Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes

Features & Benefits

• 3.5 GHz Bandwidth Model for Serial and Digital Applications
• 2.5 GHz, 1 GHz, and 500 MHz Bandwidth Models for All Applications
• Up to 40 GS/s Real-time Sample Rate on One Channel and up to 10 GS/s on All Four Channels
• Up to 500 Megasamples Record Length with MultiView Zoom™ Feature for Quick Navigation
• >250,000 wfms/s Maximum Waveform Capture Rate
• Up to 310,000 Waveforms per Second with FastFrame™ Segmented Memory Acquisition Mode
• User-selectable Bandwidth Limit Filters for Better Low-frequency Measurement Accuracy
• MyScope^® Custom Windows and Right Mouse Click Menus for Exceptional Efficiency
• Event Search and Mark to Find Specific Events in the Entire Waveform
• Pinpoint^® Triggering provides the Most Flexible and Highest Performance Triggering, with Over 1400 Combinations to Address Virtually Any Triggering Situation.
• 12.1” XGA Display with Touch Screen
• Communications Mask Testing
• Clock Recovery from Serial Data Streams
• 64-bit NRZ Serial Pattern Trigger for Isolation of Pattern-dependent Effects up to 1.25 Gb/s
• Low-speed Serial Protocol Triggering and Decode (I²C, SPI, RS-232, CAN, LIN, and FlexRay)
• Technology-specific Software Solutions provide Built-in Domain Expertise for MIPI^® D-PHY, Ethernet, USB 2.0 Compliance Testing, Jitter, Timing, Eye Diagram, Power, DDR Memory Bus Analysis, CAN, LIN, and FlexRay Network Design
• OpenChoice^® Software with Microsoft Windows XP OS enables Built-in Networking and Extended Analysis

Applications

• Signal Integrity, Jitter, and Timing Analysis
• Verification, Debug, and Characterization of Sophisticated Designs
• Debugging and Compliance Testing of Serial Data Streams for Telecom and Datacom Industry Standards
• Low-speed Serial Bus Design (I²C, SPI, RS-232, CAN, LIN, and FlexRay)
• Investigation of Transient Phenomena
• Power Measurements and Analysis
• Spectral Analysis

Unmatched Performance for Greater Insight Into Your Design to Get Your Work Done Faster

The DPO7000 Series are the new generation of real-time digital phosphor oscilloscopes and are the industry’s best solution to the challenging signal integrity issues faced by designers verifying, characterizing, debugging, and testing sophisticated electronic designs.

The family features exceptional performance in signal acquisition and analysis, operational simplicity, and unmatched debugging tools to accelerate your day-to-day tasks. The largest screen in the industry and the intuitive user interface provide easy access to the maximum amount of information.

Unmatched Acquisition Performance

Signal Fidelity of Tektronix Oscilloscopes Ensures Confidence in Your Measurement Results

• High sample rate on all models, on all channels, to capture more signal details (transients, imperfections, fast edges)
  • 40 GS/s on one channel on the 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz models
  • Option 2SR to double the maximum real-time sample rate for the 1 GHz model

• High bandwidth up to 3.5 GHz, matched across 2, 3, or 4 channels and enabled by Tektronix proprietary DSP enhancement. The user-selectable DSP filter on each channel provides magnitude and phase correction plus extension to 3.5 GHz for more accurate signal fidelity for complex measurements. The DSP filter on each channel can also be switched off to take advantage of true 2.5 GHz analog bandwidth for applications needing the highest available raw data capture.
• The DPO7000 Series oscilloscopes include as a standard feature a series of user-selectable bandwidth limit filters. These filters preserve the instrument’s bandwidth roll-off characteristics, flatness, and phase linearity within the new frequency range, thereby reducing the effects of out-of-band noise on measurements. Now, designers can purchase one instrument for their highest bandwidth needs and easily optimize it to handle lower-frequency measurements as well.

User-selectable bandwidth limiting choices.


• Very low jitter noise floor and vertical accuracy for very accurate measurements
• Long acquisition to provide more resolution and longer time sequence
  • Standard 10 million data points per channel on the DPO7000 Series
  • Optional up to 500 million total data points on 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz models
  • Optional up to 250 million total data points on the 500 MHz and 1 GHz models
  • Easily manage this deep record length, provide detailed comparison and analysis of multiple waveform segments with the MultiView Zoom™ feature. Automatically scroll through deep records visually, or create a math expression to instantly highlight differences

• Highest-performance probing solutions for differential and single-ended voltage signals as well as current measurement, because accurate design verification depends on high-bandwidth access to critical signals and high-fidelity signal capture

Unmatched Versatility

Get the Most of Your Oscilloscope by Fully Controlling its Waveform Acquisition and Display Parameters

You have the choice of three horizontal time base modes of operation. If you are simply doing signal exploration and want to interact with a lively signal, you will use the Automatic or interactive default mode that provides you with the liveliest display update rate. If you want a precise measurement and the highest real-time sample rate that will give you the most measurement accuracy, then the Constant Sample Rate mode is for you. It will maintain the highest sample rate and provide the best real-time resolution. The last mode is called the Manual mode because it ensures direct and independent control of the sample rate and record length.

With the MyScope^® Feature, Create Your Own Control Windows with Only the Controls, Features, and Capabilities that You Care About

Easily create your own personalized "toolbox" of oscilloscope features in a matter of minutes using a simple, visual, drag-and-drop process. Once created, these custom control windows are easily accessed through a dedicated MyScope button and menu selection on the oscilloscope button/menu bar, just like any other control window. You can make an unlimited number of custom control windows, enabling each person who uses the oscilloscope in a shared environment to have their own unique control window. MyScope control windows will benefit all oscilloscope users, eliminating the ramp-up time that many face when returning to the lab after not using an oscilloscope for a while, and enables the power user to be far more efficient. Everything you need is found in one control window rather than having to constantly navigate through menu after menu to repeat similar tasks.

With OpenChoice^® Software, Customize Your Test and Measurement System with Familiar Analysis Tools

The analysis and networking features of OpenChoice software add flexibility to Windows XP Tektronix oscilloscopes: The Windows XP Remote Desktop functionality enables remote monitoring of the instrument over the internet. Using the fast embedded bus, waveform data can be moved directly from acquisition to analysis applications on the Windows desktop at much faster speeds than conventional GPIB transfers. Implementation by Tektronix of industry-standard protocols, such as TekVISA™ interface and ActiveX controls, are included for using and enhancing Windows applications for data analysis and documentation. Support for the DPO7000 Series is also available with NI LabVIEW SignalExpress™ Tektronix Edition. IVI-COM instrument drivers are included to enable easy communication with the oscilloscope using GPIB, serial data, and LAN connections from programs running on the instrument or an external PC. Or, use the Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) to help create custom software to automate multistep processes in waveform collection and analysis with Visual BASIC, C, C++, MATLAB, LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, and other common Application Development Environments (ADE). Integration of the oscilloscope with external PCs and non-Windows hosts is also supported by the DPO7000 Series software solutions. In addition, the OpenChoice architecture provides a comprehensive software infrastructure for faster, more versatile operations. Data transfer programs, such as the Excel or Word toolbar, are used to simplify analysis and documentation on the Windows desktop or on an external PC.

Accelerate the Debug of Complex Electrical Designs

FastAcq Acquisition Mode Expedites Debugging by Clearly Showing Imperfections

More than just color grading, FastAcq enabled by Tektronix proprietary DPX^® acquisition technology captures signals up to more than 250,000 waveforms per second on all 4 channels simultaneously, dramatically increasing the probability of discovering infrequent fault events. And with a simple turn of the intensity knob you can clearly see “a world others don’t see,” because frequency of occurrence is color coded. Some oscilloscope vendors claim high waveform capture rates for short bursts of time, but only the DPO7000 Series, enabled by DPX technology, can deliver these fast waveform capture rates on a sustained basis – saving minutes, hours, or even days by quickly revealing the nature of faults so sophisticated trigger modes can be applied to isolate them.

The Ability to Trigger an Oscilloscope on Events of Interest is Paramount in Complex Signal Debug and Validation

Whether you’re trying to find a system error or need to isolate a section of a complex signal for further analysis, like a DDR Read or Write burst, Tektronix Pinpoint^® triggering provides the solution. The Pinpoint trigger system uses Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology to provide trigger sensitivity of up to the bandwidth of the instrument, and allows selection of most trigger types on both A and B trigger circuits. It can capture very narrow glitches with very little trigger jitter. Other trigger systems offer multiple trigger types only on a single event (A event), with delayed trigger (B event) selection limited to edge-type triggering and often do not provide a way to reset the trigger sequence if the B event doesn’t occur. But Pinpoint triggering provides a full suite of advance trigger types on both A and B triggers with Reset triggering to begin the trigger sequence again after a specified time, state, or transition so that even events in the most complex signals can be captured. Other oscilloscopes typically offer less than 20 trigger combinations; Pinpoint triggering offers over 1400 combinations, all at full performance.

With Enhanced Triggering, you can choose to compensate for the difference in time there is between the trigger path and the display path and eliminate virtually any trigger jitter at the trigger point. In this mode, the trigger point can be used as a measurement reference.

Trigger on the Most Relevant Bit Sequence of the Industry-standard Serial Bus

I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) triggering is a standard feature and includes Start Condition, Missing Acknowledge, Restart, Data Read, Address, and/or Data Frame, in a 10 bit or 7 bit format with a specific selection to choose whether or not to include the R/W bit.

SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) triggering is a standard feature and includes triggering on a data pattern within a user-definable frame.

RS-232 triggering is a standard feature.

CAN (Controller Area Network) triggering is an optional feature (Opt. LSA) and includes synchronization to the Start or End of a CAN frame on any CAN high or CAN low signal, triggering on Type of Frame (Data, Remote, Overload), Identifier, Data, Missing Acknowledge, and Bit Stuffing error.

Analog HDTV/EDTV Triggering for emerging standards like 1080i, 1080p, 720p, and 480p as well as standard video triggering on any line within a field, all lines, all fields, odd or even fields for NTSC, SECAM, and PAL video signals. In addition, IRE and mV graticules can be selected for easier measurements and visual inspection. This is a standard feature.

Serial Pattern Triggering for NRZ serial data streams with built-in clock recovery (available on models DPO7254 and DPO7354 only) to debug serial architectures. The instrument can recover the clock signal, identify the transitions, and decode characters and other protocol data. With the combination of the Serial Trigger and Protocol Decode software, you can see the captured bit sequences decoded into their words for convenient analysis (for 8b/10b and other encoded serial data streams), or you can set the desired encoded words for the serial pattern trigger to capture. This serial trigger option covers NRZ serial standards up to 1.25 Gb/s.

Pattern Lock Triggering adds a new dimension to NRZ serial pattern triggering by enabling the oscilloscope to take synchronized acquisitions of a long serial test pattern with outstanding time base accuracy. Pattern lock triggering can be used to remove random jitter from long serial data patterns. Effects of specific bit transitions can be investigated, and averaging can be used with mask testing. This feature is included as part of Option PTM on the DPO7254 and 7354 models.

Unmatched Usability

The TekVPI™ probe interface provides versatility and ease of use enabled by intelligent bidirectional oscilloscope-to-probe communication.

The DPO7000 Series are fast-responding instruments and contain a comprehensive suite of features such as a touch screen, shallow menu structures, intuitive graphical icons, knob-per-channel vertical controls, support for right mouse clicks, mouse wheel improvements, saving of waveforms and measurements available in Preview mode, and Export/Save/Recall menu improvements.

Interoperability with Logic Analyzers for Digital Design and Debug

The Tektronix Integrated View (iView™) data display enables digital designers to solve signal integrity challenges and effectively debug and verify their systems more quickly and easily. This integration allows designers to view time-correlated digital and analog data in the same display window, and isolate the analog characteristics of the digital signals that are causing systems failures. No user calibration is required. And, once set up, the iView feature is completely automated.

More Insight into Your Complex Electrical Design for Characterization and Compliance Testing

The DPO7000 Series oscilloscopes offer the industry’s most comprehensive set of analysis and compliance tools, such as a simple math expression, waveform mask testing, a pass/fail compliance test, event searching, event marking, or a custom application that you develop yourself.

A Wide Range of Built-in Advanced Waveform Analysis Tools

Waveform cursors make it easy to measure trace-to-trace timing characteristics, while cursors that link between YT and XY display modes make it easy to investigate phase relationships and Safe Operating Area violations. Select from 53 automatic measurements using a graphical palette that logically organizes measurements into Amplitude, Time, Combination, Histogram, and Communications categories. Gather further insight into your measurement results with statistical data such as mean, min, max, standard deviation, and population.

Define and apply math expressions to waveform data for on-screen results in terms that you can use. Access common waveform math functions with the touch of a button. Or, for advanced applications, create algebraic expressions consisting of live waveforms, reference waveforms, math functions, measurement values, scalars, and user-adjustable variables with an easy-to-use calculator-style editor.

FFT - To analyze your signal in the spectral domain, use the basic spectral (provides you with the best parameter), or use advanced spectral with the manual time base horizontal mode (to directly control the frequency span, center frequency, and resolution bandwidth).

Filtering - Enhance your ability to isolate or remove some important component of your signal (noise or specific harmonics of the signal) by creating your own filters, or using the filters provided as standard with the instrument.

Advanced Analysis, Jitter, Timing, and Eye Diagram Measurements

Tight timing margins associated with today’s serial buses demand stable, low-jitter designs. DPO7000 models include an Essentials version of the DPOJET software package that extends the oscilloscope’s measurement capabilities by making measurements over contiguous clock and data cycles in a single-shot real-time acquisition. DPOJET Essentials adds multiple measurements, including Time Interval Error, Phase Noise, Skew, Setup and Hold timing, Duty Cycle, Period, Positive/Negative Width, and others, and provides the ability to measure key jitter and timing parameters to help characterize possible system timing issues. Analysis tools such as plots for time trends and histograms quickly show how timing parameters change over time, like frequency drift, PLL startup transients, or a circuit’s response to power supply changes. Spectrum analysis quickly shows the precise frequency and amplitude of jitter and modulation sources.

Further analysis can be added with DPOJET Advanced (Option DJA) that offers extended capabilities, providing a complete suite of analysis tools for insight into jitter and timing as well as other signal quality issues. To the basic jitter and timing measurements described above, DJA adds advanced tools such as Rj/Dj separation, eye diagram masks, and Pass/Fail limits for conformance testing. DPOJET Advanced is the measurement framework that underlies several other Tektronix standards-specific compliance test packages for applications such as DDR memory and USB.

Advanced Event Search and Mark - Event Search and Mark will relieve the user from the tedious task of examining data by highlighting important events, skipping the unimportant ones, and enhancing the comprehension of event relationships. You can navigate between the events of interest effortlessly. Basic event (edge only) search and mark plus support for more advanced event types like transition, setup and hold, or logic pattern are available.

Waveform Limit Testing - This feature consists of comparing an acquired waveform to boundaries. These boundaries are defined by the user to specify a tolerance band around a reference waveform. If any part of the acquired waveform falls outside of the limit, the software returns a failure message and the location of the failure is shown on the waveform.

Communications Mask Testing (Opt. MTM) - This feature provides a complete portfolio of masks for verifying compliance to serial communications standards. It supports 156 Standard Masks:

• ITU-T (64 Kb/s to 155 Mb/s)
• ANSI T1.102 (1.544 Mb/s to 155 Mb/s)
• Ethernet IEEE 902.3, ANSI X3.263 (125 Mb/s to 1.25 Gb/s)
• Sonet/SDH (51.84 Mb/s to 622 Mb/s)
• Fibre Channel (133 Mb/s to 2.125 Gb/s)
• USB (12 Mb/s to 480 Mb/s)
• IEEE 1394 (491.5 Mb/s to 1.966 Gb/s)
• RapidI/O (up to 2 Gb/s)
• OIF Standards (1.244 Gb/s)
• Video (143.18 Mb/s to 1.485 Gb/s)

CAN and LIN Timing and Protocol Decode Software (Opt. LSA) - When you need to ensure seamless and reliable operation of a CAN or LIN network, this option enables CAN bus triggering and provides the solution to measure oscillator tolerance, propagation delay, and simultaneously decode CAN and LIN messages, with the protocol leveraging the trigger capabilities.

The optional ATM-1 module adds LIN and advanced CAN triggering.

Power Measurement and Analysis (Opt. PWR) - Analyze power dissipation in power supply switching devices and magnetic components, and generate detailed reports in customizable formats. The Hi-Res acquisition mode delivers greater than 8 bits of vertical resolution on single-shot or repetitive signals at bandwidth up to 125 MHz. The powerful and flexible measurements, math, and math-on-math capabilities make it an ideal solution for performing power measurements, such as voltage, current, instantaneous power, and energy, for power device designers. The TekVPI™ interface provides smart communication between the oscilloscope and the probe. TekVPI probe interface also provides more power to the probe interface, allowing direct connection of current probes to the front of the oscilloscope.

Ethernet Compliance Testing (Opt. ET3) - Receive full physical layer support for Ethernet variants 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T with the comprehensive, integrated Tektronix Ethernet tool set. Analog verification, automated compliance software, and device characterization solutions are all included.

USB Compliance Testing (Opt. USB) - Provides compliance testing for USB 2.0 signals. A DPO7254 or DPO7354 is required for compliance testing of high-speed (480 Mb/s) USB signals.

DDR Memory Bus Analysis (Opt. DDRA) - Automatically identify DDR1, LP-DDR1 DDR2, DDR3, and GDDR3 Reads and Writes and make JEDEC conformance measurements with pass/fail results on all edges in every Read and Write burst. DDRA also provides capabilities for measurements of clock, address, and control signals. In addition to enabling conformance testing, DDRA with DPOJET is the fastest way to debug complex memory signaling issues.

MIPI^® D-PHY Characterization and Compliance Testing (Opt. D-PHY) - Verify to the D-PHY specification, rapidly characterize and discover sources of jitter and signal integrity concerns. Perform high-speed data-clock timing measurements, along with other electrical characteristics in high-speed or low-power modes. This option is available on the DPO7254 and DPO7354 models.

Ultra-Wideband Spectral Analysis (Opt. UWB) and Ultra-Wideband Spectral Analysis Essentials (Opt. UWBE) - UWBE: Ultra-Wideband microwave, optical, and electrical signals require more real-time bandwidth than is possible with spectrum analyzer based solutions. Spectral Analysis and Digital Down Conversion of RF data is fast and easy and the down-converted frequency span of interest may be exported for further analysis in tools such as RSAVu and MATLAB.

UWB goes beyond the Essentials version and adds: WiMedia PHY 1.2 analysis with automatic packet, TFC, and data rate detection, support for all band groups, and Time Frequency Codes and data rates. Rapid visualization, debug, and report generation of the Spectrograms, Power Spectral Density, QPSK/DCM Constellations, EVM-vs-Symbol, EVM-vs-Subcarrier, Common-Phase-Error-vs-Symbol, and Voltage-vs-Time plots and complete measurements are captured and documented for each test condition.

SignalVu™ Vector Signal Analysis (Opt. SVE, SVP, SVM) - Easily validate wideband designs and characterize wideband spectral events. By combining the signal analysis engine of the RSA6100A Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer with that of the industry’s widest-bandwidth digital oscilloscopes, you can now evaluate complex signals up to 20 GHz without the need of an external down converter. You get the functionality of a vector signal analyzer, a spectrum analyzer, and the powerful trigger capabilities of a digital oscilloscope – all in a single package. Whether your design validation needs include wideband radar, high data-rate satellite links, or frequency-hopping communications, SignalVu™ vector signal analysis software can speed your time-to-insight by showing you time-variant behavior of these wideband signals.

Floating Licenses

Floating licenses offer an alternative method to manage your Tektronix asset. Floating licenses allow license-key enabled options to be easily moved among all your DPO/DSA70000B, MSO70000, and DPO7000 Tektronix oscilloscopes. Floating licenses are available for many license-key enabled options. To order a floating version of an option license add “DPOFL-“ prefix to the option name. (e.g. DPOFL-ET3)

Check www.tek.com/products/oscilloscopes/floatinglicenses for additional information about floating license options.