Windows-style interface covers full scope range

Tektronix has extended its MyScope user interface to its entire portfolio of mid-range and high-performance oscilloscopes.

Tektronix has extended its MyScope user interface to its entire portfolio of mid-range and high-performance oscilloscopes.

The intuitive capabilities of the MyScope control windows and right-clicks first introduced with the TDS5000B Series simplify and make more efficient design validation measurements and tests so that engineers can get their work done quickly and easily.

These capabilities are now extended to the TDS7154B, TDS7254B, TDS7404B, TDS7704B, CSA7404B, TDS6000B and TDS6000C models; a complimentary upgrade is available from the Tektronix website.

Oscilloscope users are faced with increasing pressures to improve design and manufacturing processes, lower development costs and shorten time to market.

The Tektronix MyScope control windows for oscilloscopes simplify the test activities performed by electrical engineers and manufacturing technicians.

With MyScope, Tektronix mid-range and high-performance oscilloscopes are the most intuitive, most configurable, and easiest to use in the market.

"The MyScope and right-clicks interface has raised the standard for oscilloscope usability", said Colin Shepard, Vice President, Performance Oscilloscope Products, Tektronix.

"Feedback from customers after introduction of the TDS5000B Series with MyScope, and the subsequent DesignVision Award given by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) and EDN Innovation Award reinforced our decision to extend the offering across a broader portfolio".

"With the MyScope interface, Tektronix' mid-range and high-performance models are the only oscilloscopes on the market that allow a user to create customised control windows, resulting in shorter learning curves, easy repeatability of operations, and personalisation for multiple users".

"There are many factors that go into the selection of an oscilloscope, but ease of use is certainly one of the most important", said Kiran Unni, Frost and Sullivan Test and Measurement Programme Manager.

"Our ongoing research of the oscilloscope markets indicates an increasing user-attributed value on ease of use and rapid customisation related to lowering the cost of testing".

"Our research with users indicated that MyScope features provide some of the most intuitive interface features of any scope currently on the market".

"In particular, the customisable control windows and right-click functionality of MyScope provide unmatched usability for varied tasks including repeated tasks, and general design and debug work".

"We believe that mid-range and high-end customers will benefit from the broader availability of MyScope".

MyScope functionality enables users to quickly and easily customise the oscilloscope to meet their unique requirements.

Using a simple drag and drop procedure, users are able to pull all the oscilloscope features they use into a single half screen control window; allowing them to tailor the oscilloscope to their particular style or measurement task.

Engineers can create a virtually unlimited number of custom MyScope control windows, enabling multiple users of a shared oscilloscope to each have their own custom interface.

MyScope control windows maximise efficiency in a user's day-to-day work by focusing their energy on the task at hand rather than navigating back and forth through multiple menus and submenus.

Relearning how to use the oscilloscope after breaks from lab work is eliminated through the ability to save and reuse the customised control windows.

In addition to MyScope control windows, customers will be able to navigate through context sensitive menus using the Microsoft Windows mouse right-click and scroll wheel features.

When pointing the cursor at an area of interest on the display - eg a waveform displayed on channel one - users can right-click to bring up a menu of possible controls.

The menu then displayed on the screen is for channel one related adjustments and measurements.

Users can select and adjust these controls without need to navigate the traditional menu operation.

Controls selected via a right mouse click automatically assign any associated parameters to the mouse scroll wheel for quick and easy adjustment.

A press of the mouse scroll wheel toggles between coarse and fine adjustments of the parameter's value, allowing the user to quickly achieve the desired setting without their hand ever leaving the mouse.

Right click menus keep simple things simple by providing shortcut alternatives to the menu structure users normally would navigate.

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