I do not work for Agilent, but I'm a faculty member at the State Univ of New York. I recently managed to talk my univ into buying one of the scopes described below for me. I love it. The one I got was the 100 MHz mixed signal unit. It does have a pretty impressive memory depth and you can pan and zoom the trace when it is captured. It also has the ability to display both the entire trace and a zoomed view of the trace on the screen at the same time, so it's really clear which section you are zooming on. Why they misnamed this "delayed sweep" though, I can't figure out. It also has a serial port that allows you to transmit the scope image directly into a word or excel document. I expect to be able to use this to make transparencies of images to show in class. This feature comes standard. It also has a floppy drive for saving configuration information, etc. The triggering features on it are pretty amazing. For example, in analyzing an I2C signal, you can actually have it trigger on a specific data value. All of this may be common on other scopes for all I know.... I've never had a really good one before. But coming from a world where all I had was a junky analog scope, I was pretty amazed at what was available. Not bad at $2500. The one reservation I have is that it is a monochrome screen. It would be nicer (though undoubted more expensive) in color. John Hansen Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology State University of New York College at Fredonia At 03:54 PM 8/29/01 -0700, Ian Jordan wrote: >I work for Agilent (not in scopes), so I'll try to leave any opinions out of >this, and just add to what Andy said on a factual basis. > >The 'scope series Andy is talking about is the 54620 series of MSO scopes. >They come in 60 or 100 MHz versions, with various channel configs. > >They range in list price from $2.5K to $5K, however, they are currently 50% >off for educational customers, fitting your price range nicely. > >More info here: >http://www.tm.agilent.com/classes/MasterServlet?view=productgroup_2&pgr-Item >ID=1000001806&language=eng&locale=US > >--Ian Jordan > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Andy Meng" >To: >Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:01 PM >Subject: Re: [EE]: Scope Recommendation > > > > Hello, > > > > I have had good experience lately with the HP/Agilent Mixed-Signal > > "MegaZoom" scope (not sure of the model number). It has 16 digital input > > channels and 2 analog input channels. The menus and user interface seemed > > nicely set up (I have mainly used analog scopes in the past). I think that > > the price falls in the range you mentioned. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Andy Meng > > Ham Radio: N8MX > > www.qsl.net/n8mx > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Sean Breheny > > To: > > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 5:21 PM > > Subject: [EE]: Scope Recommendation > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The head of the research group I work in at Cornell asked me to select > > > some scopes for us. We have a good relationship with Agilent, so we may > > > be able to get some kind of a deal from them. We are probably willing to > > > go as high as $5k, although I'd appreciate suggestions even higher or > > > lower than this. What would you recommend? Ideally, I'd like to select > > > the best digital scope AND the best analog scope I could, although I > > > realize that analog scopes are becoming rarer. What about the new > > > mixed-mode scopes (MSO in Agilent/HP parlance and DRO in Tek speak)? Are > > > they as good as/ better than separate DSO and analog scopes? > > > > > > As for what we would use them for, we do all kinds of work, such as >motor > > > control, microcontroller circuits, DSP, a little RF. Pretty much the > > > gamut of stuff which gets discussed on the list (we are officially a > > > dynamics and control group, working mostly on autonomous vehicles). > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Sean > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList >mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu