Tektronix Provides an integration advanced offering six instruments in an oscilloscope

From the past 1 January 2014, Adler Instruments is the new distributor in Spain of the signature Tektronix, world-wide referent in the manufacture of oscilloscopes. To communicate to the technical presses the terms of the agreement and deepen in the main innovations that enter the new ranges MDO3000 and MDO4000B, the Spanish company organised the past 13 February a presses conference in Madrid.

Tektronix, Inc launches the new series of oscilloscope of mixed command MDO3000. The recent integrated oscilloscope that includes an analyser of spectrum, a logical analyser, an analyser of protocols, a generator of arbitrary functions and a digital voltmeter, clears the table of design of costly and skilled equipment and provides the necessary tools to test and debug practically any design embebido. Besides, Tektronix has developed the MDO3000 so that it was totally personalised allowing to the customers select the functionality and the necessary provision now and more advance.

Juan Ojeda, boss of Product Tektronix in Adler Instruments, beside the new oscilloscope of the Series MDO3000.

Because of the complexity of the designs embebidos modern together with the growth of the wireless technology, has gone back increasingly costly provide to the designers all the tools that need for the efficient purification and solution of problems. The MDO3000 changes fundamentally the rules when offering the functionality of six independent instruments, without the significant cost of said instruments separately.

“The argument in favour of the integrated oscilloscopes multi-instrument is extremely convincente to several levels”, signals Dave Farrell, general director of the conventional oscilloscopes of Tektronix. ”In addition to a saving of costs, the MDO3000 saves space in the table of the engineer, improves the ease of handle thanks to the utilisation of the same basic controls for multiple instruments and guarantees that the engineers always have access to all the instruments that need. There is not need to locate to an analyser of spectrum or a generator of functions because it already is integrated in the oscilloscope".

The recent investigation sample that more than the 25 % of the users of oscilloscopes use now an analyser of spectrums several times by week (Survey of market of Tektronix of 2012) and more than 40% of the projects of design of products embebidos include some form of wireless capacity (Study of the market embebido of 2013). Like the only oscilloscope of the world with an analyser of integrated spectrum, the series MDO3000 has an only position to face up to this change of paradigm for the designers of nowadays. Now the engineers can access so much to the analysis in the command of the time as in the command of the frequency with an alone instrument. When it compares the oscilloscope and the integrated analyser with others of his type, the oscilloscope of mixed command MDO3000 offers the best provision and characteristic of his class, providing the comfort of an only instrument without commitment of provision.

Oscilloscope MDO3014 of Tektronix.

Thanks to the series MDO3000, the engineers can begin with the minimum performance and functional levels that need to carry out the project in question knowing that his platform of proof can be updated in field without demora. The improvements of provision that can carry out include the analog bandwidth of the oscilloscope and the frequency of the channel of entrance of the analyser of spectrum. The functional improvements include the addition of digital channels, analysis of protocol, generation of arbitrary functions or measures of the digital voltmeter.

The oscilloscopes of the series MDO3000 have 2 or 4 analog channels of entrance with a bandwidth that goes from 100 MHz to 1 GHz, 16 digital channels (optional) and a channel of entrance of RF that coincides with the bandwidth of the oscilloscope (9 kHz until the analog bandwidth). The frequency of entrance of RF of any model can extend to 3 GHz.

Based in the oscilloscopes of mixed signals of the series MSO3000, the MDO3000 offers to the industry a functionality advanced of purification. Thanks to the new characteristic ‘FastAcq', the oscilloscopes MDO3000 offer a speed of capture of more than 280.000 forms of wave by second that show in a screen of dynamic digital phosphorus to find easily the little frequent anomalies in a signal. The more than 125 possible combinations of shot, the automatic analysis of buses series and parallel, the innovative controls of Wave Inspector and the measures of optional automatic power complete the group of functions and guarantee some complete tools for each stage of purification. This functionality expands with the addition of 9 optional packages of analysis of protocol of buses series eat: I2C, SPI, RS-232, USB 2.0, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, ONE THOUSAND-STD-1553 and digital audio.

Hailey Percival, director of Marketing of the Oscilloscopes Tektronix for the region EMEA.

The optional functionality of the generator AFG integrated of 50 MHz is more than twice faster that those that offer other competitors and has of eight times more than length of the register for the generation of forms of arbitrary wave. At the same time, the digital voltmeter integrated (DVM) provides 4 digits of resolution for measures AC RMS, DC or AC+DC RMS; as well as measures of frequency of 5 digits in a big and easy screen to read, that does that the changes in his readings are visible to the instant. The multimeter is available of free form when it registers the oscilloscope MDO3000 once purchased.

Adding them to the history of profitable products, the instruments MDO3000 are the first of the market in offering passive probes of tension of 3,9 pF in instruments with an initial price of 2.700 euros. For applications of greater speed offer of series passive probes of tension of 1 GHz with the instruments of 1 GHz, something only in the market. These probes of drop capacitancia minimise the impact in the devices under proof, at the same time that reduce the distortion of the signal and leave to happen transparently the signal to the oscilloscope for the measure.

Spectacular change in the conventional market of oscilloscopes

The oscilloscopes of mixed command of the series MDO4000B of Tektronix are now available from the same level of price that the oscilloscopes of mixed channels MSO4000B. Unlike other oscilloscopes of any another manufacturer in the world, the oscilloscopes of mixed command (MDO) of Tektronix include an analyser of spectrum incorporated, together with 4 analog channels and 16 entrances of digital signals. Thanks to the series MDO4000B the engineers will be able to capture analog signals, digital and of RF of form synchronised to obtain the complete vision of the system with temporary correlation, saving days or even weeks of the time devoted to the purification.

The big majority of the designs of systems in production or developing of the actuality include at least some wireless capacity like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or ZigBee. From the devices of entrance, like keyboards and mice, to the intelligent houses and the multimedia devices, the consumers demand the comfort of the wireless technology. Due to the fact that the RF begins to be something already common, the designers in reply to this expect a better support by part of his equipment of proof to carry out the proofs of RF. Even for the designs that do not incorporate wireless technologies, the engineers confront to problems of EMI, noises, modulations and other types of signals related with the frequency. Now, by the same price that a MSO, without the capacity of an analyser of spectrum, the engineers can buy an alone instrument that fulfil the big majority of his requirements of proof and measure, including the proof and purification of RF.

Adler Instruments, new distributor of Tektronix in Spain

Adler Instruments has signed recently an agreement with Tektronix to convert , from 1 January 2014, in partner-distributor of this signature in Spain.

The new agreement of Adler Instruments positions him to sell all the wallet of products of test and measure of Tektronix. This new association means that the customers will be able to look for assistance with greater ease to select a solution of proof for his application, in addition to having the capacity to realizar shopping through a technical provider venue and an easier access to the support and advice post-sale.

“Our customers have asked us that we provide them options of purchase and of support of easy access adapted to the needs of his business. The agreement with Adler Instruments means that they go to have more options and better support that never before”, signals Enrico Zanoio, manager of Sales of Tektronix. “Adler Instruments offers local support and technical experience that will allow to our customers take the correct decisions on the best way to resolve his challenges of fast measure and easily and are safe that his experience will allow us serve better to our customers in Spain.”