Basic scopes add test power to prototyping, debugging

31st July 2016

Tektronix

Mick Elliott

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A next generation basic oscilloscope featuring the longest record length and largest display in its class for faster signal evaluation and troubleshooting has been unveiled by Tektronix. The expanded capabilities, including the ability to use a wide range of Tektronix probes, puts more test power into the hands of budget-constrained design engineers and educators.

Design engineers use general-purpose oscilloscopes to prototype, debug and validate designs of new products and for general troubleshooting.

In education, such oscilloscopes give students hands-on experience in electronics engineering and educators need to efficiently mentor and monitor large groups of students. TBS2000 models are available with 70MHz or 100MHz bandwidth and with 2 or 4 channels.

With a 9-inch WVGA display, the TBS2000 can display 15 horizontal (time) divisions allowing users to see 50 percent more signal than any other scope in this category and a 20 Mpoint record length with single-knob pan and zoom provides the ability to capture long time duration signals and easily navigate to find important details.

For the first time on a low-cost Tektronix oscilloscope, there is support for the Tektronix VPI probe interface, which allows users to use a wide range of Tektronix active probes.

New HelpEverywhere context-sensitive, configurable help provides on-screen tips for important settings.

Wi-Fi dongle support enables wireless connectivity so educators can easily set up electronics engineering labs or engineers can take advantage of the instrument’s LXI-compliant interface to conveniently control the oscilloscope remotely.