Tektronix (www.tek.com) has announced the release of the world’s first mixed domain oscilloscope that combines the function of a spectrum analyzer and an oscilloscope in one instrument — the MDO4000 Series.
“More than 60 percent of oscilloscope users also use a spectrum analyzer to troubleshoot embedded system designs with integrated wireless functionality,” said the company.
“The MDO4000 Series is the first oscilloscope ever to integrate the functionality of a spectrum analyzer to provide a unique toolset.”
The oscilloscope features a fast-ADC-and-large-memory architecture specifically developed from current oscilloscope hardware, with one ADC offering four oscilloscope channel, and another ADC offering spectrum analysis through a digital signal processor.
Time correlation with the MDO4000 goes beyond the usual spectrum analyzer behavior by enabling users to capture time-correlated digital, analog and RF signals across 16 digital, four analog and one RF channel.
Extending up to six GHz, the RF input frequency range also offers a bandwidth of more than one GHz at all center frequencies.
The oscilloscope allows users to simultaneously view up to four decoded parallel and/or serial buses on the display.
“Due to this time correlation between domains, engineers can now make accurate timing measurements to understand delays and latencies between command / control events in their design and changes in the RF spectrum,” added the company.
The oscilloscope can now locate intermittent, device-state dependant EMI noise as it offers a time correlated system view of both domains.
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