By Gina Roos, editor-in-chief
RIGOL Technologies has expanded its UltraVision II oscilloscope portfolio with the launch of the 2-GHz MSO8000 Series digital oscilloscope. The MSO8000 Series offers the same seven instruments in one capability as the other UltraVision scopes with the addition of new jitter and real-time eye analysis packages. This enables engineers to accurately analyze serial transmissions for failures caused by timing, noise, bandwidth, and interference.
By adding the jitter and eye analysis packages, which historically have been available to more expensive oscilloscopes, the new series offers a more affordable tool for engineers. It also extends RIGOL’s reach into serial data analysis and signal integrity applications.
Like other scopes in the family, the MSO8000 has built-in logic analysis, protocol analysis, spectrum analysis, and waveform generation. Advanced analysis capabilities include zone triggering, histogram, enhanced FFT, precision measurements, and power analysis, which makes the scope suited for embedded and IoT designs.
The jitter and eye diagram analysis works with existing histogram and precision measurement functions to help characterize signal quality in real time, said RIGOL, which makes the MSO8000 well-suited as a debug solution for serial data integrity.
The MSO8000 is built on RIGOL’s UltraVision II architecture and its Phoenix chipset. Two custom ASICs provide analog front-end and signal processing performance. Other chips include a Xilinx Zync-7000 SoC, dual-core Arm-9 processors, high-speed DDR system memory, and QDRII display memory. The unit runs on a Linux +Q5 operating system.
Key specs include:
- 600,000 wfms/s waveform capture rate
- 10G Sa/s max sample rate
- 500 MPt useful long record length
Starting price for the MSO8000 scope is $7,999.
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