HP 54616C

500MHz Digital Oscilloscope

The HP 54616C color oscilloscope continues in the tradition of Hewlett-Packard's popular HP 54600-series of digitizing scopes by delivering the comfortable feel of an analog oscilloscope with the power of a digital architecture -- and now, with color. In addition, this oscilloscope offers an incredibly high level of digitizing performance to give you confidence in your critical measurements at a fraction of the price that you might expect.

The Feel of Analog: When you're troubleshooting, you want to stay focused on two things: your circuit and the scope's display. You don't want to waste time pressing buttons or waiting for the scope to update. That's why the HP 54616C has front-panel controls that look and work like the controls on your old analog scope. Color provides the ability to identify and interpret the information on the display quickly, without taking attention off the task at hand.

The Power of Digital: Digitized waveforms open up entirely new possibilities, such as pretriggering, autoscale to automatically set voltage, time and trigger parameters, the ease and accuracy of automatic measurements, saving and recall of traces, hardcopy output to printers, and remote control with your computer.

Features:

• Color display
• 2 GSample/sec simultaneously on 2 channels
• 500 MHz analog bandwidth
• 500 MHz single shot bandwidth
• 1 ns peak detect
• Optional expansion modules for FFT, waveform storage, and remote control
• Sweep speeds from 1 ns/div to 5 s/div

Specifications:

Primary Vertical Specifications

Channels 2

Bandwidth (-3dB) dc to 500 MHz
ac coupled 10 Hz to 500 MHz

Sensitivity 2 mV/div to 5 V/div

Accuracy ±2%

Vernier Accuracy (2) ±2%

Rise Time <700 ps (calculated)

Input Coupling dc, ac, & ground

Input Impedance 1 Mohm, approx. 9 pF or 50 ohm
selectable

Secondary Vertical Specifications

Bandwidth Limit &ap; 30 MHz

Inversion CH 1 & CH 2

CMRR &ap; 20 dB at 50 MHz

Dynamic Range ±12 div from center screen

Maximum Input 250 V (dc + peak ac) or
5 Vrms in 50 ohm mode

50-ohm Protection Protects 50 ohm load from
excessive voltage

Time Skew Adjustable over a range of ±25 ns to
remove effects of cabling

Probe Sense Automatic readout of
1X, 10X, 20X, and 100X probes

Voltage Measurement Accuracy Specifications

Single Cursor Vertical Accuracy ±1.2% of full
scale ± 0.5% of position value

Dual Cursor Vertical Accuracy ±0.4% of full scale

Math Functions CH 1 + or - CH 2

Horizontal System Specifications

Main & Delayed

Main Sweep Range 5 s/div to 1 ns/div

Delayed Sweep Range Up to 200X main sweep, as
fast as 1 ns/div

Accuracy ±0.005%

Resolution 20 ps

Delay Jitter 1 ppm

Pretrigger Delay = 10 div
(Negative time)

Posttrigger Delay At least 2,560 div or 50 ms,
(Trigger to start of sweep) not to exceed 100 s

Roll Mode At sweep speeds of 500 ms/div and
slower, waveform data moves across
the display from right to left with
no dead time.

Display can be free running (nontrig-
gered) or triggered to stop on a
trigger event.

Time Measurement Accuracy

Cursor accuracy ± 0.01%
(delta-t & 1/delta-t) ± 0.2% of full scale, ± 200 ps

Internal Triggering Specifications

Sensitivity (Ch 1 & 2)
dc to 25 MHz: 0.5 div or 3.5 mV
dc to max. bandwidth: 1 div or 7 mV

Sources Channels 1 & 2, line and external

Coupling ac, dc, HF reject, LF reject, & noise
reject (LF & HF: -3db at
approx. 50 kHz)

Modes Auto, Autolevel, Normal, Single, & TV

External Triggering Specifications

Range ± 18 V

Sensitivity dc to 100 MHz: < 75 mV
dc to 500 MHz: < 150 mV

Coupling dc, ground

Input R&C 1 Mohm, ~12 pf or 50 ohm selectable

Maximum Input 250 V (dc + peak ac) or
5 Vrms in 50-ohm mode

TV Triggering Specifications

TV line and field. 0.5 div of composite sync for stable display
(Ch 1 & Ch 2)

Line Counting Delay time calibrated in
NTSC and PAL line numbers

All Field Trigger Oscilloscope triggers on the vertical
sync pulse in both fields, allowing
use with noninterlaced video.

Trigger Holdoff

Adjustable from 200 ns to approximately 13 s

X-Y Operation

Bandwidth X & Y same as vertical system

Phase Difference ± 3° at 10 MHz

Display System

Display 5.8 inch Active matrix color LCD

Resolution 255 vertical by 500 horizontal points

Controls Front-panel intensity control

Graticule 8 X 10 grid or frame

Autostore Saves previous sweeps in half bright
display and the most recent sweep in
full bright.

Acquisition System Specifications

Max Sample Rate 2 GSa/s

Resolution 8 bits

Simultaneous Channels 2

Record Length 5,000

Usable Single-Shot Bandwidth 500 MHz

Peak Detect 1-ns glitch capture

Average Number of averages selectable
at 8, 64, 256

Advanced Functions

Automatic Measurements Measurements are continously updated

Voltage Vavg, Vrms, Vpp, Vtop,
Vbase, Vmin, & Vmax

Time Frequency, Period, +Width, -Width,
Duty Cycle, Rise Time, & Fall Time

Cursors Manually or automatically placed

Setup Functions

Autoscale Sets the vertical and horizontal
deflection and the trigger level.

Save/Recall 10 front-panel setups

Trace Memory Two volatile pixel memories

Environmental Specifications

Line Voltage Range 100 Vac to 240 Vac

Line Voltage Selection Automatic

Line Frequency 45 Hz to 440 Hz

Max Power Consumption 220 VA

Temperature Operating: 0 °C to +55 °C
Nonoperating: -40 °C to +70 °C

Humidity Operating: 95% RH at 40°C for 24 Hrs
Nonoperating: 90% RH at 65°C for 24 Hrs

Altitude Operating: to 3,048 m (10,000 ft)
Nonoperating: to 12,192 m (40,000 ft)

Size (excluding handle) Height: 172 mm (6.8 in)
Width: 322 mm (12.7 in)
Depth: 317 mm (12.5 in)

Weight 6.2 kg (14 lbs)

Safety CSA Certification, IEC 348