Application examples
Application examples
This section contains examples of using your instrument in common troubleshooting tasks and extending the use of your
instrument.
Capturing intermittent anomalies
One of the most dif
fi
cult tasks that design engineers face is tracking down the cause of intermittent failures. If you know
what type of anomaly you are looking for, it is easy to con
fi
gure the oscilloscope advanced triggering capability to isolate
it. However, when you do not know what you are looking for, it can be exceptionally tedious and time consuming to
fi
nd
infrequent anomalies, especially given the low waveform capture rate on traditional digital storage oscilloscopes.
Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes enabled by DPX technology have an exceptionally fast acquisition mode called FastAcq,
which allows you to
fi
nd anomalies like these in a matter of seconds or minutes. A regular DSO would take hours or
days to
fi
nd the same event.
Use the following procedure to capture intermittent anomalies.
1.
Connect the probe to the input signal
source.
2.
Push
Autoset
.
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