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Metrix is completing its MTX Compact range of digital oscilloscopes with the brand new MTX 3354, offering 4 channels, a bandwidth of 150 MHz and sampling rates of 100 GS/s in repetitive mode and 200 MS/s in single-shot mode. A new, innovative technology SPO (Smart Persistence Oscilloscope) acquisition and display is a revolutionary principle combining the advantages of analogue and digital oscilloscopes. Signal parameter acquisition is optimized. Using an FPGA circuit, parallel independent management of display and acquisition makes it possible to increase the acquisition rate to several tens of thousands per second. In this way, dead time during signal observation is reduced.

Equipped with a smart algorithm, SPO display uses all 44,000 points of the bitmap, offering intelligent display at last! With SPO, users can detect brief events, instabilities or unexpected anomalies. Furthermore, this makes it easy to interpret recurrent events and offers the possibility of displaying the "ageing" of rare phenomena (e.g. timing error on digital bus).

Advanced trigger modes

With the MTX 3354, as well as standard edge triggering, users also have access to a number
of advanced modes:
- Pulse, trigger on pulse width
- TV, trigger on TV signal
- Delay, edge trigger with delay
- Metering, edge trigger with event metering

All these new functionalities offer the possibility of studying signals in greater detail and capturing events, however brief they may be, for optimum accuracy. Other innovative functions are now available to everyone: scaling on all four channels with direct reading and the physical unit of the signal, a mathematical editor for editing four complex functions and up to four simultaneous curves on the screen, and "Winzoom", the most effective vertical and horizontal trace zoom function on the market. Suitable for use when moving around due to their compact format and built-in handle, the MTX Compact oscilloscopes can be used in five languages and include multilingual help documentation accessible at all times.

Cumulated functions help to rationalize your investment! The MTX Compact models offer real-time, multi-channel FFT analysis of the signal, integrated as a standard function by Metrix. 31-order harmonic analysis is also proposed as an option, as is the digital recorder. There are twenty different automatic real-time measurements available, including phase measurement. Professionals take note: these recording oscilloscopes also have another advantage, their genuinely affordable price!

User-friendly

Equipped with a wide multi-directional colour LCD screen, the MTX 3354 is part of the MTX Compact family. As with the rest of this family, the main functions and the functionality shortcuts are located on the front panel, with 21 direct-access keys and an encoder. The "Windows-like" ergonomics make the instrument easy to control with a mouse by means of menus or intuitive graphical elements. It can operate in advanced mode, using the hidden complex functions, or in normal mode. The standard version of the MTX 3354 offers all the main communication interfaces (RS232, Centronics, USB, Ethernet with HTML server). The Ethernet network interface with HTML server can be used to deal with the problems linked to distance in industry, as well as in the world of education, when the computer rooms and classrooms are far apart.

Contact: Fulya HUET
Tel.: 01 44 85 44 76
Fax: 01 53 31 07 89
e-mail: fulya.huet@chauvin-arnoux.com
www.chauvin-arnoux.com

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Note: The above text is the public part of the press release obtained from the manufacturer (with minor modifications). EETimes Europe cannot be held responsible for the claims and statements made by the manufacturer. The text is intended as a supplement to the new product presentations in EETimes Europe magazine.

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