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Precision capacitance meter. Thermocouples: Simple but misunderstood. Info General. Sensor Measurements. Tektronix Introduces New Oscilloscope Platform With Breakthrough Price, Performance. BEAVERTON, OR -- (Marketwire) -- 12/07/10 -- Tektronix, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced a significant expansion of its oscilloscope offerings with the introduction of a new mixed signal oscilloscope platform, the MSO/DPO5000 Series.

Tektronix Introduces New Oscilloscope Platform With Breakthrough Price, Performance

Tektronix also unveiled revolutionary new TPP1000 and TPP0500 high-bandwidth and low capacitance passive voltage probes with breakthrough performance. Taken together, the new instruments and probes give embedded systems design engineers unmatched performance and analysis tools for complex component and system-level debug and validation tasks, all at highly competitive price points. Oscilloscope models ranging from 350 MHz to 2 GHz are the single most popular segment for oscilloscopes and used to develop products for a broad range of industries and applications. The series features eight models ranging from 350 MHz of analog bandwidth and 5 GS/s sample rates to 2 GHz and 10 GS/s for higher-end applications. Model 300. Circuit Design. This page describes the original BitScope design.

Circuit Design

The BS300 and the later models are similar, the BS300 schematics are here. The schematics below describe the main circuit. The next few pages walk you through the design. The sub-sections provide details of the analog circuits, A/D convertor and expansion POD. If you have a PDF reader installed in your web browser, you can click on the thumbnails to see each schematic in detail. You can also can download all five sheets in one zip file from our download area. In addition to the main circuit, you can also view the schematics of our high speed A/D convertor. PC Oscilloscopes, USB Logic Analyzers and Generators. BitScope PC Based Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes and Logic Analyzers are a popular choice for engineers and technicians working in manufacturing, testing, service and equipment repair.

PC Oscilloscopes, USB Logic Analyzers and Generators.

Connected via USB, Ethernet or RS-232, they are widely used in R&D in applications ranging from fusion research to embedded systems design, process monitoring, undergraduate university labs and customized data acquisition. All BitScopes are housed in robust extruded aluminium desktop cases offering full EMI protection and some are also available in 19' rack-mount. PC Oscilloscope and Analyzer Designs. What's a 6-in-1 Oscilloscope, Anyway? Tektronix Introduces New Oscilloscope Platform With Breakthrough Price, Performance.

JYE Tech - DIY Oscilloscopes, DIY Kits for hobbyists. Shared remote access for any BitScope. We have long supported direct network access for remote data acquisition and diagnostic work with our network BitScope models such as BS325N or BS445N.

Shared remote access for any BitScope.

It's how the SYDNEY online demo works across the Internet. Network BitScope connection model. These models can be used remotely without the need for a server because they are LAN connected devices that use the UDP/IP stack to transport BitScope Packets directly between BitScope and the host. They can do this because they have a built-in LAN Interface Adapter (called LIA). However, we have received many requests to do the same thing with USB BitScopes so in a recent blog post we demonstrated how to connect USB BitScope models like BitScope 10 to a network using tools such as VNC and X. BITSCOPE = PC OSCILLOSCOPES AND ANALYZERS.

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Oscilloscope. Illustration showing the interior of a cathode-ray tube for use in an oscilloscope.

Oscilloscope

Numbers in the picture indicate: 1. Deflection voltage electrode; 2. Electron gun; 3. Electron beam; 4. Focusing coil; 5. Pico Technology. 5 MHz to 20 GHz bandwidth Pico is the market leader in PC Oscilloscopes (PCOs) — the modern alternative to the traditional benchtop oscilloscope.

Pico Technology

High end features such as serial decoding and mask limit testing are included as standard, no more expensive "options" to pay for. We also have a long history of adding new features through free software upgrades - your PicoScope keeps getting better. “For a software guy I can use your scope in ten seconds and get a signal on the screen. When using a traditional hardware scope I, and many hardware guys, can take minutes to hours to get the scope just right.” — Galen Spooner * US Dollar and Euro prices are approximate. Video of the day. Microcontroller Projects: Two-Channel PC Based Oscilloscope USB. Inroduction More and more experiments are now ‘PC-assisted.’

Microcontroller Projects: Two-Channel PC Based Oscilloscope USB

Also conventional acquisition systems are very expensive. Since portable PCs are today common and a USB link is a better solutionhere we present an oscilloscope using USB port of the PC that operates at up to 10 kHz with ±16V input voltage. It has much more improved features than the PC-based oscilloscope . The oscilloscope uses IC PIC18F2550 from Microchip as the main controller, which makes the oscilloscope compact as there is no need of additional power supply for the entire circuit board. Circuit description At the heart of this oscilloscope is USB2.0-compliant microcontroller PIC18F2550 from Microchip. Features of 18F2550 Programming 1. 2. iMSO-104. USB Oscilloscopes. Oscilloscope Search Results. Microcontroller Projects: Two-Channel PC Based Oscilloscope USB. Analog Experiments Anywhere. Universal Analog Hardware Testbench. Teaching basic Analog and Digital Electronics at undergraduate level consists of theory classes with hands-on-training conducted in an electronics laboratory equipped with Oscilloscopes, Function Generators and Regulated Power Supplies.

Universal Analog Hardware Testbench

Students are taught the characteristics of basic components like diodes, BJTs, FETs, OPAMPs and Digital devices. Carrying out practical laboratory experiments by students reinforces classroom teaching of theory. Standard laboratory equipment is often beyond the reach of several educational institutions worldwide because of the large cost element involved.

Practical laboratory experimentation is therefore curtailed. PC SOUND-CARD SCOPE INTERFACE FACILITATES DC RESTORATION. Waveform before correction The 555 Timer IC when operated as an astable oscillator from 5V provides a square wave of 0-5V and the waveform at the timing capacitor varies from 1/3 to 2/3 of 5V. The first screen shot shows the timer IC 555 AC coupled waveforms as captured by the PC sound-card. It can be seen that the zero settles at the average value. (The input has been scaled by 1:10 to remain within the input voltage limits.) The square wave shows a peak value of 171mV instead of 5V and the capacitor waveform appears to be centered at 0V with a peak value of 66.59mV. LCS-1M - A Full-Featured, Low-Cost Hobby Oscilloscope. This instructable will show you how I developed a simple yet full-featured digital sampling oscilloscope that I hope will enable you to get a successful start in this domain.

LCS-1M - A Full-Featured, Low-Cost Hobby Oscilloscope

The main goals in this development were: Create something that is really usable in practice - i.e. it must have sufficient sample rate to at least cover the audio range (DC up to well over 20 kHz), and a wide input range (from Millivolts up to several Volts). The present design actually is usable up to about 150 kHz (sample rate is 1 MHz = 1 million samples per second). The maximum voltage range is -15 to +20 Volts, but can also go down into the low mV range. Use only readily available, inexpensive parts which don't need special skills to assemble - e.g. no tiny surface mount components. DPScope - Build Your Own USB/PC-Based Oscilloscope.

Below you see the specifications of the instruments.

DPScope - Build Your Own USB/PC-Based Oscilloscope

DPScope SE - the simplest real oscilloscope/logic analyzer on the planet. The DPScope SE is the result of a challenge I set for myself – to build a practically usable oscilloscope with a minimum amount of components and for minimum cost. The practical benefit is of course that this is an instrument that I hope will be interesting to many teachers, students and hobbyists looking for an affordable, simple tool for their electronics work.

There were a few basic requirements for whatever circuit I came up to justify the “practically usable” label: There are quite a few simple “sort of an oscilloscope” type circuits out on the web, but all I know fall short in one or more respects: With the DPScope SE I tried to address all these issues. Of course the end result can never compete with a professional Tektronix or Agilent scope costing hundred times more, but it is still good for a large number of applications. To minimize cost some preliminary considerations set the general direction: If you have any questions or feedback, do not hesitate to contact us: DIY - USB OSCILLOSCOPE IN A MATCHBOX. DIY - USB OSCILLOSCOPE IN A MATCHBOX.

Stephan.walter.name/files/publications/walter-dso-project.pdf. PropScope. The PropScope is a two-channel oscilloscope that is capable of reading 25 million samples per second with ten bits of resolution over one, two, ten, or twenty volt peak-to-peak waveforms. Power is provided through the USB port requiring only a single cable to connect the PropScope to any laptop or desktop PC. A built-in expansion port allows additional capabilities and upgrades, by simply plugging in an expansion card. A PropScope DAC card is even included, providing an analog trigger, a four-bit digital trigger, an eight-bit digital to analog converter, and a four-bit NTSC/PAL output.