Keysight P9243A – USB Oscilloscope (1 GHz / 2 Channels)

The Keysight Streamline Series P924xA USB oscilloscopes bring the InfiniiVision usability and performance to USB modular oscilloscopes. The Streamline Series provides maximum investment protection and is built with technology that leverages decades of Keysight’s high-performance oscilloscope expertise.

Uncompromising analysis capability

Many USB users have been using digitizer hardware with software that simulates an oscilloscope for test and troubleshoots implementation. The limitations of this configuration are often overlooked, but they can cause signification problems. When an instrument says it has a high waveform update rate, people usually expect it to have a higher probability of catching random and infrequent glitches, but this isn’t the case for those instruments. In addition, common measurements like waveform averaging and advanced waveform triggers are not available.

The Keysight Streamline Series USB oscilloscopes require minimum support from a central processing unit (CPU), as most of their core operations are handled by the MegaZoom IV smart memory ASIC, which is Keysight proprietary technology. MegaZoom includes hardware serial decoders and hardware mask/limit testing capability; supports GUI operation; and integrates additional instruments like a WaveGen function/arbitrary waveform generator.

The P924xA USB oscilloscopes utilize hardware to perform many of the functions traditional digitizers do with software on the CPU. By doing more in hardware, P924xA Series oscilloscopes can analyze more of the signal than ever before.

Key to the oscilloscope operation is that the acquisition does the triggering and most of the analysis utilizes onboard hardware. For example, to accomplish 1million waveforms/sec, the waveforms are captured and plotted into hardware on the scope and then the waveform is transferred to the PC for display.

Industry-exclusive Zone Touch Trigger Makes Triggering Simple

Zone touch triggering eliminates the complexity of setting up advanced triggers. If you have a touch-enabled display on your controller, you can trigger on events by simply drawing a box with your finger on the display of the signal you want to isolate. Keysight pioneered the zone touch trigger, which allows easy capture of difficult-to-define trigger events.

The P924xAs’ high, uncompromised update rate increases your chance of seeing random and infrequent signal anomalies, and zone touch trigger helps you isolate the signals. Now your testing can be faster and more thorough.

Other touch-based operation

Just like Keysight’s touch-enabled InfiniiVision benchtop oscilloscopes (3000T, 4000 and 6000 X-Series), the P924xA Keysight Streamline Series USB oscilloscopes also use touch capability to interact with the signal display. In addition to the zone touch trigger, these oscilloscopes also let you move the waveform up/down; adjust the time offset and zoom; and define one of the two touch zone triggers. All that is required is a touch-enabled display connected to your USB scope.

Keysight offers a variety of software options for its Streamline USB oscilloscope, enabling users to customize the device to their specific application. The following are only a few of the options available.

P9240BDLC Application Bundle

Take advantage of a new oscilloscope application bundle that will enable ALL software applications on your Keysight USB oscilloscope for a huge discount over buying the options individually. This package includes the following: I2C, UART, CAN, CAN FD, LIN, CXPI, PSI5 (User-definable Manchester), User-definable NRZ, USB PD, MIL-STD 1553, and ARINC 429 serial trigger & decode, plus Mask Limit Testing, Frequency Response Analysis (Bode plots), Enhanced Video Analysis, NFC trigger.

P9240AWGA WaveGen 20 MHz Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator

The P924xA Streamline Series USB oscilloscopes offer a 20-MHz built-in function/arbitrary waveform generator. The WaveGen provides standard stimulus output waveforms to your device under test as well as user-definable frequencies, amplitudes, offset and pulse widths and arbitrary waveform capability. The WaveGen output is routed to a MMCX connector on the front panel of the oscilloscope.

Mask limit testing

With the mask limit testing measurement application, you can quickly test more than 200,000 waveforms per second to a known good waveform with quick go/no-go test results, saving you valuable test time while providing you with more confidence in test results. Test your signals to specified standards, and uncover unexpected signal anomalies.

Mask testing on other oscilloscopes is usually based on software-intensive processing technology, which tends to be slow. Keysight’s InfiniiVision oscilloscopes’ mask test option is based on hardware-based technology. This means P924xA oscilloscopes can perform more than 200,000 real-time waveform pass/fail tests per second. This provides testing throughput that is orders of magnitude faster than what is available on other oscilloscope mask test solutions, making valid pass/fail statistics almost instantly.