Tektronix MDO3000 Series Demonstration Guide

Exercise 1
Capturing Elusive Events with FastAcq
™
High Waveform Capture Rate
To debug a design problem, first you must know it exists.
The MDO3000 Series oscilloscope offers Tektronix proprietary
FastAcq
™
technology. It delivers a fast waveform capture –
up to 280,000 waveforms per second – that enables you to
see glitches and other infrequent transients within seconds,
revealing the true nature of device faults.
To further enhance the visibility of rarely occurring events,
intensity grading is used with multiple waveform palettes
to choose from, indicating how often rare transients are
occurring relative to normal signal characteristics. The
FastAcq waveform palettes are Temperature (color-grading
frequency of occurrence), Spectral (color-grading frequency
of occurrence), Normal (gray-scale where frequently occurring
events are bright) and Inverted (gray-scale where rare events
are bright).
This demo illustrates how FastAcq high waveform capture
rate can find anomalies quickly and display them with color-
grading. The demonstration looks for an erroneous runt signal
that occurs approximately every 838.8ms.
Figure 2.
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MDO3000 Series Oscilloscope
Demonstration Guide

Tektronix MDO3000 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Tektronix
Model	MDO3000 Series
Category	Test Equipment
Language	English