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

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).

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

Do you have any of these scopes?