Additional Features:

• Software available to add to an instrument at time of purchase
• Automotive Sensor Serial Triggering and Analysis (SENT)
• Trigger on all the critical elements of a serial bus such as address, data, etc.
• Decode all the critical elements of each message. No more counting 1s and 0s!
• Search through long acquisitions with user-defined criteria to find specific messages
• Event Table shows decoded serial bus activity in a tabular, timestamped format for quick summary of system activity

Characteristics

BUS Setup Options

• SENT source: Analog channels, Digital channels, Active Math channels, Active Reference channels
• Thresholds: Per-channel thresholds
• Recommended Probing: Single-ended
• Polarity: Normal, Inverted
• Clock Tick: 1 μs - 300 μs
• Tick Tolerance: 1% - 30%
• Fast Data Channels: 1 or 2
• Data Nibbles (1 Fast Data Channel): 3, 4, or 6 nibbles
• Channel Widths (C1/C2) (2 Fast Data Channels): 12/12, 14/10, or 16/8 bits
• Pause Pulse: Yes, No
• Slow Channel: None, Enhanced w/ 4-bit ID, Enhanced w/ 8-bit ID, Short
• Formats Available: Mixed Hex, Binary, Hex, Mixed Decimal

Display modes

• Bus: Bus only
• Bus and Waveforms: Simultaneous display of bus and digital waveforms
• Results Table: Decoded packet data in a tabular view

Bus trigger options

• Trigger On: Start of Packet, Fast Channel (Status/Communication, Data), CRC Error

Bus search options

• Search On: Start of Packet, Fast Channel (Status/Communication, Data), Slow Channel (Message ID, Data), Pause Pulse (Number of Ticks), Error (Frame Length, CRC)

Bus decode

• Maximum Clock/Data Rate: Up to 10 Mb/s (for automated decoding of bus)

Decode Display:

• Sync (green packet)
• Fast Channel Status (purple packet)
• Slow Channel Message ID (yellow packet)
• Data (cyan packet)
• CRC (purple packet)
• Pause (purple packet)
• Errors (red packet)

The Tektronix 5-SRAUTOSEN Software enables triggering on packet-level information on SENT buses as well as analytical tools such as digital views of the signal, bus views, packet decoding, search tools, and packet decode tables with time stamp information.

On a serial bus, a single signal often includes address, control, data, and clock information. This can make isolating events of interest difficult. The serial applications for the 5 Series MSO transform the oscilloscopes into a robust tool for debugging serial buses with automatic trigger and decode for I2C, SPI, CAN, CAN FD, LIN, FlexRay, SENT, RS-232/422/485, UART, MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, I2S, LJ, RJ, and TDM.