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 Latest Oscilloscope News

SpecialOffers05 January 2015 - From time to time oscilloscope suppliers offer special prices, packages and discounts. We will keep you informed - just click in the top menu on the tab "Promotions" to see the latest special offers, bargains and promotions. The overview provides information about the respective products, geographical coverage, start/end date of the promotion and a link to the website of the supplier. The list is updated regularly.

LeCroy oscilloscope WD2000Oscilloscopes have been invented in the 1920s. Up to now this instrument encountered many innovations.  In the beginning the most important manufacturers have been General Radio, DuMont, General Electric and Radio Corporation of America. Later Cossor and later Solartron dominated the market. Today the main players are Keysight, Tektronix and Teledyne LeCroy. Below we listed some important oscilloscope milestones.

Keysight-Infiniium 90000X22 December 2014 – Keysight Technologies introduced test support for the eDP 1.4 (embedded DisplayPort) specification. Keysight N6469A eDP 1.4 electrical performance and characterization test software eliminates the need to tailor a test process for eDP designs. The test software operates on Keysight’s 90000 X-, 90000 Q- and Z-Series Infiniium real-time oscilloscopes with bandwidths of 13 GHz and higher. Access to the test signals through an eDP test fixture is required.

RS-RTM 4671319 December 2014 - Rohde & Schwarz is expanding its R&S RTM bench oscilloscope family by a new model that is ideal for the education sector. The instrument features a 200 MHz bandwidth and an education mode that deactivates special measurement tools to help students quickly learn how to work with an oscilloscope. Also a new digital voltmeter and frequency counter option is offered.

Bitscope-Probe-Adapter17 December 2014 - The new BitScope Micro Port 01 (MP01) is a universal mixed signal I/O adapter for BitScope Micro. It connects standard oscilloscope probes to the BitScope Micro Mixed Signal Oscilloscope. Any passive probe with 1:1, 10:1 or other attenuation ratios can be used. It supports active differential, current or any other type of probe which is BNC terminated and designed for a standard oscilloscope.

RS-RTE15 December 2014 - Rohde & Schwarz offers an a new protocol analysis solutions for its R&S RTE and R&S RTO oscilloscopes. The new option enables design engineers to analyze CAN interfaces that support the high-speed CAN FD (flexible data) bus protocol. These interfaces are seeing increased use in automotive and industry applications due to rising data rate requirements.

TLEC PR WaveSurfer307411 December 2014 – Teledyne LeCroy introduced the WaveSurfer 3074, extending the bandwidth range of the popular WaveSurfer 3000 series of oscilloscopes to 750 MHz. WaveSurfer 3000 oscilloscopes feature the MAUI advanced user interface, previously available only on higher-end oscilloscopes. Starting at 200 MHz and now reaching 750 MHz, the WaveSurfer 3000 oscilloscopes features a large 10.1” touch screen, 10 Mpts/channel memory and up to 4 GS/s sample rate.

  1. More than just an oridnary Scope
  2. PicoScope breaks the 100,000 waveforms per second barrier!
  3. Test, Debug and Analysis Tools for the entire DDR Design Cycle
  4. Rigol releases Software for Testing Switching Power Supplies
  5. New Measurement and Graphing Capabilities for CAN FD Analysis
  6. Transmitter Testing Solution for USB 3.1
  7. Reconfigurable 8 Channel Oscilloscope with 14-bit Resolution

 

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 Oscilloscope Basics

10 Tips for selecting an Oscilloscope

tips for oscilloscope selectionThe oscilloscope is one of the most important tools used in the design, repair and maintenance of electronics. Nevertheless the selection of the right type and configuration for your application is not an easy task. We listed some important points to consider.

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 Oscilloscope Background

Digital Debugging - better using a Mixed-Signal-Oscilloscope or a Logic Analyzer?

Tektronix mixed-signal oscilloscope MSOToday’s technology is fundamentally balanced on an increasingly fine line between the analogue and digital domains; as data speeds increase — both within and between devices — the ‘ideal world’ of fast, clean digital transitions becomes evermore difficult to achieve. This presents new and escalating challenges when verifying faster digital signals that exhibit more and more analogue-like features. As a result it is becoming necessary to remove the hard line between digital and analogue.

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