LeCroy WaveSurfer 10M - Digital Oscilloscope 1 GHz, 5 GS/s

The WaveSurfer 10 combines the MAUI advanced user interface with powerful waveform processing, in addition to advanced math, measurement and debug tools, to quickly analyze and find the root cause of problems. With a 10.4” touch screen display, high performance hardware, and compact form factor, the WaveSurfer 10 is unique among 1 GHz oscilloscopes.

Uncompromised Performance

Many 1 GHz oscilloscopes are available at attractive entry point prices however are often limited in sample rate, memory or features. The WaveSurfer 10 provides uncompromised 1 GHz performance with up to 10 GS/s per channel and 32 Mpts of memory.

Advanced Debug Toolkit

With the addition of the Advanced Debug Toolkit, the WaveSurfer 10 becomes an unparalleled debug and analysis machine adding 10 GS/s sample rate on 4 channels, 32 Mpts of memory, sequence mode, history mode, 13 additional math functions, and 2 simultaneous math traces.

Capture Debug, Analyze, Document

Easily accessible measurement, math and debug tools, plus a wide variety of serial data protocol decoders, and active probes ensure the WaveSurfer 10 can capture and analyze any type of waveform and simplify the debug process. The LabNotebook tool provides a fast way to save waveforms, save setups and screen images, report results, and view offline.

MAUI - A New Wave of Thinking

MAUI is the most advanced oscilloscope user interface. MAUI is designed for touch; all important oscilloscope controls are accessed through the intuitive touch screen. MAUI is built for simplicity; time saving shortcuts and intuitive dialogs simplify setup. MAUI is made to solve; deep set of debug and analysis tools help identify problems and find solutions quickly.
 
Oscilloscopes are constantly evolving to meet the rapidly changing test and measurement needs of today’s cutting edge designs. Additional complexity and capabilities are introduced with each new feature, and in some cases when capabilities of other instruments like a protocol analyzer, function generator or logic analyzer are added. With all this added capability the oscilloscope becomes complex and cumbersome to use. The traditional user interface consisting of knobs, buttons, soft keys and nested menus is unmanageable and more buttons are typically added to access the new functionality.

MAUI solves the complexity problem. MAUI eliminates the overwhelming number of buttons and knobs providing an intuitive user interface that is designed for touch, built for simplicity and made to solve without sacrificing any features or cutting edge test capabilities.

Designed for Touch

MAUI is designed for touch. All important controls for vertical, horizontal and trigger are always one touch away. Touch the waveform to position and drag a box around it to zoom in for more details. Position cursors, configure measurements and interact with tables all through simple touch operation.

Built for Simplicity

MAUI is built for simplicity. Basic waveform viewing and measurement tools as well as advanced math and analysis capabilities are seamlessly integrated in a single user interface. Time saving shortcuts and intuitive dialogs simplify setup and shorten debug time.

Made to Solve

MAUI is made to solve. Measure all aspects of a waveform to identify problems. Debug with a large set of time saving tools to find the cause of problems. Solve problems fast with powerful analysis tools.

Advanced Tools For Waveform Analysis

Embedded Controller Design and Debug

Save time when working with embedded controllers by adding high-performance mixed signal capability with the WaveSurfer 10. Capture digital signals up to 250 MHz with up to 10 Mpts/Ch memory, 1 GS/s and 18 channels. Quickly and easily isolate specific serial data events with optional I 2 C, SPI, UART, RS-232, USB 1.0/1.1/2.0, USB2-HSIC, 10/100Base T ENET, Audio (I2S, LJ, RJ, TDM), MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, MIPI D-PHY, DigRF, CAN, CAN FD, LIN, FlexRay, SENT, Manchester, and NRZ trigger and decode options.

WaveScan Advanced Search and Find Tool

Quickly search waveforms for runts, glitches or other anomalies with WaveScan.

LabNotebook Documentation and Report Generation Tool

Save all results and data with a single button press and create custom reports with LabNotebook.

Pass/Fail Mask Testing

Built-in masking testing quickly identifies problems and marks the location. A history of the pass/fail results can be displayed on the screen.

Enhanced Resolution

The enhanced resolution (ERES) feature improves vertical resolution of the oscilloscope resulting in cleaner traces and the ability to see more signal details. Up to 3 bits of ERES can be applied.

Advanced Math and Measure

Use automatic measurement parameters with statistics and histicons as well as math functions to understand every waveform detail.

WaveStream Fast Viewing Mode

WaveStream provides a vibrant, intensity graded (256 levels) display with a fast update to closely simulate the look and feel of an analog oscilloscope.

LabNotebook Documentation Tool

LabNotebook is a one-button tool to save and restore waveforms, measurements and settings without navigating multiple menus. Saved waveforms can be measured and analyzed later both on the oscilloscope or offline using the WaveStudio PC Utility.

WaveStudio Offline Analysis Tool

WaveStudio is a fast and easy way to analyze acquired waveforms offline. Offline tools include x and y axis cursors for quick measurements and 21 built-in automatic measurements for more precise and accurate results. WaveStudio can also connect to the oscilloscope for direct data transfer to the PC. Data saved with LabNotebook can be shared with others using WaveStudio for easy collaboration.

Advanced Debug Tool Kit

With the addition of the Advanced Debug Toolkit software, the WaveSurfer 10 becomes an unparalleled debug and analysis machine. The high sample rate of 10 GS/s on all 4 channels, 32 Mpts of memory, sequence mode segmented memory, history mode waveform playback, 13 addi- tional math functions, and 2 simul- taneous math traces, all included in this powerful debug package, enable the WaveSurfer 10 to perform advanced analysis on long captures with 10x oversampling to find the root cause of problems.

Advanced Waveform Capture with Sequence Mode

Use Sequence mode to store up to 5,000 triggered events as “segments” into memory. This can be ideal when capturing many fast pulses in quick succession or when capturing events separated by long time periods. Sequence mode provides timestamps for each acquisition and minimizes dead-time between triggers to less than 1 μ s. Combine Sequence mode with advanced triggers to isolate rare events over time and analyze afterwards.

History Mode Waveform Playback

Scroll back in time using History Mode to view previous waveforms and isolate anomalies. Use cursors and measurement parameters to quickly find the source of problems. History mode is always available with a single button press, no need to enable this mode and never miss a waveform.

Embedded Controller Design and Debug

Teledyne LeCroy’s versatile WaveSurfer 10 mixed signal oscilloscope combines the powerful WaveSurfer 10 with the flexibility of digital inputs using the MS-250. In addition, the many triggering and decoding options turn the WaveSurfer 10 into an all-in-one analog, digital, and serial data trigger, acquisition, and debug machine.

High-performance Mixed Signal Capabilities

Embedded controller design and debug involves capturing and viewing a number of different types of signals. These signals are typically a mix of analog, digital, and serial data wave- forms from a combination of analog sensors, microcontrollers and peripheral devices. With the ability to capture digital signals with speeds up to 250 MHz and long memory of 10 Mpts/Ch the WaveSurfer 10 provides unmatched mixed signal performance. The WaveSurfer 10 is the ideal tool for test- ing embedded systems with 8-bit micro- controllers or slower digital signals. With 18 digital inputs each with 250 MHz maximum input frequency and 10 Mpts/Ch memory, the WaveSurfer 10 is an outstanding value and provides a complete set of tools for embedded system testing

Extensive Triggering

The WaveSurfer 10 has extensive digital trigger capabilities. Normal oscilloscope triggers will operate on digital inputs. Cross-pattern triggering allows for simple or complex trigger patterns to be setup with any combination of analog and digital channels. Event triggering can be configured to arm on an analog signal and trigger on a digital pattern.

Quick Mixed Signal Setup, Easy-to-use

Unlike a traditional Logic Analyzer, the WaveSurfer 10 is easy to use. A simple connection links the oscilloscope with the digital inputs so users can start viewing signals and begin debugging quickly. In addition, all standard oscilloscope tools are readily accessible. Signal debug is simple, using standard oscilloscope tools, such as cursors, measurement parameters, and zooming.

Serial Trigger and Decode Options

Debugging serial data busses can be confusing and time consuming. The serial data and decode options for WaveSurfer 10 provide time saving tools for serial bus debug and validation.

Powerful Serial Data Triggers

The serial data trigger will quickly isolate events on a bus eliminating the need to set manual triggers and hoping to catch the right information. Trigger conditions can be entered in binary or hexadecimal formats and conditional trigger capabilities even allow triggering on a range of different events.

Intuitive, Color-Coded Decode Overlay

Protocol decoding is shown directly on the waveform with an intuitive, color-coded overlay and presented in binary, hex or ASCII. Decoding on the WaveSurfer 10 is fast even with long memory and zooming in to the wave- form shows precise byte by byte decoding.

Table Summary and Search/Zoom

To further simplify the debug process all decoded data can be displayed in a table below the waveform grid. Selecting an entry in the table with the touch screen will display just that event. Additionally, built-in search functionality will find specific decoded values.

Spectrum and Power Analyzer

Simple Frequency Domain Analysis

Get better insight to the frequency content of any signal with use of the Spectrum Analyzer mode on the WaveSurfer 10. This mode provides a spectrum analyzer style user interface with controls for start/stop frequency or center frequency and span. The unique peak search automatically labels spectral components and pres- ents frequency and level in an interac- tive table. Utilize up to 20 markers to automatically identify harmonics and monitor how the spectrum changes over time using the spectrogram which can display a 2D or 3D history of the frequency content.

Power Analyzer Automates Switching Device Loss Measurements

Quickly measure and analyze the operating characteristics of power conversion devices and circuits with the Power Analyzer option. Critical power switching device measurements, control loop modulation analysis, and line power harmonic testing are all simplified with a dedicated user interface and automatic measurements. Areas of turn-on, turn-off, and conduction loss are all identified with color-coded waveform overlays for faster analysis.