Struggling to catch signals in your electronic systems? A new oscilloscope captures signals faster and clearer, letting engineers see what others miss.
Engineers working on electronic systems often struggle to capture short or rare signal events that reveal design or performance issues. Traditional oscilloscopes in small or low-cost formats usually compromise on speed or precision, making it harder to see what is happening in a device under test. The MXO 3 series from Rohde & Schwarz solves this problem. It brings the full speed and accuracy of MXO technology, previously limited to larger and high-end instruments, into a smaller and lower-cost form. With it, engineers can view more signal details than with any other oscilloscope in its class.
At the core of the series is the MXO EP processing ASIC, which enables 4.5 million acquisitions per second, the fastest in the industry. It delivers up to 99 percent real-time capture, about 50 times better than other instruments, allowing instant detection of rare or small signal events. The oscilloscope supports 600,000 trigger events per second with zone triggering, enabling users to isolate specific events in both time and frequency domains. For frequency analysis, it performs 50,000 FFTs per second, up to 1,000 times faster than other oscilloscopes, making it useful for EMI and harmonic evaluation. With 600,000 math operations per second, it achieves high performance for power and signal analysis.
The oscilloscope ensures accuracy and reliability through measurement technology. It offers 12-bit vertical resolution in hardware across all sample rates, providing 16 times more detail than 8-bit scopes. This allows engineers to see small signal variations. Its HD mode further increases resolution to 18 bits by reducing noise while maintaining full sample rate operation.
Philip Diegmann, Vice President of Oscilloscopes at Rohde & Schwarz, says: “With the launch of the MXO 3, we are bringing the breakthrough capabilities of our MXO technology to a more accessible, smaller instrument class. This compact oscilloscope delivers the same cutting-edge performance and usability that our customers have come to expect, while opening up new possibilities for engineers at a variety of price points, especially with the addition of an eight-channel model – the only instrument of its kind in this class. At Rohde & Schwarz, we are committed to making advanced test and measurement tools available to more users, and our fast, precise and compact MXO 3 is another step forward in that mission.”
