Scope for a new price/performance level

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Nov 22, 2007

Sub-$1000 two-channel 2Gsample/s real-time sampling scope competes head-to-head with familiar traditional high-end manufacturers.

The DS1062CA is billed as the first two-channel digital oscilloscope with 2Gsample/s real-time sample rate, 50Gsample/s equivalent sample rate and 60MHz bandwidth, to break to US $1000 price barrier.

Setting a totally new price/performance level, DS1062CA offers outstanding performance combined with a superior display, competing head-to-head with familiar traditional high-end manufacturers.

With the ability not only to capture real-time instantaneous signal, but also to reveal details of even faster repetitive signals, DS1062CA has a remarkable refresh rate of 2000 waveforms per second, enabling users to capture instantaneous signals as well as abnormal signals more quickly, expediting troublesome circuit debugging.

One-touch automatic setup makes DS1062CA especially easy to use.

DS1062CA's 5.7in colour LCD provides a bright, vivid waveform display with a wide viewing angle, and its sophisticated triggering modes enable users to stabilise signals quickly.

In the economical oscilloscope arena, DS1062CA clearly offers superior price-to-performance, with its 2Gsample/s real-time sample rate, signal measurement capabilities to 60MHz, yet in a small footprint of only 303 x 154 x 133mm and weighing only 2.3kg.

USB connectivity supports useful storage and printing capabilities, as well as enabling future firmware upgrades.

Users can save 10 waveforms, 10 setups, as well as outputting screen displays as csv and bmp files.

Other bonus features include a built-in FFT function, a frequency counter, and maths functions such as add/subtract/multiply.

The DS1062CA is much more affordable than traditional high-end competitors and is equally at home on an engineer's desk for design and debug, in a service department for repair needs, or in education and training environments.

For manufacturing needs, DS1062CA offers 20 automatic measurements and a pass/fail function with an optically isolated pass/fail output.

Made in the Far East by Rigol Technologies, the DS1062CA is available now from Saelig.