Cambridge, United Kingdom—Pico Technology, the PC-based test and measurement company, has announced a new series of high-performance PC oscilloscopes. The 3000 series debuts with three instruments: ...

Many years ago, when Propellerhead used to get his hands dirty making bits of televisions for Ferguson, two of the most useful analytical and diagnostic tools at his disposal were an oscilloscope and ...

Tektronix, Inc. (NYSE: TEK), a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced RSAVu off-line analysis software. With RSAVu, customers can acquire signals ...

A hardware device or software used to examine the frequency and power components of a signal. It provides more information than an oscilloscope, because it can display the signals over a range of ...

Tektronix has released a USB 3.0-based spectrum analyser that plugs into a PC for its display and controls. Called RSA306, it has 9kHz-6.2GHz frequency range and 40MHz real time bandwidth. “As with ...

No instrument, whether in the time or frequency domains, is suitable for all use cases. Signal/spectrum analyzers shine for ensuring standards conformity. Oscilloscopes tend to be more versatile, ...

TrueRTA, a PC-based audio-testing system, uses a real-time analyzer to turn any PC into an audio spectrum analyzer. The software also includes a low-distortion signal generator, a digital voltmeter, a ...

Just as the oscilloscope is the instrument of choice for analog electronics, and the spectrum analyzer is preferred for RF measurement, the logic analyzer is the go-to instrument for digital system ...

Like a lot of hardware tinkerers, [dexter2048] has a Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope sitting on his bench. One day when trying to coax some information out of the FFT setting, [dexter] threw his hands up ...