Overview

Introducing the world’s first and only oscilloscope with a built-in spectrum analyzer. For the first time ever, you can capture time-correlated analog, digital, and RF signals for a complete system view of your device. See both the time and frequency domain in a single glance. View the RF spectrum at any point in time to see how it changes over time or with device state. Solve the most complicated design issues, quickly and efficiently, with an oscilloscope as integrated as your design.

Based on the industry-standard MSO4000B Oscilloscope Series, you can now use your tool of choice, the oscilloscope, to look at the frequency domain rather than having to find and re-learn a spectrum analyzer. However, the power of the MDO goes well beyond simply observing the frequency domain as you would on a spectrum analyzer. The real power is in its ability to correlate events in the frequency domain with the time domain phenomena that caused them.

When both the RF channel and any analog or digital channels are on, the oscilloscope display is split into two views. The upper half of the display is a traditional oscilloscope view of the Time Domain. The lower half of the display is a Frequency Domain view of the RF input. Note that the Frequency Domain view is not simply an FFT of the analog or digital channels in the instrument, but is the spectrum acquired from the RF input.

The spectrum shown in the Frequency Domain view is taken from the period of time indicated by the short orange bar in the time domain view – known as the Spectrum Time. With the MDO4000 Series, Spectrum Time can be moved through the acquisition to investigate how the RF spectrum changes over time. And this can be done while the oscilloscope is live and running or on a stopped acquisition.

Key Performance Specifications

• 4 Analog Channels
  
  • 500 MHz or 1 GHz Bandwidth Models
    
• 16 Digital Channels
  
  • MagniVu™ High-speed Acquisition provides 60.6 ps Fine Timing Resolution
    
• 1 RF Channel
  
  • 50 kHz - 3 GHz or 50 kHz - 6 GHz Frequency Range Models
    
  • Ultra-wide Capture Bandwidth ≥1 GHz
    
• Standard Passive Voltage Probes 3.9 pF Capacitive Loading and 500 MHz or 1 GHz Analog Bandwidth

Mixed Domain Analysis

• Time-correlated Analog, Digital, and RF Signal Acquisitions in a Single Instrument
  
• Wave Inspector® Controls provide Easy Navigation of Time-correlated
  
• Data from both the Time and Frequency Domains
  
• Amplitude, Frequency, and Phase vs. Time Waveforms derived from RF Input
  
• Selectable Spectrum Time to Discover and Analyze how RF Spectrum Changes over Time – Even on a Stopped Acquisition

Spectral Analysis

• Dedicated Front-panel Controls for Commonly Performed Tasks
  
• Automated Peak Markers Identify Frequency and Amplitude of Spectrum Peaks
  
• Manual Markers enable Non-peak Measurements
  
• Trace Types Include: Normal, Average, Max Hold, and Min Hold
  
• Detection Types Include: +Peak, –Peak, Average, and Sample
  
• Spectrogram Display enables Easy Observation and Insight into Slowly Changing RF Phenomena
  
• Automated Measurements Include: Channel Power, Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR), and Occupied Bandwidth (OBW)
  
• Trigger on RF Power Level
  
• Triggered or Free Run Spectral Analysis

Ease of Use Features

• 10.4 in. (264 mm) Bright XGA Color Display
  
• Small Footprint and Lightweight – Only 5.8 in. (147 mm) Deep and 11 lb. (5 kg)

Connectivity

• Two USB 2.0 Host Ports on the Front Panel and Two on the Rear Panel for Quick and Easy Data Storage, Printing, and Connecting a USB Keyboard
  
• USB 2.0 Device Port on Rear Panel for Easy Connection to a PC or Direct Printing to a PictBridge®-compatible Printer
  
• Integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet Port for Network Connection and Video Out Port to Export the Oscilloscope Display to a Monitor or Projector

Optional Serial Triggering and Analysis

• Serial Protocol Trigger, Decode, and Search for I2C, SPI, USB, Ethernet, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, RS-232/422/485/UART, MIL- STD-1553, and I2S/LJ/RJ/TDM
  

Optional Application Support

• Advanced RF Triggering
  
• Power Analysis
  
• Limit and Mask Testing
  
• HDTV and Custom Video Analysis

For more information, call or email Electro Sonic at 1.800.56.SONIC.