Agilent (www.agilent.com) has provided the benefits of proprietary MegaZoom III technology in a compact benchtop package — DSO5054A series oscilloscope blends impressive update rates and deep memory with remarkably fast sample rates conveniently avoiding trade-offs commonly associated with bench oscilloscopes.

This four-channel 500 MHz scope provides outstanding performance with its deep eight Mpts acquisition memory and real-time sampling rate of up to 100,000 waveforms per second.

The scope, which is part of Agilent’s InfiniiVision 5000 series, offers similar third-generation MegaZoom III technology blocks featured in higher performance lab and bench oscilloscope. This enables DSO5054A to deliver fast update rates, responsive deep memory, integrated serial analysis, and analog-like display systems at a price similar to scopes with older technology blocks.

Dead time between acquisitions will never be a problem with the scope’s I²C/SPI serial trigger and decode which provide the fastest update and throughput rate and ensures that users will never miss an anomaly or a trigger event.

Aside from providing an easy and fast way of testing signals to specified standards, the scope’s mask test option also uncovers unsuspecting signal anomalies and delivers fast valid pass/fail statistics with its real-time waveform pass/fail tests of up to 100,000 per second.

Decode and trigger on serially transmitted data based on LIN and CAN protocols provides hardware-accelerated decode capabilities, as well as triggering on complex serial signal.

The scope offers complete connectivity with its two USB host ports and one device port, GPIB – 100 MBit LAN, LAN, full remote control including web browser and XGA display.