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 ...

Cambridgeshire-based PC scope maker Pico Technology has released a 12GHz sampling oscilloscope that plugs into a PC USB port. The dual-channel machine has a 20ps sample window and with its 12GHz ...

Pico Technology has unveiled the PicoScope 9300 series of pc based sampling oscilloscopes. All the models integrate a 9.5GHz optical fibre to electrical converter with a two channel, 20GHz pc sampling ...

Pico Technology claims that its PicoScope 5000 series of USB PC oscilloscopes delivers the bandwidth, sampling, and memory depth of expensive conventional benchtop oscilloscopes at prices starting at ...

Making an oscilloscope is relatively easy, while making a very fast oscilloscope is hard. There’s a trick that converts a mundane instrument into a very fast one, it’s been around since the 1950s, and ...

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 ...

Making an oscilloscope is relatively easy, while making a very fast oscilloscope is hard. There’s a trick that converts a mundane instrument into a very fast one, it’s been around since the 1950s, and ...

The PicoScope 5000 series of USB PC oscilloscopes from Pico Technology delivers the bandwidth, sampling, and memory depth of expensive conventional benchtop oscilloscopes at prices starting at just ...