DESCRIPTION:

The Rohde & Schwarz MXO54-500 combines four analogue channels and 500 MHz bandwidth within the advanced MXO 5 Series platform. Designed around Rohde & Schwarz's next-generation oscilloscope architecture, the instrument delivers exceptional waveform acquisition performance, deep memory capability, advanced multispectrum analysis, and industry-leading vertical resolution in a compact laboratory instrument. The MXO 5 Series spans bandwidths from 350 MHz to 2 GHz and incorporates some of the most advanced technology available in the Rohde & Schwarz oscilloscope portfolio.

At the heart of the MXO54-500 is a true 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 observe subtle signal variations, power rail ripple, switching artefacts, jitter, transient disturbances, and signal integrity issues with exceptional clarity. HD mode further extends effective vertical resolution to as much as 18 bits while maintaining up to 10-bit ENOB performance.

The oscilloscope supports sampling rates up to 5 GSa/s and provides 500 Mpoints acquisition memory per channel as standard. Optional memory expansion increases capture depth to 1 Gpoint, enabling extremely long recording times while maintaining fine timing resolution. This architecture is particularly valuable for FPGA validation, embedded system development, protocol analysis, communications systems testing, power electronics development, and transient event investigation.

A defining characteristic of the MXO 5 platform is its acquisition performance. The MXO54-500 captures more than 4.5 million waveforms per second while simultaneously supporting spectrum acquisition rates exceeding 50,000 FFT calculations per second. This dramatically improves the probability of detecting rare glitches, intermittent faults, timing violations, protocol anomalies, and sporadic disturbances that often remain hidden on slower oscilloscope architectures.

The integrated multispectrum analysis system supports up to four simultaneous spectrum displays with independent time-domain and frequency-domain controls. Engineers can analyse EMI emissions, RF activity, harmonics, switching power supplies, clock systems, and mixed-domain interactions without requiring a dedicated spectrum analyzer. Zone triggering is available across analogue, spectrum, and mathematical measurements, enabling highly selective event capture in complex systems.

Advanced digital triggering includes edge, pulse width, runt, glitch, timeout, setup-and-hold, logic, serial bus, zone, spectrum, and math triggering. Trigger sensitivity down to 0.0001 divisions, trigger rearm times below 21 ns, and trigger jitter of approximately 1 ps provide exceptional event isolation and debugging performance for demanding engineering applications.

The large 15.6-inch Full HD capacitive touchscreen provides extensive workspace for simultaneous viewing of waveforms, decoded protocols, FFT measurements, automated measurements, and multiple spectrum displays. The platform supports optional 16-channel logic analysis, arbitrary waveform generation, protocol analysis, power analysis, frequency response analysis, automotive Ethernet analysis, and aerospace communications protocol support.

Technical Specifications

Key Features

• Four analogue input channels
• 500 MHz bandwidth
• True 12-bit ADC architecture
• Up to 18-bit HD mode
• Up to 10-bit ENOB performance
• Up to 5 GSa/s sampling rate
• 500 Mpoints memory per channel standard
• Optional 1 Gpoint memory expansion
• More than 4.5 million waveforms per second acquisition rate
• More than 50,000 FFT calculations per second
• Up to four simultaneous spectrum displays
• Advanced multispectrum analysis
• Digital triggering with 0.0001 division sensitivity
• Zone triggering on analogue, spectrum and math signals
• Optional 16-channel mixed-signal capability
• Optional 2-channel 100 MHz waveform generator
• Optional protocol decoding and triggering
• Optional power analysis and frequency response analysis
• Large 15.6-inch Full HD touchscreen display
• HDMI, DisplayPort, USB and LAN connectivity

Usage Suitability

The MXO54-500 is ideally suited for embedded systems development, industrial automation diagnostics, communications engineering, automotive electronics, aerospace electronics, power electronics development, EMI investigations, protocol verification, FPGA debugging, manufacturing diagnostics, laboratory research, and advanced electronics engineering applications requiring four analogue channels, 500 MHz bandwidth, deep memory acquisition, and industry-leading waveform update performance.