Tektronix, a provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, has announced the release of its new MDO4000B series of mixed domain oscilloscopes featuring enhanced spectrum analyzer performance and support for WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/j/n/p/ac testing when used with the company’s SignalVu-PC vector signal analysis software.
“Incorporating WLAN into designs introduces a whole new level of complexity that can be challenging to debug on a system level without the right tools,” Fanny Mlinarsky, president and CTO of octoScope, a provider of wireless test solutions and services, said. “The MDO4000B with SignalVu-PC delivers the right capabilities at the right price point to enable embedded and WLAN module designers to rapidly debug systems without a steep learning curve.”
“Due to its higher performing spectrum analyzer, the MDO can now be used as the acquisition engine for advanced modulation analysis of commercial wireless standards such as 802.11, as well as for many other RF applications,” Dave Farrell, general manager of mainstream oscilloscopes at Tektronix, said.
Combining Tektronix’s mixed signal oscilloscopes (MSO) with a powerful spectrum analyzer into a single instrument, the MDO4000B series offers a number of new enhancements, including the improvement of spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) from 55/60 typical to 60dBc guaranteed and 65dBc typical, and improvement of phase noise performance by as much as 20dB. In addition, maximum RF acquisition time has been increased from 79 ms to 158 ms to enable longer time correlation with the rest of the system as well as the capture and analysis of multiple bursts of modulated data, and lower frequency limit has been reduced from 50 kHz to 9 kHz, enabling EMI diagnostics over the frequency range specified by international regulations.
