Basic analog level triggering was developed by Tektronix founders Howard Vollum and Jack Murdock and helped sell the company’s first scope, the Model 511, in 1947. Adding an analog delay line to delay ...

Last time, we looked at some powerful trigger modes found on many modern scopes, including the Rigol DHO900 series we used as an example. Those triggers were mostly digital or, at least, ...

Edge Trigger—a set of basic trigger features found on both analog and digital scopes. Triggering will occur when the slope of the signal matches the positive or negative selection you have made and ...

Oscilloscopes provide critical signal visibility for debugging, testing, and ensuring that electronic systems match developers’ imaginations. Specifying when the oscilloscope captures information ...

Will Rogers once said that veterinarians are the best doctors because their patients can’t tell them where it hurts. I’ve often thought that electronic people have a similar problem. In many cases, ...