Today’s oscilloscopes have far more functionality than their old cathode-ray tube (CRT) analog counterparts. At first glance, the proliferation of all of those knobs and buttons may seem overwhelming, ...

Few serial technologies have become more widely adopted than 8b/10b coding, which is now used in standards like PCI-Express, Serial ATA, SAS, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, FireWire, MIPI M-PHY, HDMI, ...

Engineers often spend considerable time locating and isolating intermittent signals. You may find that a design works most of the time, but an occasional unwanted condition causes the product to fail.

Many common problems can be solved easily using the edge trigger of an oscilloscope. But sometimes a more complicated trigger mode such as pulse triggering can shorten the troubleshooting cycle. This ...

There was a time when every broadcast engineer had an oscilloscope for troubleshooting and aligning equipment, from a microphone input to the antenna. It is true that the nature of our plug-and-play ...

When I worked in a manufacturing facility as an electrical engineer, I can’t recall a day where I did not use an oscilloscope or a multimeter to design or troubleshoot an electrical problem. Using ...