Performance Tests

1–16 TDS 500C, TDS 600B & TDS 700C Performance Verification and Specifications

Equipment Required

These procedures use external, traceable signal sources to directly check

warranted characteristics. The required equipment list follows this introduction.

Table 1–1: Test equipment

Item number and
description Minimum requirements Example Purpose
1. Attenuator,10X
(two required) Ratio: 10X; impedance 50 ; connec-
tors: female BNC input, male BNC
output
Tektronix part number
011-0059-02 Signal Attenuation
2. Attenuator, 5X Ratio: 5X; impedance 50 ; connec-
tors: female BNC input, male BNC
output
Tektronix part number
011-0060-02 Signal Attenuation
3. Adapter, BNC female to
Clip Leads BNC female to Clip Leads Tektronix part number
013-0076-00 Signal Coupling for Probe
Compensator Output Check
4. Terminator, 50 Impedance 50 ; connectors: female
BNC input, male BNC output Tektronix part number
011-0049-01 Signal Termination for
Channel Delay Test
5. Cable, Precision 50
Coaxial (two required) 50 , 36 in, male to male BNC
connectors Tektronix part number
012-0482-00 Signal Interconnection
6. Connector, Dual-Banana
(two required) Female BNC to dual banana Tektronix part number
103-0090-00 Various Accuracy Tests
7. Connector, BNC “T” Male BNC to dual female BNC Tektronix part number
103-0030-00 Checking Trigger Sensitivity
8. Coupler, Dual-Input Female BNC to dual male BNC Tektronix part number
067-0525-02 Checking Delay Between
Channels
9. Generator, DC Calibra-
tion Variable amplitude to ±104 V; accura-
cy to 0.1% Data Precision 8200 Checking DC Offset, Gain,
and Measurement Accuracy
10. Generator, Calibration 500 mV square wave calibrator
amplitude; accuracy to 0.25% Wavetek 9100 with options
100 and 250 (or, optionally,
Tektronix PG 506A Calibra-
tion Generator1 )
To check accuracy of CH 3
Signal Out
11. Generator, Time Mark Variable marker frequency from 10 ms
to 10 ns; accuracy within 2 ppm Wavetek 9100 with options
100 and 250 (or, optionally,
Tektronix TG 501A Time
Mark Generator1)
Checking Sample-Rate and
Delay-time Accuracy
12. Probe, 10X A P6139A, P6243, or P6245 probe2Tektronix part number
P6139A or P6245 Signal Interconnection
13. 3.5 inch, 720 K or
1.44 Mbyte, DOS-com-
patible floppy disk
Programming Examples
Software Disk (Tektronix part
number 063-1134-XX) that
comes with the TDS Family
Programmer Manual (Tektro-
nix part number
070-9556-XX)
Checking File System Basic
Functionality