A key feature of scopes like Agilent's 6000 series is the rate at which waveforms are updated on screen and in memory. Often overlooked, waveform update rate can have a huge impact on how responsive a ...

Digital-clock-period jitter is the variation in the period of a clock cycle compared with a nominal (average of many cycles) clock period. To accurately measure period jitter using an oscilloscope, ...

In this installment of Scope Noob I’m working with Direct Digital Synthesis using a microcontroller. I was pleasantly surprised by some of the quirks which I discovered during this process. Most ...