| Serial Triggering and Decode | |
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Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 Series ✔ Simple time-correlated and labeled bus form display with color coded decode ✔ Wave Inspector® controls quickly navigate through long records to find events of interest. ✔ Large easy to read tabular view with timestamp. ✔ Highlighting a packet centers the YT display on that packet. ✔ Serial search completely integrated into Wave Inspector search.  |
LeCroy WaveSurfer Xs-A Series ✗ Overlaid color coding obscures waveforms, is difficult to read, and waveforms are not automatically labeled. ✗ Zoom uses multiple zoom windows with multiplexed front panel controls. Very difficult to view two decoded buses in same graticule. ✗ Table of packets in lower half of display only. ✔ Highlighting a packet centers the YT display on that packet. ✗ Serial search is completely separate from WaveScan search.  |
| Navigation and Search | |
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Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 Series ✔ Dedicated pan/zoom Wave Inspector front panel controls quickly navigate through long records. ✔ Search on analog and digital channels. ✔ Search events found counter. ✔ Automated search marks.  |
LeCroy WaveSurfer Xs-A Series ✗ Time intensive horizontal position used to scroll through data. ✗ No search on digital channels. ✗ No search events found counter. ✗ No marks (user or automated). ✔ WaveScan search on measurement parameters.  |
| Discovering an Intermittent Pulse | |
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Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 Series ✔ >50,000 wfms/s maximum waveform capture rate. ✔ Persistence available in any capture mode.  |
LeCroy WaveSurfer Xs-A Series ✗ Waveform capture rate not specified for normal acquisition or for WaveStream ™ high speed capture mode ✗ Persistence not available in WaveStream ™ high speed capture mode. ✗ WaveStream™ high speed capture mode not supported when digital channels are on.  |
| Serial Search | |
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Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 Series ✔ Wave Inspector seamlessly integrates serial buses into automated search. ✔ Automatically places marks at each occurrence of the search event. ✔ Reports the total number of events found and automatically marks each occurrence.  |
LeCroy WaveSurfer Xs-A Series ✗ Serial search is completely separate from WaveScan ✗ No search marks. ✗ No total number of events found.  |
| Digital Debug with MSO | |
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Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 Series ✔ Fully integrated digital channels with single probe connection on front. ✔ Digital channels can be grouped and independently moved in the display ✔ Green trace for highs (1), blue trace for lows (0). ✔ Digital signals fully integrated into Wave Inspector search and navigation.  |
LeCroy WaveSurfer Xs-A Series ✗ Large external brick that requires multiple connections to the scope. ✗ There is no visible difference between a low and a high. ✗ Groups of signals can be shown individually or as a bus, but not both. ✗ Cannot arrange ordering of bits in display. Hardware order only. ✗ No search on digital channels or parallel buses  |