VRPW-30-55 Not Your Fathers Scope

• Presented at an IEEE society meeting
• An historical perspective on how oscilloscopes have changed in the last 25 years
• Starting with the good old Tek 547 scope
• The trend toward the "tricorder"
• The explosion of low end USB based scopes
• The best free PC sound card based scope
• The best low end USB scope fo runder $300
• How modern scopes have built in processing functions to target faster time to insight
• Examples of the power of built in functions used in all the high end scope families