Oscilloscopes Sport Touchscreens, Zone Triggering

Using the InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series 8.5-inch touchscreen, engineers can create a zone trigger by drawing a box around a signal of interest on the instrument display with their finger. Image courtesy of Keysight Technologies Inc.

Keysight Technologies Inc. has launched the InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series digital storage and mixed signal oscilloscopes (MSOs) with graphical triggering capabilities. This new oscilloscope series delivers capacitive touchscreens and zone triggering to the mainstream oscilloscope market for the first time, says the company.

The InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series scopes are designed to address the challenges engineers face isolating anomalies in their devices as well as overcome usability and triggering challenges. As digital speeds and device complexity continue to increase, explains Keysight, signals under test are getting more complex, presenting engineers with greater challenges isolating anomalies in their devices. Keysight says that it designed the InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series to help engineers meet these challenges through such technologies as the benchtop unit’s 8.5-in. capacitive touchscreen and its complementary designed-for-touch user interface that allows engineers to select targets naturally and quickly.

Keysight Technologies reports that its new InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series of digital storage and mixed signal oscilloscopes offer many firsts to the mainstream oscilloscope market including touchscreens and zone triggering. Image courtesy of Keysight Technologies Inc.

With the InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series scopes’ intuitive graphical triggers, adds Keysight, engineers can debug and characterize their devices of interest faster and more easily. For example, through the touchscreen engineers can create a zone trigger by drawing a box around a signal of interest on the instrument display with their finger. To further improve productivity, the adaptable user interface also has an alphanumeric touchpad rather than a knob-based operation interface.

The InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series scopes offer bandwidths from 100MHz to 1GHz and an update rate of 1 million wfms/s (waveforms per second). The standard configuration for all models includes 4 Mpts (megapoints) of memory, segmented memory, advanced mathematics functions and 500MHz passive probes.

The 3000T X-Series scopes provide what the company calls six-instruments-in-one integration, including oscilloscope functionality, optional digital channels (MSO), protocol analysis capability, a digital voltmeter, a WaveGen function/arbitrary waveform generator and an eight-digit hardware counter/totalizer. The series, says Keysight, also delivers for the first time in this class correlated frequency and time domain measurements through a new gated FFT (fast Fourier transform) function that allows engineers to correlate time and frequency domain phenomenon on a single screen.

For software compatibility, the 3000T X-Series supports many serial bus applications including MIL-STD 1553 and ARINC 429, I²S, CAN/CAN-FD/CAN-Symbolic, LIN, SENT, FlexRay, RS232/422/485/UART and I²C/SPI.

The InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series oscilloscopes have an update rate of 1 million waveforms per second. Models in the series offer bandwidths ranging from 100MHz to 1GHz. Image courtesy of Keysight Technologies Inc.

“These new scopes give engineers using mainstream oscilloscopes an uncompromised ability to find and isolate the most difficult problems in their designs,” said Dave Cipriani, vice president and general manager, Oscilloscope and Protocol Division, Keysight, in a press statement. “Design-for-touch operation improves their debugging efficiency. Mixed-domain analysis capabilities with time-correlated frequency/time domain measurements, six-in-one integration and a rich set of advanced features accelerate their problem solving.”

The InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series oscilloscopes are available in 100MHz, 200MHz, 350MHz, 500MHz and 1GHz versions. Models can be equipped with two or four analog channels and with two or four analog channels with 16 digital channels. Pricing begins at starting at $3,350 for a 100MHz model with two analog channels. The top of line 1GHz model with four analog and 16 digital channels is priced at $15,400.

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