Inc, a provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, recently unveiled its new mixed signal oscilloscope series, MSO3000.
Naresh Narasimhan: Today's embedded designs contain a wide variety of signals – digital, analog and RF – and communication between components is achieved both through parallel and serial buses.
Embedded systems designers are looking for test solutions with the versatility to monitor all these signals. At the same time, design engineers are under pressure to keep a tight rein on costs.
The new MSO 3000 (mixed signal oscilloscopes) series provide the embedded system designer with the ability to visualize and analyze analog, digital and serial signals on a single instrument.
This versatility is particularly important when performing system-level troubleshooting across a wide range of integrated components, such as microprocessors and microcontrollers, FPGAs, A/Ds, D/As, serial and parallel buses, embedded audio and switch-mode power supplies.
The MSO3000 series offers the right mix of performance and price with up to four analog and 16 digital channels, 100 to 500 MHz bandwidth, 5M record length and 2.5 GS/s analog sample rate for system debug.
CIOL: How is MSO3000 different from its predecessors? What is it priced at?
NN: Primary differentiators between the three series of MSO/DPO (Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope) products include bandwidth, record length, analog sample rate, digital sample rate, display size.
The MSO/DPO3000 and 4000 series have an optional power analysis application module and HDTV and custom video triggering application module that the MSO/DPO2000 does not support. MSO/DPO3000 and 4000 series support MagniVu technology to improve digital sample rate that MSO/DPO2000 does not support.
The prices range from $6,350 MSRP for a two-channel 100MHz MSO3012 to $14,700 MSRP for a four-channel 500MHz MSO3054 with an included P6316 digital probe. All new models are available for purchase and delivery.
The table below shows the primary specification differences among the series.
