Bitscope

[Kari Laine]

Hi,

I plan to buy (in timeframe 1-2 months) the bitscope.
http://www.bitscope.com .

I am very interested to hear comments from it's users and others.

How is the Linux-side working?

Best Regards
Kari

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[Rich Webb]

On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:42:50 +0300, Kari Laine <klaine8@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,

I plan to buy (in timeframe 1-2 months) the bitscope.
http://www.bitscope.com .

I am very interested to hear comments from it's users and others.

The waveform on (most affordable) digital scopes isn't as clean as an
equivalent analog scope. They usually more than make up for that in
their ability to capture a single event. How well they can do so depends
on their real-time sample rate. A reasonable reproduction of the signal
requires at least five, or better ten, samples per the highest frequency
of interest.

Bitscope's real time sample rate is 40 MSa/s, so a single-shot capture
will be acceptable up to signals of 4 - 8 MHz.

It was a great hack when it was first published, but it is what it is.

Instek and Rigol have some good, inexpensive stand-along digital scopes
with decent sample rates and PC connectivity. Look there first.

WRT the logic analyzer features, there are some good USB products. They
just need to capture edges and not analog levels and so their rates can
be acceptably high (e.g., 500 MHz) and still have reasonable prices.

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[amdx]

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On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:42:50 +0300, Kari Laine <klaine8@gmail.com
wrote:

Hi,

I plan to buy (in timeframe 1-2 months) the bitscope.
http://www.bitscope.com .


Instek and Rigol have some good, inexpensive stand-along digital scopes
with decent sample rates and PC connectivity. Look there first.
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

You might find this interesting about the Rigol Ds1052E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhXfVYWYXE

 

[David L. Jones]

Kari Laine wrote:

Hi,

I plan to buy (in timeframe 1-2 months) the bitscope.
http://www.bitscope.com .

I am very interested to hear comments from it's users and others.

How is the Linux-side working?

Best Regards
Kari

What are your requirements?
The Bitscope is quite poor value for money these days IMO.
See:
http://www.eevblog.com/2009/06/17/eevblog-13-part-1-of-2-digital-storage-oscilloscope-tutorial/
and
http://www.eevblog.com/2009/06/17/eevblog-13-part-2-of-2-pc-based-digital-storage-oscilloscope-comparison/

Dave.

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