With first ASIC-based zone triggering for MXO oscilloscopes, Rohde & Schwarz breaks acquisition price information

Rohde & Schwarz additional strengthens its oscilloscope portfolio by introducing the trade’s first ASIC–primarily based zone triggering. With this new method, the MXO sequence can provide the world’s quickest zone set off replace price of as much as 600.000 waveforms per second and fewer than 1.45 us blind time between set off occasions. It’s as much as 10 000 sooner than aggressive zone triggering choices. Because of the brand new ASIC–primarily based zone triggering, MXO oscilloscopes can exactly isolate occasions the place conventional triggering doesn’t present the wanted flexibility.

Rohde & Schwarz has developed the trade’s first ASIC–primarily based zone triggering, applied within the new MXO sequence oscilloscopes. This new performance enhances the oscilloscopes’ means to exactly isolate occasions which are tough or not possible to detect with conventional oscilloscope triggers. Moreover, the MXO zone set off implementation is the trade’s quickest, surpassing others by a number of orders of magnitude.

Conventional oscilloscope set off varieties – similar to edge triggering – are sometimes tough to arrange and/or insufficient to visualise sure set off occasions. Zone triggering, alternatively, permits customers to specify set off circumstances by drawing a number of zone areas on the instrument’s show. The oscilloscope then inspects every acquisition for these circumstances and exhibits the acquisitions on the show for occasions that meet the graphical circumstances. If an occasion doesn’t meet the graphical circumstances, the waveform is discarded and never proven. Zone triggering could be very efficient for triggering on non-monotonic edges, serial bus patterns, math waveforms, occasions throughout a number of channels, and occasions within the frequency area. For these use circumstances conventional oscilloscope triggers merely don’t work. The brand new zone triggering from Rohde & Schwarz is the world’s first ASIC–primarily based answer that works on analog channel alerts, math and spectrum.

Philip Diegmann, Vice President Oscilloscopes at Rohde & Schwarz, says: “The following-generation MXO-EP processing ASIC expertise developed by Rohde & Schwarz is the muse of the breakthrough sign visibility and person responsiveness of the MXO sequence. The chip design was laid out to have additional {hardware} acceleration capabilities enabled down the street. This fashion we hold offering new functionalities to our oscilloscope clients by no means earlier than seen within the trade. With MXO zone triggering, customers acquire further triggering capabilities with out having to incur important set off blind instances that traditionally have diminished the worth of software-primarily based zone triggering options.”

With the MXO zone triggering, customers testing and debugging within the frequency area utilizing an oscilloscope can now draw particular zone areas. The oscilloscope will then set off or activate when a sure tone exceeds a set energy stage inside these zones. Or customers can merely draw a zone for RF chirps or pulses. New to the trade is the MXO’s free run mode, the place the oscilloscope captures as quick as doable with out in search of an edge set off occasion. Combining this with zone triggering could be very efficient for energy integrity measurements and EMI debug.

MXO zone triggering incorporates a brand new function beforehand not discovered out there: the flexibility to solely retailer waveforms in actual time that match zone set off standards. This performance allows customers to solely deal with particular occasions related to their utility.

Rohde & Schwarz presents the brand new ASIC–primarily based zone triggering performance as a normal function for all MXO 4, MXO 5, and MXO 5C sequence oscilloscopes, starting with model 2.2 firmware. The firmware is accessible as a free obtain on the internet. Present MXO customers can replace their devices at no cost.