DESCRIPTION:

The Rohde & Schwarz MXO58-500 combines eight analogue channels and 500 MHz bandwidth within the advanced MXO 5 Series platform. Designed for engineers requiring simultaneous visibility across multiple analogue signals, the instrument delivers exceptional waveform acquisition performance, deep memory capability, advanced spectrum analysis, and industry-leading vertical resolution within a modern laboratory oscilloscope.

At the core of the MXO58-500 is Rohde & Schwarz's advanced 12-bit analog-to-digital converter architecture. Operating at full resolution across all sample rates, the system delivers sixteen times greater vertical resolution than conventional 8-bit oscilloscopes. Combined with HD mode offering up to 18-bit effective resolution and up to 10-bit ENOB performance, engineers can accurately analyse low-level signal behaviour, switching noise, power rail ripple, transient disturbances, jitter effects, and signal integrity issues.

The oscilloscope supports sampling rates up to 5 GSa/s and provides 500 Mpoints acquisition memory per channel as standard across all eight channels. Optional memory expansion increases total recording capacity to 1 Gpoint. This deep memory architecture enables long-duration waveform captures while maintaining high timing resolution, making the platform particularly effective for FPGA debugging, embedded processor validation, communications system development, protocol analysis, and transient event investigation.

A defining characteristic of the MXO 5 platform is its acquisition performance. The MXO58-500 captures more than 4.5 million waveforms per second while simultaneously supporting spectrum acquisition rates exceeding 50,000 FFT calculations per second. This dramatically increases the probability of detecting intermittent faults, rare glitches, timing violations, protocol anomalies, and sporadic disturbances that often remain hidden on slower oscilloscope architectures.

The MXO58 introduces advanced multispectrum analysis functionality, supporting up to four simultaneous spectrum displays with independent frequency-domain and time-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.

Advanced digital triggering includes edge, pulse width, runt, glitch, timeout, setup-and-hold, serial bus, logic, zone, spectrum, and math triggering. Trigger sensitivity down to 0.0001 divisions allows reliable detection of extremely small anomalies even when large signals are present elsewhere in the acquisition.

The large 15.6-inch Full HD capacitive touchscreen provides extensive workspace for simultaneous viewing of eight analogue channels, decoded protocols, FFT measurements, automated measurements, and multiple spectrum displays. The platform supports optional mixed-signal capability, arbitrary waveform generation, protocol analysis, power analysis, frequency response analysis, automotive Ethernet analysis, and aerospace communications protocol decoding.

Technical Specifications

Key Features

• Eight 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 upgrade
• 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 arbitrary waveform generation
• Optional protocol decoding and triggering
• Optional power analysis and Bode plot analysis
• Large 15.6-inch Full HD touchscreen display
• HDMI, USB and LAN connectivity

Usage Suitability

The MXO58-500 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 eight analogue channels, 500 MHz bandwidth, deep memory acquisition, and industry-leading waveform update performance.