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Oscilloscopes

R&S enters eight-channel oscilloscope game

October 31, 2023 By Martin Rowe Leave a Comment

The Rohde & Schwarz MXO 5 series of eight-channel and four-channel oscilloscopes feature fast capture and low-level triggering so you can see signal details.

Filed Under: Digital Oscilloscope, Digital Storage Oscilloscope, EMI/EMC/RFI, Featured, Mixed-signal Oscilloscope Tagged With: rohdeschwarz

What hardware accessories can you attach to a USB oscilloscope?

September 12, 2023 By Jeff Shepard Leave a Comment

A wide range of hardware accessories are available for USB oscilloscopes. This FAQ reviews a few of the more popular options including a variety of probes plus wireless synchronization of multiple USB oscilloscopes and chassis that can combine and synchronize USB oscilloscopes with other instruments like arbitrary waveform generators and multimeters. Probes and more probes […]

Filed Under: Digital Storage Oscilloscope, FAQ, Featured, PC-based Oscilloscopes - PCO, scope probes and accessories, USB-based Oscilloscopes Tagged With: FAQ, picotechnology, tiepieengineering

What are the important specifications of USB oscilloscopes? part 1

September 6, 2023 By Jeff Shepard Leave a Comment

USB oscilloscopes are compact and low-cost. If properly specified, they can be highly capable instruments. This FAQ reviews some important USB oscilloscope specifications including the number of channels, sample rate, bandwidth, refresh rate, and memory depth. Part 2 of this series considers specifications (available Sept. 8) for triggering, input ranges and probes, zooming, and control […]

Filed Under: FAQ, Featured, Oscilloscope Descriptions, Oscilloscopes Tagged With: FAQ

12-bit oscilloscope reaches 65 GHz, tests high-speed links

September 5, 2023 By Martin Rowe Leave a Comment

The WaveMaster 8000HD series from Teledyne LeCroy goes where no 12-bit oscilloscope has gone before. Serial digital data streams never stop reaching for higher data rates. Buses such as PCIe Gen 6 (64 Gtransfers/sec) and USB4 V2 (80 Gb/sec) have gone to PAM4 and PAM3 modulation, respectively, to reach their current data rates. Two-level modulation […]

Filed Under: Digital Oscilloscope, Digital Storage Oscilloscope, Featured Tagged With: teledynelecroy

What specialist software is available for USB oscilloscopes? part 2

September 4, 2023 By Jeff Shepard Leave a Comment

This FAQ looks at software that can synchronize multiple oscilloscopes, perform mathematical functions, and transform a basic USB oscilloscope into multiple instruments. A USB oscilloscope consists of signal capture and conditioning electronics, a personal computer (PC) that can be a laptop, tablet, or desktop, plus PC software. The availability of application specialist software is a […]

Filed Under: Digital Oscilloscope, FAQ, Featured, PC-based Oscilloscopes - PCO Tagged With: FAQ, picotechnology, t&matlantic, tiepie

What specialist software is available for USB oscilloscopes? part 1

August 31, 2023 By Jeff Shepard Leave a Comment

USB oscilloscopes capture analog and digital signals. Through software, engineers can analyze protocols and logic signals. By adding a D/A converter, a USB oscilloscope can also become a waveform generator. A USB oscilloscope consists of the signal capture and conditioning electronics package, a personal computer (PC) that can be a laptop or tablet unit, or […]

Filed Under: Digital Oscilloscope, FAQ, Featured, PC-based Oscilloscopes - PCO, PC-based Test Equipment Tagged With: digilent, FAQ, mathworks, nationalinstruments, Pico Technologoy

What’s a USB oscilloscope?

August 29, 2023 By Jeff Shepard Leave a Comment

By connecting to a computer, a USB oscilloscope lets engineers offload screens and compute-intensive functions to the host, which reduces needed bench space and brings portability. Oscilloscopes are sometimes grouped into three types, benchtop, portable, and USB. The first two types are self-contained, but USB oscilloscopes are not. They consist of the electronics that capture […]

Filed Under: FAQ, Featured, PC-based Oscilloscopes - PCO Tagged With: Pico Technologoy, tiepieengineering

What is PCIe gen 6 and how do I test it? Part 2

August 4, 2023 By Rick Nelson Leave a Comment

PAM4 modulation boosts throughput but adds test challenges. Part 1 of this two-part series described the evolution of the PCI Express (PCIe) standard, including the move from non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signaling in PCIe 5 to four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4) signaling in PCIe 6. What unique test challenges does PCIe 6 present? As mentioned in Part 1, […]

Filed Under: Digital Oscilloscope, FAQ, Featured Tagged With: cadence, FAQ, keysighttechnologies, Synopsys, Tektronix, teledyne lecroy

Expand your RF test equipment’s range to 20 GHz

July 28, 2023 By Martin Rowe Leave a Comment

Extend the frequency of RF test equipment from 6 GHz to 20 GHz. RF systems such as satellite, Wi-Fi, UWB, and radar often need to bring modulated signals up to carrier frequency before transmitting and after receiving. TMYTEK, maker of BBox has introduced its UD Module (UDM) up/down converter, which operates from 6 GHz to […]

Filed Under: Analyzer, Featured, New Articles, Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzer, wireless test equipment Tagged With: TMYTEK

What is PCIe gen 6 and how do I test it? Part 1

July 25, 2023 By Rick Nelson Leave a Comment

PAM4 modulation boosts throughput but adds test challenges. The Peripheral Component Interface (PCI) emerged in the 1990s as a parallel bus for connecting computer mainboards and peripheral devices. In 2003, a serial version called PCI Express (PCIe) debuted, with generation 1 offering a transfer rate of 2.5 GT/s. Over the past 20 years, successive generations […]

Filed Under: Digital Oscilloscope, FAQ, Featured Tagged With: FAQ

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