| MDO3000 - At Its Core, A Best-in-Class Scope |
Discover ✔ New! FastAcq high speed waveform acquisition >280,000 wfm/s ✔ New! Color-graded and Inverted waveform palettes  |
Capture ✗ Industry best standard voltage probes ✗ 10 Mpoints record ✗ Complete set of triggers ✗ Act-on-event (Save on Trigger)  |
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Search ✔ Industry's most comprehensive search and waveform navigation with innovative Wave Inspector ® controls  |
Analyze ✗ Industry best standard voltage probes ✗ 10 Mpoints record ✗ Complete set of triggers ✗ Act-on-event (Save on Trigger)  |
| Industry’s ONLY built-in Spectrum Analyzer | |
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Tektronix MDO3000 ✔ Spectrum analyzer amplitude is flat from 9 kHz up to scope bandwidth, standard. Upgradable to 3 GHz. ✔ Dedicated RF hardware ✔ Dedicated front panel controls make spectral analysis easy ✔ RF measurements include Channel Power, Adjacent Channel Power Ratio, and Occupied BW ✔ Spectrogram display shows frequency and amplitude changes ✗ MDO3000 is not time and frequency correlated.  |
Keysight X3000T ✗ FFT amplitude rolls off to -3dB at the scope’s rated bandwidth ✗ Software based FFT ✗ Multiplexed front panel and menu controls for FFT ✗ Measurements limited to XY cursors and peak markers ✗ Spectrogram Display not available. ✔ Gated FFT correlates the time and frequency domain |
| Industry’s Best Built-in Arbitrary Waveform Generator | |
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Tektronix MDO3000 ✔ Up to 50 MHz function generation ✔ Arbitrary waveform generation with 128k waveform memory (8X more for more applications) and 250 MS/s output rate. ✔ 13 predefined functions |
Keysight X3000T ✗ Up to 25 MHz function generation ✗ Arbitrary waveform generation with 8k waveform memory and 100 MS/s output rate ✔ 11 predefined functions |
| Industry’s Best Standard Voltage Probes | |
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Tektronix MDO3000 ✔ Included 3.9 pF passive probes minimize effect of the probe on circuit operation ✔ 1 GHz models include 1 GHz probes ✔ 1 year warranty on probes |
Keysight X3000T ✗ 11-12 pF passive probes included ✗ 1 GHz models include 500 MHz probes ✗ Only 90-day warranty on probes |
| A Powerful Logic Analyzer | |
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Tektronix MDO3000 ✔ Maximum record length 10 Mpoints, even with analog channels on ✔ Minimum detectable pulse 2ns ✔ Channel-to-channel skew 500 ps typical ✔ MagniVu high speed sampling offers timing resolution of 121 ps |
Keysight X3000T ✗ Maximum record length 4 Mpoints with no analog channels on, 500 kpoints with analog channels on ✗ Minimum detectable pulse 5ns ✗ Channel-to-channel skew 2 ns typical ✗ Digital channel timing resolution of 500 ps |
| Warranted Specifications for Confident Results | |
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Tektronix MDO3000 ✔ Only 7 scope specifications in MDO3000 datasheet are typical All specifications are guaranteed unless noted as "typical." ✔ Characteristics described in terms of specified performance with guaranteed tolerance limits |
Keysight X3000T ✗ Only 6 scope specifications in X3000T datasheet are warranted All specifications are typical unless noted otherwise ✗ The typical values given are never warranted |
| Deep and Optimized Record Length | |
Tektronix MDO3000
 Deep record length offers more waveform details without under sampling ✔ 10 Mpoints record length on all channels, standard |
Keysight X3000T
 Waveform details lost due to smaller record length and undersampling* ✗ 4 Mpoints record length, reduced to 2 Mpoints when channels are interleaved |
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