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What makes a good oscilloscope?

16 Mar 2011

BbiteTom

United Kingdom

There are many, many oscilloscopes in the market, the mid-range is packed and the big players have tehir niches in high end and aps but fundamentally what makes a great oscilloscope for an engineer? For me after all teh design and debug is done its a simple Automeasure button that on one press measures the signal I'm looking for an enebales me to store that set up so it can be run over and over again as easy as pressing a button. What's it for you?

Replies

Dvanhall

United States
1 year ago

Wide bandwidth for analog envelopes. Deep memory for waveform storage and analysis. Measurement functions. Connectivity to usb or ethernet for control and data transfer. Functions mapped to knobs, not menus. Differential input mode.

and finally...

The quality of HP, the trigger of Tektronix, and probes that last like Tektronix P6000's

BbiteTom

United Kingdom
1 year ago

Comments such as 'there is a new focus on market segments and applications rather than on the instrument technologies themselves' indicate to me that it is not the scope but what surrounds it is seen as most improtant now. A scope is a scope is a scope no matter the manufacturer. Is that true or is it the Aps and probes and gizzmos? What do you think?

banjohat

Denmark
1 year ago

I would very much like the logic analyzer function. Doing a lot of digital development and also implementing SPI and I2C busses, logic levels are always interresting.

Also, a frequency counter is nice - by that I mean that the frequency of a signal is showed on the screen.