Hello Community,
My name is John Marrinan, and I'm your resistent expert on Oscilloscopes for the next few weeks. As an Field Application Engineer I see a huge range of uses for scopes in the modern world of technologoy and physics. If there are any questions you'd like to ask or comments on my posting I'd love to hear from you.
I recently started a discussion on how digital scopes are constanlty enabling T&M companies to improve feature/cost relationship in value scopes. Besides more features for less dollars, it’s important to recognize another key trend in oscilloscopes – integration of other functionality. Likely many of you regularly use a spectrum analyzer, function generator, DVM, protocol analyzer, etc. Today, you can add these functions into your oscilloscope. Our recent MDO3000 mixed domain oscilloscope introduction is one example of that. We call it the ultimate, integrated 6-in-1 oscilloscope but you can be the judge of that. We’ve integrated a spectrum analyzer with performance specifications that rival a basic stand-alone spectrum analyzer, taken our popular AFG3000 function generator ASIC & code and integrated that in, along with many other features.
The ultimate goal is to provide a bench-in-a-box. Humorously, we’ve been asked when we’ll be adding a power supply to the MDO3000. However, as you know, to get clean power supply signals requires a linear regulation supply, and those can be quite heavy not to mention wreak havoc on your circuits by introducing crosstalk. I don’t anticipate we’ll be crossing that technological hurdle. I guess you can’t please everyone…
But, I want to hear from you. What features and functions would you like to see added? What do you need for this to be your complete bench in a box?
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