In my recent technology report "The Ultimate Test Drive: High-Octane Oscilloscopes" , I got a chance to write about digital sampling oscilloscopes (DSOs). These instruments are truly amazing today ...

Differences between digital and analog triggering. Advantages of digital triggering. How to tell what type of triggering is used by an oscilloscope. An oscilloscope’s trigger function, which ...

Do you ever find yourself yearning for the days before digital storage oscilloscopes (DSOs)? Where even the basic scopes commanded four figures, and came in a bench-dominating form factor? No, of ...

14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) oscilloscope delivers four times the signal resolution and half the noise floor of other general-purpose oscilloscopes Instrument built from the ground up with ...

Banner specifications are an integral part of oscilloscope design. The three key banner specifications are bandwidth, sample rate, and memory depth. Of the three banner specifications, bandwidth is ...

When you are doing “leading-edge” design and development, there's one big problem: you need test equipment that is even more “leading edge” to find out what you've got. The ten models of the Agilent ...

Following a massive multi-year development effort, Tektronix, Inc. today rolled out a new oscilloscope platform aimed at an increasingly complex breed of electronic design challenges in industrial, ...

It is a well-known reality of rescuing certain older electronic devices that, at some point, you’re likely going to have to replace a busted capacitor. This is the stage [Kevin] is at in the 3rd ...