Tektronix TDS2012C Digitizing Oscilloscope

Performance You Need at a Price You Can Afford

The TDS2012C Digital Storage Oscilloscope provides you with affordable performance in a compact design. Packed with standard features - including USB connectivity, 16 automated measurements, limit testing, data logging, and context-sensitive help - the TDS2012C digital oscilloscope helps you get more done, in less time.

Digital Precision for Accurate Measurements
With 100 MHz bandwidth and 2 GS/s sample rate, no other digital storage oscilloscope offers as much bandwidth and sample rate for the price. Tektronix proprietary sampling technology provides real-time sampling with a minimum of 10X oversampling on both channels, all the time to accurately capture your signals. Sampling performance is not reduced when using both channels.

Critical Tools for Troubleshooting Your Device
Advanced triggers - rising/falling edge, pulse width, and video - help you quickly isolate your signals of interest. Once you've captured a signal, advanced math capabilities and automated measurements can speed your analysis. Quickly perform an FFT or add, subtract, or multiply waveforms. Sixteen automated measurements quickly and reliably calculate important signal characteristics such as frequency or rise time, while the built-in Limit Test function enables you to easily identify problems in your signal.

Flexible Data Transfer
The USB host port on the front panel enables you to save your instrument settings, screenshots, and waveform data in a flash. The built-in data logging feature means you can set up your oscilloscope to save user-specified triggered waveforms to a USB memory device for up to 8 hours.

Easy PC Connectivity
Easily capture, save, and analyze measurements results by connecting to your PC with the rear-panel USB device port and the included copy of OpenChoice PC Communications Software. Simply pull screen images and waveform data into the stand-alone desktop application or directly into Microsoft Word and Excel. Alternatively, if you prefer not to use your PC, you can simply print your image directly to any PictBridge-compatible printer.

Includes: TPP0101 Passive 10X probes (one per channel), user manual, CD with OpenChoice communication software and NI SignalExpress TE (Base Version) software, power cord, NIST-traceable calibration certificate. Limited lifetime warranty, excluding probes.

Includes: TPP0101 Passive 10X probes (one per channel), user manual, CD with OpenChoice communication software and NI SignalExpress TE (Base Version) software, power cord, NIST-traceable calibration certificate. Limited lifetime warranty, excluding probes.

What's new in the TDS2000C compared to the TDS2000B

NEW Waveform Limit Testing

• Monitor signal changes and output pass or fail results
• Quick and easy template definition
• Record multiple failed waveforms to USB memory device in waveform and/or screen image formats
• Source can be any input channel or math waveform
• User specified stop condition of elapsed time, waveforms or violations

NEW Data Logging

• Save triggered waveforms together with time stamps to USB memory device
• Source can be any input channel or math waveform
• User defined duration - from 30 minutes to 8 hours in 30 minute steps
• Waveform storage determined by time base setting, trigger rate and USB write time

NEW Expanded Measurement Set

• 5 new measurements added
  • RMS measurement
  • Cursor RMS measurement
  • Duty cycle measurement
  • Delay measurement
  • Phase measurement
• Total of 16 measurements plus frequency counter
• Measure active channel or math waveform
• On-screen cursors help make quick time and voltage readings

NEW TDS2000C Passive Probes: TPP0x01 Series

• Reduced Circuit Loading
  • Input capacitance is only 12 pF
  • It is the lowest loading in $100 passive probe market
• Small Form Factor
  • Sleeker design (3.8mm probe head)
  • Allows for probing in tight spaces and better visibility of the points being measured
  • It is the smallest form factor in $100 passive probe market
• UL Safety rating
  • It is the only probe that meet UL strict guidelines for product safety in $100 passive probe market
• Sharp tip
  • Has a longer sharper tip to probe the finer geometry parts

• 100 MHz Bandwidth
• 2-channel
• 2 GS/s Sample Rate on both Channels
• 2.5k point Record Length on both Channels
• Advanced Triggers including Pulse Width and Line-selectable Video
• 16 Automated Measurements, and FFT Analysis
• Built-in Waveform Limit Testing
• Automated, Extended Data Logging Feature
• Autoset and Signal Auto-ranging
• Built-in Context-sensitive Help, Multiple-language User Interface
• Probe Check Wizard
• 5.7 in. (144 mm) Active TFT Color Display
• Small Footprint and Lightweight Only 4.9" Deep and 4.4 pounds
• USB 2.0 Connectivity, Host and Device Ports