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Twelve Things You Didn't Know a Scope Could Do

Randy White, <br>Technical Marketing Manager, <br>Serial Applications, <br>Tektronix, Inc.

3/15/2010 6:00 AM EDT

Oscilloscopes are indispensable tools for anyone designing, manufacturing, or repairing electronic equipment. In today's fast-paced world, engineers need the best tools available to solve their measurement challenges quickly and accurately. As the eyes of the engineer, oscilloscopes are the key to meeting today's demanding measurement challenges.

Modern digital oscilloscopes come packed with time-saving features like deep memory and a host of analysis tools to simply high speed digital design challenges. This article, presented in pdf form (no registration required), explains twelve oscilloscope capabilities that you may not have known existed.

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About the author
Randy White is the serial applications technical marketing manager at
Tektronix, Inc. Randy has worked with various aspects of test and measurement solutions at Tektronix over the past few years. He has given seminars on high-speed serial measurements and is actively involved in many working groups for high-speed serial standards. He holds a BSEE from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.





Engineer62

3/31/2010 5:17 PM EDT

Hmm... can't seem to find many of these on my still-working Tektronix type 514D ! About 50 vacuum tubes excluding CRT... fits in my wife's station wagon if you can lift it!

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