User`s manual
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Find more glitches and infrequent events quickly
Debugging and fixing designs is one of the most important
tasks of R&D engineers so that they can ship reliable prod-
ucts to their customers. Finding the infrequent and random
circuit problem is often like looking for a needle in a hay-
stack. In addition to fast waveform updates, which improve
a scope’s probability of capturing infrequent anomalies,
it is often necessary to search waveform records and/or
trigger on specific pulse parametric violation conditions.
Agilent’s InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series oscilloscope provide
the most comprehensive set of Search & Navigation
capabilities, as well as the most advanced set of pulse
parameter triggering selections of any oscilloscope in its
class.
Search and Navigation
When capturing long complex waveforms using the
scope’s deep acquisition memory, manually scrolling
through stored waveform data to find specific events
of interest can be slow and cumbersome. But with the
InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series scope’s automatic Search &
Navigation capability, you can easily set up specific search
criteria and then quickly navigate to “found and marked”
events using the scope’s front panel forward and back
navigation keys. Available search criteria include: Edges,
Pulse Width (time-qualified), Rise/Fall Times (time-quali-
fied), Runt Pulses (time- and level-qualified), and Serial.
In the example shown in the screen image on the right, the
scope was set up to capture a 1 millisecond time-span of
a complex digital data stream. Using the scope’s Search
& Navigation capability, the scope was able to find, mark
(white triangles shows location of each runt), and then
quickly navigate to 20 occurrences of “runt” pulses.
Advanced Parametric and Serial Bus Triggering
With today’s more complex signals, it is also often neces-
sary to trigger on complex signal conditions in order to
synchronize the scope’s acquisition on specific events of
interest. Agilent’s InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series scopes can
trigger on the following conditions: Edge, Pulse Width
(time-qualified), Pattern, Rise/Fall Time, Nth Edge Burst,
Runt, Setup & Hold, Video, USB, Serial1, and Serial2.
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