DESCRIPTION:

The Rohde & Schwarz MXO44-2415 is the highest bandwidth model within the MXO 4 Series, providing 1.5 GHz bandwidth across four analogue channels. The platform was developed as a next-generation oscilloscope architecture combining extremely high waveform acquisition rates, true 12-bit vertical resolution, deep acquisition memory, advanced spectrum analysis, and precision digital triggering in a single instrument.

At the heart of the MXO44-2415 is a true 12-bit analog-to-digital converter operating at all sample rates without resolution reduction. Compared with traditional 8-bit oscilloscopes, the architecture delivers sixteen times greater vertical resolution, allowing engineers to identify low-level signal details, jitter, transient disturbances, power rail noise, signal integrity problems, and switching artefacts with substantially greater clarity. HD mode further extends effective resolution to 18 bits for precision measurements.

The oscilloscope supports sampling rates up to 5 GSa/s and provides 400 Mpoints memory depth per channel as standard. Optional upgrades extend interleaved memory to 800 Mpoints. This deep memory architecture enables extremely long waveform captures while maintaining high timing resolution, making the instrument ideal for serial bus analysis, FPGA validation, high-speed digital design, communications systems, and complex transient investigations.

A defining feature of the MXO 4 platform is its acquisition performance. The MXO44-2415 captures more than 4.5 million waveforms per second and delivers up to 90% real-time signal visibility. This dramatically improves the likelihood of capturing intermittent faults, rare glitches, timing violations, protocol errors, and sporadic disturbances that can be missed by slower oscilloscope architectures.

Integrated spectrum analysis performs up to 50,000 FFT calculations per second with dedicated spectrum acquisition hardware. Time-domain and frequency-domain measurements can operate simultaneously, enabling efficient EMI investigations, harmonics analysis, RF troubleshooting, power electronics development, and mixed-domain debugging.

Advanced digital triggering includes edge, pulse width, runt, glitch, timeout, setup-and-hold, logic, serial bus, zone, spectrum, and math triggering. Trigger jitter below 1 ps and trigger rearm times below 21 ns provide exceptional event isolation and debugging performance for demanding engineering applications.

The large 13.3-inch Full HD capacitive touchscreen provides one of the largest displays in its class, allowing simultaneous viewing of multiple waveforms, decoded protocols, FFT measurements, automated measurements, and analysis results. The platform can be expanded with optional mixed-signal capability, arbitrary waveform generation, protocol analysis packages, power analysis tools, and frequency response analysis functionality.

Technical Specifications

Key Features

• Four analogue input channels
• 1.5 GHz bandwidth
• True 12-bit ADC architecture
• Up to 18-bit HD mode
• Up to 5 GSa/s sampling rate
• 400 Mpoints memory per channel standard
• Optional 800 Mpoints memory upgrade
• More than 4.5 million waveforms per second acquisition rate
• Up to 50,000 FFT calculations per second
• Integrated spectrum analysis
• Advanced digital trigger architecture
• Zone, spectrum, serial bus and math triggering
• Optional 16-channel mixed-signal capability
• Optional arbitrary waveform generation
• Optional protocol decoding and triggering
• Optional power analysis and Bode plot analysis
• Large 13.3-inch Full HD touchscreen display
• HDMI, USB and LAN connectivity

Usage Suitability

The MXO44-2415 is ideally suited for signal integrity analysis, FPGA and DDR validation, high-speed serial bus debugging, RF and communications development, aerospace electronics, defence applications, advanced power electronics, EMI investigations, protocol verification, laboratory research, and advanced electronics engineering applications requiring 1.5 GHz bandwidth, deep memory acquisition, and industry-leading waveform update rates.