@Rudi:
In such price ranges, there must be a way to be able to view/test the respective products beforehand.
Lecroy also lent us an HDO for about 3 weeks.
Hi Martin,
yes R&S I could probably get an eval unit. But Siglent rep in Thailand is useless:
Their idea of customer service is, pay 130% of the listed purchase price upfront,
wait 3 months for delivery. It's a typical Asian brain-dead attitude. And they have
zero stock of any higher end scopes.
The R&S rep is fantastic on the other hand !
If I want the SDS7000 I have to import it myself. Most likely buy it directly from
Siglent China.
Best Regards,
rudi
So you would like help with compiling a table comparison of basic data?
First, these two scopes are not for the exactly the same market.
-SDSD7000A - 4GHz BW 20/10 GS/s
-MXO5 - 2GHz BW 5/2,5 GS/s
-SDSD7000A - 4 ch
-MXO5 - 4/8 ch
MXO5 is scope that is optimised for user experience (fast refresh rates on scope and FFT), big screen and all of that.
It does not have any advanced analytical capabilities at this moment above SDS6000A. Actually SDS6000A has eye diagram that MXO5 does not have (at least at the moment).
It is not high end advanced analysis scope, but rather "luxury version" of (at this moment) pretty basic scope. It is basically R&S RTA4000 on steroids. More memory, bigger screen, faster processing, but no additional capabilities.
Don't get me wrong. This is not critique.
There is a market for what is "better than basic" scopes but with large screen, and fancy user experience.
If you look at MSO5 brochure, it is obvious they are targeting electric power, automotive, embedded and such market. But in style, with big screen, window customizations and so on. Lots of analog channels, decodes etc...
I think it will be very good scope for that if you can bear the price.
But apart from 12 bit, bigger screen, and max 8 channels, even SDS6000A (Not SDS7000A !!) has more analytic capabilities. And SDS6000A has 5GS/s at all time, so it is a 2GHz scope propper. MXO5 cannot achieve 2 GHz BW with all channels on.
Enter SDS7000A. 4GHz BW. 20/10 GS/s. 12 bit. PC platform. They also claim much faster trigger rate than ever before, up to 1M Wfms/s. ERES is equivalent of R&S Hires mode. 3GHz SDS7000A claims similar noise floor at 5mV/div to 2GHz MXO5, which means SDS7000 is very low noise for it's BW. Several low speed decodes free. 32 Mpts FFT.
Compliance tests for USB2.0, 100Base-TX, 100Base-T1, 1000Base-T1 for now. SignalScan, Eye/Jitter Analysis.
It is obvious that it scope for faster signals, geared more towards digital designer.. But still being 12 bit, it is excellent for fast analog too...
It is a scope that is tier above MXO5 in capabilities.
It was just released so info is still scarce. There are lots of features to be introduced with time too.
Conclusion? These are basically different type of scopes.
R&S MXO5 is made to be very "fancy" analytically simpler scope with 8 ch emphasizing "user experience" above all.
SDS7000 is Siglent's new powerhorse. It's class is 4GHz 12 bit scopes similar to LeCroy.....
For the list price of 500MHz MXO5 you can get SDS7000A 4GHz..
Which one do you need?