Test instrument and meter manufacturer Yokogawa has added new enhancements to its DLM4000 Series of eight-channel mixed-signal oscilloscopes for testing and debugging in the embedded systems, power electronics, mechatronics and automotive sectors. The new upgrades include additional channels and new firmware for power measurements and serial-bus testing.
“The new L16 option adds 16 more channels of logic to give seven channels of analog, plus 24-bit digital input, allowing a more detailed analysis of embedded electronics and serial-bus based systems,” the company said. The eight channels available on the original instrument could be allocated either as eight analog channels or seven analog channels and one 8-bit digital input.
In addition, “upgraded firmware on the /G4 option for power measurements” enables the oscilloscope to be used “as a fully featured 3-phase power meter, with the eight channels allowing voltages and currents to be individually measured and displayed alongside derived values. With this option, the instrument offers automated measurement of power parameters for up to four pairs of voltage and current waveforms. These values can then be statistically processed and calculated to provide peak, average and root-mean-square values, along with many other parameters, such as power factor and q-factor.”
New firmware on the /F1 to /F6 options for serial-bus testing also doubles the number of buses that can be simultaneously tested, enabling the possibility of testing “four CAN, LIN or I2C buses or two SPI buses, plus one other, such as a UART interface.”
