Advanced Triggering DSO
- Level
- Multi-channel
- Pulse width
- Pulse count
- Filter
- TV
The high-speed circuit allows you to sample at full speed( up to
500MSa) while triggering on various TV sync signals including
individual scan line.
- Adjustable position
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Deep Acquisition Memory
DSO-8502
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1 Million point buffer on 1 channel at a sample rate of
500MSa/S.
512K point buffer on 2 channels at sample rates of 250MSa/S and
below.
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DSO-8202
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128K point buffer on 2 channels at sample rates of 200MSa/S
and below.
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The long buffer lets you sample at high speed while capturing long
traces. Other instruments with short memory buffers force you to degrade
your sample rate and thus lower your bandwidth. For example if you
needed to capture a 100us event using a 1 GSa/s scope with a 2.5k buffer, you would reduce your sample rate to 40
MSa/s, or at best a bandwidth of 10 MHz!”. The DSO-8502 would let you
view that 100us event at 5GSa/s.
“The big buffer really saved me. With my last oscilloscope
I always had to balance recording time and time per division. With
Link’s scope I can record at the fast sampling rate and still see the
entire event.” Bob Mitchell, consultant. (beta tester)”
A vast amount of data can be captured in the large acquisition buffer.
Often there are many points of interests that are scattered throughout
the buffer. QuadVue provides 4 independent timing widows that allow you
to focus and analyze the analog and digital data on just the point of
interest, instead of constantly panning and zooming after each capture.
Each window can even have a different timebase. Since each timing
display widow can display its own set of waveforms, one can superimpose
mathematically operated data and history memory data on top of the most
recent data for quick analysis and comparison.
In this example 4 timing windows are being displayed. Window 1 is
showing the entire buffer. Window 2 is showing a zoomed in section
around the trigger (Red cursor) event. Windows 3 and 4 are each showing
a different part of the waveform and are zoomed differently.
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Spectrum Analyzer/FFT
This example shows use of FFT averaging to identify and reduce noise.
Image 1: Spectral plot of noisy output of an Op Amp circuit.
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Image 2: Average after 100 captures of the same circuit. Notice how
clear the fundamental and harmonic frequencies are displayed and the
random noise is suppressed.
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Image 3: The noise source was identified and removed.
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Channel History - Better than
Persistence mode.
The Oscilloscope can automatically save and display up to 30
previous captures. Each capture will be color coded with the
oldest ones fading away.
In this shot the blue trace represents the current capture. The
yellow traces are the 30 most recent captures. The older history traces
fade to black.
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Auto-Setup
With one mouse click the DSO will analyze incoming signals and
setup the oscilloscope using advanced analysis routines.
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XY Oscilloscope plot
- XY Area (Lissajous curve)
- Angle
- Radius
- Delta X
- Delta Y
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Oscilloscope Probes
Two 1x/10x switchable probes are included with the oscilloscope.
We also sell the following types of probes:
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Waveform Measurements
A powerful suite of over 40 measurements are available. The
measurements can be performed on incoming waveform, stored waveform or a
mathematically processed waveform. The data cursors can be used to
define a subset of data to be measured.
Pass/fail testing based on user specified criteria is also
supported. Data can be saved to disk based on the test results.
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Easy Installation
The PC Based oscilloscope connects to the USB port of your
computer. To install the oscilloscope all you need to do is plug it
into your PC, plug in the power supply and install the software.
The DSO is about the size of a video tape (7" x 3.75" x 1.5"). If
you need portability what could be easier than connecting the DSO to
your laptop?
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Simple Operation
- Installation is a snap.
- Make measurements in your first
half hour.
- Simple controls make operation intuitive.
- Perform
sophisticated operations that you couldn't even dream of doing
with a knob based DSO.
- Save default setups to disk for easy
recall at a future date. You don't need to keep a notepad with
settings scribbled in it. Just save them to the file name of your
choice.
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Data and settings are easily saved to disk.
- Screen shots can be
pasted into documents and annotated in your favorite image editing
program.
Battery power or wall power
Wall power
Most people will power their DSO with the included wall adapter.
Battery power
The case has a battery holder for 4 AA batteries (NiMH recommended).
Using AA batteries allows you to use the DSO away from a power source
without draining your laptop's battery.
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Automatic Storage
To save time, you can automatically datalog your waveforms to your PC.
The data logger can also store only waveforms meeting specific
parameter criteria, such as rise times between 20 and 30ns and pulse
widths greater than 100ms, etc....
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The Windows Oscilloscope software
takes advantage of your computer's large color screen.
You can display any combination of Digital Oscilloscope and
Spectrum Analyzer traces simultaneously.
Color can be a real time saver. Each display element
can be a unique color. This includes each of the Traces, Memories,
Cursors, Text, Background, Grid and more.
Stand-alone oscilloscope display screens represent a compromise at
best. Few people would choose a 7" or 9" monitor as the screen for their
PC. So why use a small monitor for an oscilloscope? Link PC Based
instruments let you choose the display monitor size and type for viewing
your traces. Plus, you can utilize powerful PC-industry display
peripherals such as projectors, remote monitors, and heads-up displays.
Many people are now using dual monitor PC's - our software will work
there also - Imagine having a 30" wide trace window.
You can take electronic snapshots of the screen and put them into
your documents as well as print to your standard windows printer.
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The speed of your PC does not significantly affect the performance
of our instruments
All of the high speed acquisition is done with the oscilloscope
hardware, the speed of your PC is not a factor. The PC is used
for display and for the user interface. If your PC is fast enough and
has enough memory to run windows well, it will run our products well
also.
The Instrument has high speed samplers and buffers. It
can acquire at up to 500MSa/s*1 and stores the data in it's
own 1 MegaSample*1 data buffer. When these buffers are full
everything is transferred to the PC.
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Software Libraries (optional)
The optional DLL library allows users to write
custom software to control the instrument. The library works with visual
studio, labview and matlab.
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