Electronica: More on Rigol’s 350MHz scope

Bandwidth options range across 70 to 350MHz with two or four channels, sampling is at 8Gsample/s, and maximum capture 500,000waveform/s, with up to 200Msample record length. The display is 9in colour and touch-enabled.

The instruments use the firm’s UltraVision II, centred on its Phoenix chip-set where two custom ASICs provide analogue front end and signal processing.

Along with these is a Xilinx Zync-7000 SoC programmable chip which has twin Arm Cortex-A9 processors, DDR system memory and QDRII display memory. Operatign system is Linux +Qt.

Price is a selling pint, according to the firm, spanning $909 for a two channel 70MHz unit to $3,999 for a four channels and 350MHz. “Customers will have access to unprecedented performance and analysis capabilities at prices starting well below $1000,” said company general manager Michael Rizzo, who is pitching against Tektronix’ DPO/MSO2000 and Keysight’s 2000X.

Alongside the MSO5000’s scope, inside the instruments the following can be enabled: logic analyser, protocol analyser, spectrum analyser, waveform generator, voltmeter and counter/totaliser – seven functions when all are on.

“In addition, tools like zone triggering, search, 41 measurements, colour FFTs, as well as standard histogram and pass/fail analysis make the MSO5000 series a powerful debug solution,” said Rigol.

Upgrade

Upgrades available on lower models via software licence include adding: analogue channels, digital channels, analysis options and bandwidth.

As well as the built-in display, and HDMI interface allows external displays to be added and navigation can be via a mouse.

Supports is included for a touch enabled browser, so the instrument can be controlled from a tablet or smartphone over a network.