MSO/DPO3000 Series vs.

Agilent MSO/DSO7000A Series

Competitive Fact Sheet

Serial Triggering and Decode

Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 Series Agilent MSO/DSO7000A Series
 Serial Bus Support – I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN, RS-232/422/485/
UART, and I2S/LJ/RJ/TDM available for all models.
 Serial Bus Support – I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN,
RS-232/UART and I2S (4-channel products only).

 Bus Display – View up to 2 serial buses simultaneously.

 Bus Display – Single serial bus display, anchored
at the bottom of the screen.
 Bus Decoding – Decodes each packet on the bus and
displays the value in hex, binary, decimal, or ASCII.  Bus Decoding – Hardware decode of each packet
on the bus in hex, but not always time-aligned.
 Serial Triggering – Trigger on packet content.
 Serial Triggering – Trigger on packet content.
Limited serial triggering standard.
 Event Table – View captured packets in a tabular listing
view.
 Event Table – View captured packets in a tabular
listing view.
 Search – Wave Inspector® navigation automatically
searches for and marks user-defined events on packet
Pan right and some of the
decoded text shifts; now it's
content.  No Automated Search not time correlated with data.

Navigation and Search Key Specifications Comparison

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MSO/DPO3000 Series MSO/DSO7000A Series

 controls.
Wave Inspector®
 Only uses horizontal scale
control to zoom. Channels  2, 4 (+16 digital MSO)  2, 4 (+16 digital MSO)

 Pan/Zoom controls for

 Manual scrolling of Bandwidth 100, 350, 500 MHz,
easy scrolling through horizontal position to scroll  100, 300, 500 MHz  1 GHz
long records. through data.
Max. Sample Rate 4 GS/s (1 GHz models)
 scrolls
Play/Pause button
the waveform
 No automated search
(All channels on)  2.5 GS/s  2 GS/s (all others models)
capability.
across the screen
Max. Record Length (All
automatically.
channels on)  5 M points  4 M points

 Search/Mark controls  Navigation by

enable you to search for horizontal position
Input Impedance  1M, 75, 50  1M, 50
events of interest, mark  No Automated
them, then navigate Navigation and Search Wave Inspector® Horizontal position,
through the record mark
Search  controls  zoom
by mark.
Power Measurements
(Optional)  Built-in  PC-Based

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 MSO/DPO3000 Series vs. Agilent MSO/DSO7000A Series
Competitive Fact Sheet
Discovering an Intermittent Pulse
Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 Series
 >50,000 wfms/s maximum
waveform capture rate

Channels represented with
different colors.
 Intensity grading shows frequency
of occurrence.
 Intensity grading is preserved
when stopped.
 Variable persistence also
available.
Measurement and Channel Math
Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 Agilent MSO/DSO7000A
 Can use all the record length – up to 5 M points  Uses only the 1000 displayed points
for measurements, averaging, for measurements, averaging, FFT
and math, and up to 1 M for FFT. and math.
 Advanced math with arbitrary expression.
 Limited math choices.
 Gate measurements by screen or cursors.  No gating control, other than zoom.
Agilent MSO/DSO7000A Series
 100,000 wfms/s maximum waveform
capture rate
No intensity grading in persistence
 mode – whether running or stopped.
Cannot distinguish channel history
 when stopped – only last acquisition.
 No variable persistence.
Digital Debug with MSO
Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 Agilent MSO/DSO7000A
 Sample rate not dependent on number of
channels used.
 Sample rate cut in half when using both
pods.
 Record length not dependent on number
of channels used.
 Record length compromised as digital
channels are used.
 Green trace for highs (1), blue trace for  There is no color difference between a
lows (0). low and a high.
 Bus waveforms can be moved within the
display.
 Bus waveforms anchored to bottom of
the display.
 Clocked or unclocked parallel bus decode.  No clocked parallel bus decode.
 Event table for parallel bus decode.  No event table for parallel bus decode.
Intermediate states show
because bus is unclocked.
Clocked bus shows no intermediate states.
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