{"id":1858,"date":"2009-05-26T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T21:12:36","slug":"my-new-oscilloscope-the-agilent-dso1014a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/my-new-oscilloscope-the-agilent-dso1014a\/","title":{"rendered":"My new oscilloscope – the Agilent DSO1014A"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"New<\/p>\n

Over the Memorial Day weekend I had a chance to spend a little bit of time with my new Agilent DSO1014A<\/a> oscilloscope.<\/p>\n

The Agilent 1000 family<\/a> was just introduced on May 4th, 2009.\u00a0 Since it’s a brand new model, I had to look around a bit to find one in stock at one of Agilent’s distributors.\u00a0 Agilent quoted a 6-8 week leadtime and said I probably wouldn’t be able to find one anywhere before late June, but with a little searching I spotted one at Newark Electronics<\/a>.\u00a0 Two days later, it was running a self calibration in my lab.\u00a0 Thanks, Newark!<\/p>\n

The DSO1014A is a digital storage oscillscope<\/a>.\u00a0 The primary advantage of a digital oscilloscope over a traditional analog scope is that waveforms can be easily captured and analyzed even after the original signal is long gone.\u00a0 Brief transients in the input signals can be viewed by carefully triggering a digital storage oscilloscope.\u00a0 This is almost impossible to do with a simple analog scope.<\/p>\n

Here’s a brief feature list for the DSO1014A along with some of my notes:<\/p>\n