Tektronix MSO4034
Mixed Signal Oscilloscope, 350 MHz, 2.5 GS/s, 4 + 16 Ch.

Download Product Datasheet

Product Overview

The Tektronix MSO4034 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope (MSO) provides all the features and benefits of the DPO4000 ( The DPO4000 Series Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes (DPOs) are the first oscilloscopes to offer usable deep memory on all channels, excellent performance, serial trigger and analysis options and all in the most compact form factor in their class.) But the MSO4000 Series add 16 integrated digital channels, which enable you to visualize and correlate analog and digital signals on a single instrument. This integration extends triggering functionality across all 20 channels providing pattern and state triggering ideal for debugging mixed analog and digital designs.

MagniVu™The main digital acquisition mode on the MSO4000 Series will capture up to 10 M points at 500 MS/s (2 ns resolution). In addition to the main record, the MSO4054 provides an ultra high resolution mode called MagniVu which acquires 10,000 points at up to 16.5 GS/s (60.6 ps resolution). Both main and MagniVu waveforms are acquired on every trigger and can be switched between at any time, running or stopped. MagniVu provides close to ten times finer timing resolution than any other MSO on the market, instilling confidence when making critical timing measurements on digital waveforms.

The Power to Solve Problems Quickly - The Performance and Feature Set You Expect The MSO4034 Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope (DPO) delivers the performance you need to visualize even your most demanding signals. Bandwidths of 350 MHz and with a minimum of 5x over-sampling on all channels and sin(x)/x interpolation standard, you can be confident that even the fastest transient events will be captured and displayed accurately. The standard 10 M record length on all channels enables you to capture long windows of signal activity while maintaining fine timing resolution. The Tektronix MSO4034 offers a variety of analytical solutions including cursors, 25 automatic measurements, statistics and waveform math. Despite a tiny footprint (only 5.4 in. deep) and light weight (11 lbs.), the 4000 Series offers exceptional performance, a large 10.4 in. XGA display and knob-per-channel vertical controls.

Mixed Signal Design and Analysis in the MSO4034: As an embedded design engineer, you are faced with the challenge of ever increasing system complexity. A typical embedded design may incorporate various analog signals, high- and lowspeed serial digital communication and microprocessor buses, just to name a few. Serial protocols such as I2C and SPI are used frequently for chip-to-chip communication, but parallel buses are still used in many applications. Microprocessors, FPGAs, Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) and Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) are all examples of ICs that present unique measurement challenges in today's embedded designs. The MSO4034 Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes offer the addition of 16 digital channels. These channels are tightly integrated into the oscilloscope,s user interface, simplifying operation and making it possible to solve mixed signal issues more easily.

Easy to Set Up and Use: The MSO4034 has a clean front panel with familiar knobs and a large 10.4 in. XGA display - all in a package that is only 5.4 in. deep and weighs only 11 lbs. With USB plug-and-play operation and PC connectivity, acquiring data and measurements from the instrument is as simple as connecting a USB cable from the oscilloscope to the PC. Provided applications include National Instruments SignalExpress™ Tektronix Edition, OpenChoice® Desktop and Microsoft Excel and Word toolbars, enabling fast and easy direct communication with your Windows PC. USB and CompactFlash ports on the front panel enable simple transfer of screenshots, instrument settings and waveform data in the palm of your hand. When it comes to mixed signal design and debug, you want your instrument to be intuitive so you can start solving problems quickly. The MSO4000 Series drives like an oscilloscope, the tool you already know how to use. You do not have to relearn how to use the instrument every time you turn it on.

Wave Inspector Navigation: Imagine trying to efficiently use the internet if search engines didn't exist, web browser features such as favorites didn't exist or ISPs weren't around. Now you know how most modern oscilloscope users feel when trying to actually use the long record length in their digital oscilloscope. The longer the record length, the longer the time window you can capture with high resolution (high sample rate). Megapoint record lengths represent thousands of screens worth of signal activity. Tools for effectively and efficiently viewing, navigating and analyzing long record length acquisitions have been sorely neglected until now.

Search Marks: A robust waveform search feature allows you to search through your long acquisition based on user-defined criteria. All occurrences of the event are highlighted with search marks and are easily navigated to, using the front panel Previous and Next buttons. Search types include edge, pulse width, runt, logic, setup and hold, rise/fall time and I2C, SPI and CAN packet content.

Play/Pause: A dedicated play/pause button scrolls the waveform automatically while you look for anomalies or an event of interest. Playback speed and direction are controlled using the intuitive pan knob.

User Marks: See something interesting on your waveform? Press the Set Mark button on the front panel to leave one or more "bookmarks" on the waveform. Navigating between marks is as simple as pressing the Previous and Next buttons on the front panel.

Zoom/Pan: A dedicated, two-tier knob provides intuitive control of both zooming and panning. The inner knob adjusts zoom factor or scale. The outer knob pans the zoom box across the waveform. The farther you turn the outer knob, the faster the zoom box moves. No longer do you need to navigate through multiple menus to adjust your zoom view.

Serial Triggering and Analysis

The MSO4034 addresses represents the ultimate tool for engineers working with low-speed serial buses such as I2C, SPI, RS-232 and CAN.

• Bus Display - Provides a higher level combined view of the individual signals that make up your bus, making it easy to identify where packets begin and end and identifying sub-packet components including address, data, identifier, and CRC.
• Serial Triggering - Trigger on packet content such as start of packet, specific addresses, specific data content, and unique identifiers on popular low-speed serial interfaces.
• Bus Decoding - Tired of having to visually inspect the waveform to count clocks, determine if each bit is a 1 or a 0, combine bits into bytes and determine the hex value? Let the oscilloscope do it for you! Once you've set up a bus, the oscilloscope will decode each packet on the bus, and display the value in either hex or binary in the bus waveform.
• Packet Decode Table - In addition to seeing decoded packet data on the bus waveform itself, you can view all captured packets in a tabular view much like you would see on a logic analyzer. Packets are listed consecutively with columns for each component.
• Search - Serial triggering is very useful for isolating the event of interest. With the DPO4000 Series, you can search through the acquired data for user-defined criteria including serial packet content. Each occurrence is highlighted by a search mark. Rapid navigation between marks is as simple as pressing the Prev and Next buttons on the front panel.

Unprecedented USB Connectivity: The MSO4034 delivers an unprecedented new level of USB plug n play operation and PC connectivity. Acquiring data and measurements from the instrument is as simple as connecting a USB cable from the oscilloscope to the PC. Provided applications include National Instruments SignalExpress Tektronix Edition, OpenChoice® Desktop, and Microsoft Excel and Word toolbars enabling fast and easy direct communication with your Windows PC. USB and CompactFlash ports on the front panel enable simple transfer of screenshots, instrument settings, and waveform data in the palm of your hand.

Video Design and Development Applications: Many video engineers have remained loyal to analog oscilloscopes, believing the intensity gradations on an analog display are the only way to see certain video waveform details. The DPO4000 Series fast waveform capture rate, coupled with its intensity-graded view of the signal, provides the same information-rich display as an analog oscilloscope, but with much more detail and all the benefits of digital scopes. Standard features such as IRE and mV graticules, holdoff by fields, video polarity, and an Autoset smart enough to detect video signals, make the DPO4000 Series the easiest to use oscilloscope on the market for video applications. And with up to 1 GHz bandwidth and four analog inputs, the DPO4000 Series provides ample performance for analog and digital video use. Finally, the DPO4000 Series video functionality is further extended with the optional DPO4VID video application module. DPO4VID provides the industry's most complete suite of HDTV and custom (non-standard) video triggers.

Specifications and features of the Tektronix MSO4034 include:

• 350 MHz
• 4 Channel Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes
• 16 Digital channels *
  • Parallel bus display, logic triggering, per channel threshold settings, multi-channel setup and hold Triggering *
  • MagniVu™ 60.6 ps technology provides finer timing resolution
  • Next-generation digital waveform display
• Up to 5 GS/s on all channels
• 10 Meg Record length on all channels
• 35,000 wfm/s maximum waveform capture rate
• Wave Inspector controls for unprecedented efficiency in waveform analysis
• I2C, SPI, CAN and RS-232 Serial triggering and analysis
• 10.4" XGA Color display
• Only 5.4" Deep and 11 pounds
• USB and CompactFlash on front panel for quick and easy storage
• Plug-and-Play connectivity

Other models in this series:

• Tektronix DPO4054 Oscilloscope
• Tektronix DPO4104 Oscilloscope
• Tektronix MSO4054 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope
• Tektronix MSO4104 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope