Portable DPO

Tektronix has released the DPO3000 digital phosphor oscilloscopes, a portable series of models that provides triggering and decode support for serial buses used in embedded design applications.

Additionally, the new ‘scopes offer 5 m standard record length and use the Wave Inspector navigation and search controls to simplify finding events of interest.

This provides a dedicated, two-tier front panel knob for intuitive control of zooming and panning. A play/pause feature with adjustable speed enables users to automatically scroll the waveform across the screen while they look for the event of interest.

The system allows a search through an acquisition and automatically marks all occurrences of user-specified events and navigates between them.

The family consists of six models, ranging from 100 to 500 MHz. All models provide 2.5 GS/s sampling with \>5x oversampling on all channels and 5 m record length is standard on all channels.

The models also offer a USB host (thumb drive) on the front panel enabling easy transfer of screenshots, set-ups and waveform data to a PC. All models include ethernet and a USB device port on the rear of the instrument that enables plug-and-play PC connectivity.

All models provide the TekVPI probe interface for communication between the DPO3000 and TekVPI probes.