iView
Obtaining a clear signal is a significant challenge for electronic designers working on digital systems because the complexity of these designs can degrade signal quality. The Tektronix iView package makes it possible to routinely view time-correlated waveforms from oscilloscopes with bandwidths up to 4-GHz on the logic analyzer display, enabling engineers to quickly track down elusive signal integrity problems in their designs.
Strides in Silicon Performance Impact System Designs
Dramatic advances in the performance of devices such as processors and memories have created the need for much higher performance digital buses. In response, system designers have turned to faster edges, lower voltages, multi-pumping of data, and source synchronous techniques among others. Consequently, many new digital system designs are plagued with problems that arise from fast, complex signals: glitches, noise, anomalies, and more. These aberrations are "analog" in nature, even though the system itself may be digital. A high-performance oscilloscope is the best tool for acquiring such signal aberrations, while the logic analyzer remains the core tool for digital acquisition, display, and analysis.
Analog, Digital Signals Share the Same Display
The new Integrated View (iView) package includes TLA Application Software Version 4.1 and interconnect to integrate its TLA600 or TLA700 Series logic analyzers with external oscilloscopes in the high-performance TDS7000 Series, the TDS684C/694C, or the TDS3000 Series.
iView couples selected Tektronix TDS family oscilloscopes with TLA series logic analyzers, producing a solution that shows, on the same logic analyzer display, time-correlated views of both digital and analog waveforms. Set up is easy through the use of an external oscilloscope "wizard" in the TLA Series logic analyzer user interface which guides the user through set up and connection. No user calibration is required. And, once set up is completed, iView is completely automated.
iView provides the flexibility to use the logic analyzer and oscilloscope independently or together. Equally important, iView gives TLA Series logic analyzer users integrated access to the unmatched performance of the TDS7404 oscilloscope's 4-GHz bandwidth. This is the first time this level of oscilloscope performance has been paired with a logic analyzer, particularly beneficial to designers solving signal integrity problems on the latest high-speed processors and buses.
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