The Tektronix 2 series MSO offers a compact form factor at approximately 1.5” thick making it the go to oscilloscope for electronic debug and test, no matter where you work. Available with 2 or 4 analog channels and bandwidth up to 500 MHz, the 2 series features a 2.5 GS/s sample rate, advanced triggers, 36 automated measurements and more. Easily customized to your specific application, the 2 series also has several optional features including 16-channel MSO capability, a 50 MHz arbitrary function generator, serial trigger/decode/analysis, and more.

Intuitive touchscreen with simplified front panel

The 2 Series MSO offers the same, award-winning user interface as on the higher end Tektronix oscilloscopes and supports touch interactions that you have come to expect in a touch-enabled consumer device.

• Drag waveforms left/right or up/down to adjust the horizontal and vertical position or to pan a zoomed view
• Pinch and expand to change scale or zoom in/out in either horizontal or vertical directions
• Swipe in from the right to reveal the results bar or down from the top to access the menus in the upper left corner of the display

The simplified front panel retains critical buttons and knobs with color-coded LED ring lights allowing quick access and easy adjustment of the most frequently used instrument settings.

The membrane switch technology makes it rugged and suitable for use in harsh environments and easy to clean.

The combination of a streamlined front panel with an intuitive touch interface makes it easy for any new engineer to self-discover and begin using the instrument.

An USB mouse and/or a keyboard is also supported and can be used as a third interaction method with the instrument

The user interface on the 2 Series MSO is designed from the ground up for touch operation. All the key information is presented as a series of badges with visual cues to show an association. Get immediate access to instrument configuration or waveform management tasks with a single tap.

The large display in the 2 Series MSO provides plenty of viewing area not only for signals, but also for plots, measurement results tables, bus decode tables, and more. You can easily resize and relocate the various views to suit your needs.

Simultaneously view analog channels, decoded serial bus waveform, results table, measurement results, math FFT plot, and cursor readouts along with the setup information for each input with the highly customizable user interface.

Discovering a device fault is only the first step. Next, you must capture the event of interest to identify root cause. The 2 Series MSO provides a complete set of advanced triggers, including runt, logic, pulse width, triggers, timeout, rise/fall time, setup and hold, serial packet, and parallel data that can be used to capture complex infrequent events.

Navigation and search

With up to 10 M point record length, you can capture many events of interest, even thousands of serial packets in a single acquisition, while maintaining high resolution to zoom in on fine signal details.

Finding events of interest in a long waveform record can be time-consuming without the right search tools.

The search feature allows you to automatically search through your acquisition for user-defined events. All occurrences of the event are highlighted with search marks for easy navigation. Search types include edge, pulse width, timeout, runt, window, logic, setup and hold, rise/fall time, and parallel/serial bus packet content. You can also quickly jump to the minimum and maximum value of search results.

Mask testing

Mask testing offers a good way to test the quality of a signal. A mask defines a portion of the oscilloscope display that a signal must not enter. A mask can be defined either based on a golden signal with user-defined tolerances or by drawing mask segments on the screen.

2 Series MSO provides a comprehensive set of mask tools that allow:

• Defining test duration in the number of waveforms
• Setting a violation threshold that must be met before considering a test failure
• Counting violations/failures and reporting statistical information
• Setting actions upon violations, test failure, and test complete

The 2 Series MSO offers a robust set of tools for working with the most common serial buses found in embedded design including I2C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, CAN, CAN FD, LIN, SENT.

The protocol decode and triggering capability is invaluable to trace the flow of activity through a system by observing the traffic on one or more serial buses.

The 2 Series MSO comes equipped with 16 digital channels. A P6316 digital probe can be used to connect up to 16 signals to the digital inputs of the oscilloscope. The accessories that are included with the probe enable you to connect directly to 8x2 square pin headers. The included flying lead sets and grabbers can be used to clip into surface mount devices or test points offering additional flexibility.

Each digital channel can be viewed separately to see its state. Alternately, several digital channels can be grouped to view them together in a bus form. Symbol tables can also be applied to the bus view to get a higher-level view of the bus transactions. Pattern triggering capability can be used to trigger a pattern of interest.

The 2 Series MSO includes an optional 50 MHz arbitrary function generator perfect for simulating sensor signals within a design or adding noise to signals to perform margin testing. The AFG output is multiplexed with the Aux out signal.

Several predefined waveforms including sine, square, pulse, ramp/triangle, DC, noise, sin(x)/x (Sinc), gaussian, lorentz, exponential rise/ fall, Haversine, and cardiac are included.

The arbitrary waveform generator provides 128k points of record for loading waveforms captured on the analog input, a saved file. Alternatively Tektronix ArbExpress PC-based waveform creation an editing software can be used to create complex waveforms quickly and easily.

Digital pattern generator (optional)

A 4-bit digital pattern generator with 2k point record length per bit is included on the 2 Series MSO for generating 4 digital signals at predefined voltage levels.

An output pattern can be loaded in the memory using a predefined CSV file or the state of each output can be manually set to high, low, toggle, or Hi-Z as needed.

Digital voltmeter and frequency counter (optional)

The instrument contains an integrated 4-digit digital voltmeter and 8-digit frequency counter. Any of the analog inputs can be a source for the voltmeter, using the same probes that are already attached for general oscilloscope usage. The frequency counter provides a very precise readout of the frequency of the selected input channel.

The 2 Series MSO also supports an optional battery pack that provides additional flexibility to perform measurements in areas where there is no AC power available such as testing equipment in the field.

The battery pack has 2 battery slots and can support hot-swapping of the batteries during operation to extend run time on batteries.

The batteries are charged when the instrument is on AC power, or they can be charged using an external charger.