Oscilloscope recommendation question...

Fred doesn't design electronics. He won't say what he actually does, if anything.

John

Considering what YOU call electronics design, I take that as the supreme compliment... I still want to know how an embedded system designer needs an oscilloscope, seems they would be better off with an LA. And if you don't need the portability of a standalone instrument, the PC-based scopes make way more sense to me, analog has nothing over digital, unless all you want to do is stare at a display with no requirements to collect numbers of any kind. But then that's just me. I guess from a practical perspective the scopes do have some degree of usefulness in that they *enable* the f__k-ups, I'm sure you know the type: oops..double triggering on that 12" high speed digital trace, ooops- no Vdd connected to that chip, ooops..ad nauseum, I'm sure you know that game, and very well actually:-)

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LOL! So every signal in an embedded system is a guaranteed perfectly clean square wave with a known amplitude, rise time, and jitter huh? Ever heard of signal integrity? Embedded systems don't use analog power supplies? (my latest embedded system has no less than 9 of them) Didn't you know that embedded stuff has "analog" properties just like analog circuits?

Logic analysers have *massive* traps for the unwary. In fact it you

*need* an oscilloscope to back up logic analyser to ensure that you aren't being led up the garden path.

Have you ever used a logic analyser for professional design or troubleshooting on complex embedded circuits?

Hilarious!

Stop it, you are killing me! LMAO!

Dave.

Bloggs is obviously in management (pity the poor peons).

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Now he's done it! He's trying to suck all the fun out of bloggsy bashing. :(

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Do you have any of these scopes?

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