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Navigation and Search Key Specifications Comparison

Serial Triggering and DecodeTektronix MSO/DPO3000 Series

MSO/DPO3000 Series vs. Agilent MSO/DSO7000A SeriesCompetitive Fact Sheet

Serial Bus Support – I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN, RS-232/422/485/ UART, and I2S/LJ/RJ/TDM available for all models.

Bus Display – View up to 2 serial buses simultaneously.

Bus Decoding – Decodes each packet on the bus anddisplays the value in hex, binary, decimal, or ASCII.

Serial Triggering – Trigger on packet content.

Event Table – View captured packets in a tabular listingview.

Search – Wave Inspector® navigation automaticallysearches for and marks user-defined events on packetcontent.

Serial Bus Support – I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN,RS-232/UART and I2S (4-channel products only).

Bus Display – Single serial bus display, anchoredat the bottom of the screen.

Bus Decoding – Hardware decode of each packet

on the bus in hex, but not always time-aligned. Serial Triggering – Trigger on packet content.Limited serial triggering standard.

Event Table – View captured packets in a tabularlisting view.

No Automated Search

TektronixMSO/DPO3000 Series

AgilentMSO/DSO7000A Series

Channels 2, 4 (+16 digital MSO) 2, 4 (+16 digital MSO)

Bandwidth 100, 300, 500 MHz 100, 350, 500 MHz,1 GHz

Max. Sample Rate(All channels on) 2.5 GS/s 4 GS/s(1 GHz models)

2 GS/s (all others models)

Max. Record Length (Allchannels on) 5 M points 4 M points

Input Impedance 1M, 75, 50 1M, 50

Navigation and Search Wave Inspector® controls Horizontal position,

zoom

Power Measurements(Optional) Built-in PC-Based

Wave Inspector® controls.

Pan/Zoom controls foreasy scrolling throughlong records.

Play/Pause buttonscrolls the waveformacross the screenautomatically.

Search/Mark controlsenable you to search forevents of interest, markthem, then navigatethrough the record markby mark.

Only uses horizontal scalecontrol to zoom.

Manual scrolling ofhorizontal position to scrollthrough data.

No automated searchcapability.

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Navigation by

horizontal position

 

No Automated

Search

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Pan right and some of thedecoded text shifts; now it'snot time correlated with data.

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Measurement and Channel Math

Discovering an Intermittent Pulse

Agilent MSO/DSO7000A SeriesTektronix MSO/DPO3000 Series

Digital Debug with MSO

>50,000 wfms/s maximumwaveform capture rate

Channels represented withdifferent colors.

Intensity grading shows frequency

of occurrence.

Intensity grading is preservedwhen stopped.

Variable persistence alsoavailable.

 100,000 wfms/s maximum waveformcapture rate

No intensity grading in persistencemode – whether running or stopped.

Cannot distinguish channel history

when stopped – only last acquisition.

No variable persistence.

MSO/DPO3000 Series vs. Agilent MSO/DSO7000A SeriesCompetitive Fact Sheet

Can use all the record length – up to 5 M pointsfor measurements, averaging,and math, and up to 1 M for FFT.

Advanced math with arbitrary expression.

Gate measurements by screen or cursors.

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Uses only the 1000 displayed pointsfor measurements, averaging, FFTand math.

Limited math choices.

No gating control, other than zoom.

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Sample rate not dependent on number ofchannels used.

Record length not dependent on numberof channels used.

Green trace for highs (1), blue trace forlows (0).

Bus waveforms can be moved within thedisplay.

Clocked or unclocked parallel bus decode.Event table for parallel bus decode.

Sample rate cut in half when using bothpods.

Record length compromised as digitalchannels are used.

There is no color difference between alow and a high.

Bus waveforms anchored to bottom ofthe display.

No clocked parallel bus decode.

No event table for parallel bus decode.

Intermediate states showbecause bus is unclocked.

Clocked bus shows no intermediate states.