Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes
TDS5000B Series
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Right Clicks
The TDS5000B also introduces a
comprehensive suite of right mouse click
menus that make simple things as they
should be – simple. Right click menus are
context sensitive, meaning the choices
presented in the menu depend on where
you right clicked the mouse. This makes
right click menus extremely intuitive. Want
to change the cursor type? Right click on
a cursor or the cursor readouts. Want to
change the reference levels of an auto-
matic measurement? Right click on the
measurement. Want to change trigger
parameters? Right click on the trigger
readouts. Want to change a waveform’s
color? Right click on the waveform handle.
Virtually all objects on the oscilloscope
display have right click menus associated
with them that include all the appropriate
actions or features relative to those
objects. There are also right click menus
for regions of the display in addition to just
objects. For example, right clicking in the
main graticule brings up a menu with
choices such as Clear Data, Default
Setup, Autoset, Screen Captures, Save
All Waveforms, and Add Screen Text,
providing single click access to many of
your most commonly performed tasks.
The customization and efficiency provided
by MyScope control windows and right
click menus make the TDS5000B Series
the world’s easiest to use midrange oscil-
loscope, enabling you to achieve levels of
productivity you wouldn’t have thought
possible with your current oscilloscope.
The Performance and Feature
Set You Expect
Performance
The TDS5000B Series digital phosphor
oscilloscopes (DPO) deliver up to 1 GHz
bandwidth, 5 GS/s real-time sample rate,
16 M record length, and a suite of advanced
triggers, enabling you to capture and charac-
terize even your most demanding signals.
DPOs provide unmatched insight into
signal behavior by displaying, storing
and analyzing complex signals in real-time
using three dimensions of signal information:
amplitude, time and distribution of amplitude
over time. The TDS5000B Series DPO,
enabled by Tektronix proprietary DPX®
acquisition technology, delivers greater
than 100,000 waveforms per second
capture rates. Some oscilloscope
vendors claim high waveform capture
rates for short bursts of time, but only
DPOs, enabled by DPX technology, can
deliver these fast waveform capture rates
on a sustained basis – saving minutes,
hours or even days by quickly revealing
the nature of faults so sophisticated trigger
modes can be applied to isolate them.
MyScope™. MyScope control windows are
created using a simple, visual drag and
drop process.
MyScope. Once created, they are just like
other control windows in the instrument
and are easily accessed from either the
menu or button bars.