Ethernet, and USB 2.0 Compliance Testing, Jitter, Timing, Eye Diagrams, Power, DDR Memory Bus Analysis, and Wideband RF
  • Limit and Mask Testing provide Quick Insight into Signal Characteristics

DPO7254C characteristics:

• Vertical channels
  • Input channels: 4
  • Bandwidth: 2.5 GHz
  • Rise time: 160 ps
  • Imput impedance: 1 MΩ ±1% with 13 pF ±2 pF, 50 Ω ±1%
  • Vertical resolution: 8 bit (>11 bit, with high res)
  • Maximum input voltage, 1 MΩ: ±150 V CAT I, derate at 20 dB/decade to 9 Vrms above 200 kHz
  • Maximum input voltage, 50 Ω: 5 VRMS, with peaks ≤ ±24 V
• Horizontal channels
  • Maximum sample rate (1 ch): 40 GS/s standard
  • Maximum record length: 50 M (1 ch) with standard configuration; Up to 500 M with options
  • Maximum duration at highest real-time sample rate (1 ch): 1-2 ms with standard record length; Up to 10 ms with optional record length
  • Time base range: 25 ps/div to 1000 s/div
  • Time base delay time range: 5 ns to 250 s
  • Channel-to-channel deskew range: ±75 ns
• Acquisition modes
  • Sample: Acquire sampled values
  • Peak Detect: Captures narrow glitches at all real-time sampling rates: 1/sample rate at ≤10 GS/s
  • Averaging: From 2 to 10,000 waveforms included in average
  • Envelope: From 1 to 2×10⁹ waveforms included in min-max envelope
  • Hi Res: Real-time boxcar averaging reduces random noise and increases resolution
  • Roll: Scrolls sequential waveform points across the display in a right-to-left rolling motion at sweep speeds slower than 50ms/div. Up to 10 MS/s with a maximum record length of 40M
  • FastAcq Acquisition Mode: FastAcq optimizes the instrument for analysis of dynamic signals and capture of infrequent events
  • Maximum FastAcq Waveform Capture Rate: >250,000 wfms/s on all 4 channels simultaneously
  • Waveform Database: Accumulate waveform database providing three-dimensional array of amplitude, time, and counts
  • FastFrame™ Acquisition: Acquisition memory divided into segments; maximum trigger rate >310,000 waveforms per second. Time of arrival recorded with each event. Frame Finder tool helps to visually identify transients
• Trigger characteristics
  • A Event and Delayed B Event Trigger Types: Edge, Glitch, Width, Runt, Timeout, Transition Time, Logic Pattern, Logic State, Setup/Hold, Window – all except Edge, Pattern, and State can be Logic State qualified by up to two channels
  • Trigger Delay by Time: 5 ns to 250 s
  • Trigger Delay by Events: 1 to 10,000,000 events
  • Optional Serial Protocol Trigger Types (A Event only): I2C, SPI, RS-232, CAN, USB 2.0
  • Main Trigger Modes: Auto, Normal, and Single
  • Enhanced Triggering: User-selectable; corrects the difference in timing between the trigger path and the acquired data path (supports all Pinpoint trigger types on both A and B Events except pattern trigger and not available in FastAcq)
  • Trigger Sequences: Main, Delayed by Time, Delayed by Events, Reset by Time, Reset by State, Reset by Transition. All sequences can include separate horizontal delay after the trigger event to position the acquisition window in time
  • Communications-related Triggers: Requires Option MTM. Support for AMI, HDB3, BnZS, CMI, MLT3, and NRZ encoded communications signals. Select among isolated positive or negative one, zero pulse form, or eye patterns as applicable to the standard
  • Video Trigger Formats and Field Rates: Triggers from negative sync composite video, field 1 or field 2 for interlaced systems, any field, specific line, or any line for interlaced or noninterlaced systems. Supported systems include NTSC, PAL, SECAM, and HDTV 1080/24sF, 1080p/25, 1080i/50, 1080i/60, 1080p/24, 720p/60, 480p/60
  • Serial Pattern Trigger (DPO7254C and DPO7354C only, requires Option ST1G) Up to 64-bit serial word recognizer, bit specified in binary (high, low, don’t care) or hex format. Trigger on NRZ-encoded data up to 1.25 Gb/s
  • Trigger Level Range (Internal): ±12 divisions from center of screen
  • Trigger Level (Aux In): TekVPI interface; ±5 V (50 Ω); 150 V CAT I, derate at 20 dB/decade to 9 VRMS above 200 kHz (1 MΩ)
  • Trigger Level (Line): Fixed at 0 V
  • Trigger Coupling: DC, AC (attenuates <60 Hz), HF Rej (attenuates >30 kHz), LF Rej (attenuates <80 kHz), Noise Reject (reduces sensitivity)
  • Trigger Holdoff Range: 250 ns to 12 s
• Clock Recovery System (DPO7254C and DPO7354C only, requires Option ST1G or MTM)
  • Clock Recovery Phase Locked Loop Bandwidth: Fixed at FBaud/500
  • Clock Recovery Frequency Range: 1.5 MBaud to 1.25 GBaud
  • Clock Recovery Tracking/Acquisition Range: ±5% of requested baud rate (typical)
  • Minimum Signal Amplitude Needed for Clock Recovery: 1 divp-p up to 1.25 GBaud (typical)
• Trigger modes: Edge, Glitch, Width, Runt, Window, Timeout, Transition, Setup/Hold, Logic Pattern, Logic State, Parallel Bus, Video
• Optional trigger modes: Comm, I²C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, USB 2.0, CAN, Serial Pattern
• Advanced Search and Mark: Automatically mark events and document waveforms. Search positive/negative slopes or both, glitches, runts, pulse widths, transition rate, setup and hold, timeout, windows, or find any logic or state pattern on any number of channels. Search DDR Read or Write bursts with Option DDRA. Event table summarizes all found events. All events are time stamped in reference to trigger position. Stop acquisitions when an event is found
• Waveform measurements
  • Cursors: Waveform and Screen
  • Automatic Measurements: 53, of which 8 can be displayed on-screen at any one time
  • Measurement Statistics: Mean, Minimum, Maximum, Standard Deviation
  • Reference Levels: User-definable reference levels for automatic measurements can be specified in either percent or units
  • Gating: Isolate the specific occurrence within an acquisition to take measurements on, using either screen or waveform cursors
  • Amplitude Related: Amplitude, High, Low, Maximum, Minimum, Peak-to-Peak, Mean, Cycle Mean, RMS, Cycle RMS, Positive Overshoot, Negative Overshoot
  • Time Related: Rise Time, Fall Time, Positive Width, Negative Width, Positive Duty Cycle, Negative Duty Cycle, Period, Frequency, Delay
  • Combination: Area, Cycle Area, Phase, Burst Width
  • Waveform Histogram Measurements: Waveform Count, Hits in Box, Peak Hits, Median, Maximum, Minimum, Peak-to-Peak, Mean (µ), Standard Deviation (sigma), µ+1sigma, µ+2sigma, µ+3sigma
  • Eye-pattern Measurements: Extinction Ratio (absolute, %, dB), Eye Height, Eye Width, Eye Top, Eye Base, Crossing %, Jitter (p-p, RMS, 6sigma), Noise (p-p, RMS), Signal/Noise Ratio, Cycle Distortion, Q-factor
  • Waveform Histograms: A waveform histogram provides an array of data values representing the total number of hits inside of a user-defined region of the display. A waveform histogram is both a visual graph of the hit distribution as well as a numeric array of values that can be measured. Sources – Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3, Channel 4, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Math 1, Math 2, Math 3, Math 4. Types – Vertical, Horizontal
• Waveform Processing/Math
  • Number of Math Waveforms: Up to 4
  • Arithmetic: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide waveforms and scalars
  • Algebraic Expressions: Define extensive algebraic expressions including waveforms, scalars, user-adjustable variables, and results of parametric measurements. Perform math on math using complex equations
  • Math Functions: Average, Invert, Integrate, Differentiate, Square Root, Exponential, Log₁₀, Log_e, Abs, Ceiling, Floor, Min, Max, Sin, Cos, Tan, ASin, ACos, ATan, Sinh, Cosh, Tanh
  • Relational: Boolean result of comparison >, <, ≥, ≤, = =, !=
  • Frequency Domain Functions (FFT): Spectral Magnitude and Phase, Real and Imaginary Spectra
  • FFT Vertical Units: Magnitude: Linear, dB, dBm. Phase: Degrees, radians, group delay
  • FFT Window Functions: Rectangular, Hamming, Hanning, Kaiser-Bessel, Blackman-Harris, Gaussian, Flattop2, Tek Exponential
  • Waveform Definition: As an arbitrary math expression
  • Filtering Functions: User-definable filters. Users specify a filter containing the coefficients of the filter. Filter files provided
  • Mask Function: A function that generates a waveform database pixmap from a sample waveform. Sample count can be defined
• Ports: USB 2.0, GPIB, LAN, Video Out, Audio, Auxiliary, External Reference In, Analog Signal Output, Probe Compensator Output, Recovered Clock, Recovered Data