(Pic.1) (Pic.2) Software installation Download and install the software from Acute Technology Inc. website. Click on Support > Download > Software. The “start icon” of MSO series ( ) will appear on both desktop and program set. An intro screen will pop up asking you to choose either Logic Analyzer or Protocol Analyzer mode.
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Add Logic Analyzer (LA) or Add Protocol Analyzer (PA) icon within the file menu. The warning window as shown below will appear before the intro screen if the remaining space of the working directory is too low (< 50G). 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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It is recommended to choose the hard disk with larger remaining space for the storage of the working directory. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
Digital Channel, Pattern, Single / Multi Level, Width, Time-out, External Analog Rising / Falling Bus I I2C, SPI, UART Bus II BiSS-C, CAN2.0B/CAN FD, DP_Aux¹, HID over I2C, I2S, LIN2.2, USB PD 3.0 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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² Upon request ONLY by users who have signed CNDA with Intel, SVID decode supported by all MSO models ³Upon request ONLY by users who have signed CNDA with Intel, SVID trigger & PA supported by MSO2216B / B+ ONLY. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. ...
10MHz, TTL 3.3V Connector type MCX jack / female Resolution 500ps Channels States Trigger Events Pre / Post Pass Count Yes (0~1048575 times) Digital Channel, Pattern, Single / Multi Level, Width, Time-out, External 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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² Upon request ONLY by users who have signed CNDA with Intel, SVID decode supported by all MSO models ³Upon request ONLY by users who have signed CNDA with Intel, SVID trigger & PA supported by MSO2216B / B+ ONLY. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. ...
Language: Display language. You can select either English, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese. Settings: Here you can set the working directory, the label height, whether to load the last setting, the waveform display mode and its color. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
3. Waveform: The signal’s waveform and frequency are automatically detected. 4. Options: Set the capture and decoding parameters for protocol. 5. Threshold: It can be set according to the voltage level of the signal. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright...
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2. Set the sample rate 3. Channel settings 4. Trigger on 5. Options: You can set the capture and decoding parameters for protocol. 6. Threshold: It can be set according to the voltage level of the signal. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
If you navigate the software during capture, the computer may respond slower than normal situation. Repetitive Times Whenever the stop condition is met, it automatically saves data to the 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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The data are saved to a logger file (.LOG). They are not further processed and displayed until you stop capturing or reload the logger file. No matter you choose to process the data right after the capture 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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In this mode, the device keeps the data in its RAM and does not send it back to PC. Newly captured data will continue to overwrite oldest data when the device memory is full. It can be used to monitor incoming data for 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright...
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Stop is pressed, then it will stop by one of the three actions: Fill device memory then stop Stop immediately Wait for a few seconds then stop 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
2. Search the previous / next piece of data. 3. Specify all fields or target fields to search. Specifiy fields to narrow the search range, to search faster. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
1. Select different display list. 2. Use the control buttons to move the current position, or input row number to jump to specified row. 3. Use the control buttons to add /remove selected row to Bookmark List. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
Save options: 1. You can select to save the data as a file or according to the number of rows. 2. Advanced reports Check this option to save detailed data in protocol analyzer mode. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
According to protocols’ different characteristics, statistics are made to understand the entire transmission situation, you may also click on the statistic trace to summarize all records of the selected trace into the statistic list window. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright...
Analyzer mode, you must first press the "Convert to Logic Analyzer and Stack Oscilloscope" button to switch to the Logic Analyzer mode to enable this function. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
Cursor This function includes the cursor setting and the waveform search function matching the cursor. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
5. Info: Display channel, value and trigger information, they can be changed in File -> Settings. 6. Waveform Area: Use mouse wheel to zoom in/out the waveform; use cursors to see the time interval or frequency. Please refer to the cursor section below for the 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
“comma”. 2. Save selected channel data in multiple files: The analog data of each channel will be stored into individual files respectively with user input file name appended with channel name. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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5. Save Range: Choose to change the data save range. Saved as a DG file: Convert captured waveform to DGW format for the Acute Digital Pattern Generator(PKPG、PG2000、DG3000、TD3000), which can be used to resend the digital signals. 1. Select DG/PG Model: The software will check the maximum working frequency and memory depth according to the selected DG/PG model.
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Add Protocol Analyzer: Add a protocol analyzer window. Add Logic Analyzer: Add a logic analyzer window. Language: Display language. You can select English, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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Default Label Height: Modify the channel height of the waveform area. Working Directory: The directory where the temporary files and waveforms are stored when the software is in operation. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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/ timing info with date time format (trigger point is at 0 s) / sample count format. 16. Show Cursor Position in Decode/Transition Report: Show cursor position in the report area time field. 17. Show Cursor Separate Time on Cursor bar: Add additional time between 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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22. Max. Logic Analyzer Cursor Measurement Tab Count: Displays the number of groups of cursor measurement values in the lower right corner. Minimum of 3 groups, maximum of 10 groups. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
Manual Trigger After setting up, Click “Stop” button to position trigger point. Single Level Trigger Channel/Label: You can select Don’t care(X)、Rising Edge(↑)、Falling Edge(↓)、 Low(0)、High(1)、Either( ↕ ) or specified value as trigger conditions. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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Difference between continuous trigger and non-continuous trigger: Continuous trigger: The signal captured by two adjacent sample clocks must meet the conditions to trigger. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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This function is not supported when the sampling frequency is above 250 MHz. Width Trigger The width trigger can set the trigger signal when the channel meets the trigger conditions and the length of the full pulse width. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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The Trigger In input pulse signal of the device is taken as the trigger condition. Analog Trigger - Edge Use the rising/falling edge of the MSO analog channel as the trigger condition. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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Analog Trigger – Activity Use the voltage change of the MSO analog channel as the trigger condition. Protocol trigger Please refer to LA Decode & Trigger manual. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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Channels, Threshold, Sample Rate, Device Memory Usage MSO1000, MSO2000 series interface MSO3000 series interface 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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Choose the channel you want to measure, it sets threshold automatically, you can adjust manually. 8 channels are a set of adjustable units, there are two sets. b. (MSO1000, MSO2000 series only) Provide Extra Hysteresis function, turn on to reduce noise, turn off to increase sensitivity, replacing the past Schmitt function.
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CKI and setting a channel to be 0 or 1. For example, when Chip Select is 0 to allow to 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright...
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PC HDD. The record length that can be captured depends on the performance of the computer. If the device memory or the PC RAM is insufficient, it will automatically stop. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright...
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Trigger Position:Set the position of the trigger point in the used memory in percentage. For example, set to 50%. Means that the device memory will retain up to 50% to store pre-trigger data. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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(Ext-Trig, Aux-In or Trig-In) of the oscilloscope. MDO4000 series is fixed in the analog channel CH4. The oscilloscope is the Master, while the MSO is the Slave. Wiring direction is from the oscilloscope’s Trig-Out MSO’s Trig-In (see Figure 2). Figure 2 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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"Stack Oscilloscope" button, as shown below: Select the DSO Select the DSO brand to stack. When there is no DSO to stack, emulation is the mode to read back the storage files of DSO stacked. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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For the hardware wiring, please refer to Figure 2. Press "Trigger Condition" → "External Trigger", as shown below 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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In the waveform display screen, you can put the mouse on the top of the DSO waveforms, hold down the Shift key, and then use the left mouse button to drag the DSO waveforms to the appropriate location to complete the stack delay 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright...
This filter can filter the signals of less than 5 ns - 35 ns wide. If this filter function is enabled, it will filter before the hardware is triggered. Channels that use the glitch filter function are marked with a red dot on the channel label for identification. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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There are two main measurements, as follow; you can also check whether it meets the design value. 1. HW Strap: Measure the actual voltage at the sample points. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright...
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1. Generating a power sequence html format report: The power sequence report provides with waveform screenshots and testing results, user can edit the report title and user-defined information. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
Last Transition: Move to last waveform transition. Last Transition on selected channel: Move to the last waveform transition of selected label. Trigger Position: Move to the trigger position. Cursor A-Z: Move to the Cursor position. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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All of the above operations can be used to move a single cursor on the left or multiple cursors on the right. The starting point of the search is set to the current position of the selected cursor. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright...
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At the bottom right of the screen shows the frequency / time, the value will change as the cursor moves. From left to right are the interval time, frequency calculation, the number of sampling statistics, respectively. Clicking the cursor name, you can switch the cursor. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
This function can also be used in the waveform display area under the protocol analyzer mode. Add/Delete the waveform label. Add labels Add parallel bus 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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Label Save/Recall: Save the current channel settings or load the saved channel label. Import channel label from CSV file. The file format is as follows, Notice: The feature can only import channel name and number. It cannot import parallel bus or protocol decode. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
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Ch Rising to Ch Falling Delay Ch Falling to Ch Rising Delay Phase Delay Rising Edge Count Falling Edge Count Edge Count 4. Save report area Save the report area as text files. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
Note: The Bus Decoders must be setup correctly in order to fetch the correct column names for the customized report. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright 2023...
(3) Go to the device manager and check the driver status Please connect the device USB cable to the computer and then go to the system device manager to check whether the Acute USB Bootloader or Acute USB3.0 Product shows up. Please go to the Acute Website-Download -Software, download the USB3.0 driver and follow the troubleshoot manual in the package to...
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(4) Remove all probes and re-plug the USB3.0 Cable or restart the computer to check whether the driver appears. (5) After you take the above steps but the problem is still unsolved, please contact us. 皇晶科技股份有限公司 Acute Technology Inc. Copyright...
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