User`s manual

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Oscilloscopes redefined: Breakthrough technology delivers more scope for the same budget
Do more with the power of 4 instruments in 1
Hardware-based serial protocol decode and
triggering
• Embedded serial triggering and analysis (I
2
C, SPI)
• Computer serial triggering and analysis
(RS232/422/485/UART)
• Automotive and industrial serial triggering and analysis
(CAN,LIN)
• FlexRay automotive triggering and analysis
• Audio serial triggering and analysis (I
2
S)
• Aerospace and Defense serial triggering and analysis
(MIL-STD 1553 and ARNC 429)
Agilent’s InfiniiVision Series oscilloscopes are the indus-
try’s only scopes to use hardware-based serial protocol
decoding. Other vendors scopes use software post-pro-
cessing techniques to decode serial packets/frames. With
these software techniques, waveformand decode-update
rates tend to be slow (sometimes seconds per update).
That’s especially true when using deep memory, which is
often required to capture multiple packetized serial bus
signals. And when analyzing multiple serial buses simul-
taneously, decode update rates can be even slower. Faster
decoding with hardware-based technology enhances scope
usability, and more importantly, the probability of capturing
infrequent serial communication errors.
Industry-exclusive built in WaveGen 20 MHz
Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator
An industry first, the 3000 X-Series offers an integrated
built-in 20 MHz Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator.
Ideal for educational or design labs where bench space
and budget are at a premium, the integrated function
generator provides stimulus output of sine, square,
ramp, pulse, DC, Sinc (x) exponential rise/fall, cardiac,
Gaussian Pulse and noise waveforms to your device
under test. With AWG functionality, you can store the
waveforms from analog channels or reference memory to
the arbitrary memory and output from WaveGen. Easily
create/edit the waveform using built-in editor or by using
Waveform Builder. No need to buy a separate function
generator when you can get one integrated in your new
oscilloscope. Turn on WaveGen at any time by ordering
the DSOX3WaveGen option and install the license
yourself.
After capturing a long record of serial bus communica-
tion using the InfiniiVision scope’s MegaZoom IV deep
memory, you can easily perform a search operation based
on specific criteria, and then quickly navigate to bytes/
frames of serial data that satisfy that search criteria.
Sometimes it may be necessary to correlate data from one
serial bus to another. Agilent’s InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series
oscilloscope can decode two serial buses simultaneously
using hardware-based decoding. Plus it is the only scope
on the market that can also display the captured data in a
time-interleaved “Lister” display.