Tektronix TDS540 Oscilloscope, Digital: 500MHz,1GSa/s,4ch (Stand alone)
The Tektronix TDS540 oscilloscope is a graph-displaying device – it draws a graph of an electrical signal. In most applications, the graph shows how signals change over time: the vertical (Y) axis represents voltage and the horizontal (X) axis represents time. The intensity or brightness of the display is sometimes called the Z axis.
The Tektronix TDS540 oscilloscope's simple graph can tell you many things about a signal, such as: the time and voltage values of a signal, the frequency of an oscillating signal, the “moving parts” of a circuit represented by the signal, the frequency with which a particular portion of the signal is occurring relative to, other portions, whether or not a malfunctioning component is distorting the signal, how much of a signal is direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC) and how much of the signal is noise and whether the noise is changing with time.
orm Factor | Benchtop |
Bandwidth | 500 MHz |
Number of Channels | 4 ch |
Simultaneous Channels | 4 ch |
Simultaneous Maximum Sampling Rate/ch | 250 MSa/s |
One ch. only max. sampling rate | 1 GSa/s |
Max. Record Length | 15000 pt/sec |
Min. Vertical Sensitivity | 1 mV/div |
Maximum Vertical Sensitivity | 10 V/div |
Number of Bits | 8 bits |
Input Impedance | 1 MOhm |
Input Impedance (alternate) | 50 Ohm |
Input Coupling | AC,DC,GND |
Maximum Input Voltage | 400 Vrms |
Main time base – lowest | 500 ps/div |
Main time base – highest | 10 s/div |
Timebase accuracy | .005 % |
Trigger Source | Internal |
Trigger Modes | Auto,Edge,Logic,Normal,Pulse,Single |
Minimum Glitch Trigger | 2 ns |
Display Size | 17.78 cm |
Display modes | Dot,Persistence,Vector |
Display Update Rate | 150 wv/sec |