Gameboy Oscilloscope （6）

Published:2011/8/2 1:47:00 Author:Amy From:SeekIC

Conclusion

We don’t want to claim that choosing an oscilloscope is an easy task, even with this survey to help you. As already mentioned, it’s a good idea (or even essential) to base your choice on your specific measurement tasks, taking future wishes into account as v/ell. This survey and the reported results should then help you to more quickly sort through the available options.

The test results show that in particular, all of the relatively simple digital oscilloscopes are still surpassed by practi­cally all analogue instruments with regard to display capabilities. To start with, in our view buying a digital oscilloscope is only justified if you have a particular need for specific triggering and/or memory functions. This will in particular be true if you have to make measurements on signals in which relatively infrequent special events occur, or if you want to use the oscilloscope for auto­mated measurements and reports, possibly even operat­ing under remote control.

For ’garden variety’ applications, if you’ll pardon our use of the term, buying a combined oscilloscope is worth seri­ous consideration.

Regardless of which instrument you’re interested in, if at all possible you should first try it out in your own mea­surement setup. With the more specialized instruments, this is practically unavoidable, since the suppliers will be only too pleased to demonstrate all the features to you. We certainly consider this to be a good idea, since it should now be clear that although most oscilloscopes are handy and versatile instruments, each one has its own particular faults and shortcomings.

Elektor Electronics would like to thank the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and in particular the Chair of Signals and Systems and the Scintilla study association, for their cooperation and contributions to this project. Naturally, we would also like to thank all of the partici­pating manufacturers, importers and suppliers for making the oscilloscopes available.

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