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Measurement Category II. For measurements performed on circuits directly connected to the low-voltage installation. Measurement Category I. For measurements performed on circuits not directly connected to MAINS. Overvoltage Category Overvoltage Category II (as defined in IEC 61010-1) viii DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Preface Preface Documentation This manual describes the installation and operation of the DSA8300 Digital Serial Analyzer including basic operation and concepts. For more detailed information, see the online help on your instrument. NOTE. The screen images in this manual may differ slightly from other versions of product software.
Key Features Key Features The DSA8300 is a state-of-the-art equivalent time sampling oscilloscope that provides the highest fidelity measurement and analysis capabilities for communications signal analysis, serial data network analysis, and serial data link analysis applications. Highest Fidelity Signal Capture...
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Complete suite of over 120 automated measurements for NRZ, RZ, and Pulse signal types Automated mask testing with over 80 industry-standard masks. New masks can be imported into the DSA8300 to support new emerging standards. In addition, users can define their own masks for automated mask testing...
Install Your Instrument Unpack the instrument and check that you received all items listed as Standard Accessories. Recommended accessories and probes, instrument options, and upgrades are listed in the online help. Check the Tektronix Web site (www.tektronix.com) for the most current information.
Install Your Instrument Operating Considerations The following information lists the specifications related to the operation of the mainframe. Refer to the DSA8300 Digital Serial Analyzer Specifications and Performance Verification Manual for a complete list of specifications. Mechanical Clearance requirements Dimensions...
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±1.5 V (DC + peak AC) maximum input voltage Trigger Prescaled Input absolute maximum ±1.1 V input (typical) External 10 MHz Reference Input 500 mV to 5 V AC coupled into 1 kΩ, ±5 V maximum DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Six channels: Two large modules and two small modules Seven channels: One large module, installed in CH3 compartment, and three small modules Seven channels: One large module, installed in CH1 compartment, and three small modules DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
TekScope software versions earlier than 6.1.X, always power off the mainframe to remove or install modules. Failure to do so may result in damage to the module or mainframe. Download the latest DSA8300 software from www.tek.com/software. 1. Select Utilities > View/Change Module Config to open the module configuration...
2. Toggle the mains switch to on. 3. Use the front panel power button to switch the instrument on and off. CAUTION. To prevent damaging the modules, do not install or remove any modules while the instrument is powered on. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Use a DVI-I to SVGA adapter (not supplied) to connect to SVGA monitors. 3. Power on the instrument. 4. Power on the external monitor. The instrument detects the external monitor and displays the contents of the instrument screen. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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7. If using an extended desktop, click the external monitor 2 box in the Position pane and drag the monitor to the position that relates to the physical position of monitor 2 in relation to monitor 1. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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If the new settings are correct, click OK. You have about 15 seconds before the instrument automatically returns to the previous display settings. 10. Click OK to close the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver window. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
12. Push a channel button to select and display a waveform for that channel. A lit button indicates selected and displayed waveforms for that channel. An unlit button indicates that the channel is not selected. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Refer to the Programmer Manual installed on the instrument. 3. Computer I/O panel. (See page 15, Computer I/O Panel.) 4. AC input. 5. Fuses. 6. Mains power switch. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Getting Acquainted with Your Instrument Computer I/O Panel 1. Audio line out 2. Mic input 3. USB ports 4. DVI-I video out for dual-monitor display 5. COM1 6. PS2 (keyboard) 7. PS2 (mouse) 8. COM2 9. LAN DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
10. Controls Bar. Click to select a waveform (channel, math, or reference), as well as quick access to scale, offset, and position controls for adjustment. 11. Display. Contains live, reference, and math waveforms, and histograms, cursors and test masks when enabled. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
4. Right-click on a waveform or its icon to open the context menu with setup controls and properties. 5. Drag ground reference icon to add offset to a waveform. 6. Drag across the waveform area to horizontally zoom the boxed waveform segment to full screen width. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
4. Drag the markers to enclose the portion of waveform to appear in Mag1 View. 5. Drag the markers to enclose the portion of waveform to appear in Mag2 View. 6. Drag the border between graticules to vertically size Main, Mag1, and Mag2 Views. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
For in-depth, contextual overviews, most dialog boxes have a Help button. Click the button to open the help system for information on that dialog box. Select Help > Help Contents and Index to open the overall help system. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Inspect Your Instrument Use the following procedure to verify the functionality of your instrument. For a complete performance verification, see the DSA8300 Digital Serial Analyzer Performance Verification and Specifications Manual, which can be downloaded from the Tektronix Web site. Verify Internal Diagnostics Pass 1.
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6. Verify that the Loop and Halt on Failure boxes are unchecked. 7. Click Run. 8. Verify that all tests display Pass in the Status column when the diagnostics complete. If diagnostic failures occur, contact your local Tektronix service center. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Failure to install the 50 Ω terminations on electrical inputs can cause erroneous compensation failures or results. 3. If you powered off the instrument to change module configuration, power on the instrument and wait 20 minutes for the warm-up period. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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9. Click Execute. Follow the on-screen instructions regarding signal and trigger inputs and terminations; be sure to follow electrostatic handling precautions (see the user information for your sampling module) when following these instructions. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Green means that all modules have been successfully compensated. Yellow means that the instrument has not competed its 20 minute warm-up period. Red means that one or more modules require compensation. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
User Wavelength Gain compensation optimizes an optical channel for your custom input signal. 1. Install one or two optical sampling modules in the instrument. Set the acquisition system to run continuously. 2. Select the channel to compensate. 3. Select Setup > Vertical. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Vert Setup dialog box. 7. Enter the wavelength and measured power of the signal applied to the channel In the User Wavelength Gain Compensation dialog box. 8. Click OK to execute the compensation. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
See the user manual for the installed sampling module for connection requirements. CAUTION. Discharge electrical cables to ground before connecting them to a module. 2. Connect an appropriate trigger signal to the instrument. (See page 36, Triggers.) DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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If no reference waveforms are loaded into the channels, the Recall Waveform dialog box appears. 4. Use the Vertical Position, Offset, and Scale knobs to adjust the vertical parameters of the selected waveform. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Push Set to 50% in the Trigger controls, if required, to stabilize the display when using the Trigger Direct Input connector. Using Factory Default Setup 1. To quickly return to the factory default settings, push DEFAULT SETUP. 2. Click Yes to restore the settings. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
If the instrument does not autoset to your signal, select Setup > Horizontal, click the Comm Standard button, and select the signal type. Then push the Autoset button again. Select Utilities > Define Autoset to change the Autoset properties. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
1. Access the Setup dialog boxes by using the front panel buttons, the Setup menu item, or the Setup button. 2. Click on the tabs to select among the setup dialog boxes. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
If Stop After is set to Condition, pressing RUN/STOP causes only one acquisition to run if the original condition has been met. You need to push CLEAR DATA so that the condition must be met again. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
10. Select one of the four grading methods. 11. If you selected one of the two Emphasized grading methods, slide the Emphasize Counts percentage control to specify the range of counts you want emphasized. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
3. Variable Persistence makes data persist for a specified time. New waveform displays accumulate data as new waveform records acquire, but with continuous replacement of the oldest data. Set a time at which the oldest data is removed. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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4. Use the Graticule settings to select the graticule style and the graticule color and screen background. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
An internal clock for Free Run acquisition of signals. (Since the acquired signals are not synchronous with the trigger, this trigger source is useful primarily for locating a signal or clock and applying the appropriate offset to the data or trigger for proper synchronous waveform acquisition.) DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Internal Clock Recovery Data (NRZ) Mask Clock Trigger Mode: Other and Parametric Testing (w/ clock modulation effects – SSC) Clock Signal Trigger Source: Clock Input/Prescale Trigger input or Analysis Internal Clock Recovery Clock Trigger Mode: Eye DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Selecting a Clock Recovery trigger source requires that a module with clock recovery is available. Select the clock recovery standard from the pulldown lists or user-specified range controls. Selecting TDR as the trigger source uses the clock frequency setting in the Rate control. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
5. Enable FrameScan to automatically scan through a pattern (or part of a pattern). This FrameScan control is the same as the FrameScan control in the Horizontal Setup dialog box (changing either one affects the other). DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
You can check the status of the trigger from the front panel and in the application status bar. The status bar also displays the waveform count. 1. Check the READY and TRIG'D front-panel controls to determine the trigger status, or look at the trigger status in the application. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
3. Click on a measurement button in the Measurement tool bar. The instrument displays the most frequently used measurements for the selected waveform type and category. You can also access all of the measurement types from the MEAS setup dialog box. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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9. Note the portion of the waveform being measured. 10. Note the reference levels for the measurement. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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15. Click the On box to turn gating on and to display the gates on screen. 16. Use the G1 (Gate1) and G2 spin controls to adjust the gates on screen such that the area to measure is between the gates. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Gate values are entered as a percentage of the waveform, displayed from left to right. If no keyboard is installed, access the virtual keyboard and use the touch screen to enter values. You can select and drag the gates to new locations by using a mouse or the touch screen. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
6. Note that measurement slot 3 is now labeled Not Defined and no measurement icon is displayed. 7. Note that measurement slot 1 has a measurement assigned. It is set to not display, but the measurement slot is still used. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
3. Push the SELECT button to toggle selection between the two cursors. The active cursor is represented by a solid line. 4. Turn the General Purpose knob to position each cursor on the waveform to measure the feature that interests you. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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7. Waveform cursors measure vertical and horizontal parameters simultaneously. Waveform cursors are attached to the waveform and track with the waveform points. 8. Read cursor measurement results in the readouts area of the display. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Magnify each point of interest in a separate time base, and then place one cursor on each point. The Δ-time cursor readout will then reflect the position and resolution of the magnified time bases. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Elements that appear grayed out cannot be selected because they would result in an illegal entry. 4. Use the filter control in the dialog box to specify the rise time of any filters in the math waveform definition. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
(Data signal to the module input, clock signal to the CLOCK INPUT/PRESCALER TRIGGER connector). CAUTION. Always observe optical cable and static-safe procedures and cautions as outlined in your sampling-module user manual when connecting cables to modules. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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3. Select the input signal source (1–8). 4. Select Setup > Horizontal and enter the communications standard or set the bit rate of the signal. 5. Push the AUTOSET front panel button. The instrument analyses and displays the signal. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
filter. Then click the Mask tab to return to the mask settings. To autoset the waveform to the mask: 6. Click the Autoset Data button to perform a manual autoset on the mask-source waveform. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Total Hits and set a count, such as 1, in the count box. These settings stop acquisition when mask violations satisfy the criteria you set. 11. Push the RUN/STOP button to restart acquisition, if stopped. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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DATA button, followed by the RUN/STOP front-panel button. 15. Read the mask-hits count and margin percent (if enabled) in the readout. 16. You can use Mask Margins to explore design margins of your communications signal. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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20. Assign each waveform to a waveform database, and acquire an adequate number of waveforms. 21. Stop signal acquisition (press the RUN/STOP button or use the Automatic Stop After condition). DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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(and only one) additional waveform. The Clear Data button resets all mask counts. In addition, if the source for mask testing is a waveform database, clicking this button clears the waveform database. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
FrameScan mode superior to traditional methods. 1. Select the Horizontal Setup tab. 2. Click Pattern Sync/FrameScan Setup. 3. Click Enabled in FrameScan. 4. Set the Scan Bits to the number of bits or subframes to acquire. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
(TDR module with single channel adjustment) for deskew adjustment. 7. Set the Deskew percent value. 8. Click Advanced TDR Setup to set the TDR step rate, reference source, and enable or disable incident waveform display. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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For a TDR module with single channel deskew capability, only the even-numbered channel of the module is selectable for deskew. For a TDR module with dual channel deskew capability, both channels of the module are selectable for deskew. (See page 66, Skew and Deskewing.) DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
NOTE. To use the phase reference function, you must have a phase reference module (such as the Tektronix 82A04), and a phase reference clock signal that is synchronous to the data to be acquired and connected to the phase reference module.
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Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC): Enable SSC support when you want to acquire waveforms that are phase corrected and acquired relative to a trigger event that is using a Spread Spectrum Clocking signal. Sampling is still random around the trigger event. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
2. Check the Enable Histogram box. 3. Click the Source button to select the waveform source. 4. Select a vertical or horizontal histogram. 5. Use the Display Options to change the appearance of the histogram. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
1. To Save a setup or a waveform, click Save Setup or Save Waveform in the File menu. 2. To export waveform data, click Export Waveform in the File menu. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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4. To copy a screen image into another application, choose the Print to file option in the print dialog box. Save the screen image in a format that is compatible with your application, and then insert the screen image into your document. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
Measure and match your cables. TDR modules such as 80E10, 80E08, and 80E04 allow you to measure cable delays with very high precision. In differential systems, use differential probes or differential SMA to single-ended active convertors, such as the Tektronix P7380SMA.
Using a Phase Adjuster Skew can be adjusted with the use of a variable delay line (phase adjuster). Tektronix part number 015-0708-00 is a phase adjuster with a 25 ps range and VSWR of 1.3:1 at 18 GHz. The advantage of a phase adjuster is that it is functionally invisible.
80A05 connected during the deskew procedure. This ensures that any skew introduced by the 80A05 or the connecting cables are accounted for by the deskew procedure. Figure 1: Schematic diagram of reference planes in relation to signal DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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ACQ On box for the source channel. This channel does not need to be displayed. 4. Connect a cable or TDR probe to the source channel to use for injecting the TDR step signal into the reference plane. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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TDR CLOCK OUT connector to reduce the amplitude to an acceptable amplitude for the module. For fixture or DUT locations that do not support a cable attachment, the acquisition deskew signal can be injected by a P8018 single-ended TDR probe. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
3. Click on the Acq Mode drop down control and choose Average to enable acquisition averaging. 4. Click the Define Math button on the tool bar or push the Math front panel button to display the Define Math dialog box. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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10. Display the Define Math dialog box and modify the math expression to use the – channel: Filter(C4). You can use the Backspace button to edit the expression. Click OK to apply the changes and dismiss the dialog box. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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14. Using the previous discussion on Methods to Adjust Skew, adjust the skew by changing the Delay or Deskew value for C4 or by changing the external phase adjustor until the measurement reads near zero. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
In this procedure, we will use Ch3 and Ch4 as the positive and negative channels. 4. Change the units for both channels to V (Volts), then dismiss the dialog box. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Filter(C4) for the – channel. Set the Filter Risetime to a value that is less than half the risetime of the reflected TDR step. Select the On box to display the math waveform. Dismiss the dialog box. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Pulse-Timing > Delay. 15. Click the Source 1 button and do the following: a. Click the Source tab and set Source 1 to M1. b. Click the Region tab and set the Slope to +/-. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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Deskew value until the measurement reads near zero. For future use with the same NOTE. configuration (such as instrument, modules, cables, and/or fixtures), save the setup by selecting File > Save Setup As from the menu bar. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
(Use only deionized water when cleaning the menu buttons or front-panel buttons.) Before using any other type of cleaner, consult your Tektronix Service Center or representative.
4. In the Confirmation dialog box, click Yes to restore the instrument operating system, or No to exit the restore process. The restore process takes approximately 30 minutes; the actual time depends on the instrument configuration. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
5. When the restore process is completed, remove the disc and restart the instrument. The instrument will open into the operating system, settings, and appearance as shipped from the factory. 6. Proceed to restoring the TekScope product software and any additional applications. Follow the installation instructions that shipped with the DSA8300 Application Install CD. DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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47 how to localize (gates), 44 Dark-level compensation H Bars cursor, 47, 48 turning off, 46 how to perform, 25 Histogram Mechanical Default setup, 29 enable, 63 specifications, 4 Menu bar, 16 statistics, 64 DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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5 compensations, 25 Start an acquisition, 32 to perform TDR step Statistics deskew, 74 histogram, 64 to set acquisition modes, 32 Status bar, 16 to set up the signal input, 27 Stop an acquisition, 32 DSA8300 Quick Start User Manual...
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