Tektronix THS3024 4- Channel hand-held oscilloscope, Scope-Meter, hand-held THS3024 Information Guide
Product codes
THS3024
In short, whatever scope you choose it must not only match how and where you work but also:
Accurately capture your signals.
Have features that expand your capabilities and save you time.
Offer guaranteed not just typical specifications.
Accuracy. you will need a pretty good idea of what signals you’re going to need to look at: whether
(analog) audio and transducer signals or (digital) pulses and steps. If you’re looking at digital signals, will you
be measuring rise times, or just looking at approximate timing relationships? Will you use the scope to qualify
elements of your design, or mostly for debugging? Either way, accurate signal capture at the outset is more
important than any later signal processing – your decisions rely on accurate information, and you can always
process the information on a computer.
Capability. you need to consider not just your present generation of designs, but future generations too.
A high-quality scope will give you many years’ reliable service.
Guaranteed specs. Ensure that all the parameters you need to measure are detailed as “guaranteed
specifications” in the oscilloscope datasheet. Parameters listed as “Typical” are simply an indication of
oscilloscope performance, and cannot be used to make meaningful measurements that comply with
recognised quality standards.
(analog) audio and transducer signals or (digital) pulses and steps. If you’re looking at digital signals, will you
be measuring rise times, or just looking at approximate timing relationships? Will you use the scope to qualify
elements of your design, or mostly for debugging? Either way, accurate signal capture at the outset is more
important than any later signal processing – your decisions rely on accurate information, and you can always
process the information on a computer.
Capability. you need to consider not just your present generation of designs, but future generations too.
A high-quality scope will give you many years’ reliable service.
Guaranteed specs. Ensure that all the parameters you need to measure are detailed as “guaranteed
specifications” in the oscilloscope datasheet. Parameters listed as “Typical” are simply an indication of
oscilloscope performance, and cannot be used to make meaningful measurements that comply with
recognised quality standards.
The digital storage oscilloscope: a brief introduction
Oscilloscopes are the basic tool for anyone designing, manufacturing or repairing electronic
equipment. A digital storage oscilloscope (DSO, which this guide concentrates on) acquires
and stores waveforms. It can show high-speed repetitive and single-shot signals across
multiple channels to capture elusive glitches and transient events.
equipment. A digital storage oscilloscope (DSO, which this guide concentrates on) acquires
and stores waveforms. It can show high-speed repetitive and single-shot signals across
multiple channels to capture elusive glitches and transient events.
A scope shows the signal’s frequency, whether a malfunctioning component is distorting the signal,
how much of the signal is noise, whether the noise changes with time, and much, much more.
how much of the signal is noise, whether the noise changes with time, and much, much more.
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12 THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING AN OSCILLOSCOPE
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