DESCRIPTION:

The Rohde & Schwarz MXO38-1000 is the highest-performance eight-channel model within the MXO 3 Series. It combines eight analogue input channels, 1 GHz bandwidth, industry-leading waveform acquisition performance, deep memory architecture, and advanced mixed-domain analysis capabilities into a compact laboratory instrument. The MXO38 platform is designed for engineers who require simultaneous visibility across multiple signals without sacrificing bandwidth or measurement fidelity.

At the core of the MXO38 is a custom 12-bit analog-to-digital converter operating at full resolution across all sample rates. Compared with conventional 8-bit oscilloscopes, the architecture provides sixteen times greater vertical resolution, enabling engineers to identify low-level signal details, power rail ripple, switching noise, jitter, transient disturbances, and signal integrity issues with exceptional clarity. HD mode further increases effective vertical resolution to as much as 18 bits for precision measurement applications.

The oscilloscope supports sampling rates up to 5 GSa/s and provides 125 Mpoints memory depth per channel as standard. An optional memory upgrade expands capacity to 500 Mpoints per channel. Combined with eight analogue channels, this architecture allows long-duration captures across complex systems while maintaining high timing resolution. Engineers can simultaneously analyse multiple power rails, control signals, communications buses, sensor outputs, and high-speed digital interfaces within a single acquisition.

A defining feature of the MXO platform is its acquisition performance. The MXO38 achieves waveform capture rates exceeding 4.5 million waveforms per second while maintaining up to 99% real-time signal capture. This dramatically improves visibility of rare events, intermittent faults, protocol anomalies, and sporadic signal disturbances that often remain hidden on conventional oscilloscopes.

Integrated spectrum analysis provides up to 50,000 FFT calculations per second with independent time-domain and frequency-domain controls. Engineers can investigate EMI issues, harmonics, switching power supplies, RF signals, clock systems, and mixed-domain interactions without requiring a dedicated spectrum analyzer.

Advanced triggering capabilities include edge, glitch, pulse width, runt, timeout, interval, slew rate, setup-and-hold, logic, pattern, zone, serial bus, and spectrum triggering. Trigger rearm times below 21 ns and trigger jitter as low as 1 ps provide exceptional event isolation performance for complex debugging applications.

The large 11.6-inch Full HD capacitive touchscreen provides extensive workspace for simultaneous viewing of eight analogue channels, decoded protocols, FFT measurements, automated measurements, and mixed-domain analysis results. The platform can be expanded with optional 16-channel logic analysis, arbitrary waveform generation, protocol decoding, power analysis, frequency response analysis, automotive Ethernet analysis, and aerospace protocol support.

Keywords: Rohde & Schwarz MXO38-1000, MXO38, 1 GHz oscilloscope, eight-channel oscilloscope, 12-bit oscilloscope, mixed signal oscilloscope

Technical Specifications

Key Features

• Eight analogue input channels
• 1 GHz bandwidth
• True 12-bit ADC architecture
• Up to 18-bit HD mode
• Up to 5 GSa/s sampling rate
• 125 Mpoints memory per channel standard
• Optional 500 Mpoints memory upgrade
• 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
• Integrated spectrum analysis
• Advanced digital trigger architecture
• Zone, serial bus, logic and spectrum triggering
• Optional 16-channel mixed-signal capability
• Optional arbitrary waveform generation
• Optional protocol analysis packages
• Optional power and frequency response analysis
• 11.6-inch Full HD touchscreen display
• HDMI, USB and LAN connectivity
• Optimized for complex multi-channel system debugging

Usage Suitability

The MXO38-1000 is ideally suited for complex embedded systems development, FPGA validation, multi-rail power electronics analysis, industrial automation diagnostics, communications engineering, aerospace electronics, automotive electronics, EMI investigations, protocol verification, manufacturing diagnostics, laboratory research, and advanced electronics engineering applications requiring eight simultaneous analogue channels, 1 GHz bandwidth, deep memory acquisition, and extremely high waveform update rates