MSO5000HD-SENT

MSO5000HD-SENT – SENT Protocol Decode Option

🚗 Sensor Signal Decoding for Automotive Embedded Systems

The UNI-T MSO5000HD Series oscilloscope is purpose-built for automotive electronics and sensor interface validation. With its 12-bit vertical resolution, up to 1 GHz bandwidth, and deep 500 Mpts memory depth, it provides the clarity and precision needed to analyze modern serial buses. The MSO5000HD-SENT option unlocks decoding and triggering for SENT (Single Edge Nibble Transmission)—a unidirectional automotive sensor protocol widely used for transmitting high-resolution data from pressure, temperature, and position sensors.

SENT provides a low-cost alternative to analog signaling or CAN for time-critical sensor data, especially in safety-critical applications like airbags, throttle position, or exhaust monitoring. With this decode license, your MSO5000HD becomes an intelligent SENT analyzer with full timing and content visibility.

🔍 Key Capabilities

• Decode Fast Channel and Slow Channel data formats

• Trigger on status nibble, CRC error, synchronization faults, or specific data patterns

• View full waveform overlays with decoded nibble values, tick timing, and message structure

• Detect checksum mismatches, noise-induced errors, or missing pulses

• Use the event table for review of long captures and specific event filtering

• Capture timing issues across the entire SENT frame including Sync, Data, and Pause segments

🧠 Benefits of MSO5000HD-SENT

• Simplified Sensor Interface Debug
  Decode unidirectional data from sensors without external tools or protocol analyzers.

• Time-Aligned Signal Analysis
  See how power fluctuations, EMI, or logic interference correlate with data or CRC errors.

• High Confidence in Safety Systems
  Validate frame timing, synchronization, and error detection in brake pressure or throttle applications.

🛠️ Ideal Applications

• Throttle position and manifold pressure sensor debugging

• Exhaust aftertreatment system validation

• Crankshaft/camshaft position sensors

• Automotive safety system design (airbags, stability control)

• Tier 1 sensor module integration

🔗 Bundle Availability

The MSO5000HD-SENT decode option is also included in:

• ✅ MSO5000HD-AUTO – for engineers working with automotive serial buses (CAN-FD, LIN, SENT, FlexRay, and more)

• ✅ MSO5000HD-BND – full unlock for all protocol options available on the MSO5000HD series

Learn more:

• MSO5000HD-AUTO product page →

• MSO5000HD-BND product page →

🧩 Optional Unlockable Software Features – MSO5000HD Series

🔌 Protocol Decode Options

These licenses unlock triggering and decoding for specific digital protocols:

• MSO5000HD-CANFD – CAN FD (Flexible Data Rate)

• MSO5000HD-CANXL – CAN XL (next-generation automotive network)

• MSO5000HD-FLEX – FlexRay (time-deterministic automotive bus)

• MSO5000HD-SENT – SENT (Single Edge Nibble Transmission, used for sensors)

• MSO5000HD-AUDIO – I2S, Left Justified (LJ), Right Justified (RJ), and TDM audio protocols

• MSO5000HD-ARINC429 – ARINC 429 (aerospace serial bus)

• MSO5000HD-MIL1553 – MIL-STD-1553B (military avionics bus)

• MSO5000HD-MANCH – Manchester encoding protocol

• MSO5000HD-1WIRE – 1-WIRE protocol

• MSO5000HD-I3C – I3C (improved two-wire interface for embedded systems)

⚠️ RS232, UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, and LIN are included as standard and require no license.

📈 Power Analysis

MSO5000HD-PWR – Unlocks the oscilloscope’s integrated power analysis features for evaluating:

• Power quality

• Harmonic distortion

• Rds(on), switching loss

• Safe operating area

• Slew rate, ripple, transient response, and efficiency

🎛️ Function Generator & Bode Plot

MSO5000HD-AWG – Enables the dual-channel 50 MHz arbitrary waveform generator

• Used for signal injection, loop testing, and frequency response analysis

• Required for full use of the Bode Plot mode

⏱️ Timing Analysis

MSO5000HD-TIME – Unlocks the Time Sequence Analyzer

• Measures setup/hold time, edge detection, amplitude, and pulse width

• Supports test report export for buses such as I2C, SPI, CAN, and I2S

📶 Bandwidth Upgrade

Bandwidth unlocks are available to upgrade lower-tier models to higher bandwidth tiers:

• Example: Upgrade 350 MHz model to 500 MHz or 1 GHz