The InfiniiVision HD3 series oscilloscopes.
With an InfiniiVision HD3 Series oscilloscope from Keysight Technologies, you can now capture small signals more accurately than ever before thanks to the low-noise front end and the impressive resolution of 14-bit ADCs in an oscilloscope. This gives you significantly higher vertical resolution compared to other oscilloscopes.
Combined with the industry's only no-compromise waveform update rate, as well as powerful features like the Fault Hunter, deep memory and hardware-based functions, the HD3 oscilloscope is ideal for many applications in electronics, automotive, aerospace & defense and more.
The new generation of oscilloscopes.
The InfiniiVision HD3 series offers many of the features familiar from the 3000G X or 4000 X oscilloscope series but with significantly more testing power. Outstanding ease of use with a comprehensive front panel, quick access buttons, capacitive touch and gesture control or mouse-based control - so you can work in the way that works best for you. In addition, the oscilloscopes are equipped as standard with functions such as an active MSO interface, frequency response analysis, mask tests and much more, which are only available as options on other oscilloscopes.
Features & Highlights.
- 2 or 4 analog channels incl. active MSO interface for +16 digital channels*
- 200 / 350 / 500 MHz or 1 GHz bandwidth
- No interleaving for memory and sampling rate
- Uncompromising update rate of up to 1.3 million wfms/s
- Only oscilloscope in this class with hardware-based serial decoding, mask tests and more
Analyze the smallest signals
Higher vertical accuracy and lower background noise.
The advanced architecture of the HD3 allows you to analyze all signals in your design with the highest accuracy in the class. With the impressive vertical resolution of 14 bit ADC and the lowest noise floor at 50 μVRMS (2mV/div, 50 Ω, 1 GHz), you get the highest vertical resolution in this segment of oscilloscopes - for comparison: an oscilloscope with 14 bit ADC has 4 times more accuracy than a 12 bit ADC and 64 times more (!) than an 8 bit ADC. This allows you to make the most accurate measurements and get the most realistic insight into the signals within your device.
This combination of vertical resolution and lowest noise floor also makes it possible to achieve the highest effective number of up to 10.4 bits (ENOB) in this class. With the integrated bandwidth filters, you can achieve even higher accuracy (5 times better) with up to 16-bit resolution.
More efficient use of memory for long signals
Deeper memory thanks to modern architecture.
The “deep memory architecture” offers a 20 Mpts deep memory for each channel with dedicated memory chips, which can optionally be extended to 50 or 100 Mpts/ch. This means that there is no overlap between the channels. You can turn on all 4 channels and still get the maximum memory depth and maximum sampling rate of 3.2 GSa/s for each channel.
On comparable models at this oscilloscope level, the channels are always interleaved, which means that the memory is automatically halved if you use more than 2 channels. With the HD3 there is no interleaving between channels, so you always get the highest memory and fastest sample rate on each channel under typical test conditions.
The segmented memory acquisition in the HD3 Series oscilloscopes automatically decodes frames. The HD3 Series are the only oscilloscopes that display all decoded frames from segmented acquisitions in the log list display. Segmented memory makes more efficient use of memory by capturing the pulses or segments you want to see without wasting memory on dead times. This allows you to capture and analyze long strings of data with a time-correlated list.
Create a realistic representation of your signal on the screen
Newly developed ASIC - the MegaZoom 5.
Originally, the CPU's processing was the biggest bottleneck to the oscilloscope waveform update rate and responsiveness. When the processor takes over tasks such as interpolations, logic channel display, serial bus decoding, measurements and more, the update rate, memory and sample rate drop dramatically when these functions are enabled.
The InfiniiVision HD3 series consists of a completely new ASIC (application specific integrated circuit). The Keysight MegaZoom 5 is designed from the ground up without the same architecture or components used in the MegaZoom 4 in previous InfiniiVision oscilloscopes. With this ASIC, you can do things in hardware that comparable models have to do in software via their CPU. As these functions are executed in the hardware, they always work at top speed.
This makes the HD3 the only oscilloscope in this class that has hardware-based functions such as zone trigger, serial decoding and mask test. Comparable models in this segment perform these functions in software, making them over 1,000 times slower than the HD3.
Other functions - as standard.
Mask limit testing supports you in the production of pass/fail tests according to specified standards or can check for rare signal anomalies. The HD3 series features powerful hardware-based mask testing. You can select multiple test criteria, including the ability to run tests for a specified number of acquisitions, a specified time or until a failure is detected.
Utilize full ADC and vertical resolution for each channel with spilt grids. FFT and math functions can also be split onto separate grids so you can easily view and analyze your signals. This gives you more control over your probe settings, the number of FFT points used and much more!
Options and Extensions.
The HD3WAVEGEN option offers the following waveforms (output on the front of the oscilloscope): Arbitrary, sine, square, pulse, triangle, ramp, noise and DC. The AWG software upgrade allows the user to convert a signal captured with the oscilloscope into a stimulus signal file at the touch of a button and even modify it within the oscilloscope environment.
Applications.
Develop high-quality and error-free devices in consumer electronics.
- Analyze the smallest signals at high resolution with a 14-bit ADC that offers 4 times the vertical accuracy of a 12-bit oscilloscope
- Uncompromising waveform update rate of 1.3 million wfms/s ensures you can capture glitches, defects and other rare events
- Faster debugging and capture of rare faults with Fault Hunter, the industry's only automated debugging tool that enables easy analysis of glitches, slow edges, runs and more
- Segmented memory uses memory more efficiently by capturing the desired pulses or segments without wasting memory on dead times, allowing you to capture and analyze long data sequences with a time-correlated list
- The HD300EMBA embedded software package for common hardware-based protocol decoding
In the automotive industry, troubleshooting serial data and working with several different types of protocols within a system must be ensured. The safety of the vehicle depends on every component communicating properly, meaning that every transmitter, receiver, sensor, etc. must be validated. In addition to characterizing these components, any noise, jitter or defects must also be characterized and corrected.
- Hardware-based serial decoding for the most accurate real-time view of your serial communication and detect all rare errors on your serial buses thanks to 1.3 million wfms/s
- Quickly isolate and characterize these rare faults using features such as zone triggers, auto-mask tests, segmented memory and more
- Analyze two bus types simultaneously with time-interleaved decoding, also hardware-based. Thanks to deep memory architecture with up to 100 Mpts per channel and segmented memory, more efficient use of memory is possible with long strings of serial data
- Capture noise and jitter with voltage and time-based histograms, for waveforms or measurements
- The HD300AUTA automotive software package for fast debugging of serial buses in the automotive sector
Developers in the aerospace and defense industry face the same challenges as consumer electronics, only with stricter safety requirements, larger memories for long radar pulses and higher safety requirements. It is particularly important here that communication in an A/D environment does not fail.
- With the highest ADC and lowest noise, the HD3 always delivers the most accurate measurements and catches all the rare errors that can lead to malfunctions
- Uncompromising waveform update rate of 1.3 million wfms/s to capture the rarest errors, even with serial data
- Deep memory architecture and segmented memory ensure more efficient use of memory for long signals, such as radar pulses
Power supply engineers need to be able to rely on their oscilloscope to deliver accurate results with sufficient resolution for their smallest measurements when testing and verifying switching power supplies.
- Thanks to 14-bit ADC and lowest front-end noise in combination with a low impedance power rail probe for measuring small ripple and noise
- Detection of signals down to 13 μV using FFT, bandwidth filtering and the low-impedance path
- Frequency response analysis (Bode diagram) allows you to analyze the suppression of the power supply and the behaviour of the control loop directly in the HD3
- Advanced features such as troubleshooting, zone trigger, math, advanced FFT analysis and mask testing give you incredible insight into power supply testing
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