DPO3012

Specifications

All specifications are guaranteed unless noted otherwise. All specifications apply to all models unless noted otherwise.

Model overview

Vertical system analog channels

Hardware bandwidth limits

≥300 MHz models

20 MHz and 150 MHz

100 MHz models

20 MHz

Input impedance

1 MΩ ±1%, 75 Ω ± 1%, 50 Ω ±1%

Input sensitivity range

1 MΩ

1 mV/div to 10 V/div

75 Ω, 50 Ω

1 mV/div to 1 V/div

Vertical resolution

8 bits (11 bits with Hi Res)

Maximum input voltage

1 MΩ

300 V_RMS with peaks ≤ ±450 V

75 Ω, 50 Ω

5 V_RMS with peaks ≤ ±20 V

DC gain accuracy

±1.5% for 5 mV/div and above

±2.0% for 2 mV/div

±2.5% for 1 mV/div

Channel-to-channel isolation

Any two channels at equal vertical scale

≥100:1 at ≤100 MHz and ≥30:1 at >100 MHz up to the rated bandwidth

Vertical system digital channels

Thresholds

Threshold per set of 8 channels

Threshold selections

TTL, CMOS, ECL, PECL, User-defined

User-defined threshold range

–15 V to +25 V

Maximum input voltage

–20 V to +30 V

Threshold accuracy

±[100 mV + 3% of threshold setting]

Maximum input dynamic range

50 V_p-p (threshold setting dependent)

Minimum voltage swing

500 mV_p-p

Input resistance

101 kΩ

Probe loading

8 pF

Vertical resolution

1 bit

Horizontal system analog channels

Maximum duration of time captured at highest sample rate (all channels)

2 ms

Seconds/division range

1 ns/div to 1000 s/div

Time-base delay time range

-10 divisions to 5000 s

Channel-to-channel deskew range

±100 ns

Time base accuracy

±10 ppm over any ≥1 ms interval

Horizontal system digital channels

Seconds/division range

1 ns/div to 1000 s/div

Maximum record length (main, all channels)

5 M points

Maximum sample rate (MagniVu, all channels)

8.25 GS/s (121.2 ps resolution)

Maximum record length (MagniVu, all channels)

10 k points centered on the trigger

Minimum detectible pulse width

2.0 ns

Channel-to-channel skew

500 ps, typical, digital channel to digital channel only

This is the propagation path skew and ignores skew contributions due to bandpass distortion, threshold inaccuracies (see Threshold accuracy), and sample binning (see Digital channel timing resolution)

Trigger system

Trigger modes

Auto, Normal, and Single

Trigger coupling

DC, AC, HF reject (attenuates >50 kHz), LF reject (attenuates <50 kHz), noise reject (reduces sensitivity)

Trigger holdoff range

20 ns to 8 s

Trigger sensitivity, typical

Edge type, DC coupled

Trigger Source	Sensitivity
Any input channel	0.50 div from DC to 50 MHz, increasing to 1 div at oscilloscope bandwidth
Aux input (external trigger)	200 mV from DC to 50 MHz, increasing to 500 mV at 250 MHz
Line	Fixed

Trigger level ranges

Any input channel

±8 divisions from center of screen, ±8 divisions from 0 V when vertical LF reject trigger coupling is selected

Aux Input (external trigger)

±8 V

Line

The line trigger level is fixed at about 50% of the line voltage.

Trigger types

Edge

Positive, negative, or either slope on any channel or front-panel auxiliary input. Coupling includes DC, AC, HF reject, LF reject, and noise reject.

Sequence (B-trigger)

Trigger Delay by Time: 8 ns to 8 s. Or Trigger Delay by Events: 1 to 9,999,999 events.

Pulse Width

Trigger on width of positive or negative pulses that are >, <, =, ≠, or inside/outside a specified period of time.

Timeout

Trigger on an event which remains high, low, or either, for a specified time period (4 ns to 8 s).

Runt

Trigger on a pulse that crosses one threshold but fails to cross a second threshold before crossing the first again.

Logic

Trigger when any logical pattern of channels goes false or stays true for specified period of time. Any input can be used as a clock to look for the pattern on a clock edge. Pattern (AND, OR, NAND, NOR) specified for all input channels defined as High, Low, or Don’t Care.

Setup and Hold

Trigger on violations of both setup time and hold time between clock and data present on any of the analog and digital input channels.

Rise/Fall Time

Trigger on pulse edge rates that are faster or slower than specified. Slope may be positive, negative, or either.

Video

Trigger on all lines, odd, even, or all fields on NTSC, PAL, and SECAM video signals.

Extended Video (optional)

Trigger on 480p/60, 576p/50, 720p/30, 720p/50, 720p/60, 875i/60, 1080i/50, 1080i/60, 1080p/24, 1080p/24sF, 1080p/25, 1080p/30, 1080p/50, 1080p/60, and custom bi-level and tri-level sync video standards.

I²C (optional)

Trigger on Start, Repeated Start, Stop, Missing ACK, Address (7 or 10 bit), Data, or Address and Data on I²C buses up to 10 Mb/s.

SPI (optional)

Trigger on SS, MOSI, MISO, or MOSI and MISO on SPI buses up to 10.0 Mb/s.

RS-232/422/485/UART (optional)

Trigger on Tx Start Bit, Rx Start Bit, Tx End of Packet, Rx End of Packet, Tx Data, Rx Data, Tx Parity Error, and Rx Parity Error up to 10 Mb/s.

CAN (optional)

Trigger on Start of Frame, Frame Type (data, remote, error, overload), Identifier (standard or extended), Data, Identifier and Data, End of Frame, Missing ACK, or Bit Stuffing Error on CAN signals up to 1 Mb/s. Data can be further specified to trigger on ≤, <, =, >, ≥, or ≠ a specific data value. User-adjustable sample point is set to 50% by default.

LIN (optional)

Trigger on Sync, Identifier, Data, Identifier and Data, Wakeup Frame, Sleep Frame, Errors such as Sync, Parity, or Checksum Errors up to 100 kb/s (by LIN definition, 20 kb/s).

FlexRay (optional)

Trigger on Start of Frame, Type of Frame (Normal, Payload, Null, Sync, Startup), Identifier, Cycle Count, Complete Header Field, Data, Identifier and Data, End of Frame or Errors such as Header CRC, Trailer CRC, Null Frame, Sync Frame, or Startup Frame Errors up to 100 Mb/s.

MIL-STD-1553 (optional)

Trigger on Sync, Word Type ¹ (Command, Status, Data), Command Word (set RT Address, T/R, Sub-address/Mode, Data Word Count/Mode Code, and Parity individually), Status Word (set RT Address, Message Error, Instrumentation, Service Request Bit, Broadcast Command Received, Busy, Subsystem Flag, Dynamic Bus Control Acceptance (DBCA), Terminal Flag, and Parity individually), Data Word (user-specified 16-bit data value), Error (Sync, Parity, Manchester, Non-contiguous data), Idle Time (minimum time selectable from 2 µs to 100 µs; maximum time selectable from 2 µs to 100 µs; trigger on < minimum, > maximum, inside range, outside range). RT Address can be further specified to trigger on =, ≠, <, >, ≤, ≥ a particular value, or inside or outside of a range.

I²S/LJ/RJ/TDM (optional)

Trigger on Word Select, Frame Sync, or Data. Data can be further specified to trigger on ≤, <, =, >, ≥, ≠ a specific data value, or inside or outside of a range.

Maximum data rate for I²S/LJ/RJ is 12.5 Mb/s.

Maximum data rate for TDM is 25 Mb/s.

Parallel (available on MSO models only)

Trigger on a parallel bus data value. Parallel bus can be from 1 to 16 bits (from the digital channels) plus 2 or 4 bits (from the analog channels) in size. Binary and Hex radices are supported.

¹ Trigger selection of Command Word will trigger on Command and ambiguous Command/Status words. Trigger selection of Status Word will trigger on Status and ambiguous Command/Status words.

Acquisition system

Acquisition Modes

Sample

Acquire sampled values.

Peak Detect

Captures glitches as narrow as 2 ns at all sweep speeds.

Averaging

From 2 to 512 waveforms included in average.

Envelope

Min-max envelope reflecting Peak Detect data over multiple acquisitions.

Hi Res

Real-time boxcar averaging reduces random noise and increases vertical resolution.

Roll

Scrolls waveforms right to left across the screen at sweep speeds slower than or equal to 40 ms/div.

FastAcq®

FastAcq optimizes the instrument for analysis of dynamic signals and capture of infrequent events, capturing >340,000 wfms/s on 1 GHz models and >270,000 wfms/s on 100 MHz - 500 MHz models.

Waveform measurements

Cursors

Waveform and Screen.

Automatic measurements

29, of which up to four can be displayed on-screen at any one time. Measurements include: Period, Frequency, Delay, Rise Time, Fall Time, Positive Duty Cycle, Negative Duty Cycle, Positive Pulse Width, Negative Pulse Width, Burst Width, Phase, Positive Overshoot, Negative Overshoot, Peak to Peak, Amplitude, High, Low, Max, Min, Mean, Cycle Mean, RMS, Cycle RMS, Positive Pulse Count, Negative Pulse Count, Rising Edge Count, Falling Edge Count, Area and Cycle Area.

Measurement statistics

Mean, Min, Max, Standard Deviation.

Reference levels

User-definable reference levels for automatic measurements can be specified in either percent or units.

Gating

Isolate the specific occurrence within an acquisition to take measurements on, using either the screen, or waveform cursors.

Power measurements (optional)

Power Quality Measurements

V_RMS, V_{Crest Factor}, Frequency, I_RMS, I_{Crest Factor}, True Power, Apparent Power, Reactive Power, Power Factor, Phase Angle.

Switching loss measurements

Power loss

T_on, T_off, Conduction, Total.

Energy loss

T_on, T_off, Conduction, Total.

Harmonics

THD-F, THD-R, RMS measurements. Graphical and table displays of harmonics. Test to IEC61000-3-2 Class A and MIL-STD-1399, Section 300A.

Ripple measurements

V_Ripple and I_Ripple.

Modulation Analysis

Graphical display of +Pulse Width, –Pulse Width, Period, Frequency, +Duty Cycle, and –Duty Cycle modulation types.

Safe operating area

Graphical display and mask testing of switching device safe operating area measurements.

dV/dt and dI/dt measurements

Cursor measurements of slew rate.

Waveform math

Arithmetic

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide waveforms.

Math functions

Integrate, Differentiate, FFT.

FFT

Spectral magnitude. Set FFT Vertical Scale to Linear RMS or dBV RMS, and FFT Window to Rectangular, Hamming, Hanning, or Blackman-Harris.

Advanced math

Define extensive algebraic expressions including waveforms, reference waveforms, math functions (FFT, Intg, Diff, Log, Exp, Sqrt, Sine, Cosine, Tangent), scalars, up to two user-adjustable variables and results of parametric measurements (Period, Freq, Delay, Rise, Fall, PosWidth, NegWidth, BurstWidth, Phase, PosDutyCycle, NegDutyCycle, PosOverShoot, NegOverShoot, PeakPeak, Amplitude, RMS, CycleRMS, High, Low, Max, Min, Mean, CycleMean, Area, CycleArea, and trend plots), e.g.,(Intg(Ch1 - Mean(Ch1)) × 1.414 × VAR1).

Software

NI LabVIEW SignalExpress™ Tektronix Edition

A fully interactive measurement software environment optimized for your Tektronix oscilloscope, enables you to instantly acquire, generate, analyze, compare, import, and save measurement data and signals using an intuitive drag-and-drop user interface that does not require any programming.

Standard support for acquiring, controlling, viewing, and exporting your live analog-channel signal data is permanently available through the software. The full version (SIGEXPTE) adds additional signal processing, advanced analysis, mixed signal, sweeping, limit testing, and user-defined step capabilities and is available for a 30-day trial period standard with each instrument.

OpenChoice® Desktop

Enables fast and easy communication between a Windows PC and your oscilloscope using USB or LAN. Transfer and save settings, waveforms, measurements, and screen images. Included Word and Excel toolbars automate the transfer of acquisition data and screen images from the oscilloscope into Word and Excel for quick reporting or further analysis.

IVI driver

Provides a standard instrument programming interface for common applications such as LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Microsoft .NET, and MATLAB.

e*Scope® Web-based remote control

Enables control of the oscilloscope over a network connection through a standard web browser. Simply enter the IP address or network name of the oscilloscope and a web page will be served to the browser. Transfer and save settings, waveforms, measurements, and screen images or make live control changes to settings on the oscilloscope directly from the web browser.

Display system

Display type

9 inch (228.6 mm) wide format liquid crystal TFT color display.

Display resolution

800 horizontal × 480 vertical pixels (WVGA).

Waveform styles

Vectors, Dots, Variable Persistence, Infinite Persistence.

Graticules

Full, Grid, Cross Hair, Frame, IRE and mV.

Format

YT and XY.

Maximum waveform capture rate

>340,000 wfms/s in FastAcq acquisition mode on 1 GHz models

>270,000 wfms/s in FastAcq acquisition mode on 100 MHz - 500 MHz models

>50,000 wfms/s in DPO acquisition mode on all models.

Input/output ports

USB 2.0 high-speed host port

Supports USB mass storage devices, printers, and keyboards. One port available on rear panel and one on front panel.

USB 2.0 high-speed device port

Rear-panel connector allows for communication/control of oscilloscope through USBTMC or GPIB with a TEK-USB-488, and direct printing to all PictBridge®-compatible printers.

LAN port (Ethernet)

RJ-45 connector, supports 10/100BASE-T.

GPIB interface

Available as an optional accessory that connects to the USB Device and USB Host port with the TEK-USB-488 GPIB to USB Adapter.

The control interface is incorporated in the instrument user interface.

Video out port

DB-15 female connector, connect to show the oscilloscope display on an external monitor or projector. SVGA resolution.

Auxiliary input

Front-panel BNC connector. Input Impedance 1 MΩ. Max input 300 V_RMS CAT II with peaks ≤ ±425 V.

Probe compensator output voltage and frequency

Front-panel pins

Amplitude

0 to 2.5 V

Frequency

1 kHz

Trigger out

Rear-panel BNC connector, provides a negative-polarity pulse when the oscilloscope triggers.

Kensington-style lock

Rear-panel security slot connects to standard Kensington-style lock.

Power source

Power source voltage

85 to 265 V ±10%

Power source frequency

45 to 440 Hz (85 to 265 V)

Power consumption

120 W maximum

Optional TekVPI® external power supply ¹

Output voltage

12 V

Output current

5 A

Power consumption

50 W

¹ Required when total oscilloscope probe power usage exceeds 20 W.

Physical characteristics

Dimensions

	mm	in.
Height	203.2	8
Width	416.6	16.4
Depth	147.3	5.8

Weight

	kg	lb.
Net	4.17	9.2
Shipping	8.62	19

Rackmount configuration

5U

Cooling clearance

2 in. (51 mm) required on left side and rear of instrument

EMC, environment, and safety

Temperature

Operating

0 ºC to +50 ºC (+32 ºF to 122 ºF)

Nonoperating

-40 ºC to +71 ºC (-40 ºF to 160 ºF)

Humidity

Operating

High: 30 ºC to 50 ºC, 5% to 45% relative humidity

Low: 0 ºC to 30 ºC, 5% to 95% relative humidity

Nonoperating

High: 30 ºC to 50 ºC, 5%to 45% relative humidity

Low: 0 ºC to 30 ºC, 5% to 95% relative humidity

Altitude

Operating

3,000 meters (9,843 feet)

Nonoperating

12,000 meters (39,370 feet)

Random vibration

Operating

0.31 G_RMS from 5 to 500 Hz, 10 minutes each axis, 3 axes, 30 minutes total

Nonoperating

2.46 G_RMS from 5 to 500 Hz, 10 minutes each axis, 3 axes, 30 minutes total

Regulatory

Electromagnetic compatibility

EC Council Directive 2004/108/EC

Safety

UL61010-1:2004, CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 61010.1: 2004, Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC and EN61010-1:2001, IEC 61010-1:2001, ANSI 61010-1-2004, ISA 82.02.01