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 TBS2000B Series Digital Storage Oscilloscope

The new TBS2000B Digital Storage Oscilloscope is great at performing an oscilloscope's most important jobs - looking at and measuring signals. See more with its bigger 9-inch display with 15 horizontal divisions for more time per screen and 5M record length to capture long time windows. Measure more with handy cursors and powerful 32 automatic measurements. Share more with Wi-fi connectivity and 100-BaseT Ethernet port. This affordable scope delivers the performance you need.



Technical Overview


TBS2000B large display  


See more, in a big way.

When you see more signal, you find anomalies faster. With an impressive 9-inch WVGA display and 15 horizontal divisions —allowing you to see 50% more signal—the TBS2000B digital storage oscilloscope not only helps you see the big picture, it gives you a clearer picture. A 5-million point record length lets you capture long time windows with higher timing resolution. Plus, the updated front-panel waveform navigation controls let you can easily pan and zoom through long records.

Measure accurately, easily and automatically.

The TBS2000B digital storage oscilloscope is loaded with easy-to-use features. The new front end design with higher 2GS/s sample rate offers lower noise and higher effective bits for more accurate measurements. With 32 automated measurements, you can measure the most commonly-needed parameters easily and more accurately. Analyze your signals with new on-waveform cursor readouts - just like a textbook.

 

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TBS2000B Automated Meaurements

 

TBS2000B Automated Measurements

 

New features and options make the best scopes better

NEW Features

  • 5M point record length, 200 MHz bandwidth, and 2GS/s sample rate capture and display significantly more signal to debug and validate designs faster.

  • New lower noise front end design offers lower random noise, better signal integrity and more accurate measurements.

  • TekVPI™ probe interface supports wide range of active, differential, and current probes with automatic scaling and units.

  • On-waveform cursor readouts with search and mark features enable easy identification of events that occur in the acquired waveform.

  • Educators can disable the autoset, cursors, and automated measurements to facilitate teaching basic concepts.

  • Bandwidth is field-upgradeable.

 

TBS2000 USB ports

Share more, with ease.

The TBS2000B is the first oscilloscope with Wi-Fi support via a USB Wi-Fi dongle. It also has 2 USB host ports and 1 LXI compliant 100-BaseT Ethernet port, making it easy to share measurements and collaborate—with your lab partner or across the globe. Plus, the included software lets you easily connect to your PC to grab screen images and analyze data.

More probes. More applications.

The TekVPI™ probe interface not only supports standard BNC probes, but also allows you to use latest-generation active voltage and current probes. TekVPI enables communication between the scope and the latest current and differential voltage probes, simplifying measurement setups and extending your range of applications.

Highlights

  • Automatically communicate scale factors to the oscillscope.

  • Probe guidance such as open-jaw errors, offset settings and degauss requirements are presented on oscilloscope display.

  • No external power supply is required to power the probe.

 TBS2000 probes

 

TBS2000 in Education

 

A powerful learning tool.

With the TBS2000B students can take a hands-on approach, thanks to features that make learning engineering fundamentals easier.

Highlights

  • HelpEverywhere offers instant tips - including measurement information, application tips, and general guidance in the form of text and graphics - as you navigate through key menus.

  • TekSmart Lab™ network software helps instructors set up and monitor many instruments from one PC.

  • Courseware ecosystem lets instructors load information into the TBS2000B, to help students during labs.

  • Autoset, cursors, and automated measurements can be disabled to facilitate teaching basic concepts


Models

Model

Analogue Bandwidth

Sample Rate

Record Length

Analog Channels

Automated Measurements

 TBS2072B

70 MHz

up to 2 GS/s

5M point

2

32

 TBS2074B

70 MHz

up to 2 GS/s

5M point

4

32

TBS2102B

100 MHz

up to 2 GS/s

5M point

2

32

TBS2104B

100 MHz

up to 2 GS/s

5M point

4

32

TBS2202B

200 MHz

up to 2 GS/s

5M point

2

32

 TBS2204B

200 MHz

up to 2 GS/s

5M point

4

32


Applications

Embedded Design

TBS2000B Embedded Design

 

The TBS2000B oscilloscope provides the embedded design engineer with a large 9-inch screen that shows 50% more horizontal signal with 15 divisions.

  • Easily pan and zoom through long records with front-panel waveform navigation controls
  • 32 automatic measurements enable you to measure the most commonly needed parameters
  • Built in FFT for quick frequency domain analysis

Power Measurements.

The TBS2000B offers flexible probing solutions, so you can measure a wider range of signals without the need for a separate power supply.

  • Supports a wide variety of voltage and current probes with the easy-to-use TekVPI® probe interface
    • Passive Probes
    • Current Probes
    • Differential Probes
    • High Voltage Probes
  • Probes automatically communicate scale factors to the oscilloscope
  • Active probes are powered by the oscilloscope. No external power needed
 

 TBS2000B Power Measurements

Education

TBS2000B in Education

 

The TBS2000B Oscilloscope offers new features that enable educators to devote more time to teaching engineering concepts and less time on lab setup and management.

  • Built-in Courseware Lab Viewer
  • TekSmartLab Teaching Assistant Applications Software
  • Ability to independently disable AutoSet, Cursors and Measurements
  • Five-year warranty as standard
  • Kensington lock

Using the TBS2000B

How to Set Up Oscilloscope Probes, Vertical & Horizontal Settings

Anyone can twiddle the knobs on a scope and get something. And there’s always “Autoset” in a pinch. But do you know how to compensate a probe? How about the difference between a 1X and 10X probe? Do you know what AC coupling can do for you? Once you get the vertical controls figured out, the horizontal controls are easy.

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Watch this video on setting up scope probes, vertical & horizontal settings

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How to Set Up Oscilloscope Triggering (Part 1: Edge Triggering)

Have you ever struggled to get a stable waveform on your scope? This video will show you how to set your triggers to get a stable display of signals from simple sine waves to modulated signals and burst signals. We’ll look at basic edge triggering, briefly talk about trigger coupling, and introduce trigger hold-off to trigger on bursts.

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Watch this video to see how to set up scope triggering

 

How to Set Up Oscilloscope Triggering (Part 2: Pulse Width & Runt Triggering)

In this 2nd video on triggering an oscilloscope, we look at pulse-width triggering, trigger hold-off and runt pulse triggers. These techniques will come in handy when capturing digital signals and bursts.

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Watch this video to see how to set up scope triggering

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Basic Time and Amplitude Measurements

Find out how to take voltage and time measurements off the oscilloscope display and by using cursors.

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Basic Time & Amplitude Measurements Using the Tektronix Built in Automated Functions

This video tutorial will introduce you to basic time and amplitude measurements using built-in automated measurement functions available on TBS2000B series oscilloscopes. You will be guided through steps on how to add measurements on a specified input channel and define a portion of the waveform for measurement. We’ll cover the most basic and common measurements such as amplitude, max, min, peak-to-peak period, frequency, and phase.

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How to make RMS, MEAN and AREA Measurements with the TBS2000B

This video tutorial will introduce you to statistical measure of amplitude measurements using built-in automated measurement functoins available on the TBS2000B series oscilloscope. Along with the definition of the measurements, you will be guided through steps on how to add measurements on a specified input channel and how to evaluate the measurement.

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Watch this video to see how to make RMS, Mean and Area measurements

 

How to Use Auto Measurement Functions to Create Pulse and Digital Signals

Many oscilloscope measurements are used for characterizing pulse signals or digital data. While you can always use cursors or estimate the measurement off the disply, it's often easier and more precise to use the built-in measurements on the scope. In this video tutorial we'll show you how to make digital signal amplitude measurement like high, low and overshoot. You'll learn about pulse and edge counting, and we'll talk about time measurements like rise and fall times and delay measurements.

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Watch this video to see how to characterise pulse or digital data.

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