Agilent Technologies (www.agilent.com) has unveiled a scope that offers outstanding performance and optional capabilities not provided by other oscilloscopes at an entry-level price points, the DSOX2002A Oscilloscope.

This two channel oscilloscope comes with a large 8.5-inch WVGA display and delivers the fastest update rate in its class at 50,000 waveforms per second. With bandwidth of 70 MHz, the scope provides a maximum real-time sampling rate of one GSa/s.

Compared with other scope in its class, the DSOX2002A oscilloscope offers the deepest memory with 100 kpts of the company’s patented MegaZoom IV technology. Always responsive and enabled, this technology allows the scope to achieve the industry’s fastest update rate with no compromise.

The scope also provides a mask test option, a valuable productivity tool in testing specified standards in manufacturing or for infrequent signal anomalies in R&D debug. Offering the only hardware-based mask testing in the industry, the scope can deliver up to 50,000 tests per second.

To enhance the scope’s acquisition memory, users can utilize the scope’s segmented memory acquisition when capturing data bursts or low-duty cycle pulses. The scope’s segmented memory also allows users to capture significant segments of signals and store them without capturing unnecessary signal deadtime/idle. It is also suitable for applications including packetized serial pulses, radar bursts, pulsed laser and high-energy physics experiments. At a minimum re-arm time of below 19 μs, the scope can capture up to 25 segments.

Providing three instruments in one compact device, the scope has been integrated with a 20 MHz function generator as well as a logic timing analyzer.