Tektronix's award-winning 5 Series oscilloscopes are now ready for upgrade

New oscilloscopes add support for power integrity testing and debug and validation capabilities

Beijing, China, January 14, 2022 – Tektronix Technologies, Inc. recently announced the launch of the latest version of the award-winning 5 Series Mixed Signal Oscilloscope (MSO), the 5B MSO. The new 5B Series MSO adds many enhanced features and is more powerful. It also has high-fidelity waveforms, unique spectrum analysis functions, flexible signal access, and remote testing functions that are loved by engineers around the world. In addition, it also strengthens after-sales guarantee services to make customers worry-free testing.

The 5 Series MSO, which is highly praised by engineers, has excellent performance and compatibility. The upgraded version 5B MSO is equipped with a variety of customer-centric upgrade functions based on the original model. One of them is a new auxiliary trigger input, which allows users to synchronize the oscilloscope to an external signal without occupying any of the 4, 6 or 8 full-function input channels. Users can also choose the built-in arbitrary waveform/function generator, whose maximum frequency output has been increased from 50 MHz to 100 MHz, thereby supporting higher frequency excitation signals and providing support for Bode plots and impedance measurements. These new functions are of great significance for quickly and comprehensively checking the power integrity of the distribution network.

To meet the needs of engineers working together outside the lab, the new 5B MSO can be used with many new tools for offline analysis and cloud data storage. TekScope™ PC software can analyze oscilloscope waveform data anywhere, without being restricted by the oscilloscope. The oscilloscope has built-in control functions, and users can save to TekDrive cloud storage with just one key. Users can easily save waveform data to the cloud, and other project team members can work together almost anywhere in the world.

"Setting up the 5 Series MSO has become incredibly intuitive," said Wyatt Callister, associate test engineer for product support development at SEL (Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories). "Older oscilloscopes had to navigate through layers of menus, which could be a headache. This new oscilloscope uses intuitive buttons with clear, comprehensive information that is very useful. I applaud Tektronix for their continued development efforts and the enhancements they just released."

With faster processors, the new oscilloscopes respond faster and will support more complex measurement and analysis functions in the future.

The upgraded 5B MSO series oscilloscopes have:

1. More channel systems, the oscilloscope itself supports 4, 6, 8 channel input, and supports Aux in + TekScope, which can build a multi-channel high-speed acquisition system with more than 16 channels;

2. Higher precision, 12-bit hardware ADC support, lower noise, higher resolution, test accuracy and consistency;

3. Larger screen, 15.6" high-definition touch screen, breaking through barriers, viewing more at one time, discovering more details;

4. Faster experience, processor hardware upgrade combined with friendly oscilloscope UI design, greatly improving the experience;

5. More secure, the embedded operating system and Windows system hard disk can be removed to protect your data security as much as possible;

6. More flexible and unique Flexchannel technology, flexibly configure your test system to meet more stringent test requirements;

7. 3 years of comprehensive protection service, guarantee upgrade;

8.Powerful waveform analysis software supports the perfect reproduction of the oscilloscope interface.

"We are very excited to offer the latest enhancements to our innovative products," said Suchi Srinivasan, product line general manager, Tektronix. "The new 5 Series B oscilloscopes provide users with intuitive operation, support for advanced measurements, and enable project teams to work from virtually anywhere through our TekDrive Cloud."

The new 5B series perfectly inherits the excellent indicators of the 5 series: it comes standard with a low-voltage passive probe with a bandwidth of up to 1 GHz. It also supports other probes, such as power rail probes and optical isolation probes (such as IsoVu isolation probes), which can eliminate common-mode interference when using optical isolation.