Basic analog level triggering was developed by Tektronix founders Howard Vollum and Jack Murdock and helped sell the company’s first scope, the Model 511, in 1947. Adding an analog delay line to delay ...

The high-speed serial interface signals supporting today's computer and communications systems are too fast for most general-purpose test equipment. For example, PCI Express operates at a 2.5-GHz bit ...

A digital scope’s effective bandwidth of isn’t determined merely by analog componentsthe digitizer and memory also play a role When selecting an oscilloscope for a specific measurement, the first ...

The amount of real-time-scope memory you need for serial-data analysis depends on what you want to accomplish. Examining a few common validation and troubleshooting task helps determine how much ...

PC-based oscilloscope maker Pico Technology has introduced a repetitive sampling facility on its 100MHz digital storage scope which boosts sample rate to 5Gsample/s. The firm’s ADC-212, a 100MHz ...

Sampling oscilloscopes do not capture a whole waveform in one shot. Instead they are simpler, and work with repetitive waveforms only, using a fast sampling gate at a relatively slow sampling rate to ...