DESCRIPTION:

The Rohde & Schwarz MXO34-100 is the entry-bandwidth model within the MXO 3 four-channel oscilloscope family. Despite its 100 MHz bandwidth rating, it incorporates the complete MXO architecture, providing performance levels that significantly exceed traditional entry-level oscilloscopes. The platform combines four analogue channels, industry-leading waveform acquisition rates, deep memory, advanced triggering technology, and integrated spectrum analysis within a compact laboratory instrument.

At the heart of the MXO34-100 is a true 12-bit analog-to-digital converter operating at full resolution across all sampling rates. Compared with conventional 8-bit oscilloscopes, the architecture delivers sixteen times greater vertical resolution, allowing engineers to identify subtle signal variations, power rail ripple, switching noise, transient disturbances, jitter effects, and signal integrity issues with substantially greater clarity. Integrated HD mode further increases effective 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 acquisition memory per channel as standard. Optional upgrades expand memory depth to 500 Mpoints per channel. This deep memory architecture enables long-duration waveform captures while maintaining fine timing resolution, making the MXO34-100 particularly effective for analysing embedded processors, industrial control systems, communications interfaces, power converters, sensor networks, and complex transient events.

A defining characteristic of the MXO platform is its waveform acquisition performance. The MXO34-100 captures more than 4.5 million waveforms per second while providing up to 99% real-time signal visibility. This dramatically increases the probability of detecting intermittent faults, rare glitches, timing violations, protocol errors, and sporadic disturbances that often remain hidden on conventional oscilloscopes.

Integrated spectrum analysis performs up to 50,000 FFT calculations per second with independent time-domain and frequency-domain controls. Engineers can perform EMI investigations, harmonics analysis, switching power supply development, RF troubleshooting, and mixed-domain debugging without requiring a dedicated spectrum analyzer.

Advanced triggering capabilities include edge, pulse width, runt, glitch, timeout, setup-and-hold, logic, pattern, zone, serial bus, spectrum, and math triggering. Trigger rearm times below 21 ns and trigger jitter as low as 1 ps provide exceptional event isolation performance during validation and troubleshooting activities.

The large 11.6-inch Full HD touchscreen provides extensive workspace for waveform analysis, protocol decoding, FFT measurements, automated measurements, and mixed-domain investigations. The platform can be expanded with optional 16-channel logic analysis, arbitrary waveform generation, protocol decoding packages, power analysis applications, automotive Ethernet analysis, and frequency response analysis functionality.

Keywords: Rohde & Schwarz MXO34-100, MXO34, 100 MHz oscilloscope, four-channel oscilloscope, 12-bit oscilloscope, mixed signal oscilloscope

Technical Specifications

Key Features

• Four analogue input channels
• 100 MHz 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 visibility
• Up to 50,000 FFT calculations per second
• Integrated spectrum analysis
• Advanced digital trigger architecture
• Zone, logic, serial bus, spectrum and math triggering
• Optional 16-channel logic analysis
• Optional arbitrary waveform generation
• Optional protocol analysis packages
• Optional power analysis and frequency response analysis
• 11.6-inch Full HD touchscreen display
• HDMI, USB and LAN connectivity
• Compact laboratory footprint

Usage Suitability

The MXO34-100 is ideally suited for embedded systems development, industrial automation diagnostics, power electronics development, communications engineering, serial bus verification, manufacturing diagnostics, laboratory research, maintenance operations, educational laboratories, and advanced electronics engineering applications requiring four analogue channels, deep memory acquisition, and exceptionally high waveform update rates.