Digital signal processors (DSPs) have been improving oscilloscope performance for over 10 years. DSPs were first used in scopes for sinx/x interpolation, where the DSP added points between samples to ...
The scopes’ improved performance is attributable in part to a second-generation silicon-germanium (SiGe) chipset that not only provides the increased bandwidth, but also improves the earlier scopes’ ...
A few weeks ago we published an article on the newly released Keysight 1000X, an oscilloscope that marks Keysight’s late but welcome entry into the hacker-centric entry-level market. Understandably, ...
The oscilloscope is an essential tool of any electronics bench, and it is also an instrument whose capabilities have expanded exponentially over the decades. Your entirely analogue CRT ‘scope of a few ...
In the last month or so (this was written in 2012 [ed.]), several articles have landed on my metaphorical desktop (or is a screen now the real desktop, and that wooden thing the metaphorical one?), ...
Over the past couple of years, a quiet war has erupted among the major oscilloscope manufacturers. No blood has been shed—yet—but a lot of engineering blood, sweat, and tears have surely been expended ...