Embedded PCs started appearing in scopes in the late 1990s and the first “open” Windows scope appeared in 2000 with the Tektronix TDS7400 series. Although many scopes run Windows today, few engineers ...

Ever wanted to see how well your oscilloscope adheres to its stated capabilities? What if you buy a new scope and need a quick way to test it lest one of its channels its broken, like [Paul Wasserman] ...

Long-range target scopes have one job: to place bullets with repeatable precision at distance. But there’s plenty of room for variation within that performance envelope, and this year’s crop of ...

PARIS — Tektronix launches Scope Central, an online community dedicated to oscilloscope users. The website provides design engineers with in-depth information and peer-to-peer interaction focused on ...

Fig 1. The Tektronix MDO4000 series scopes combine an oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer for true time-correlated, mixed-domain signal capture and analysis. Fig 2. Higher bandwidth or higher ...

But,” he explained, “as displays and computing resources become less expensive, allowing a decrease in economy scope prices, more of the PC-hosted scope early adopters are returning to the traditional ...