See the Unseen: Unleashing the Power of Oscilloscopes

Oscilloscopes are powerful tools used by engineers and scientists to measure and analyze electronic signals, they are used in a wide range of applications, from electronic testing and troubleshooting to the design of complex electronic systems. Digital oscilloscopes have become increasingly popular in recent years as they offer many advantages over traditional analog oscilloscopes, these advantages include faster sample rates, higher bandwidth, and the ability to capture and store data wave for further analysis.

So what is an oscilloscope? It is an electrical measuring instrument in which the magnitude of an electrical signal is graphically represented with respect to time. The oscilloscope display consists of 2 axes, the X (horizontal) axis representing time, and the Y (vertical) axis representing voltage. They are mainly used to visualize transient phenomena as well as waveforms in electrical and electronic circuits.

It is widely used in the diagnosis of circuits, for example, a person who is dedicated to repairing televisions uses the oscilloscope to verify the signal delivered by the different components of the television, since the waves found from the different points of the circuits They are well defined, and through their analysis we can easily diagnose what the operating problems are.

There are 2 different types of oscilloscopes:

Analog Oscilloscopes: In this type of oscilloscopes, its operation is based on the possibility of diverting a beam of electrons through the creation of electric and magnetic fields.

Digital Oscilloscopes: Today analog oscilloscopes are being largely displaced by digital oscilloscopes, one of the main problems to overcome was the conversion speed, since it is recommended to digitize a signal at a frequency 10 times more than what is required to be measured, this is if we have a 20MHz signal, we must have a device capable of obtaining data at 200M samples per second.

Virtual Oscilloscopes: Another option within the digital oscilloscopes are the virtual oscilloscopes, which do not have a screen to display information, but require a PC to display the graph, they are high-speed data acquisition cards, which work just like an oscilloscope. They are generally USB connected and we can find models from one channel to 8 channels. Los de un canal básicamente son la punta del osciloscopio con una conexión USB.

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