Software customizes DSOs, simplifies on-scope data analysis

摘要

LATE LAST YEAR, when Agilent Technologies added the 20G-sample/sec/channel 54850 series to its Infiniium line of digital oscilloscopes, the company, which had been the first to market Windows-based DSOs, finally allowed its new scopes to run the customer's choice of Windows-based software applications - something competitors had done years earlier. Infiniium users were thus able to use their scopes for analyzing as well as capturing data. Using a separate PC for data analysis was no longer necessary. Nevertheless, the company continued to restrict older members of the Infiniium line to running the scopes' one preinstalled-DSO-application.