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Buying an oscilloscope

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Hello, I am about to buy an oscilloscope..What I want to ask, is what to take care of before I buy it, what functions/buttons should it have?
 

Hi,

"I want to bake a cake. What ingredients do I have to buy?"

Without knowing what you want to do with your oscilloscope.. it will be hard to give good advice.

--> More digital, more analog, more low frequency, more high frequency, spectrum analysis, long time data tracking, how many channels, what buget, PC interface...

Klaus
 
Hi,

"I want to bake a cake. What ingredients do I have to buy?"

Without knowing what you want to do with your oscilloscope.. it will be hard to give good advice.

--> More digital, more analog, more low frequency, more high frequency, spectrum analysis, long time data tracking, how many channels, what buget, PC interface...

Klaus

A typical oscilloscope for analog circuits 0-5 Volts, Arduino testing, FPGA testing, Raspberry testing, SPI, I2C, UART protocols, Typically for circuits working up to 12 Volts. Someone who has experience, I think it is easy to coordinate it me to a solution... Budget around 200-250 euros
 
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Hi,

"analog circuits" is a wide range. Audio needs high reolution. The 8bit or 10 bits of some oscilloscope´s won´t be sufficent.
Analog signal analysis: FFT? THD?

With the low budget: Maybe a PC interface (or memory card) can help. Then you can do the analysis on the PC, like THD or FFT calculations with Excel.

Arduino testing: is digital in low MHz range.
FPGA may be in the high MHz range. And if you go to some advanced analysis like eye_diagram or high_speed_SERDES .. it will become difficult..

SPI: here I recommend 4 channels.

Klaus
 
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