When you’re hunting for a signal with your oscilloscope, the stronger it is, the better. If it’s weak, you might struggle to tease it out from other interference, or even from the noise floor itself.

Ok, you want to get an oscilloscope. Where do you start? This TechXchange includes content that will be useful for the operation of a scope in your test environment. This includes considerations like ...

There was a time when getting a good oscilloscope not only involved a large outlay of capital, but also required substantial real estate on a workbench. The situation has improved considerably for the ...

It is no secret that digital oscilloscopes are sampled data instruments and do not acquire a continuous record of the input signal. We know from sampling theory that the input signal, properly sampled ...

New features lead to new diagnotic and testing techniques. This is especially true for oscilloscopes that have changed over the years as new features have been added. This TechXchange includes content ...

Electrical noise, like taxes, is always with us. Most of the time noise is small and we can ignore it, but there are some measurement circumstances where noise must be dealt with. What can be done to ...