On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Russell McMahon wrote:

> - Pocketability is great

Ooh.  Could you package it in one of those spring-loaded cable things;  
perhaps a slightly expanded one that had the electronics at the core  
of the springs?  Right now, a major annoyance of by scope probes is  
that the drape indelicately across other things when I'm not using  
them, and by the time I DO use them, they're all tangled.

>   2. What are your minimum specifications for this type of product?

Highly dependent on price.  Minimally, it should do better than an  
audio-port based scope.  There may be sweet spots at 1MHz, 4MHz, and  
20MHz, in addition to the usual 100MHz and higher "real scope" spots.

>   3. What are your ideal specifications for this type of product?
Open software on the host side?  Is the probe going to just dump data  
to the USB host, or will it contain some of its own smarts?

>   4. Would this be any more useful or desirable than the current USB
> oscilloscopes available?

If it's cheaper...  Right now I think there is a pretty big gap  
between the audio-card scopes and the low-end professional USB  
scopes.  Could be a good niche to aim for.

BillW

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