The TDS 700A family introduces InstaVu Acquisition mode which provides the world's fastest waveform capture rate. Prior to InstaVu Acquisition mode, sporadic signal events could only be captured with a Tektronix 2467B and 7104 with their Multi Channel Plate (MCP) display. The TDS 700A oscilloscopes with InstaVu Acquisition mode can capture waveforms even faster than the world's fastest analog scopes.
With waveform capture rates exceeding 400,000 waveforms per second, InstaVu Acquisition allows you to instantaneously capture glitches and signal anomalies that could take hours for a state-of-the-art digitizing oscilloscope inpersistence mode to capture or that would be completely missed by common analog scopes. Today's state-of-the-art DSO's can only capture a maximum of a couple hundred real-time waveforms per second which translates to about an 8 ms hold-off between acquisitions or 0.0065% of the time actually spent on acquiring data. In comparison, InstaVu Acquisition has a minimum hold-off between acquisitions of only 1.7 microsecond which means that it is acquiring a signal 23% of the time - a 3500 times increase over a state-of-the-art DSO! Therefore, with InstaVu Acquisition you will instantly capture glitches that you've either had to wait a long time for, or that you never knew existed.
A new button dedicated to InstaVu Acquisition has been added to the TDS front panel. This button instantly moves you between standard DSO acquisition modes and InstaVu Acquisition. Push the InstaVu Acquisition Mode button to instantly see what is going on in your system, and then push the button again to go back to standard DSO modes to isolate and analyze any anomalies found with InstaVu Acquisition by using the TDS700A's specialized triggers and advanced math. Like an analog scope, InstaVu Acquisition provides a single screen of data, and it shows intensity information (relative occurrence of events) using color grading. Unlike an analog scope, InstaVu Acquisition can perform automatic measurements and save screen images to disk or to a printer. Moreover, you also have the full utility of the world's most advanced digitizing oscilloscopes at the push of a button.
