Next-Generation Touchscreen Oscilloscope MSO6B
With extremely low input noise and up to 10GHz of analog bandwidth, the MSO6B provides excellent signal fidelity for analyzing and debugging today’s GHz clock and bus rates in embedded systems. The MSO6B features an innovative gesture-based touch screen user interface with a large high-definition display, up to 8 FlexChannel™ inputs, each capable of measuring 1 analog signal or 8 digital signals, enabling you to tackle today’s challenging test scenarios at any time.
The MSO6B also offers simplified advanced measurement and analysis capabilities. It can easily characterize jitter on GHz clocks and serial buses, integrating measurements into everyday toolkits, and adding advanced measurements and routine measurements with simple drag-and-drop operations.
The MSO6B Has Four Unique Analysis Features
These features set it apart, including:
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Spectrum View for Synchronized Multi-Channel Spectrum Analysis
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High-Speed Serial Bus Signal and Jitter Testing
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Advanced Power Analysis for Fast, Repeatable Power Measurement Capabilities
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Vector Signal Analysis for Examining Modulated Signals
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Spectrum View
Synchronized Multi-Channel Spectrum Analysis
Viewing one or multiple signals in the frequency domain can often simplify debugging issues. For decades, oscilloscopes have been equipped with FFT based on mathematics to meet this need. However, it is well-known that the two main reasons FFT is difficult to use are:
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When performing frequency domain analysis, you consider control functions such as center frequency, bandwidth, and resolution bandwidth (RBW), which are typically available on spectrum analyzers. But when using FFT, you need to use various traditional oscilloscope control functions like sample rate, record length, time/division, and then mentally convert to get the view you need in the frequency domain.
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The acquisition system driving the FFT is the same as the one providing the analog time domain view. When optimizing the acquisition settings for the analog view, the frequency domain view is not the one you want. In traditional oscilloscope FFT, it is nearly impossible to obtain optimized views in both domains simultaneously.
Spectrum View changes all this. The patented technology from Tektronix simultaneously provides a sampler for the time domain behind each FlexChannel and a digital downconverter for the frequency domain. Two different acquisition paths allow you to observe both the time domain and frequency domain views of the input signal simultaneously, providing independent acquisition settings for each domain. Other manufacturers offer various “spectrum analysis” packages that claim to be very user-friendly, but they all have certain limitations. Spectrum View is both user-friendly and capable of achieving optimal views in both domains simultaneously.
Watch the video introduction: Using Spectrum View Spectrum Analysis on Multiple Channels
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High-Speed Serial Bus Signal and Jitter Testing
The MSO6B seamlessly integrates the DPOJET Essentials jitter and pattern analysis suite, expanding the capabilities of the oscilloscope to perform measurements within adjacent clock and data cycles in a single real-time acquisition. This allows measurement of critical jitter and timing parameters such as time interval error and phase noise, helping to diagnose potential system timing issues.
Various analysis tools like time trend graphs and histograms can quickly display how timing parameters change over time, while spectrum analysis quickly reveals the precise frequency and amplitude of jitter and modulation sources.
Option 6-DJA adds additional jitter analysis capabilities to better characterize device performance. 31 new measurements provide comprehensive jitter and eye diagram analysis and jitter decomposition algorithms to identify signal integrity issues and related sources in today’s high-speed serial designs, digital designs, and communication system designs. Option 6-DJA also offers eye diagram template testing capabilities for automated pass/fail testing.
Watch the video introduction: MSO6B High-Speed Serial and Jitter Testing
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Advanced Power Analysis Provides Fast,
Repeatable Power Measurement Capabilities
The MSO6B integrates the optional 6-PWR power analysis suite into the oscilloscope’s automated measurement system, allowing for fast, repeatable analysis of power quality, inrush current, harmonics, switching losses, safe operating area (SOA), ripple, magnetic material measurements, efficiency, control loop response (Bode plots), and power supply rejection ratio (PSRR).
The automated measurement function provides excellent measurement quality and repeatability with the push of a button, without the need for external computers or complex software setups.
Watch the live measurement video: Measuring the Bode Plot/Control Loop Response of Power Supply
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Vector Signal Analysis for Examining Modulated Signals
The MSO6B, combined with optional analysis software, provides economical mid-range oscilloscope performance, serving as both a 4-channel 10GHz bandwidth solution and an 8-channel 5GHz bandwidth multi-domain vector signal analysis (VSA) solution.
When analysis needs exceed basic spectrum, amplitude, frequency, and phase relationships over time, you can use the SignalVu-PC vector signal analysis application. It allows for in-depth transient RF signal analysis, detailed RF pulse characterization, and comprehensive analog and digital RF modulation analysis.
For example, Tektronix’s 5G new radio test method based on mixed-signal oscilloscopes, combined with dedicated digital downconverters on each channel and SignalVu-PC VSA software, provides a novel approach to validating 5G NR designs, a method previously unthought of by traditional RF engineers due to the limitations of FFT-based traditional oscilloscopes.
Watch the live measurement video: How to Perform Multi-Domain Signal Analysis for 5G Base Stations?
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