
Advanced Triggering, Search & Navigation, and Segmented Acquisition Labs
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3000 X-Series Oscilloscopes Advanced Training Guide
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Your scope should now be triggering on just setup time violation
conditions similar to
. With this unique trigger condition,
perhaps we can now correlate these signals to other signals and/or activity
in our system that may be producing this timing problem.
Let’s now use the scope’s Segmented Memory mode of acquisition to
capture 500 consecutive occurrences of a setup time violation. But to
complete the rest of this lab your scope must be licensed with the
Segmented Memory option.
10
Press the
[Acquire]
front panel key.
11
Press the
Segmented
softkey; then turn the Entry knob to select
500
as
the number of segments to capture.
12
Press the
Segmented
softkey to begin a Segmented Memory acquisition.
13
Press the
Current Segment
softkey; then turn the Entry knob to review all
500 captured segments.
14
Set the
Current Segment
to
500
and note the time- tag of the last captured
segment.
Segmented Memory optimizes oscilloscope acquisition memory by only
capturing important segments of a waveform based on the trigger
condition and timebase setting. In this example, we have selectively
captured 500 consecutive occurrences of a setup time violation for a total
acquisition time of approximately 20 ms as shown in
.
Figure 43 Using the scope’s Segmented Memory acquisition to selectively capture 500
consecutive occurrences of a setup time violationrunt pulses.