I personally own one of the Agilent 54622D O'scopes!  It's great for PIC work.
I highly recommend it.
Ron Wilder

Jim wrote:

>     "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."
>
> The 'old' analog scopes had this feature - and it truly
> was a "delayed sweep" since there exists no memory
> from which to pull data from and allow an 'expansion'
> of  an area of interest. Instead, the earlier scopes
> employed an actual 'delayed sweep' of the beam
> across the CRT.
>
> With today's modern scope, this appears to be a
> historic term held over - probably 'cause all the
> folks in industry are familiar with the concept.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hansen" <hansen@FREDONIA.EDU>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Scope Recommendation
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
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