Tektronix Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope Rental

DPO oscilloscope rental offers deeper insight into complex signals.

The TDS3000C series delivers fast, continuous waveform capture rates, saving you time by quickly revealing the nature of faults and enabling advanced triggering to isolate them.

Real-time intensity grading highlights the details of a signal’s activity history, making it easier to understand the characteristics of captured waveforms. Unlike other similar oscilloscopes, the history is retained even after acquisition is stopped.

Quickly debug and characterize signals with DRT sampling technology and sin(x)/x interpolation.

The TDS3000C series combines exclusive digital real-time (DRT) sampling technology with sin(x)/x interpolation to let you accurately characterize a wide range of signal types on all channels simultaneously. With the TDS3000C series, the sample rate does not change when additional channels are enabled, unlike other similar oscilloscopes. This sampling technology captures high-frequency information, such as glitches and edge anomalies, that evade other oscilloscopes in its class, while sin(x)/x interpolation ensures accurate reconstruction of each waveform.

The TDS3000C series delivers innovative test speeds for telecommunications line cards. The telecom QUICK MENU brings together the most commonly used telecom test functions in a single menu.

Easy to set up and use

When working to tight deadlines, you need your oscilloscope to be intuitive; you want to minimize the time spent learning and relearning how to use it. TDS3000C series oscilloscopes help you shorten your learning curve. Simple navigation and dedicated front-panel controls get you where you want to be quickly, so you spend less time learning and more time on the task at hand.

Main applications of the digital phosphor oscilloscope:

1. Electronic signal analysis: Lets you observe alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) signals from electronic devices. This is useful for seeing how components such as resistors, transistors, amplifier circuits, etc. behave.
2. Fault diagnosis: Helps identify problems in electronic circuits, such as unwanted oscillations, voltage spikes, or signal dropouts. Phosphor oscilloscopes are useful because they display signals continuously and clearly, making it possible to detect anomalies quickly.
3. Transient signal measurement: Digital phosphor oscilloscopes are ideal for capturing fast signals or transient events (such as voltage spikes or sudden drops) thanks to their ability to emulate the “fading” of signals, a characteristic of traditional analog oscilloscopes. This makes them especially useful for debugging fast signals.
4. High-frequency signal study: This type of oscilloscope is effective for analyzing high-frequency signals or signals that change rapidly over time, such as those found in communications, radar systems, and microwave applications.
5. Visualization of complex signals: Phosphor oscilloscopes also allow the display of complex signals that contain multiple frequencies, such as modulated signals or nonlinear events. Thanks to their digital storage and processing capability, they make it possible to observe more complex waveforms and break them down in detail.
6. Waveform measurement and parameter analysis: Like other digital oscilloscopes, they also let you measure parameters such as rise time, frequency, amplitude, phase, and other aspects of signals. This is essential for verifying whether electronic components are operating within the expected specifications.
7. Education and training: Their use is not limited to professionals; they are also very popular in educational laboratories and electronics courses, since displaying signals with a phosphor-style appearance helps students better understand signal characteristics.

Advantages of the digital phosphor oscilloscope

• Continuous signal display: The digital display emulates the effect of a traditional phosphor screen, making it possible to see transient and dynamic signals more fluidly.
• Digital accuracy: Despite emulating an analog display, the instrument remains digital, providing accurate measurement and greater data analysis and storage capability.
• Fast signal analysis: Useful for rapidly changing signals or for capturing short-duration events without losing detail.

Features

300 MHz benchtop digital oscilloscope; 2 channels; sample rate of 2.5 GS/s; record length of 10 kpts; USB/LAN connectivity; color display with Digital Phosphor technology.

Key performance specifications

• Models with 100 MHz, 300 MHz, and 500 MHz bandwidth

· 2- or 4-analog-channel models

· Sample rates up to 5 GS/s real-time on all channels

· 10,000-point record length on all channels

· Continuous waveform capture rate of 3600 wfms/s

· Advanced trigger suite

· Key features

· Front-panel USB host port for easy storage and transfer of measurement data

· 25 automatic measurements

· Standard FFT

· Multi-language user interface

· WaveAlert®

· Automatic waveform anomaly detection

· TekProbe®

· Interface compatible with active, differential, and current probes for automatic scaling and units

· Portable design

· Lightweight design (only 3.2 kg) for easy transport

· Optional internal battery operation provides up to three hours without line power

· Application modules for specialized analysis

· Advanced analysis module

· Limit testing module

· Telecom mask testing module

· Extended video module

· Applications

· Digital design and debugging

· Video installation and service

· Power supply design

· Education and training

· Telecom mask testing

· Manufacturing test

· General benchtop testing