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摘要

How does your scope answer this question: What's wrong with this signal? Typically, that's the question users want to ask, but it's not always easy to make a scope understand what you want it to do. Because oscilloscope controls affect vertical sensitivity, horizontal sweep speed, and several trigger modes, some translation generally is needed. When we asked scope manufacturers the same question, they responded with a range of answers. Teledyne LeCroy's Chris Busso, senior product marketing manager, emphasized the increased vertical resolution in the company's HDO high-definition oscilloscopes. With 16 times the resolution of typical 8-bit instruments, these scopes should help users find small signal faults more easily. LeCroy DSOs also feature the WaveScan search and analysis tool, which you can program to look for up to 20 criteria such as rise time, nonmonotonic edges, and runts in waveforms.