CS328A-XS

The Cleverscope CS328A is a USB 2.0 mixed signal PC oscilloscope which brings benefits to the user that are unavailable from traditional stand-alone oscilloscopes.
Its innovative approach delivers an unbeatable combination of affordability, ease of use and documentation of test results with the simple 〝Copy and Paste〞 facility

Key features include...

• 2 by 14 bit analog channels - 100 MSa/s simultaneously
• USB 2.0 Interface to the PC
• 8 digital inputs - 100 MSa/s
• Huge 8M Samples storage per channel - up to 32Mbytes in total
• Highly flexible mixed signal triggering
• View small ac signals superimposed on large dc or ac offset
• Windows application software XP & Vista, 32 or 64bit
• Simple Copy and Paste into other applications such as Word, Excel
• Oscilloscope and Spectrum analyzer displays
• Self calibration
• Upgradeable firmware
• CE approved
• Includes all probes, cables, power supply, software and manual

CS328A Acquisition Unit

• Two 14 bit analog channels sampling simultaneously at 100 MSa/sec. AC or DC coupled.
• USB 2.0 Interface to the PC
• Gain automatically set from 20mV full scale to 800V full scale by choosing graph view and probe switch setting.
• Offset automatically set to correspond to the selected amplitude axis view. As an example a graph with amplitude axis of 2.40 to 2.42V automatically chooses a 20mV range offset by +2.40V - good for looking at small signals in single supply op-amp applications.
• Analog triggering of the waveform in view with a resolution of 1% of the display height. The analog trigger may optionally be conditioned with a low pass, high pass or noise filter.
• One external trigger, threshold adjustable from 0 to ±20V in 40 mV increments.
• Eight digital inputs sampling at 100 MSa/sec, threshold adjustable from 0 to 8 V in 10 mV increments.
• A hardware trigger system based on a rising or falling edge on any input signal, optionally qualified by a user determined digital input combination and a minimum or maximum trigger duration.
• A rear panel I/O connector with a 100 Mbit/sec bi-directional LVDS/RS422 link, and three RS422 outputs defaulting to sampling started, trigger received and sampling stopped.
• Each channel (two analog, ext trigger and eight digital) includes 8M samples of storage, providing 40 ms of simultaneous storage for each channel, with 10 ns resolution.
• The sample storage may be allocated as between 2 to 3000 frames varying in size from 4M to 2000 samples. These may be used as a history store for reviewing previously captured signals, or to capture up to 3000 trigger events with a minimal inter-frame delay, while maintaining time relative to the first trigger for all succeeding frames.
• 20 MHz 5th order Anti-alias filter for improved Spectrum Analysis performance.
• CS700A Signal generator.
• Triggered LED and Power LED on the front panel.
• Input power range from 6 ~ 12V, 6W provided by a universal mains adaptor.
• Low jitter (1 ps rms) sampling clock for 70 dB spurious free dynamic range.
• Self calibration to ensure DC performance specifications are met.
• Enclosure size: 153 x 195 x 35 mm.

The CS700A Signal generator generates sine, square and triangle output waveforms. The amplitude may be varied between 0 and 5V pk-pk, in 10mV steps. The offset maybe varied from –4 to +4V in 10 mV steps. The generator can be FSK and PSK modulated, and Frequency swept. The sweep may be synchronized with the Spectrum Analyser to carry out transfer response measurement. Two of the digital inputs may be allocated to switch between either of the two frequencies or two phases.

CS300 Application Software

• Separate, freely moveable and resizable windows to display the signal, a zoomed signal view, and the frequency spectrum of the signal, and control panel.
• The zoomed signal view optionally tracks the signal view cursor.
• Spectrum analysis with a variety of conditioning windows and display in log or linear format.
• Each signal window includes a time/amplitude tracer, and two markers for comparison purposes. Colours are user definable.
• Signal averaging (exponential, block and peak hold) and low pass filtering.
• Signal measurement, including Peak to Peak, RMS, DC, pulse width, period and frequency.
• Copy and Paste graphic or data to other applications.
• Save and Open from disk.
• User defined units, signal names and scaling (offset and gain).
• Text annotation of each graph.

CS328A Equipment List

The following equipment is included with the CS328A:

• 1 x CS328A Oscilloscope Acquisition Unit
• 1 x Power Supply Unit and lead
• 2 x CS1001 1x/10x 150MHz probe kit
• 1 x CS1004/CS1005 8 bit 100MHz digital input pods including probes
• 1 x USB cable
• 1 x CS300 Application Software CD
• 1 x CS328A User Manual