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Comprehensive power analysis (optional)
Ever increasing consumer demands for longer battery-life devices and for
green solutions that consume less power require power-supply designers to
characterize and minimize switching losses to improve efficiency. In
addition, the supply’s power levels, output purity, and harmonic feedback
into the power line must be characterized to comply with national and
regional power quality standards. Historically, making these and many
other power measurements on an oscilloscope has been a long, manual,
and tedious process. The 3 Series MDO optional power analysis tools
greatly simplify these tasks, enabling quick, repeatable and accurate
analysis of power quality, switching loss, harmonics, safe operating area
(SOA), modulation, ripple, and slew rate (di/dt, dv/dt). Completely
integrated into the oscilloscope, the power analysis tools provide
automated, repeatable power measurements with a touch of a button. The
optional power analysis functionality is offered free for a 30-day trial period.
This free trial period starts automatically when the instrument is powered on
for the first time.
Power Quality measurement table. Automated power measurements enable quick and
accurate analysis of common power parameters.
Unique built-in Spectrum Analyzer (optional)
The Tektronix MDO series is the only oscilloscope to offer an integrated,
hardware-based spectrum analyzer. The spectrum analyzer frequency
range of the 3 Series MDO can be from 9 kHz to 1 GHz or 3 GHz (option 3-
SA1 or 3-SA3), enabling spectral analysis on IoT and most consumer
wireless standards.
Fast and accurate spectral analysis
When using the spectrum analyzer standard N-connector input, the
3 Series MDO display becomes a full-screen Spectrum Analyzer view.
Key spectral parameters such as Center Frequency, Span, Reference
Level, and Resolution Bandwidth are all adjusted quickly and easily using
on-screen touch controls.
3 Series MDO frequency domain display.
Intelligent efficient markers
In a traditional spectrum analyzer, it can be a very tedious task to turn on
and place enough markers to identify all your peaks of interest. The
3 Series MDO makes this process far more efficient by automatically
placing markers on peaks that indicate both the frequency and the
amplitude of each peak. You can adjust the criteria that the oscilloscope
uses to automatically find the peaks.
The highest amplitude peak is referred to as the reference marker and is
shown in red. Marker readouts can be switched between Absolute and
Delta readouts. When Delta is selected, marker readouts show each peak's
delta frequency and delta amplitude from the reference marker.
Two manual cursors are also available for measuring non-peak portions of
the spectrum. When enabled, the reference marker is attached to one of
the cursors, enabling delta measurements from anywhere in the spectrum.
In addition to frequency and amplitude, cursor readouts also include noise
density and phase noise readouts depending on whether Absolute or Delta
readouts are selected. A "Reference Marker to Center" function instantly
moves the frequency indicated by the reference marker to center
frequency.
Automated peak markers identify critical information at a glance. As shown here, the five
highest amplitude peaks that meet the threshold and excursion criteria are automatically
marked along with each peak's frequency and amplitude.
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