DESCRIPTION:
The Rohde & Schwarz MXO34-500 is a high-performance four-channel oscilloscope within the MXO 3 Series, delivering 500 MHz bandwidth while incorporating Rohde & Schwarz's latest MXO architecture. The platform combines industry-leading acquisition performance, true 12-bit vertical resolution, deep memory, advanced triggering technology, and integrated spectrum analysis capabilities in a compact benchtop instrument.
At the heart of the MXO34-500 is a custom 12-bit analog-to-digital converter operating at full resolution across all sampling rates. Compared with traditional 8-bit oscilloscopes, the architecture provides sixteen times greater vertical resolution, enabling engineers to identify low-level signal details, power rail ripple, switching noise, transient disturbances, jitter effects, and signal integrity issues with exceptional clarity. HD mode further increases effective resolution to as much as 18 bits for precision measurement applications.
The MXO 3 platform delivers waveform acquisition rates exceeding 4.5 million waveforms per second while maintaining up to 99% real-time signal capture. This performance dramatically increases the probability of capturing intermittent faults, rare glitches, protocol anomalies, and sporadic signal disturbances that may be missed by slower oscilloscope architectures.
The MXO34-500 provides up to 500 Mpoints memory depth per channel combined with sampling rates up to 5 GSa/s. This combination allows long-duration acquisitions while maintaining fine timing resolution, making the instrument highly effective for analysing serial communications, embedded processor activity, industrial control systems, switching power supplies, startup sequences, and complex transient events.
Integrated spectrum analysis provides up to 50,000 FFT calculations per second with independently configurable time-domain and frequency-domain settings. This capability enables efficient EMI investigations, harmonics analysis, RF troubleshooting, power electronics development, and mixed-domain debugging without requiring a separate spectrum analyzer.
Advanced digital triggering incorporates extremely high trigger sensitivity, zone triggering, spectrum triggering, math triggering, and rapid trigger rearm times. These features enable engineers to isolate complex signal events with exceptional precision and repeatability during validation and troubleshooting activities.
The large 11.6-inch Full HD capacitive touchscreen provides a modern user interface with extensive display area for waveform analysis, protocol decoding, FFT measurements, and automated measurement results. The platform can be expanded with optional 16-channel mixed-signal capability, arbitrary waveform generation, protocol decoding packages, power analysis tools, and frequency response analysis functionality.
Keywords: Rohde & Schwarz MXO34-500, MXO34, 500 MHz oscilloscope, 12-bit oscilloscope, mixed signal oscilloscope, high-speed oscilloscope
Technical Specifications
| Specification | MXO34-500 |
|---|---|
| Oscilloscope Channels | 4 |
| Bandwidth | 500 MHz |
| Rise Time | Approx. 700 ps |
| Maximum Sample Rate | 5 GSa/s |
| Sample Rate (4 Channels Active) | 2.5 GSa/s |
| ADC Resolution | 12 Bit |
| HD Resolution Mode | Up to 18 Bit |
| Standard Memory Depth | 500 Mpoints per Channel |
| Waveform Capture Rate | > 4,500,000 Waveforms/s |
| Real-Time Capture Rate | Up to 99% |
| FFT Rate | Up to 50,000 FFT/s |
| Vertical Sensitivity (50 ohm) | 1 mV/div to 1 V/div |
| Vertical Sensitivity (1 Mohm) | 1 mV/div to 10 V/div |
| Input Impedance | 50 ohm or 1 Mohm |
| Trigger Rearm Time | < 21 ns |
| Trigger Jitter | 1 ps |
| Mixed Signal Capability | Optional MXO3-B1 |
| Digital Channels | Up to 16 |
| Arbitrary Waveform Generator | Optional MXO3-B6, 50 MHz |
| Protocol Decode | Optional |
| Power Analysis | Optional MXO3-K31 |
| Frequency Response Analysis | Optional MXO3-K36 |
| Spectrum Analysis | Standard |
| Display Size | 11.6 Inch |
| Display Resolution | 1920 × 1080 Full HD |
| Touchscreen | Capacitive Multi-Touch |
| Interfaces | USB Host, USB Device, LAN, HDMI |
| Dimensions | 375 × 233 × 163 mm |
| Weight | Approx. 4 kg |
Key Features
- Four analogue input channels
- 500 MHz bandwidth
- True 12-bit ADC architecture
- Up to 18-bit HD mode
- Up to 5 GSa/s sampling rate
- 500 Mpoints memory per channel
- More than 4.5 million waveforms per second acquisition rate
- Up to 99% real-time signal capture
- Up to 50,000 FFT calculations per second
- Advanced digital triggering architecture
- Zone, spectrum and math triggering
- Integrated spectrum analysis
- Optional 16-channel mixed-signal capability
- Optional arbitrary waveform generation
- Optional serial protocol analysis packages
- Optional power analysis and Bode plot analysis
- 11.6-inch Full HD touchscreen display
- HDMI, USB and LAN connectivity
- Compact benchtop footprint
Usage Suitability
The MXO34-500 is ideally suited for embedded systems development, FPGA validation, signal integrity investigations, power electronics design, communications engineering, industrial automation diagnostics, EMI troubleshooting, protocol verification, manufacturing diagnostics, laboratory research, and advanced electronics engineering applications requiring 500 MHz bandwidth, deep memory acquisition, and extremely high waveform update rates.
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